Brighton International Animation Festival is the first of it’s kind! Set on the sunny coast of Brighton, England it is a 2 day annual not-for-profit festival every April run by animators for everyone. The vision of the festival is that it embraces international partnerships and encompasses a global perspective, in addition to providing an accessible place for people to learn about the medium. 

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In addition to film screenings of both specially curated and in competition programmes, the festival offers hands on animation workshops and talks from industry speakers. This allows both animators and non-animators alike to come and learn about the medium in both an artistic and commercial context.

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All of the films are subtitled for deaf/hard of hearing inclusivity and the 2023 edition has BSL interpreters at all events. 

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The 2023 edition showcases one of Joanna Quinn first UK retrospectives in recent years, and a masterclass from puppet animation legend Barry Purves. The 2022 edition saw guest festival StopTrik International Film Festival the Slovenian/Polish specialist stop motion festival present a specially curated programme and BIAF programme Queer Contemporaries was presented at Anibar Animation Festival in Kosovo. 

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The festival is unique in that as well as hosting an annual live event in Brighton, it offers selected filmmakers the opportunity to screen on community, not-for-profit local TV channel Latest TV in Brighton (optional to opt out). The channel serves over 350,000 households, so gives the film an even bigger audience and also a broadcast credit. The Latest TV venue in Kemptown is home to the live festival.

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Follow @brightonanimation on Instagram to see previous editions and for future updates. 

See the trailer below for a taster of what the festival entails (turn sound on in the bottom corner of the screen!)