Getting animated about film

Taiwan's individual animation makers will be exhibiting their talents too. Four outstanding films were selected as the opening films to the festival. They are the fine pencil work of Hsiao Fu-ching (蕭輔青) in Fish Seller; Chiu Yu-feng's (邱禹鳳) Pray For the End which is a work made with sand and photocopied cut-outs.

And there are two 3-D computer graphic works: Nothing by Chen Ming-he (陳明和) and The Flowing Mind by Tsai Rong-hua (蔡榮華). Their works are collected in the category, New Vision From Taiwan.

TAIF of course offers a section of excellent works, recent award-winning animation films and other innovative work. This section is called New Vision. The films were selected by French animation maker George Lacroix, UK animation scholar Jayne Pilling and Taiwan director Wang Tung (王童).

It is expected that, in the next years, this will develop into a competition section and will offer a cash prize. Must-see films are 2002 Berlinale and British Academy winner War Game by British filmmaker, Dave Unwin. Flux, an ink animation from Canada, A Stone of Folly, a puppet animation from Canada and Hunger Artist, From the US, which is an animation combining celluloid painting, puppets, photocopies cut-outs and 3-D computer graphics.