13th IAD Activity Summaries ASIFA-China decided to hold this year's IAD celebration in Shi jingshan Science and Technology Museum at their invitation. In this way,we canfurther promote the IAD spirit and objective,and celebrate it with many animatorsand animation enthusiasts. ShortFilm Premiere for Animation Workshop Group also started at the same time .It isan important part of the AWG activity organized by ASIFA-CHINA. Students fromfamous primary and secondary schools of Shi jing shan District of Beijing tookpart in this activity. Meeting Hall Time: 28th October Place: MeetingHall of Shi jing shan Science and Technology Museum of Shi jing shan Districtin Beijing. Activity 1:ASIFA-China website Press event ASIFA-Chinawebsite is the communication platform provided for ASIFA-China members,animators and animation enthusiasts.There is latest animation news,ASIFA-Chinaactivities ,animation festival information from all over the world,and ASIFA-Chinamember service on the website.People could know animation development situation,ASIFA , ASIFA-AWG and many interesting activities organized by ASIFA andASIFA-China from the website.We choose this day to tell everyone the website ison line because it is a good news for all ASIFA-China members and theanimators.ASIFA-China will try to provide the most professional service foreveryone. Activity 2:ASIFAIntroduction ASIFA-China president Mr Johnchill Lee make a speech tointroduce ASIFA and ASIFA-China at guests’ invitation.He also introduced theorigin of the IAD activities and related situation.Many guests expressed great interest ofassociation and give us valuable suggestions.They hope they could join in ASIFA-China,and communicate with each other related to the animation production anddevelopment direction. ASIFA-Chinapresident Mr Johnchill Activity 3: AnimationForum ASIFA-CHINAinvited famous animation educator,animation professional, director, animationcompany CEO from China and abroad to make a speech during the activity.We choseseveral topics people concerned about ,made them a clue from companydemand,university learning to how to make animation as a director. Demand forTalents of Animation company China FilmGroup Animation Company Jun Huang AnimationEducation in New Direction Beijing FilmAcademy Animation institute president Jianping Lee Non Verbalcommunication ASIFA-HollywoodMember ,Juror of 2014 Xiamen Animation Festival Manuel Almela AnimationEducation in new direction CCTVAnimation Director Zilan Yang Activity 4:Celebration In order to celebrate this festival, we invited guests toopen color bar together.They said that it is a free and equal platform forevery animators to share their information and communicate with each other. Activity 5:AWG Premiere AWG-China activities organized byASIFA-CHINA made a breakthrough this year. After holding many activitiessuccessfully supported by local science and technology commission,many schoolscontact with ASIFA-China, hoping us to teach their students making animations.Wehope to show these wonderful student animations to everyone to show their fantasticcreation.Student director delegate share their creation progress to guests andshow their short films. Student delegate1 Studentdelegate2 Screening Hall Time : October 28th Place: science and technology museum in Shi jing shan district of Beijing. Activity: 6 ThemeScreening Activities One:Poland O!Pla Festival Animation Show Two:Foreign Student Animation Film Show Three:Cyber Sousa China Animation Short Film Show Four:ASIFA chapter exchange Animation Film Show Five:Cyber Sousa Award-winning Student Animation Film Show Six:ASIFA 50th year Animation Show ASIFA-China prepared six theme screening activities forthe demand of animators and animation enthusiast this year.People could enjoyexcellent animation films from China and abroad for one time.We receivedASIFA-atlanta exchange animation films and Poland O’Pla Animation Festivalanimation films this year.People like them very much.They are so happy thatthey could see the films. Summary:We held a series of celebration activities in Beijing.We honored toinvite famous animators from China and abroad to make a speech during thefestival.We celebrated our festival with more animation industry colleaguesfrom all over the world .We played the communication animation sections fromASIFA-atlanta and propaganda films of Poland animation festivals in thescreening hall. We try to let more people know about ASIFA, IAD, and many otherforeign animation festivals. Withthe development of our association, our work has far more than usual. It putsforward higher require to us. We must consider the questions seriously:How toenlarge the influence of ASIFA - CHINA,how to continue to organize activities,let the activities have a qualitative leap. Inaddition, with the broad penetration and the maturity of AWG activities, it isa big problem that how to keep the students continue to be interested in theanimation. We provide students a screening place to show their works ,they areso happy ,and also realize more problems of their works.We also show their workon the ASIFA-China website to let more people could see their works.We hope wecould organize the youth animation festival for them one day. Of course, curriculumis a top priority. We will try to improve the curriculum system. This is thefoundation of sustainable development. Allin all, two different activities are important to us. It will become valuableexperience and motivation in our future work, and provide help to the developmentof our association . ASIFA-China
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