The 2023 AfroAnimation Summit takes place in individual for the primary time in Burbank, California, April 26 – 27, 2023, whereas additionally stay streaming worldwide. The occasion will unite a various coalition of 60+ trade audio system, studio executives, and recruiters from the U.S., Canada, the U.Okay., the Caribbean, Nigeria, and South Africa, to debate methods to extend inclusion and illustration within the animation trade.
Over 200 invited native artwork and design college students from Los Angeles and Burbank excessive colleges, undergraduates from Howard College, New York College, and SCAD, freelancers, impartial studio homeowners, creatives, and younger professionals from around the globe will take part on this 12 months’s summit.
Sony Footage Animation’s Spider-Verse movie franchise administrators Kemp Powers and Peter Ramsey, together with the creators and administrators of the upcoming Disney+ Authentic African sci-fi anthology Kizazi Moto: Technology Fireplace, headline a set of featured trade audio system.
“We created AfroAnimation in 2021 to assist enhance variety within the animation trade, and the response globally has been overwhelming,” mentioned AfroAnimation founder Keith White. “We’re proud to convey collectively a world staff representing the leisure trade this 12 months, that includes a dynamic group of audio system, film studio sponsors, and awardees.”
This 12 months’s lineup will embody an awards ceremony honoring impartial creators from around the globe and panels protecting myriad subjects, together with “The Pathway to a Profession in Animation,” “Being Black in Animation,” and “Growing Storytelling by Girls in Animation and Past.” It would additionally function screenings of the 12 months’s most anticipated animation movie releases and the AfroAnimation Indie Quick Movie Awards honorees.
Returning studio companions embody Netflix; DreamWorks Animation; Warner Bros Animation; Nickelodeon; Sony Footage Animation; Sony Imageworks; WildBrain; Titmouse; Triggerfish Animation; and Disney Tv Animation. Collaborating teams with the same mission embody ASIFA-Hollywood, American Movie Showcase, Girls in Animation, LatinX, and KickStarter.
“I’m delighted by the expansion of AfroAnimation this 12 months,” mentioned AfroAnimation co-chair Rio Cyrus. “With the assistance of our sponsors and studio companions, we’re doing our half to construct a world animation group that displays the world at massive.”
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Supply: AfroAnimation Summit
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
