San Francisco International Animation Festival

November 11 - November 15

The San Francisco International Animation Festival (SFIAF) is a five-day event celebrating one of the most fertile, creative, and productive forms of artistic, experimental, commercial, and industrial media: animation.

This year's International Animation Festival ranges from the premiere of a major Hollywood feature directed by an Oscar-nominated auteur (Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox) to historic family-friendly short cartoons (Walt Disney's Alice Comedies). On the international scope, SFIAF also showcases a stop-motion feature that appeared at the Cannes Film Festival (A Town Called Panic) and a program of award-winning shorts from around the world.

On November 13 the festival presents a free discussion at the Apple Store in downtown San Francisco, "Data in Motion: Information Design and Animation." Visionary information designer Joy Mountford presents a fascinating survey on the different approaches to organizing data using methods of visuality and motion. This is a rare opportunity to learn about future trends in information design with one of the field's leading thinkers.

This festival is part of the San Francisco Film Society's series of fall film festivals, which you can read more about here.