On Jun 17, 2020, Women in Animation (WIA) will hold its first Women in Animation Virtual Summit in partnership with the online edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2020. The summit will post live exclusively on the official Annecy website and be available to festival and Mifa (festival-accredited professionals) badge holders to view for the duration of the two-week festival.
Responding to the pandemic and renewed global calls for social justice, speakers will share their insights and experiences based on the festival’s theme, “Reimagining the Future: Race, Solidarity and the Culture of Work”
Summit panels will include, “Black Women in Animation: Looking to the Future,” “Intersectionality and Solidarity,” “Producing in a Rapidly Changing World,” and “Artists Creating from Home: A Series of Home Studio Visits.” The latter will feature a collection of pre-recorded clips offering looks at artists’ workspaces from around the world.
According to WIA President Marge Dean, “The world discourse suddenly shifted when we all saw George Floyd brutally murdered by police in Minneapolis, USA. We knew that we needed to pivot from our original program for the World Summit at Annecy to address the issues of work, race and solidarity. We are using this global platform to give women of color the opportunity to talk about their experiences and how they see that the animation industry needs to change in order to be fully diverse, inclusive and humane.”
WIA will make the Summit available to their members and a wider audience at a later date.
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