This year, the festival honors Philippe Peythieu and Veronique Augereau who, since 1990, have dubbed the French voices of Marge and Homer in the Simpsonscult animated series. The two actors, true masters of dubbing, will lead an exceptional course on the art of dubbing, on Saturday May 7 at 12hat the Media Library of the French Institute of Meknes as part of the Mint Teas with, one of the moments keys of the festival.
During the opening ceremony, the festival’s two American guests, director Alex Kronmer and producer Sam Kadi, premiered Le poem by Lamya, a feature film animation whose story is that of Lamya, a young Syrian discovering the poetry of Jallal Eddine Rumiindicates the Aicha Foundation in a press release, noting that the festival announces the color of a rich and open program to the world. Thus, Lamya’s poem opens the International Competition of feature films animation. It will be followed, in the evening, by “La Traversée”, a feature film in animated painting, in the presence of the director Florence Miailhe.
This first day of the festival was also the occasion for the launch of the first Forum of Animation Film Professions in Morocco, which will be held on May 6, 7 and 8, 2022. The call for tenders 2M et Al Oula pour the, the production of the first Moroccan animation series opened new horizons for the development of animation in the kingdom. A historic initiative that is helping to revitalize this promising and job-creating sector. So the STAY accompanies this dynamic by launching this forum which brings together animation studios as well as the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan and theSchool of Fine Arts from Casablanca.
In this perspective, the Moroccan studios Never Seen et Thank you presented, as part of Lfuture in pictures, their experiences as well as episodes of the series produced by the Moroccan channels Al Oula et 2M.
The same source explains that this is a first of its kind for the STAY and his team, who have been working for more than two decades to promote animation film professionals in Morocco.
Always when of this opening night, the AICHA Animation Grand Prize 2022 was awarded to “Irréversible”, a project by short film animation worn by Kenza El Hamzaoui et Chaimaa Lahnechyoung winners of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tetouan, and the first two women to win the Grand Prix Aïcha de l’Animation since its creation in 2005.
The opening of this 20th edition was also marked by the launch of school screenings as well as the start of the training component of the STAY which is dedicated to Moroccan public schools of art and cinema, and which this year will benefit more than 150 students participating in the various workshops of the festival.