About this episode

This episode features interviews with five talented animators whose films are showcased at the Cardiff Animation Festival.

Bore Da and welcome back to the AFA Podcast, the official podcast of animationforadults.com. This is a very special episode where we celebrate the Cardiff Animation Festival, which takes place April 23-26 in Cardiff, Wales. To mark the occasion we hopped on Zoom and sat down (virtually) with five of the most talented animators in the UK, all of whom have a film in this year's festival! We spoke with Nathan Addai, director of Mental Roots Maryam Mohajer, director of And Granny Would Dance Eleri Edwards, director of Crybaby Steff Lee, director of Of All The Things Laura Jayne Hodkin, director of Wuthering Hearts.

Topics covered

• animation
• film festivals
• interviews
• UK animation
• short films

Keywords

• Cardiff Animation Festival
• Mental Roots
• And Granny Would Dance
• Crybaby
• Of All The Things
• Wuthering Hearts

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