Winners and recap of a memorable 12th Home Sweet Home Edition

It’s a wrap for Festival Stop Motion Montreal’s 12th edition and first-ever virtual edition, which ran completely online this past September 14-20. In a live-streamed closing ceremony held Sunday, September 20, the Festival team and jury members assembled to announce this year award winners and, thanks to the virtual format, had some of the filmmakers join in to accept their awards from wherever they were across the globe. The jury, made up of industry professionals, was composed of Maral Mohammadian; producer at the National Film Board of Canada, Bren López Zepeda; Montreal animator and independent filmmaker and Aaron Wood; co-founder and producer at London’s Slurpy Studios.

An abundant online edition

The Festival partnered with Canadian broadcast platform VUCAVU to bring 90 short films from 30 different countries and 3 special guest masterclass conferences online and available to the public worldwide this year, in efforts to provide a safe Festival experience to all during these unprecedented pandemic times. We would like to thank our wonderful special guests; Vanessa Loubineau, Jean-François Lévesque and Justin Rasch for joining us and participating in this novel virtual edition, and for being so generous with their time, technical expertise and thoughtful advice. Thanks to the online format, and to meet the demands of our lovely and eager audience members, our masterclasses were extended to 2-hour and 3-hour sessions which could have easily gone on even longer! We hope that all audience members enjoyed the opportunity to ask their questions and got as much knowledge and amazement out of the conferences as our Festival team did.

The Festival was extended to a full 7-day experience, as compared to past physical editions which took place over 3 days. A total of 11 different film screening programs were offered, which included 9 in competition and 2 thematic programs with one highlighting local talent in a Quebec films retrospective and another with a selection of Scottish films from the Edinburgh Short Film Festival.

Two separate technical skills animation workshops were led by renowned industry leaders; Julia Peguet and See Learn Academy’s Dale Hayward and Sylvie Trouvé, which attracted all levels of participants from India, the United States, Germany, France, Colombia, Montreal, and Hungary.

The Festival offered a slew of free activities throughout the week on their social networks in a conscious effort to keep viewers connected and engaged which included a multitude of interactive Watch Parties and Live Streams.
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Among the offerings was a virtual studio tour with Vancouver-based Alicia Eisen, 19 different meetings with the filmmakers from the competition programs, a Fireside Chat with the 2020 Jury Members and a Cozy Brunch Conversation with Jean-François Lévesque and the crew members of I, Barnabé (NFB).

VIP Pass holders were given access to a private Networking Pod, allowing festival goers to interact and network with one another, ask questions in a safe environment, offer film and masterclass reviews, job opportunities and more! The Opening and Closing Ceremonies were also live-streamed with the addition of an Official 2020 Festival Cake Bake Along, with all of these free activities remaining up on the Festival’s Facebook page to watch at your own leisure.  

A challenge accepted and overachieved; the future is bright for this growing Festival 

The Festival doubled its VIP pass sales compared to its previous edition, having had participants tune in from almost every continent and reached over 400,000 accounts on their growing social media networks.

The pandemic challenge was met and surpassed, leaving the Festival team proud in having maintained its mandate in making stop motion animation discoverable and accessible to all, in providing a platform for the artists and their works to shine, and in stimulating the local and international stop motion industry.

The successful reception of this online edition has certainly shaped the future of the Festival which will continue to develop and broaden its reach. Upcoming hybrid editions are being considered in order to meet the diverse needs of its local and international stop motion communities.