Archive notice: This article preserves the livestream programme for ITFS 2020, held online from 5 to 10 May 2020. The event, stream and registration links have expired.

The live stream starts on 5 May at 8 pm with the official opening and ends on 10 May after the big awards gala at around 9.30 pm. Here is the programme until Sunday: (Or as a PDF download here)

Tuesday, 5 May 2020

20:00: Opening // Moderation: Markus Brock

Presentation of the competitions

Guests include Dr Walter Rogg (Managing Director of the Stuttgart Region Economic Development Corporation),
Dodokay (Comedian), Eduardo Rivero (Director of “A Costume for Nicolas”, Mexico City / Video Call)

22:30: ITFS Night Talk
22:45: Interview Ulrike Groos (Director Kunstmuseum Stuttgart)
23:00: ITFS Night Stream

Wednesday, 6 May 2020

12:00 – 14:00: ITFS Workshops & Master Classes

12:00 pm: Master Class: Nicole Blies & Stéphane Hueber-Blies: Zero Impunity // EN
14:00 – 17:00: ITFS Kids Stream: 14:30: Children’s Animated Film Academy
Episode 1: Idea and storyboard with Derek Roczen

15:00: Interview Philipp Franke (Kindermedienland)
16:30: Studio 100 presents: Nils Holgersson
16:00: Körperklaus is in ze house!

17:00 – 20:00: ITFS Talks & Shorts

17:00: Interview Sven Hahn (CIS)
17:30: Interview with Karin Fritz (Managing Director of Innenstadtkinos Stuttgart)
18:00: Interview with Viktor Schoner (Director of Stuttgart State Opera)
18:45: Interview/Talk Max Howard (Animation Consultant) // EN
19:30: Interview Daniel Höpfner (director) World premiere of his short film “Botschaften” (2019)

20:00 – 22:00: ITFS Focus Oscars

20:00: Dodokay’s animation synchro
Interviews and video messages by and with Ron Diamond (Hollywood) // EN
Oscar winner Thomas Stellmach (Kassel) and many Oscar-winning short films
22:00 – 23:00: ITFS Night Talk
22:30: Interview with Stefanie Stegmann (Literaturhaus Stuttgart)
From 23:00 ITFS Night Stream
Popbüro sessions, ITFS Trailer Show, Best of ITFS 48h Animation Jam
23:30 Repetition: Master Class Nicole Blies & Stéphane Hueber-Blies: Zero Impunity // EN

Thursday, 7 May 2020

12:00 – 14:00: ITFS Workshops & Master Classes

12:00 pm: Master Class Denis Walgenwitz // EN
“Artistic expectations versus production possibilities – challenges for animation projects
Animation projects”
14:00 – 15:00: ITFS Kids Stream
14:15: Körperklaus is in ze house!
14:30: Children’s Animated Film Academy
Episode 2: Set and set construction with Tine Kluth

15:00 – 18:00: Edutain Me

15:00: Britta Trapp (Dusyma) presents CoboStories – an animation software and animation table for daycare centres and nurseries
15:15: State Centre for Political Education
15:30: Presentation – Prof Dr Stefanie Nickel on Sims & Minecraft in primary school lessons as part of Games im Unterricht (LFK)
15:40: Presentation – Anja Marquardt on the use of Super Mario & Pac Man in PE lessons as part of games in the classroom (LFK)
16:00: Keynote: Tiny Bop – Creative learning games from New York
16:30: Panel discussion on the topic “The classroom for the digital future”:
with Leandro Cerqueira Karst (Chairman of the State Student Council), Gren Babinecz (Kolping Bildungswerk), Ralph Stock (Promotion Software), Daniel BIalecki (Scoyo), Reinhard Koslitz (Didacta Verband e.V. – Association of the Education Industry), among others

18:00 – 20:00: ITFS Talks & Shorts

18:00: Interview Christina Schindler (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
18:30: Interview Reanne Leunig (Austrian Chamber of Commerce) and Siegfried Weidlich (Austrian Honorary Consulate Stuttgart) on the situation of the creative industries in Austria in times of Corona
19:00: Interview with Hannes Rall (Nanyang Technological University)
19:20: Interview Mark Shapiro (Animation Curator & Consultant) // EN

20:00 – 23:00: ITFS Focus France

20:00: Dodokay’s animation synchro: Interviews with Catherine Veber (Consul General of the Republic of France), Jeanette Konrad (ARTE France), Christopher Buchholz (French Film Festival Tübingen/Stuttgart), among others
21:30: Feature film “Un monstre à Paris” (Bibo Bergeron, 2011, German version)

From 23:00: ITFS Night Stream

Popbüro sessions, ITFS Trailer Show, Best of ITFS 48h Animation Jam
23:30: Repetition Master Class Denis Walgenwitz // EN
“Artistic expectations versus production possibilities – challenges for animation projects
Animation projects”

Friday, 8 May 2020

12:00 – 14:00: ITFS Workshops & Master Classes

12:00 pm: Screenplay Workshop Pedro Rivero (Bilbao) // EN
Writing for Animated and Live Action Films

14:00 – 17:00: ITFS Kids Stream

14:30: Children’s Animated Film Academy:
Episode 3: Creating Animations with Tine Kluth
15:30: Studio 100 presents: Nils Holgersson
4 pm: Körperklaus is in ze house!
4.30 pm: Studio 100 presents: Nils Holgersson

17:00 – 20:00: ITFS Talks & Shorts

17:00: Interview Robert Bradbrook (Head of Animation National Film and Television School (NFTS), London) // EN
18:00: Lecture Bill Plympton (New York) // EN
19:15: Interview Waltraud Grausgruber (curator and co-director Tricky Women):
Women in Animation

20:00 – 22:00: ITFS Focus Games & eSport

20:00: Dodokay’s animation synchro
Interviews with Sabiha Ghellal (Stuttgart Media University), Philipp Künstler (Engines Stuttgart), Kathrin Radtke (Studio Fizbin, Ludwigsburg), Andreas Garbe (ZDF) and Adrian Forsch (Black Forest Games), among others

22:00 – 23:00: ITFS Night Talk

22:30: Interview Bernd Kohlhepp (cabaret artist) and Sebastian Weingarten (theatre director
Renitenztheater)

From 23:00: ITFS Night Stream

Popbüro sessions, ITFS Trailer Show, Best of ITFS 48h Animation Jam
23:30: Replay Screenplay Workshop Pedro Rivero (Bilbao) // EN
Writing for Animated and Live Action Films

Saturday, 9 May 2020

12:00 – 14:00: ITFS Workshops & Master Classes

12:00 pm: Master Class Model John Lee (NTFS, London) // EN
Modelling for film

14:00 – 17:00: ITFS Kids Stream

14:30: Children’s Animated Film Academy
Episode 4: Effects & post-production with Francesco Faranna
15:30: Studio 100 presents: Nils Holgersson
4:10 pm: Körperklaus is in ze house!
16:30: Studio 100 presents: Nils Holgersson

17:00 – 20:00: ITFS Talks & Shorts

18:00: Lecture Dustin Grella (Queens College New York) // EN
18:45: Lecture Regina Pessoa (Porto) // EN
19:30: Interview Eliia Kaufmann (Hochschule für Musik Trossingen) & Kuang Jun Chan (Nanyang University Singapore): Production and music design of the short film “Charlie”

20:00 – 22:30: ITFS Focus “Music & Animation”

20:00: Dodokay’s animation synchro: Interviews with Walter Ercolino (Popbüro Region Stuttgart), Matthias Mettmann (Managing Director Chimperator), world premiere music video “Kaufmann Frust” (Duc-Thi Bui) and Udo Schöbel (musician, animator and inventor of the Kika rabbit song), among others
Live music with the French prince of trash: Prince Valium

22:30 – 23:00: ITFS Night Talk

Interview: Walter Sittler (actor and film producer) (tbc)

From 23:00: ITFS Night Stream

Popbüro sessions, ITFS Trailer Show, Best of ITFS 48h Animation Jam
Living room concert Zbikbeat & Linda Kyei
23:30: Repeat Master Class John Lee (NTFS, London) // EN
Modelling for film

Sunday, 10 May 2020

09:45 am: Matinée with the Stuttgart State Opera
“The Love for Three Oranges” by Sergei Prokofiev

12:00 – 13:30: ITFS Workshops & Master Classes

12:00 pm: Workshop Tina Brenneisen: Sabotage techniques of storytelling in the medium of comics
13:30: Women in Animation: Muhterem Aras (President of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg) and Lilian Klages (animation producer) on the situation of women in animated film

14:00 – 17:00: ITFS Kids Stream

14:30: Children’s Animated Film Academy
Episode 5: Sound with Putte
Episode 6: Compilation of greetings
15:00: Studio 100 presents: Nils Holgersson
15:40: Körperklaus is in ze house!
16:00: Picture book reading by Till Penzek and Julia Neuhaus // for children and adults “When the big ones were small”

17:00 – 19:00: ITFS Talks & Shorts

17:00: Lecture: Signe Baumane (Riga, New York)
17:45: Interview: Dominique Schuchmann (Managing Director M.A.R.K. 13 a.o. Maya the Bee, Knight Rust, Wickie)
18:15: Interview: Mohamed Ghazala (Chair of Visual & Digital Production Effat University, Jeddah) // EN

19:00 – 21:30: Award ceremony // Moderation: Markus Brock

Presentation of the 2020 award winners and premiere of the ITFS 2021 trailer
Guests include Petra Olschowski (State Secretary in the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg), Benedikt Hummel (Studio Seufz), Ralph Thoms (Director of the NaturVision Film Festival Ludwigsburg)