Animation Workshop ”A Journey Through Time”

EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS

Animation Workshop
”A Journey Through Time”

Enjoy a trip through your memories with this interactive animation workshop!
Join Asaki Nishino and Nia Alavezos in a fun and relaxing workshop that blends the Welsh word Hiraeth, meaning a “deep longing for something in one’s past, especially one's home,” and the Japanese equivalent of 懐かしい.
Participants will be encouraged to draw a place they long for or a place from their childhood they love. The end product will be made into an animation, featuring a Welsh dragon character visiting each location.

Cardiff Animation Festival

Founded in 2014, Cardiff Animation Festival (CAF) now runs many strands of work alongside our annual festival event. We’re committed to supporting animators, studios and making the screen industries better for creative professionals and audiences alike.

As a BAFTA qualifying festival, we’re proud to represent Wales in the international animation events calendar and platform the best in new and heritage independent film. Year round we support creatives to build skills and confidence and also offer valuable insight to industry magic through expert masterclasses, inspiring the next generation of animators.

https://www.cardiffanimation.com/

PROFILE

NISHINO Asaki

Born in Tokyo in 1994, NISHINO Asaki began creating moving images while studying in the Department of Information Design, Media Art Course at Tama Art University. In 2022, she completed an MFA in Animation at Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media.
Exploring how reality is perceived in the post-Internet era, Nishino works across short-form animation and music. Her graduation film nowhere received the Grand Prize at the Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA and has been screened at numerous international film festivals.
Upon graduating, she co-founded the animation collective Oh Hey Do with two peers. In 2024, the group produced its first short film The Countryside Planet, alongside exhibitions and screenings. Guided by the belief that “the seemingly useless” can serve as a lens to reconsider society and human complexity, they seek to resist the homogenizing tendencies of contemporary culture through animation.

Nia ALAVEZOS

Nia ALAVEZOS is a writer, director, and BAFTA Cymru Awards nominated producer. Her breakout film Passenger was commissioned by Ffilm Cymru, BBC Wales, and BFI Network Wales in 2022. It premiered at the 2024 Aesthetica Short Film Festival and recently won an award at FOCUS Wales Film Festival for Best Welsh Animation, in addition to earning a nomination for Best Animation at the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival and Best Mid-Length Animated Short at Portland Festival of Cinema Animation & Technology. She’s currently working on developing her first feature film, Ghosts of Yesterday, with funding and continued support from Ffilm Cymru Wales.

EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS

Animation Workshop
”A Journey Through Time”

SCHEDULE

2025.11.22 15:00-17:00: NEW CHITOSE AIRPORT THEATER
Lobby