AniMaidstone - Exploring Cultural Identity in Animation, Documentary & the Visual Arts is a festival that is being organized by the UCA Animation Arts course in Maidstone, Kent.

The festival is dedicated to the crossover between animation and documentary film-making, an area which is at the core of the UCA Animation Arts course. Speakers at the festival include Professor Paul Wells - the Director of Animation at The Animation Academy, Kim Hopkins - a documentary film maker and director with wide experience in foreign shoots and challenging environments , Jim Walker - Animation and Illustration Visual theory lecturer/researcher at UCA Maidstone, and The Artful Dodger (A. Dee) - a London-based Aerosol Writer who will be presenting his forth-coming project 'IDENTICONS - Icons & Cultural Identity in 21st Century Western Culture', in which teenagers will use creative writing, urban music and aerosol art to generate digital art and other forms of creative expression.

For further information and booking details, please email Madeline Slaughter at;
mslaughter@ucreative.ac.uk