[Music]
do you’ve been influenced by the
animated films you watched as a kid ever
dream of being an invincible superhero a
fantastic magician an incredible fairy
or maybe even dreamed of flying to
Neverland
yes yeah I know I did we all did so what
if we could use the magic of animation
to not only allow kids to dive into a
fantastic universe of fun but also
introduce them to something real
something different from what they know
may be a little bit scary scary yes
fie fear of diversity fear of change or
fear of the unknown imagine we could use
the magic of animation to defeat these
fears bridge cultural diversity and
overcome the barriers that divide us
what am I talking about
but let’s be kids just for a second I
would like you to please close your eyes
just a moment and think about the first
animated film remember think what film
was it do you remember what it was about
okay okay you can open your eyes and go
back to that fan universe after my talk
okay
so I bet the most of you at a very vivid
image of that film and I bet at the time
you were less than 10 years old they
said by age 10 we really established who
we are the expresses us but most of all
the experiences you feel stay with you
your entire life that’s how important
those first 10 years are so I asked
myself what if we could use this
incredible art form animation to do more
what if we could go beyond the story of
a princess kissing the Frog a fairy
granting a wish or a dragon breathing
fire what if we could use the magic of
animation to talk about bigger stories
stories that are socially relevant and
perhaps even culturally significant
how about the story of the boy from
Syria the dreamed of becoming a ballet
dancer dancer all his life and is forced
to fulfill his dream somewhere else
because of a war or the girl from
Afghanistan who struggles to be a
musician and against all odds becomes
the director of the first Afghan women
Orchestra in history and how about the
story of the young boy from Malawi who
thank true is incredible and creative
inventions is able to bring to his
remote village electricity for the first
time these stories of today’s heroes are
begging to be told our kids deserve to
hear these kind of stories why not
through the medium they love why not
through animation let me tell you
another story as some of you I grew up
listening to stories of war my
grandmother was a Child survivor of
World War one and my mum then survived
World War two here she is in 1944 the
story that my mom often told me and
stuck with me is how she felt during the
bombing raids she was a little girl
totally helpless and frozen by fear fear
we can recognize when we see a photo
like this one images like this
unfortunately are not new and I won’t be
the last one if we don’t act if we don’t
try to change something history
continues to repeat itself
when I was 20 and during my first year
at the animation school in Italy the
Balkan War erupted and all of my mom’s
stories of war were to ecwid in my head
there was watching a tragedy on
television a tragedy that was just few
hundred miles away from my home country
I didn’t know what to do I wanted to
help I wanted to do something I didn’t
know what did you ever feel totally
useless
totally powerless there is nothing you
can do to change anything after many
years of working for the major animation
studios I finally felt ready to write
and direct my own film and I knew
exactly what it would be about the story
of a little girl in a world war 2 I
called her and the film Mila aftern with
great enthusiasm to all of these those
big studios but soon realize that
socially relevant things are not really
their thing you know now no studio
wanted to risk investing in an animated
story that talked about the real war not
one but I wasn’t ready to take no for an
answer so I turned to my colleagues my
friends and I pitched them my own idea
and the response was overwhelmed using
animation to draw attention to children
that find themselves in the middle of a
war really struck a chord
today the militant consists of 350
artists that volunteer that’s volunteer
their time and considerable talent from
more than 35 countries actually it’s
more than 350 at this point but just how
was I able to draw and attract all these
incredible animation professionals to
volunteer on mila you may ask well no
it’s not my accent
I learned that a true story told through
animation touches people and moves
people like nothing else can these truth
unfortunately is totally underestimated
by the major players in the animation
industry here is a sample of our effort
in progress
[Music]
[Music]
okay so people ask me can children
really handle something like this yes
children can process and understand
difficult even tragic things we need to
give children some credit
yes there is a child in each and every
one of us but I believe there is also a
small adult in every child too
historically animation is incredible our
form has been boxed into a particular
genre it’s time we allow filmmakers to
throw out the box and bring a different
kind of animated films to their
audiences it’s time for a new approach
but where would this evolution or
revolution come from I’m looking at it
yes yes it’s all of you it’s all of us
it’s up to all of us the artist the
director the storyteller can’t do this
alone they need the big studios the
distributors the producers to make this
change but this is not going to happen
unless the audience that will be you
demands that different type of stories
get a chance to be made distributed and
seen yes we can reach the widest
possible audience and stand the tide of
conflict of aggression and finally leave
our wars behind so who is going to do
something about it are you going to do
something about it are you going to help
me great so choose one major animation
studio or choose them all and write them
write them and write them as Walt Disney
used to say the way to get started is to
quit talking and begin doing thank you
very much
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
do you’ve been influenced by the
animated films you watched as a kid ever
dream of being an invincible superhero a
fantastic magician an incredible fairy
or maybe even dreamed of flying to
Neverland
yes yeah I know I did we all did so what
if we could use the magic of animation
to not only allow kids to dive into a
fantastic universe of fun but also
introduce them to something real
something different from what they know
may be a little bit scary scary yes
fie fear of diversity fear of change or
fear of the unknown imagine we could use
the magic of animation to defeat these
fears bridge cultural diversity and
overcome the barriers that divide us
what am I talking about
but let’s be kids just for a second I
would like you to please close your eyes
just a moment and think about the first
animated film remember think what film
was it do you remember what it was about
okay okay you can open your eyes and go
back to that fan universe after my talk
okay
so I bet the most of you at a very vivid
image of that film and I bet at the time
you were less than 10 years old they
said by age 10 we really established who
we are the expresses us but most of all
the experiences you feel stay with you
your entire life that’s how important
those first 10 years are so I asked
myself what if we could use this
incredible art form animation to do more
what if we could go beyond the story of
a princess kissing the Frog a fairy
granting a wish or a dragon breathing
fire what if we could use the magic of
animation to talk about bigger stories
stories that are socially relevant and
perhaps even culturally significant
how about the story of the boy from
Syria the dreamed of becoming a ballet
dancer dancer all his life and is forced
to fulfill his dream somewhere else
because of a war or the girl from
Afghanistan who struggles to be a
musician and against all odds becomes
the director of the first Afghan women
Orchestra in history and how about the
story of the young boy from Malawi who
thank true is incredible and creative
inventions is able to bring to his
remote village electricity for the first
time these stories of today’s heroes are
begging to be told our kids deserve to
hear these kind of stories why not
through the medium they love why not
through animation let me tell you
another story as some of you I grew up
listening to stories of war my
grandmother was a Child survivor of
World War one and my mum then survived
World War two here she is in 1944 the
story that my mom often told me and
stuck with me is how she felt during the
bombing raids she was a little girl
totally helpless and frozen by fear fear
we can recognize when we see a photo
like this one images like this
unfortunately are not new and I won’t be
the last one if we don’t act if we don’t
try to change something history
continues to repeat itself
when I was 20 and during my first year
at the animation school in Italy the
Balkan War erupted and all of my mom’s
stories of war were to ecwid in my head
there was watching a tragedy on
television a tragedy that was just few
hundred miles away from my home country
I didn’t know what to do I wanted to
help I wanted to do something I didn’t
know what did you ever feel totally
useless
totally powerless there is nothing you
can do to change anything after many
years of working for the major animation
studios I finally felt ready to write
and direct my own film and I knew
exactly what it would be about the story
of a little girl in a world war 2 I
called her and the film Mila aftern with
great enthusiasm to all of these those
big studios but soon realize that
socially relevant things are not really
their thing you know now no studio
wanted to risk investing in an animated
story that talked about the real war not
one but I wasn’t ready to take no for an
answer so I turned to my colleagues my
friends and I pitched them my own idea
and the response was overwhelmed using
animation to draw attention to children
that find themselves in the middle of a
war really struck a chord
today the militant consists of 350
artists that volunteer that’s volunteer
their time and considerable talent from
more than 35 countries actually it’s
more than 350 at this point but just how
was I able to draw and attract all these
incredible animation professionals to
volunteer on mila you may ask well no
it’s not my accent
I learned that a true story told through
animation touches people and moves
people like nothing else can these truth
unfortunately is totally underestimated
by the major players in the animation
industry here is a sample of our effort
in progress
[Music]
[Music]
okay so people ask me can children
really handle something like this yes
children can process and understand
difficult even tragic things we need to
give children some credit
yes there is a child in each and every
one of us but I believe there is also a
small adult in every child too
historically animation is incredible our
form has been boxed into a particular
genre it’s time we allow filmmakers to
throw out the box and bring a different
kind of animated films to their
audiences it’s time for a new approach
but where would this evolution or
revolution come from I’m looking at it
yes yes it’s all of you it’s all of us
it’s up to all of us the artist the
director the storyteller can’t do this
alone they need the big studios the
distributors the producers to make this
change but this is not going to happen
unless the audience that will be you
demands that different type of stories
get a chance to be made distributed and
seen yes we can reach the widest
possible audience and stand the tide of
conflict of aggression and finally leave
our wars behind so who is going to do
something about it are you going to do
something about it are you going to help
me great so choose one major animation
studio or choose them all and write them
write them and write them as Walt Disney
used to say the way to get started is to
quit talking and begin doing thank you
very much
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
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