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About Mooo 1.0
Mooo is the rebranded student international moving image festival of the iconic animation festival titled Chitrakatha. So folks, we are back, and we are now celebrating a wider variety of storytelling…anything and everything which moves! This edition, which is the 10th of Chitrakatha & the 1.0 edition, as Mooo is going to be a unique academic festival where friends from far & near will join us to make 5 days of fun-filled, thought-provoking, stimulating, creative saga of storytelling in motion.
Why Mooo
Mooo is to celebrate the power of storytelling in motion, be it dance, theatre, verbal non-verbal, puppets of drawn. The unique evolution of Centre for Moving Image is another feather in Anant National Design University’s cap. Mooo’s objective is to nurture the future motion designers and showcase academic outcome of Moving Image to local, national & global stakeholders. Mooo is a good attitude.
Tentative programmes
Like every edition of Chitrakatha, the predecessor fest, Mooo will be celebrating the humble way of meeting of minds for 5 enriching days at Anant National University campus and around.
Time | Sessions | Venue | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
9:30-10:00 | Mooo-1.0 opening ceremony with lamp lighting, the Provost’s welcome speech, the selected delegates’ speech, Mooo promo launch. | MPH | Open |
10:00-16:00 | Mooo selected delegates attend CD/SFT/PD/IXD juries as external expert. | Various | Close Jury |
13:00-14:00 | Lunchtime networking | ||
15:00-16:00 | Competition Screening-1 | MPH | Open |
16:30-17:30 | On being the right size! About scaling.
By Dr Soumya Chakravarti, Emeritus Professor of Physics, California State University, Pomona, USA.
Hosted by Prof Jasmine Gohil, Associate Dean, Foundation & AA Team | Ab-2 | Foundation |
18:00-19:00 | My Creative World by Gailė Cijūnaitytė, Interdisciplinary Artist, VAA, Lithuania | Learning Commons | Open |
19:00-20:00 | Perpetuum Mobile Part 1-A documentary explores the relation between animation & art by Cecilia Traslavina, Polytechnique University of Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia | MPH | Open |
20:00-21:00 | Dinner Break | ||
20:00-21:00 | Competition Screening-2 | MPH | Open |
21:00-22:00 | Students films from Chung Ann University, South Korea | MPH | Open |
22:00-23:00 | Jamming of Creative Kind | Shifting Venues | Open |
26 November 2025 | |||
10:00-16:00 | Mooo selected delegates attend CD/SFT/PD/IXD juries as external expert. | Various | Close |
11:00-12:00 | Prof Isabel & KHM students presents
Hosted by Prof Jasmine Gohil, Associate Dean, Foundation & Team AA | AB-2 | Foundation |
12:00-13:00 | Prof Gintare & Prof Gaile presents VAA students moving image works
Hosted by Prof Jasmine Gohil, Associate Dean, Foundation & Team AA | AB-2 | Foundation |
13:00-14:00 | Lunchtime networking | MPH | |
14:00-16:00 | Workshop at Video SEWA by Isabel Herguera with Anant student volunteers. | Video Sewa | Close |
15:00-16:00 | Panel Discussion on Education in this Age of AI:
Prof Hardika Dayalani, Director, Anant Fellowship
Prof Zilvinas Lilas, Animation, KHM, Germany
Prof Vijay Sekhon, Lead, Interaction Design, Anant
Moderator: Prof Sreejit Dutta, ScOPE, Anant | Learning Commons | Open |
16:30-17:30 | Silas Hickey on Anime Business
Hosted by Prof Jasmine Gohil, Associate Dean, Foundation & AA Team | AB-2 | Foundation |
18:00-19:00 | Chalet’s Expanded World by Prof Francois Chalet, HSLU, Lizern & Basel, Switzerland | MPH | Open |
19:00-20:00 | Competition Screening-3 | MPH | Open |
20:00-21:00 | Dinner Break | ||
21:00-22:00 | Student Films from Vilnius Academy of Art | MPH | Open |
21:00-22:00 | Jamming of Creative Kind:Book Reading by Prof Amitabh & Music by RJ Apoorw | Shifting Venues | Open |
27 November 2025 | |||
10:00-16:00 | Mooo selected delegates attend CD/SFT/PD/IXD juries as external expert. | Various | Close |
10:00-10:30 | Mooo -1.0 Moving Image KHM/CMI/VAA Exhibition Opening | AB-2 | Open |
11:00-12:00 | Press Meet Tentative | Design Gallery | Close |
11:00 -11:30 | Bhili Chitrakatha by Aaquib Ali & Rahul Kumar Tiwari, Anant Fellow | Learning Commons | Open |
11:45-12:45 | Panel discussion on Collaborative Research
Alex Kalenga, PhD Scholar, DR Congo
Dr Rohan Dutta, Associate Professor, Anant School for Climate Action
Puneet Kumar, Assistant Professor, Anant School of Creative Practice & Entrepreneurship
Moderator: Ojas Mali, Academic Associate, Anant Fellowship in Sustainability & Built Environment | Learning Commons | Open |
10:00-10:30 | Workshop Briefing to student/participants groups
*Workshops with experts:
3D Scanner Art by Prof Zilvinas Lilas
Sound Design by Prof Hans v Koch
AR Painting by Saeyun Jung
Paper Rocket by Dr Soumya Chakravarti.
CUCINEMA by Gianmarco & Diego
* All workshops with limited seats of 20 participants, except Cucinema & AR Painting. Details will be shared soon. | Various places | By e-mail registration |
13:00-14:00 | Lunchtime networking | MPH | Close |
15:00-16:00 | About Video Sewa & film screening | Learning Commons | Open |
16:00-17:00 | Lamput Story & Emmy Awards by Vaibhav Kumaresh, Founder, Vaibhav Studio, Mumbai, Anand Babu, Animator, Trivandrum & Silas Hickey, Producer, Custom Nuts, Tokyo, Japan | MPH | Open |
17:00-18:00 | Competition Screening-4 | ||
18:30-20:00 | Mooo Special: Sultana’s Dream Screening & Q&A with Isabel Herguera | Artshila Ahmedabad | Open |
18:00-19:00 | HSLU Screening curated by Prof Francois Chalet | MPH | Open |
19:00-20:00 | Prof Hans & Team on Sound Design @ KHM | MPH | Open |
20:00-21:00 | Dinner Break | ||
21:00-22:00 | Students films from Luzern School of Art & Design | MPH | Open |
22:00-22:30 | Jamming of creative kind: KHM-Anant MI Projection Mapping by Saeyun Jung & team KHM, Germany | SH1 Amphi | Open |
28 November 2025 | |||
10:00-16:00 | Mooo selected delegates attend CD/SFT/PD/IXD juries as external expert. | Various | Close |
10:30-11:00 | Production Management by Chitkara Students | MPH | Open |
11:00-12:00 | Festival Talk-Chiaff-26 by Prof Sanjay Jangid, Dean, Animation & Foundation, Chitkara University, Chandigarh | MPH | Open |
12:00-13:00 | Ocean on the top of our Mountain, WIP by Trisha Banerjee, CKP, Bengaluru & Dr Nigel Hughes, UC Riverside, California | Learning Commons | Open |
10:00-16:00 | Mooo selected delegates attend CD/SFT/PD/IXD juries as external expert. | Various | Close |
13:00-14:00 | Lunchtime networking | MPH/Boardroom | Close |
15:00-16:00 | A Line is a DoT… by Prof Shruti Jeyakumar, DoT School, Chennai | Learning Commons | Open |
16:00-17:00 | Backstory of Purga by Prof Gintare | MPH | Open |
17:00-18:00 | Custom Nuts & Bolts by Silas Hickey, Founder Director, Custom Nuts Pvt Ltd, Tokyo, Japan | MPH | Open |
18:00-19:00 | Festival Talk-Agifest’25 by Prateek Sethi, Founder & Director, Trip Creative Service, Mumbai, BoS Member, CMI, Anant | MPH | Open |
19:30-20:00 | Prof Francois Chalet & MI & TD Students’ Show of Design Workshop-I | AB2 | Open |
20:00-21:00 | Dinner Break | ||
21:00-22:00 | Competition Screening-5 | MPH | Open |
22:00-22:30 | How to Pitch an episodic project: Silas Hickey with students | MPH | Open |
22:30-23:00 | Jamming of creative kind-KHM Team | Cafeteria | Open |
29 November 2025 | |||
10:00-11:00 | Tales from Sundarbanbari-A Real World Lab by Dr Jenia, Dr Anuradha & Mr Tapas, IIT Kgp | Learning Commons | Open |
11:00-12:00 | All About IKS by Dr Anuradha, IIT Kgp | Learning Commons | Open |
12:00-13:00 | Charuvi Labs presents by Charuvi Sanghvi | MPH | Close |
13:00-14:00 | Lunchtime networking | ||
14:00-15:00 | Constructed Feeling: How Animation and Games Shape the Architecture of Emotion-Prof Heeseon Kim, Chung Ang University, Seoul, S Korea | Design Gallery | Virtual |
15:00-16:00 | Panel discussion on Graphic Narratives as NEP text book.
Dr Gayatri Menon, NID Ahmedabad
Dr Gauri Bharat, Dean, SoA, Anant
Dr Jenia Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur
Pratyasha Nath, SMUS Project Fellow, IIT Kgp & TU Berlin
Moderator: Dr Debkumar Mitra, Comics Scholar, Editor, Longform Collectives, Kolkata | Learning Commons | Open |
16:15-16:45 | About Huion? by Rajeev Nagar, Country Manager, India & SAARC, Huion, Gurugram | MPH | Open |
16:45-17:15 | AnimationXpress Connects Creative Talents by Anil Wanvari Founder & Editor in Chief & Mishaal Wanvari, Director, indiantelevision.com & AnimationXpress India Pvt Ltd, Mumbai | MPH | Open |
17:30-18:00 | Innovating Topolate by Satyajit Kumar, Industrial Designer, Ahmedabad | MPH | Open |
18:00-20:00 | Award, Validatory, Speech & Thanksgiving & Short Closing Performance by Lavanya Lodhi, Ravice Rashid, Peddro Sudipta Kundu | MPH | Open |
20:30-22:00 | Closing Dinner & Music | MPH | By Invite |
Prepared & Submitted by
Prof Sekhar Mukherjee, Mooofest Director
Programme Lead, Centre for Moving Image
Anant National University
Jurors
Coming soon...
Speakers
Like every COWfest, there will be fun folks who will grace the Mooo 1.0 edition and speak about their creative works with aspiring students of the creative economy. They will speak as case studies, panellists, jury members, entrepreneurs, students, and directors and also informally during the breaks over the chai, coffee & chaas! Stay curious till the full list is revealed soon.
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