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Anant National University Launches Mooo Fest, a Global Platform Shaping the Future of Film Education and Creative Exchange
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....nant National University Launches Mooo Fest, a Global Platform Shaping the Future of Film Education and Creative Exchange<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 1-12-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (NewsVoir) Anant National University announces the launch of Mooo Fest, an international moving image festival designed exclusively for students and creative academics. The five-day academic event marks a sign....
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....ificant milestone in Anant’s commitment to expanding students’ creative horizons and equipping them with a global, future-oriented understanding of cinema and moving image practices. Through live-action filmmaking, animation, sound design, text-based storytelling and emerging media technologies, Mooo Fest 1.0 offers an immersive and transformative learning experience for students, encouragin....
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....g them to view cinema as an evolving language that blends creative expression with technology. Sharing the university’s vision for the festival, Prof Sekhar Mukherjee, Professor and Programme Lead, Moving Image, School of Design, Anant National University, said, “Mooo Fest is a celebration of creativity, curiosity and collaboration. It deepens our students’ understanding of moving image an....
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....d prepares them for the rapidly evolving cinematic and media industries. By bringing global perspectives to our campus, the festival enriches our students’ worldviews while keeping their practice rooted in context.” The inaugural edition welcomes leading artists, educators, animators and practitioners from India and around the world, including Gaile Cijunaityte, an interdisciplinary artist fro....
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....m VilAA, Lithuania; Prof Gintare Valeviciute Brazauskiene, artist and Associate Professor at Vilnius Academy of the Arts, Lithuania; Prof Isabel Herguera, animation director and educator, KHM, Germany; Prof Hans Koch, Sound Design, KHM, Germany; Silas Hickey, Founder of Custom Nuts Studio, Tokyo, Japan; award-winning animator Vaibhav Kumaresh; visual artist and educator Francoise Chalet from HSLU,....
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.... Switzerland; Prateek Sethi, Board of Studies Member and Founder Director of Trip Creative Service in Mumbai and master students from KHM Germany, among others. Their participation transforms Mooo Fest into a vibrant global exchange of ideas, methods and artistic approaches, enriching both dialogue and practice. Strengthening Anant’s existing relationships with its international academic partn....
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....ers, the festival becomes a platform for deepening collaboration and reimagining how filmmaking is taught and learnt. Through workshops conducted by global practitioners, panel discussions on contemporary and emerging practices, screenings of films from around the world and informal interactions between students, faculty, filmmakers and media artists, Mooo creates a continuous loop of observation,....
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.... engagement, critique and creation. Mooo also brings an intellectual depth to its programming. It acknowledges that visuals and sound have shaped human experience since the earliest civilisations. In today’s digital era, arguably the most recorded and documented period in human history, the moving image plays a profound role in shaping communication, culture and collective memory. By placing s....
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....tudent learning within this broader historical and societal context, the festival positions moving image as both an artistic expression and a vital contemporary language. The fest reflects Anant’s commitment to creating a holistic learning environment that is grounded in the local context while remaining globally relevant. True to Anant’s mission of preparing solutionaries equipped for the c....
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....hallenges and opportunities of the future, the festival brings together industry leaders, academicians, researchers, students and the wider Anant community on a single platform to celebrate the moving image, share knowledge and advance creative inquiry. With this inaugural edition, Anant reaffirms its role as a forward-looking, innovation-driven university, one that nurtures creativity, encourag....
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....es experimentation and empowers students to engage meaningfully with the rapidly evolving cinematic and media landscapes. About Anant National University Anant National University, India’s premier design university, is dedicated to training students to devise solutions for global problems. Anant follows the DesignX pedagogy, where ‘X’ is the symbol drawn from mathematics, representing enha....
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....ncement. This new learning approach multiplies traditional design pedagogy with liberal arts disciplines, emerging technologies and knowledge drawn from hands-on community experiences to help understand our world better and to devise impactful solutions. Our multidisciplinary undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in design, architecture, climate action and visual arts harness knowl....
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....edge from various disciplines and traditional practices to integrate it with cutting-edge technology to address diverse challenges. We train our designers to become solutionaries — revolutionary thinkers with a solution-oriented mindset. Anant National University has been recognised as the Centre of Excellence by the Government of Gujarat, highlighting our efforts to provide our students with ....
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....world-class education, innovative pedagogy, high employability and enhanced entrepreneurial and research opportunities. Anant has also received the prestigious ‘5-Star Rating’ in the category of Architecture and a ‘4-Star Rating’ in the University category in the Gujarat State Institutional Rating Framework (GSIRF) 2023-24. These recognitions reinforce our commitment to creating a world-cl....
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....ass institution of great eminence and excellence. (Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with Newsvoir and PTI takes no editorial responsibility for the same.). PTI PWR<BR> News - Press release - PIB....