WIN: Two passes to this year’s Manchester Animation Festival

Manchester Animation Festival, the UK’s largest festival dedicated to the animated art form comes to some of the city’s finest spaces this November.

Returning for its eighth year and running between Sun 13 Nov – Fri 18 Nov, the festival will take over a handful of venues including HOME, the University of Salford, Odeon Great Northern, Manchester Central Library and The International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

Over 100 events such as screenings, panels, workshops, masterclasses, Making Of and studio talks will take place throughout.

Headline events at the festival include a Making Of session which will take a deep dive into the Making Of Aardman’s animated series Lloyd of The Flies. The highly-anticipated original series follows the comedy adventures of housefly Lloyd B Fly and his insect friends as they explore the strange world beyond the confines of the compost bin. Stars include Tom Rosenthal (Plebs, Friday Night Dinner) and Callum Scott Howells (It’s A Sin).

Fans will also be invited to take an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at hit Netflix animation series, Dead End Paranormal Park with creator Hamish Steele and series producer Jen Coatsworth, made by Blink Industries (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared). Based on the DeadEndia graphic novels and set in a haunted amusement park, the comedy horror adventure series sees Barney (Zach Barack) and Norma (Kody Kavitha) take on eerie unknown forces with the help of talking dog Pugsley.

The full, extremely stacked, festival programme can be found here.

We’ve even got a pair of festival passes (worth £90 each) to give away, all you have to do is fill in the form below to be in with the chance of winning.

T&Cs: Applicants must be 18+, no cash alternative available, decision is final, winner will be randomly picked by MCR Wire, the winner will arrange their tickets with Manchester Animation Festival, competition closing date is Thu 10 Nov.