Oscar-Nominated UT Alumnus Who Helped Bring Coraline to Life to Lead Q-and-A Oct. 19

Brad Schiff, a University of Tampa alumnus, animator and Academy Award–nominee who has worked on films such as Coraline, Corpse Bride and ParaNorman, will lead a Q-and-A session after a screening of Coraline at UT on Friday, Oct. 19.

The 2010 Academy Award–nominated movie Coraline, produced by LAIKA Studios, will be screened at 8 p.m. in the Falk Theatre on the UT campus. It will be followed by a Q-and-A with Brad Schiff.

The screening and Q-and-A are part of the Tampa Animation Festival, and are free and open to the public.

Schiff, who works as an animation supervisor for LAIKA Studios, graduated from UT in 1993, and earned a master's degree in film/animation from New York University. He got his first break working on MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch, and continued to hone his stop-motion skills on popular television shows, including Will Vinton's The PJ's, and feature films, including Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride and The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

He earned an Oscar nomination in the visual effects category and won a Visual Effects Society award for his contribution to the 3-D stop-motion action fantasy film Kuboand the Two Strings (2016). He also received an Emmy Award for an episode of the stop-motion television show Gary and Mike.

The Tampa Animation Festival will continue on Saturday, Oct. 20, in Reeves Theater in the Vaughn Center on campus. Seven blocks of short animated films will survey recent U.S. and international short animated films and include several Oscar-nominated films. The program will run continuously from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and all screenings are free and open to the public. Seating is based on availability.

Find more details on the festival schedule and program.

The festival is generously supported by Film Tampa Bay, the UT College of Arts and Letters, and UT’s Department of Film, Animation and New Media.