00:00We've all seen a ball bounce, but would you be able to draw that movement if asked to?
00:09These children are faced with that exact challenge.
00:14They're participating in a workshop in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, aimed at getting children
00:19interested in animation.
00:24It takes multiple images to make the ball move.
00:29The animators digitize the single frames and bring them to life.
00:36The children and parents are excited to see the final product.
00:44I think that this animation program is very interesting, especially for children, because
00:50it can create a space for them to become interested in filmmaking at an early age.
01:01And filmmaking is exactly what local animators are building towards.
01:06Creators from one of the country's leading animation studios, AnimaMoz, want to see local
01:13stories told on the international stage.
01:16The country has a large population under the age of 35, and these animators believe
01:22this art form could offer them a voice.
01:27Their latest project addresses the issue of corporate greed by telling the story of Mozambique
01:33in the year 2084.
01:36In that distant future, a group of street vendors battle a ruthless businessman who
01:42wants to sacrifice culture for cash.
01:46And it's called The Informals because we focus specifically on a group of informal
01:52market workers that become vigilantes and that fight this opposition in a way.
02:00They want to preserve tradition and they want to remember the ancestors.
02:06The story not only critiques capitalism, but also looks at the social conditions in the
02:11country.
02:13You know, Maputo is a city of contrasts, you know, during colonial times and even after,
02:21it's hyper-segregated in a sense that you have what we call the cement city, but you
02:27also have the straw, wood and sand part of the city.
02:33And so we kind of looked at this in a way of trying to think of how will Maputo look
02:41like in 2084 and what kind of contrasts and segregation would exist in that sense.
02:51The future imagined by the AnimaMoz studio is the future these children may inherit.
02:59And the animators hope that when their time comes, these youngsters will be able to express
03:04themselves through this moving art form.
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