Flip Animation Festival
FLIP was an animation festival that took place between 2004 and 2012, primarily hosted by the Light House Media Centre in Wolverhampton, UK. FLIP took place annually at the beginning of November and attracted submissions from more than 30 countries worldwide. As well as screening selected submissions, FLIP held talks from professionals from the animation world, workshops, industry panels and competitions. Between 2004 and 2011 the festival was set up and managed by Peter McLuskie. It grew out of the 'Animation Forum', also based at Light House, later rebranded as Animation Forum West Midlands, which found a home at Birmingham City University. In 2009, the festival was awarded a Black Country Tourism Award for Event of the Year.