Animated Travels: Red Stick Festival

Red Stick 2010: A Glass of Lilac Wine

EventsEditor — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:08:36 -0800

Saturday morning. Sitting in P.J.’s, the coffee shop around the corner from the Shaw Center. Except for a handful of sessions today, Red Stick ended Friday night with the awarding of the Golden Baton. The winner (of the three candidates discussed yesterday) was Chris O’Neill’s elegiac (how many times to you get a chance to use that word?) Lilac Wine. Earlier in the fest O’Neill had described his video as the remembrance of loved one who was no longer around, whether via the end of a love affair, or death.

Red Stick 2010: Golden Baton and More

EventsEditor — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:50:09 -0800

Whoops, my bad: what I called Red Stick’s ‘Best of the Fest’ award yesterday is actually their “Golden Baton” prize, and I saw all three films last night. In addition to the music video Lilac Wine, the two other contenders were a Hitchcockian spy spoof (Pigeon: Impossible) and the student effort Blackface, a mystical jungle tale.

Red Stick 2010: Tangled Up in Baton Rouge

EventsEditor — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:40:37 -0800

I arrive at Baton Rouge’s Belle Hotel, which until April was the Sheraton Baton Rouge. (BR from here on, saves space.) The hotel’s terrible online reviews don’t seem to apply, as the place is actually quite nice. (Wish the internet service was a little more steady, but I’m online now – for the moment…)

Red Stick 09: It's Closing Time

EventsEditor — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:33:30 -0700

The festival is in wind-down mode as producer Max Howard intros a screening of the independently-financed Igor. Afterwards Howard does a q&a, describing its labor-of-love creation headed up by former staffers of Disney’s shut-down Paris studio and the challenges – and freedom – of producing animation without major studio backing.

Red Stick 09: F is for Friday Field Trip

EventsEditor — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:13:51 -0700

Friday is field trip day at the Red Stick Festival – It seems as if half of Baton Rouge’s school population has been bussed in to take part in the festivities.

Wishing I Could Split in Two

EventsEditor — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:06:26 -0700

Day 2 of Red Stick, and the multiple events begin. Oh for the power of Dr. Manhattan to split myself up into several Joes so as to cover everything, but all I can manage is to run to and fro, capturing a taste of this and that.

Red Stick's Opening Day Pitch

EventsEditor — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:14:13 -0700

Red Stick began today for real, sort of. An abbreviated session wrapped up around 4, in time for people to go out and enjoy the warm Louisiana sun – which they needed to do after spending the past several hours in the sub-zero temperatures of the Shaw Center’s Manship Theatre.

The T-Shirt Tells All at Red Stick

EventsEditor — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:17:22 -0700

You can (almost) always tell an animator by their t-shirt, so I figured the young lady in the Supergirl tee waiting for the hotel shuttle at the Baton Rouge airport had to be in town, like me, for the Red Stick festival.

Disney Sneak Peeks Princess and The Frog at Red Stick Preview

EventsEditor — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:31:59 -0800

The Ink and Paint Club held its premiere luncheon with Walt Disney Animation Studio’s Emily Hoppe on hand as the guest of honor. Hoppe, the studio’s senior manager of creative marketing outlined the role Disney and The Princess and the Frog, the studio’s first 2D animated film in five years, will play at Red Stick’s April festival.