"Imagination" (2007) is an live action/stop motion experimental narrative feature film about twin girls who overcome their psychical disabilities to learn the secret languages of heaven and nature in order to transcend reality. Directed by Eric leiser /Score by Jeffrey Leiser

Check out www.albinofawn.com for the trailer or www.imdb.com/imagination www.imdb.com/Eric leiser

www.Laemmle.com Screens this july 6th and 7th at midnight! 6 dollars

J.J. Sedelmaier to Appear At MoCCA on July 29th with Joe Strike

For the Second “Interview with an Animator”

You may not be familiar with the name, but if you’ve seen MTV’s Beavis and Butthead, Saturday Night Live’s “Saturday TV Funhouse,” [Adult Swim’s] Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law or Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen/Alpha Squad Seven, you’ve seen the work of J.J. Sedelmaier.

            Since opening up his White Plains animation studio in 1990, J.J. and his studio have created hundreds of TV productions in an amazing variety of animation styles, from retro-1950’s TV commercials to transforming Garry Trudeau, Don Martin or Al Hirschfeld’s art into animated film form.

After screening samples of his studio’s work, J.J. and animation journalist and author Joe Strike will discuss his influences, career anecdotes and some of his best known and high-profile cartoons. In addition, J.J. talks about the forgotten history of the animation industry’s early 20th century New York origins.

 

www.moccany.org

www.joestrike.com

www.animatorinterviews.com

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has put out a call for entries for "Into the Pixel," a juried exhibition of computer and videogame art to premiere at this year's E3. "Into the Pixel" is a celebration of videogame art curated by interactive entertainment industry art veterans and experts from the traditional art field. The exhibit is a joint project of E3Expo, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, and The Graphic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The show will take place at the LACC and be accessible to the general public as well as to the more than 60,000 interactive entertainment industry executives, designers, developers, animators, journalists and retailers who attend E3Expo. Artists may contact pixelquestions@e3expo.com for more information. The Electronic Entertainment Expo held its inaugural show in 1995 with an impressive array of exhibitors and attendees. That show represented the first opportunity for everyone in the industry to meet in the same place, at the same time, at a show designed specifically to meet their business needs. It was the beginning of a thriving event where industry participants gathered to generate business and gain worldwide exposure. Ten years later, the Electronic Entertainment Expo has become the industry's most important annual gathering place. It's still the premier event for doing business with an ever-growing number of qualified industry players. In fact, because more commerce and promotion takes place here than during the other 51 weeks of the year combined, E3 is far and away the year's most concentrated gathering of qualified industry participants. More than 60,000 of the world's most influential retailers, distributors, developers, investors and media gather here for three days of intensive deal making. There's nothing else like it in the world. For more information, visit www.e3expo.com/.

The 9th edition of International Short Film Festival "Leuven Kort" is a celebration of short cinema. The festival holds an international competition for live-action short films and a non-competitive program for digifilm and music videos. Two prizes will be awarded in the live-action competition: the "Prize of the Audience" and the "Prize of the Jury.

MISSING PERSONS, a new 3D animated feature film by directors Dan & Matt O'Donnell, will premiere on Friday, March 1st at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA. The film will be projected digitally from a Panasonic state-of-the-art theatrical digital projector. Screening details and tickets available at http://www.cinequest.org

Screening dates:
Friday, March 1 - Camera 3 Cinema
Saturday, March 2 - San Jose Repertory Theater

Tickets: http://opal.he.net/cgi-bin/suid/~cquest/cq/event.cgi?event=Missing_Persons

Synopsis:
An chronicle of the intersecting lives of four lost souls in the 60th Police Precinct of Coney Island, NY. Lonely Missing Persons detective John Funn hitches his wagon to the rising star of a strange young cop named Snookie. Computo, a World War II Army surplus robot, and Crazy Legs, an horrifically injured streetfighter, eke out a desperate living hawking mislabelled narcotics while patiently awaiting happier times. Woven throughout is the story of a bizarre Missing Persons case involving a mysterious half-drowned man living one foot below the surface of the Atlantic ocean.

MISSING PERSONS is an entirely CGI-generated film, rendered in "toon-style" 3D using custom software. (RT: 86 mins.)

Schools get ready for lift off... Mission to Titan starts in September! You are challenged to dream up and develop a story about your own mission to Titan. You can design your own spacecraft, build characters and crew members, create alien worlds and creatures, and tell the story of your mission in a short animation. The animation you create must not be longer than five minutes, so you have to think about how to tell your story in a comprehensive but concise way. You don't have to cover the whole journey in your animation, and can concentrate on an interesting episode if you prefer. The most important factor is that your story is imaginative and gripping, and that you manage to tell it in moving images which give us a glimpse of what it looked like and what happened to you on Titan. Completely Online: Pupils create artwork, collaborate and animate live in FluxTime Studio, the online animation environment for children from 4 to 14 years. Competition Terms: 1) The competition is for primary and secondary schools only. 2)Participating pupils must be 4 to 14 years old. 3) Schools can send in up to three animation clips per key stage. 4) A jury will select three winning animation clips per key stage. 5) Winners will receive one year free school membership. 6) The best animations will be shown in an online exhibition. For more information visit http://www.fluxtime.com/titan.php

The November installment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Monday Nights with Oscar" series will focus on the genre of animated films, examining the various techniques of animation, how they are used in film and how those uses have changed over the years. "Oscars and Animation" will be presented at 7:30 pm in the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International. The evening will be moderated by Michael Sporn, who received an Academy Award nomination for his 1984 Animated Short Film DR. DE SOTO. Jimmy Picker, who produced the 1983 Oscar-winning Animated Short Film SUNDAE IN NEW YORK, will be in attendance, as will Frank Mouris, whose 1973 short FRANK FILM won the Oscar in the same category. Both of these films will be featured during the program. Five styles of animation

Illustrative responses to world events, large scale and small, have an effect both visceral and intimate. "Picturing Politics" explores the current state of political and social visual commentary. The Illustration Program of Parsons The New School for Design and the Department of Politics of The New School for Social Research jointly present an afternoon of reflections on the intersection of art and politics.

Guests include Daniel Dayan, leading media and politics analyst from France and visiting professor in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research, Steven Heller, author and former New York Times art director, Professor Joshua Brown, Executive Director, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at CUNY, Rutu Modan, Eisner award-winning graphic novelist from Israel, Peter Kuper, graphic novelist and co-editor of WW 3 magazine, Steve Brodner, satiric visual commentator, Luba Lukova, political poster artist and Anton Kannemeyer, South African artist and creator of visual narratives. A book signing will follow the symposium.

Additionally, an exhibition of illustrated covers for DER SPIEGEL magazine is on view at Parsons Illustration, 2 West 13th Street, 8th floor, from November 14-30. There will be a reception in honor on November 14 at 6 p.m.

"Picturing Politics"
November 15, 2008, 1-5:30 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
Johnson/Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street
Free and open to the public

The American Cinematheque

The DH Institute of Media Arts is hosting a "Sketch Tour" instructed by Glenn Vilppu. Vilppu is an instructor at Disney and Warner Bros. Feature Animation, as well as the American Animation Institute, UCLA, DreamWorks and Rhythm & Hues. For more information contact dhima:Tel(323)904-1135 Fax:(323)904-1162 E-mail:info@dhima.com Date: Thursday, January 22nd from 12pm to 3pm Meeting place: dhima | dh institute of media arts 5657 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 470 Tour fee: $35 / person Glenn Vilppu's Bio:http://www.artistravel.com/Glenn_Vilppu.htm