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ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 3.12 - March 1999
Events
ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Expo. ASIFA-Hollywood has announced more
details about their Animation
Expo taking place March 5-6, 1999 at the Glendale Civic Auditorium and
Glendale Community College. Among the numerous workshops and seminars planned
for this year's Expo are: "Developing an Animation Program at Your School"
by Dave Master, "Animation Voice Acting" by Lucille Bliss, "Thinking
Visually - Writing for Animation" by Craig Miller and Marv Wolfman, "Basic
Secrets of Animation" by Tom Sito, "Trends for the New Millennium:
Animation on the Internet" by AWN's own Dan Sarto, "Freelancing
in the Animation Industry" by Sarah Baisley, "Behind the Scenes
- Making an Animated Feature" by Frank Gladstone, "Animation in
Video Game Development" by Noah Dudley, "Developing and Pitching
Your Animated Project" by Tom Tataranowicz and "Screen Credit -
More Than Just A Lottery Prize" by Steve Hulett. In addition, the two-day
Expo includes numerous participants from industry suppliers and digital technology
companies to independent members of the creative community and major studios.
ASIFA-Hollywood members receive free floor passes for both days of the Expo
by showing their membership card. A floor pass with seminar admission is $25
for members and $50 for non-members. One-day floor passes are available free
to members of MPSC Local 839, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences -
Animation Peer Group, SIGGRAPH, Animation Writer's Caucus and Women In Animation.
The deadline for exhibitor registration is February 12. For additional information
and registration forms, visit www.asifa-hollywood.org or to request an exhibitor
packet, contact Jean Wright at ASIFA-Hollywood, (818) 842-8330.
Computer Animation Boot Camp. Career
Boot Camp, presented by the L.A. Chapter's of SIGGRAPH and Women in Animation,
is a one-day intensive computer animation-geared event taking place Sunday,
March 7 from 9-5 p.m. at the Universal Hilton in Universal City, California.
The program is designed to inform people interested in breaking into the computer
animation and visual effects industries. Attendees will hear from industry
professionals from such companies as Industrial Light & Magic, the Walt
Disney Company, Pacific Data Images (PDI), Tippett Studios, Area 51 and numerous
others. The opening keynote speaker is PDI chairman and founder Carl Rosendahl.
Isaac Kerlow, Director of Digital Talent, New Technology Development for the
Walt Disney Company, is the luncheon speaker. In addition, a separate event
- the Educator's Boot Camp - takes place on Saturday, March 6. Registration
prices are $45 students, $60 members, $75 non-members. For more information
or to register, contact the L.A. SIGGRAPH Chapter at (310) 288-1148 or visit
www.siggraph.org/chapters/los_angeles/supp/bootcamp.
Last Month in Animation
The following is a list of events which took place since the last issue of
Animation World Magazine was published. These listings are published
weekly in the Animation Flash, a newsletter which is distributed by
e-mail. Subscribe now! Are there animation events going
on in your area? Share your regional event news with the international readers
of the Animation Flash! Please send announcements to editor@awn.com,
at least eight days in advance.
* January 10 - March 14. Los Angeles, California, USA.
"That's Not All Folks - The Art of Friz Freleng" takes place in
the Ruby Gallery at the Skirball Cultural Center through March 14. The exhibition,
funded by Warner Bros. Animation, featured his sketches, drawings, production
cels, sericels and ephemera from the collections of his daughters and the
Warner Bros. Museum. The exhibition is free to all. This is part of the Skirball
Cultural Center's Cartoon Art series sponsored by The Comics Journal and Comic-Con
International. The lecture series concludes on January 30 with a presentation
by cartoonist Nicole Hollander, author of the cartoon strip "Sylvia."
For general information on either of these events, call (310) 440-4500 or
for tickets to the Hollander lecture call (323) 660-8587.
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A view of the jammed NATPE floor. Photo courtesy NATPE. |
* Monday, January 25 - Friday, January 29. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) met in New
Orleans. With 3,000 member companies, this annual conference and exhibition
is a major resource for buying and selling programming. As always, there was
plenty of animation-related content including an Animation & Licensing
pavilion and a conference talk with the creators of South Park, Trey
Parker and Matt Stone. For more information, call (310) 453-4440, fax (310)
453-5258 or visit www.natpe.org.
* Wednesday, January 27. London, England.
As part of London's Museum of the Moving Image lecture series, British Pathe
opened up their archives to present a unique view of early British animation.
Titles by Lancelot Speed, H.M. Bateman, Tom Webster, Frank Holland, Walter
Booth and Brian White were screened in this event presented by researcher
Ken Clark. The event starts at 7:30 p.m. and admission is £6. For museum
information call 0171 401 2636 or for the box office call 0171 928 3232.
*Thursday, January 28. New York City, New York, U.S.A.
The New York City public premiere of Blue Sky's Bunny was held on January
28 at 7:00 P.M. at:
Pace University
NYC Schimmel Center for the Arts
One Pace Plaza
New York, NY
The event cost $7 for general admission and was free to NYC ACM SIGGRAPH members
and Pace students & faculty. The screening was followed by a presentation
hosted by director Chris Wedge, digital effects supervisor Dave Walvoord and
senior animator Doug Dooley.
* Saturday, January 30. Hollywood, California, USA.
Hosted by the M.P.S.C. Local 839 IATSE, ASIFA Hollywood and Women in Animation,
the Evening of Remembrance is an annual event that celebrates the lives of
animators who passed away in the previous year. The Evening of Remembrance
is free of charge and open to all. It took place at the Hollywood Heritage
Museum, 2100 N. Highland (across from the Hollywood Bowl), in Hollywood. Call
(818) 766-7151, (818) 842-8330 or e-mail Local 839 at mpsc839@primenet.com
for more information. Commemorated at this year's Evening were: Jim Algar,
Susan Ashley, Pierre Ayma, Eli Bauer, Carleton (Jack) Boyd, Sylvia Brenner,
Bill Butler, Duane Crowther, Louise Cuarto, Retta Davidson, Otto Feuer, Rexene
Gold, Adrian Gonzales, Lee Gunther, Janet Gusdavison, Marie Hines, Jack Huber,
Marion Jeffress, Connie Julian, Bob Kane, Olive King, Sherman Labby, Johanna
Lohr, Grace Mallon, Tom McKimson, Peggy McMahon, Ken O'Connor, Marjorie Ralston,
Len Riley, John Roth, Henry Saperstein, Allison Sgroi, Tony Sgroi, Armand
Shaw, Betty Smith, William Snyder, Virginia Stephenson, Richard Thompson,
Dusan Vukotic, Jerry Winicki, Jean-Luc Xiberras, and Sandra Young.
* Saturday, February 6. Chicago, IL, USA.
Signal to Noise, a play by Marc Rosenbush and Robert Toombs, adapted
from a graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, had a special preview
at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater on Lincoln Avenue. Gaiman himself introduced
the performance and hosted a reception before the show. The evening was a
benefit for the NOW theater group and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a
non-profit organization protecting the First Amendment rights of the comics
community. Tickets for the benefit, which started at 6:00 p.m., cost $40 and
were available by calling (773) 871-3000.
* Saturday, February 6 - Saturday, February 13. New York City, New York, USA.
The 1999 New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) was held
at Cantor Film Center in Manhattan. Among the highlights were a screening
of Hayao Miyazaki's feature Kiki's Delivery Service and an Ub Iwerks
Retrospective in Animation. Forty-two films were in competition including
such animated entries as Mario the Show Cleaner, Pingu Steals,
A Dog Cartoon [AF 12/22/98], Frank the Wrabbit and Furious
George. For further information call (212) 677-6478.
* Tuesday, February 9 - Friday, February 12. Cannes, France.
Milia 99, the International
Content Market for Interactive Media, is the world's premier international
trade exhibition devoted to interactive media content. For its 1999 edition,
Milia's main themes were Content, Convergence and Creativity. MILIA GAMES,
a conference within the main show, brought together gaming companies and creative
talent. Among the numerous events were "The Silicon Alley Reporter Entrepreneur
Showcase" on Wednesday, February 10, and "Zapping: The Rising Stars
of New Media and the Web" on Thursday, February 11. For additional details,
visit http://www.milia.com or call 33 01 4190 4580.
* Tuesday, February 9 - Saturday, February 20. Brussels, Belgium.
The non-competitive 18th edition of the Brussels
Festival of Cartoons and Animated Films took place in Brussels as well
as Liège, Ghent and Hasselt. Films scheduled to screen included A
Bug's Life, The Rugrats Movie, Babe 2, A Chinese Ghost
Story: The Tsui Hark Animation, A Monkey's Tale and Kirikou
and the Witch, along with the full program of Pixel-INA Imagina winning
entries [see item 12 this issue]. Along with the 120 films being shown, the
festival included retrospectives, "making of" panels, and exhibitions.
For more information, visit www.awn.com/folioscope or call 02 534 6878 (French)
or 02 534 5442 (Dutch).
* Friday, February 12 - Thursday, February 18. London, UK.
Art & Animation: An International Symposium & Week of Film Screenings
took place at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. The event kicked
off on Friday with a lecture on Art & Animation by Russian
filmmaker Yuri Norstein. Speakers in the symposium included Dr. William
Moritz, Christine Panushka, Ruth Lingford, Stuart Hilton, Erica Russell and
Simon Pummell. To find out more, contact Jayne Pilling at jsp@easynet.co.uk
or call 0171 930 3647 to book symposium tickets.
* Sunday, February 14. Los Angeles, California, USA
Hollywood Shorts held their February screening on Valentine's Day at 6:00
p.m. and in honor of the holiday, the films being screened all had a heart-y
theme. The sole animated short in this edition was Christine Smith's cel-animated
short Chasing The Blues Away. The screening was held at THE JOINT,
8771 West Pico Blvd, in West LA. The complete films will also be available
for on-line viewing at www.lalive.com/hollywoodshorts.
* Friday, February 19 - Friday, February 26. Santa Clarita, California, USA
The week-long Santa Clarita International Film Festival (SCIFF) took place
at Edwards Cinemas, Valencia Town Center. Director/animator Chuck Jones received
the 1999 SCIFF "Friz Award" for Lifetime Achievement in Animation
and had a selection of his cartoons screened on February 19 at 2:15 p.m. Animated
films scheduled to be shown included The Dirt On Mom (Aberle Films),
The Blue Shoe (FableVision Studios), A Weekend With Wendell
(Weston Woods Studios) and When The Stars Came Dreaming (Will Vinton
Studios) among others. For additional information on tickets and schedules,
visit www.sciff.org or call the SCIFF hotline at (805) 257- 3131.
Animation World Magazine profiled the production of The Blue Shoe in
our April `98 issue. The article, "Once
Upon a Napkin...The Blue Shoe" by Marcy Gardner is located at:
* Monday, February 22. San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Ideas in Animation presented "Nik Phelps and the Sprocket Ensemble"
- an evening of live music set to contemporary animation, as well as live
performances. The animated films that were screened with music included Nina
Paley's Cancer, Rock Ross' Stupor Mundi, Michael Rudnick's Three
Pieces and U.S. Vs The World, Thad Povey and The Scratch Rhythm
Junkies' Saint Louise and David Michalak's Regenbogen. Two shows
- 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. - took place at the Minna Street Gallery. For information
and reservations, call the Sprockets Ensemble at (415) 681-3189.
* Wednesday, February 24. Rochester, New York, USA
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) presented their Winter MFA Animation
Screening at 7:00 p.m. in the Carlson Auditorium on the RIT campus. The screening
was open to all and included screenings of the winter quarter projects and
thesis films. For more information, e-mail mkspph@rit.edu or call (716) 475-2754.
* Saturday, February 27. Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Scriptwriters Network annual "Breaking the TV Barrier" conference
took place from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Among the numerous panels was the animation
writer's panel, which was composed of Alan Burnett (New Batman and Superman
Adventures), Larry Wilmore (The PJs), Johnny Hardwick (King
of the Hill), Larry Doyle (The Simpsons) and Gordon Bressack (Captain
Simian and the Space Monkeys). Tickets to the day-long event were $50
for Writers Guild of America members and students while members of the Scriptwriters
Network and Women in Film pay $20. Registration forms are available by visiting
scriptwritersnetwork.com or calling (323) 848-9477. Questions can be directed
to the Scriptwriters Network Animation Chairman Charles Meyer at aj718@lafn.org.
Note: Readers may contact any Animation World Magazine contributor by sending an e-mail to editor@awn.com.
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