The duo’s more wholesome festival, SPIKE & MIKE’S 1999 CLASSIC FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION, opens Friday, March 12 at the Ridge Theatre in Vancouver, B.C. (running through April 4). The program includes Blue Sky Studios' Oscar-nominated, BUNNY, Aardman’s HUM DRUM, Digital Domain’s TIGHTROPE, Pierre Coffin’s PINGS, Peter Reynolds' THE BLUE SHOE, Annecy-winner SIENTJE, Don Hertzfeldt’s BILLY’S BALLOON, Laurent Gorgiard’s MAN WITH THE PENDULOUS ARMS, Behaviour Productions’ THE ART OF SURVIVAL, Chris Landreth’s BINGO, Folimage’s THE ROMANCE OF MY HEART, Eric Fernandes’ SON OF BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA, Emma Calder’s THE QUEEN’S MONASTERY, Anna Henckel-Donnermarck’s BUSBY, classics from past festivals like Christophe and Wolfgang Lauenstein’s Oscar-winning short BALANCE and Marv Newland’s BAMBI MEETS GODZILLA. The show is also booked at the Roxy Theatre in Victoria, B.C. (April 9-15), Spike and Mike’s home town of La Jolla, California (April 9-June 6), and at the Castro (April 9-21) and Palace of Fine Arts (April 23-May 1) theaters in San Francisco. Grandpa Munster will serve as a special opening weekend guest at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla (April 9-11). For additional tour dates and information, visit www.spikeandmike.com.


SPIKE & MIKE’S 1999 CLASSIC FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION will be reviewed in the April issue of Animation World Magazine.