Second San Francisco International Animation Festival

Second annual San Francisco International Animation Festival (SFIAF), a four-day event celebrating one of the most fertile, creative and productive forms of media. SFIAF will sample the wide breadth of animation with a selection of the finest, boldest and most exciting animated films and videos from around the world, including frame-by-frame and computer-assisted animation. The Festival explores the breadth of animation with eclectic programs of feature-length and short films encompassing artistic, commercial and industrial media, visual and special effects, art-house films and children?s cartoons. SFIAF will screen November 8-11 at Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema. Program includes: * The Pixar Story, Detailing the meteoric rise of the Bay Area-based juggernaut. * Free panel discussion Animating the Internet * Film Noir, this French-distributed, English-language film was produced by a primarily Serbian crew. Filled with twists and turns and gleaming with an aesthetic reminiscent of classic black-and-white Hollywood flicks, Film Noir adds flashes of color and a generous helping of explicit sex gleefully updates the form. (For mature audiences). * Best of Annecy 2007, This slate of award-winning shorts from the 2007 Annecy Festival includes a dark Aardman delight, artistic sheep, a satire on the controversial new wall in Israel and an update on the Jack the Ripper story. * Komaneko: The Curious Cat (Komadori eiga Komaneko) * Director Tsuneo Goda