February 26th - March 21st
GKids presents - New York International Children's Film Festival 2010
NYICFF 2010 - TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!
The festival takes place Feb 26 to Mar 21 with 100+ films, gala premieres, workshops, filmmaker Q&As, parties, voting and awards!
Various NYC Locations
www.gkids.com
March 9th - 17th
ASIFA-East presents - Jury Screenings for ASIFA-East's 41st Annual Animation Festival!
*** Films are still being accepted - Entry Deadline March 1st (Click here for entry form)
Free and open to all, but only up-to-date ASIFA-East members may vote in the jury screenings. It is possible to join or renew a membership that evening - please print out and bring this membership form with you
All screenings start at 7pm - Members should arrive at 6:30 to sign in to get a ballot
TUESDAY, MARCH 9 - Student Films (3rd fl. amphitheatre)
THURSDAY, MARCH 11 - Commercials/Promos under 2mins (3rd fl. amphitheatre)
TUESDAY, MARCH 16 - Independent Films (3rd fl. amphithertre)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 - Sponsored Films over 2 mins (5th fl, rm. 502)
SVA
School Of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
(Bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave)
NYC
* See dates for room locations *
March 15th, Monday 12noon
School of Visual Arts presents - Waking Sleeping Beauty
Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It’s the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin," "The Lion King" and more - over a 10-year period
Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider bring their insider knowledge to Waking Sleeping Beauty. Hahn was one of the Young Turks at Disney who produced some of its biggest sensations. Schneider led the animation group during this amazing renaissance and later became studio chairman. Their film offers a fascinating and candid perspective of what happened in the creative ranks set against the dynamic tensions among the top leadership, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Roy Disney (the nephew of Walt)
Q & A with director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider to follow!
SVA
School Of Visual Arts
Visual Arts Theatre
333 West 23 Street
(Bet. 8th & 9th Ave)
NYC
www.schoolofvisualarts.edu
March 16th, Tuesday
The Jacob Burns Film Center presents - Best of Ottawa '09
This program of award-winning highlights from North America’s largest animation festival features exciting new films from around the world. With work by both well-known and emerging filmmakers, it includes shorts, music videos, and more - funny, thought-provoking, suspenseful, and sometimes mind-blowing examples of animation's infinite possibilities
The Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road
Pleasantville, NY
www.burnsfilmcenter.org
March 20th, Saturday 1:30pm
Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club presents - Charlotte's Web
Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club is a new family film series from the Tribeca Film Festival. From The Muppets to animation classics to live-action favorites, there's something for everyone at TC Kids Club
Tribeca Cinemas Kids Club presents the classic animated movie about a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte that every child can't help but fall in love with. Post-screening activity: Once you've seen the movie, put your creativity to work in an animation workshop hosted by the Children's Museum of the Art
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street
(at Laight St)
NYC
www.tribecacinemas.com
March 20th - May 15th
Animazing Gallery presents - Ralph Bakshi Art Exhibit, The Streets
Ralph Bakshi will return to Animazing Gallery in SoHo for a reception where his altogether new series of fine art paintings will be debuted in an exhibition entitled The Streets. This bold series of mixed-media construction/paintings was inspired by the gritty and colorful neighborhoods of Bakshi’s youth in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn
MoCCA, New York’s Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art will present a lifetime achievement award to Mr. Bakshi at the opening reception on Friday, March 19th, from 6-9PM (by invitation.) A public meet and greet reception takes place on Saturday March 20th, 2-5PM
Admission is free and open to the public
Animazing Gallery
54 Greene St.
(corner of Greene & Broome)
NYC
www.animazing.com
March 28th, Sunday
Brooklyn Academy of Music presents - Persepolis
Based on the acclaimed graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis recounts the experiences of a girl growing up amidst the Iranian Revolution. Imaginatively and beautifully rendered in black and white animation, this is both an incisive evocation of a unique time and place as well as a buoyant coming-of-age tale
In French, Persian, and German with English subtitles
BAM Rose Cinemas
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
www.bam.org
April 7th, Wednesday
The Jacob Burns Film Center presents - Grave of the Fireflies
Two children lose their parents to war and must survive famine and other hardships on their own, with no help from the callously indifferent people around them. Loosely based on a true story, this is a somber, profoundly human story with an impact akin to that of Schindler’s List
The Jacob Burns Film Center
364 Manville Road
Pleasantville, NY
www.burnsfilmcenter.org
April 10th & 11th
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art presents - MoCCA Art Festival 2010
The MoCCA Festival offers a unique venue to experience comics, mini-comics, web comics, graphic novels, animation, posters, prints, original artwork, and more. Each year, the Festival invites dozens of established and emerging creators, scholars, and other experts to participate in two days of lecture/discussion panels on a variety of comics and cartoon topics. For 2010, the panels and programs are being organized by Brian Heater (The Daily Crosshatch) and Jeff Newelt (Pekar Project, SMITH, Heeb, Royal Flush)
Advance Tickets: $10/day, $15/wkd
Day-Of Tickets: $12/day, $20/wkd
MoCCA Members: $12/wkd
69th Regiment Armory
68 Lexington Ave
(bet. 25th/26th Street)
NYC
www.moccany.org
April 17th, Saturday 11am
Symphony Space presents - The Gustafer Yellowgold Show
Created by singer/songwriter Morgan Taylor, minimally animated illustrations of Gustafer Yellowgold and his friends are accompanied by Taylor's catchy original story-songs for a truly remarkable and memorable multimedia experience
"...a cross between ‘Yellow Submarine' and Dr. Seuss, filtered through the lens of the Lower East Side." -Time Out New York Kids
Symphony Space
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
2537 Broadway
(@95th Street)
NYC
www.symphonyspace.org
www.gustaferyellowgold.com
April 21st, Wednesday 7pm
ASIFA-East presents - Winning selections from the 1st annual AniMazing Spotlight Festival
The first annual AniMazing Spotlight animated shorts festival was presented November 7-8 at the legendary Egyptian theater in Hollywood. ASIFA International has made special arrangement with AniMazing Spotlight to make its program of 14 award winning films available to ASIFA members in all international chapters. ASIFA-East is delighted to present this program to its members
Our thanks to ASIFA International and festival organizer Tee Bosustow for this special programSVA
School Of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
(Bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave)
5th Floor Gene Stavis screening room
NYC
www.animazspot.com
Through April 26th
The Museum of Modern Art presents - Tim Burton Retrospective
This major career retrospective on Tim Burton, consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator
Film exhibition: 11/18 - 4/26
Gallery exhibition: 11/22 - 4/26
MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
(bet. Fifth and Sixth Aves.)
NYC
www.moma.org
