Coming off its biggest and most successful year ever, WonderCon is gearing up for its 23rd year as a Bay area tradition. The comics and popular arts convention returns to Moscone Center South for another three-day weekend run on February 27 through March 1. More than 29,000 people attended the show in 2008, and 2009 promises to be another incredible convention experience for fans from all over.
Chair of Panel: Dr. Janeann Dill
A day to remember a man who changed innumerable lives for the better.
If you are itching to create your own website or you already have one but are looking for a way to improve it, come join WIA for an evening with Richard Carey. This meeting is produced by Masako Kanayama.
David Polonsky, the art director of the acclaimed Oscar-nominated animated feature WALTZ WITH BASHIR, will talk and show clips from the film at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23 at Santa Monica College's Academy of Entertainment & Technology.
His talk will kick off SMC's spring entertainment industry speakers series, called the Mary Pickford Series, which features a wide range of speakers representing virtually all aspects of the business.
Each year the Academy's Foreign Language Film Award Nominees Symposium brings together some of the world's top filmmakers to address such wide-ranging topics as art, politics and the challenges of their profession.
On Saturday, February 21, one day before the 81st Academy Awards, directors of the motion pictures nominated in the Foreign Language Film category will appear onstage to discuss their work. This two-hour event, which always draws an international standing-room-only crowd, will also feature a brief clip from each of the nominated films.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the Makeup Artist and Hairstylist Symposium, a program spotlighting the work of the 2008 Academy Award nominees in the Makeup category, on Saturday, February 21, at 2:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The program, moderated by Academy governor Leonard Engelman, will feature a discussion of the nominees' creative process as well as present film clips, photographs and models of their work.
The 2008 Makeup nominees are:
Saturday, February 21 - 7:30 p.m.
This year's Academy Award nominated Production Designers and Set Decorators will participate in a panel to discuss their nominated films and what it took to design them on February 21 at 2:30 p.m., the eve of the Academy Awards show, at the Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood). The Art Directors Guild and the Set Decorators Society of America, in association with the American Cinematheque, are presenting this panel, which will be preceded by excerpts of each nominated film.
BLUEWATER PRODUCTIONS GETS GRAPHIC WITH THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
BELLINGHAM, WASH. (NOVEMBER 25, 2008) –
Emily Hubley has made acclaimed animated shorts for 30 years and provided animation to television, fictional and documentary films for over a decade. Her first feature film THE TOE TACTIC (2008) screened at film festivals including South by Southwest and New Directors/New Films.
The Animated Feature Symposium celebrates the work of the 2008 Oscar nominees in the Animated Feature Film category. The nominees (subject to availability) will discuss their film's development and their creative process as well as present clips illustrating their techniques.
The 2008 nominees are: BOLT -- Chris Williams and Byron Howard KUNG FU PANDA -- John Stevenson and Mark Osborne WALL-E -- Andrew Stanton
ASIFA-East presents an evening with the creators of Adult Swim's SUPER JAIL Join us for this special panel discussion moderated by animator Dan Meth -- Q & A with audience to follow
Admission: Free School Of Visual Arts 209 East 23rd Street (Bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave), 3rd Fl, Amphitheater New York, New York.
Offering an up close view of the latest in cinema, television, and related technologies, and insight into the ideas that will shape the industry's future, the Hollywood Post Alliance's 15th Annual HPA Technology Retreat will be held February 17-20 at the Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, California.
Meet Dave Gibbons at the Apple Store in San Francisco
Join Dave Gibbons as he discusses his Hugo Award-winning graphic novel, WATCHMEN. Arguably the most honored graphic novel ever created, WATCHMEN was named one of the 100 Best Novels of all time by Time Magazine. After the discussion, Gibbons will take questions from the audience and also demonstrate his illustrations. Download the "Watchmen Motion Comics" and other film related content from the iTunes store.
Tuesday, February 17Apple Store San Francisco7 p.m.
On Saturday, February 14, New York movie lovers will have the opportunity to see all 10 of this year's Oscar-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International (111 East 59th Street). There will be two separate screenings of the nominated films, the first at noon and an encore presentation at 4 p.m.
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) will host their annual open house here on Saturday, February 14, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Mole Richardson (925 North La Brea Avenue, Hollywood). The open house is held in conjunction with the ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration on February 15, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
Women In Animation International is buying the first round of wine, courtesy of Toon Boom, at KidScreen Summit in New York. The cork will pop on Friday, February 13 at the Hilton's Bridges Bar at 5 p.m.
Meet WIA hosts, Rita Street, Jan Nagel, Heather Kenyon, Lisa Goldman and Joan Vogelesang, CEO of Toon Boom. No need to be a member, just bring a business card to get in.
Visit and join Women In Animation at www.womeninanimation.org.
On February 11, 2009 at 7 p.m., the Kinetic Cinema screening at Chez Bushwick will feature a wide-variety of dance and movement animation videos. Curated by Doug Fox, blogger and founder of Great Dance, the program will show how directors, artists, choreographers and dancers have used different animation styles and techniques to capture, illustrate and transform human movement.
Canada's leading independent animation filmmakers are scattered all across the country. Veteran programmer and writer Chris Robinson chronicles his long distance, year long quest to meet them in CANADIAN ANIMATION: LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO HAPPEN (Indiana University Press). Robinson will discuss his findings with acclaimed animator Ellen Besen, and show film clips to punctuate their conversation. -- A This Is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, University of Indiana Press, EYE WEEKLY, Gladstone Hotel, Take Five On CIUT and Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS).
The Las Vegas International Film Festival is one of Las Vegas’ premiere film events, taking place annually in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world. Dedicated to showcasing and promoting the finest quality films and screenplays that the entertainment world has to offer, our mission is to bridge the gap between independent film audiences and filmmakers, as well as to connect emerging filmmakers with established industry professionals.
The Visual Effects Society and UCLA Film and Television Archive present VES Nominations Sneak Peek on Saturday February 7, 2009 from 2 to 5 p.m.
Bill Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum10899 Wilshire Blvd (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards)Los Angeles, CA 90024Tel: 310 206 8013
Featuring VES nominated categories:Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion PictureOutstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion PictureOutstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture
Animators are migrant workers. Lifetime employment at a single studio is a mere nostalgic dream. Most of us are freelancers, either by preference or necessity. We must network constantly, keep our skills fresh, and be ready at the drop of a hat to move to the next job. Reinvention is the name of the game. So how do you continually repackage yourself without becoming completely bored or totally insane?
NCM Fathom and Bandai Ent. will present SWORD OF THE STRANGER, a samurai anime tale from Japan, on the big screen in a one-night event on Thursday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m. local time.
This theatre event (English dubbed) will feature a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the SWORD OF THE STRANGER at studio BONES as well as new interviews with the English voice actors, director Masahiro Ando, and producer Mashiko Minami.
A feature-length animated action-comedy from FWAK! Animation, the creators of "MUCHA LUCHA!" will screen at the Egyptian Theater. Masked mayhem ensues when a team of wrestling heroes is caught in the middle of a struggle between a gang of barbarians right out of MAD MAX and a legion of monsters inspired by the golden age of Mexican horror films. A Spanish-language version of this film just ran in theaters throughout Mexico, but American Cinematheque will present the first public screening in Los Angeles of an English-language 35mm print.
