Shane Acker Talks '9' and Beyond
Shane Acker discusses how he pulled off his long-awaited feature directorial debut as well as his latest short at Gnomon and future projects.
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Shane Acker Joins Gnomon as Artist in Residence
9 director Shane Acker has joined The Gnomon School of Visual Effects as the staff's newest Resident Artist.
13th LA Shorts Fest
Begins: July 23, 2009
The 13th LA Shorts Fest is the largest short film festival in the world. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences accredited. In past years, 33 participants have earned Academy Award nominations including 11 Oscar winning short films. The festival annually attracts more than 10,000 moviegoers, filmmakers and entertainment professionals looking for the hottest new talent.
Monsters vs. Aliens DVD to Include B.O.B. Short
The MONSTERS VS. ALIENS DVD and Blu-ray will arrive on Earth September 29, 2009 and will include the world premiere of the brand new 3D adventure B.O.B.'S BIG BREAK, starring everyone's favorite gelatinous hero.
DreamWorks Animation announced the short at an event in Roswell, New Mexico over the weekend. B.O.B., the breakout star of MONSTERS VS. ALIENS, patrolled the Roswell UFO Festival to protect the planet and keep an eye out for invading aliens.
Kansas City FilmFest 2010
Kansas City FilmFest 2010Kansas City, Kansas, USAApril 14-18, 2010Deadline: August 15, 2009 (early)
All filmmakers, anywhere, are invited to submit your short or feature film -- drama, comedy, documentary, animation or experimental work. It must have been completed since January 1, 2008.
EARLY DEADLINE DATE: August 15, 2009 (Other deadlines: 10/1/2009, 11/15/2009. and 12/01/2009)
ENTRY FEES: Vary by short or feature and increase with each new deadline date
Robot Chicken Scribe Wired into Short Circuit
ROBOT CHICKEN writer Dan Milano has been hired to bring a new twist to the 1986 film, SHORT CIRCUIT, according to VARIETY. The original followed Number 5, a military robot, which after being struck by lightning, became a protector of humans.
Original's producer David Foster will return to produce alongside Ryan E. Heppe and John Hyde.
The original was written by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock.
Dug's Special Mission on Up DVD/Blu-ray
UP producer Jonas Rivera told SCIFI Wire this week about the name and plot of the special-to-DVD/Blu-ray short Pixar has in the works.
Titled DUG'S SPECIAL MISSION, the short gives "a little bit of the backstory of what Dug was actually doing" before meeting up with Carl and Russell in UP.
UP story supervisor Ronnie Del Carmen will direct. UP, due in theaters tomorrow (May 29), should hit DVD and Blu-ray sometime this fall.
Chris Landreth's The Spine to Debut at Annecy
Press Release from The National Film Board of Canada
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Sebastian's Voodoo Wins NFB Online Short Film Competition
Tom Perlmutter, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board of Canada, today awarded the prize for the 5th NFB Online Short Film Competition to Joaquin Baldwin. His film SEBASTIAN’S VOODOO was honored at the Short Film Corner in the presence of Jerome Paillard, Executive Director of the Marche du Film of the Cannes Film Festival.
Oscar Short Nominee Giulio Gianini Dies
Filmmaker Giulio Gianini, a two-time Oscar nominee for his short animated films, died at the age of 82 this weekend in Rome.
LA GAZZA LADRA (THE THIEVING MAGPIE) (1965) and PULCINELLA (1972) were nominated in the Short Subject (Animated) category.
NFB Launches Online Short Film Competition
May 12 to 20 is your chance to vote online for your favourite short among the finalists of the 5th NFB Short Film Competition -- Cannes 2009. Just go to www.nfb.ca/cannes or www.youtube.com/nfb.
2009 West Virginia Flash Animation Festival
Begins: April 30, 2009
The 9th annual West Virginia Flash Animation Festival is a competition featuring the best collegiate web animation from a 6 state region. College and High School students from WV, OH, VA, KY, PA and MD may enter for free. $2,000 in cash prizes will be awarded for animations in the following categories:
Comedy Short Animation (5 minutes or less)Dramatic Short Animation (5 minutes or less)Interactive GameAdvertisementProfessional Website (real or fictitious)Artistic InstallationPersonal ResuméExperimental
'Partly Cloudy', According to Sohn
Peter Sohn gives us an exclusive about the importance of Dumbo, his mother and animating clouds in directing his first Pixar short, Partly Cloudy.
Toy Story 3 Teaser Screens at NAB
Disney presented a short teaser trailer of TOY STORY 3 to the public for the first time Sunday at NAB in Las Vegas, reports VARIETY.
The animated short shows Woody supervising the cast of toys as they improvise a sign for the film, only to have Buzz upstage them with a high-tech version.
3-D versions of the first two TOY STORY films will be released as a double feature this fall, and the third film will debut June 18, 2010.
The studio also showed the song "Belle" from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 3-D. It will get a theatrical re-release in 2010.
Magma International Short Film Festival 2009
Magma International Short Film Festival 2009Deadline: May 5, 2009
Scarti Cultural Association, with the support of Regione Siciliana, Provincia Regionale di Catania and Comune di Acireale, organizes the 8th edition of Magma -- mostra di cinema breve (International short film festival).
The festival, opened to directors and works from all around the world, will be held in Acireale (CT) -- Italy.
Cortoons Festival 2009
Begins: March 25, 2009
Cortoons International Short Animated Film Festival is opening registrations for its sixth edition, that will be held March 25-29, 2009 at the Palladium Theatre in Rome, Italy.
The competition's five categories:
Italian Short Movie International Short Movie School Program VFX Videoclip
The festival is totally free and all techniques of animation accepted. The short films must have been created after January 1, 2007. Deadline: January 1, 2009.
Aston's Stones Wins Multiple Awards at Durango Indie Film Festival
At the 2009 Durango Independent Film Festival, which concluded March 8, Swedish animated short ASTON'S STONES won for Best Animated Short and the audience award for Best Short. The film is directed by Lotta & Uzi Geffenblad.
THE CAVE: AN ADAPTATION OF PLATO'S ALLEGORY IN CLAY, directed by Michael Ramsey, won for Animated Short Jury Commendation at the Colorado-based film festival.
Columbus Short Joins Losers Cast
COMINGSOON.net (Via BlackFilm.com) reports that Columbus Short has joined the cast of THE LOSERS at Warner Bros. Pictures with director Sylvain White.
The film is a comicbook adaptation of the DC/Vertigo title about a band of black ops commandos who are set up to be killed by their own government, but escape and plot revenge.
Short will play the role of Pooch. WATCHMEN's Jeffrey Dean Morgan will play Clay, the team's leader.
Hard Times Short Film Competition
Hard Times Short Film CompetitionDeadline: April 19, 2009
London-based multiplatform distributor Digital Rights Group have partnered with L.A.-based online filmmaking community Filmaka (www.filmaka.com) to sponsor a short film competition around the theme of "Hard Times." The winners win a cash prize plus the chance of being propelled to the movie making major league. If their three-minute short film submitted is selected, the distributor is offering the winners the opportunity to turn it into a TV series, movie or Web series.
Omaha Film Festival 2009
Begins: February 23, 2009
The Omaha Film Festival is now accepting entries in the following categories: Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, Short Film, Animated Short Film, OFF the EDGE Feature Film (Horror, Experimental, Dark Films longer than 25 minutes) and Nebraska Short Film.
Screenplays will be accepted in Feature Length (30-140 pages) and Short Length (Under 30 pages).
Oscar Nominated Shorts at Vancity Theatre
Begins: February 18, 2009
In anticipation of the 81st annual Academy Awards the Vancity Theatre will present the 10 nominees in the best animated and live action short film categories.
The 2008 Animated Short Film and Live Action Short Film nominees are:
Animated Short FilmsWednesday, February 18, 6 p.m.; Thursday February 19, 7:50 p.m. 95 minutes.
LA MAISON EN PETITS CUBES, Kunio Kato, directorLAVATORY LOVESTORY, Konstantin Bronzit, directorOKTAPODI, Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand, directorsPRESTO, Doug Sweetland, director
Oscar-Nominated Shorts to Play in New York
Begins: February 14, 2009
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.
Pixar's Next Short Also Cloudy?
A brief entry on Dave Smith's latest DISNEY A to Z: THE OFFICIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA supplement (Via Upcoming Pixar) says Pixar's next short will be called PARTLY CLOUDY, to play in front of UP.
Peter Sohn will direct. Sohn is a story artist and animator at Pixar who also voiced Emile in RATATOUILLE.
Oscar-Nominated Shorts to Play in New York
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.
Web Toons You Need to See 2009
Rick DeMott, editor of AWNtv, recaps the trends and talent that broke on the Web animation scene in 2008. Witness the best from around the Net, as well as the best from AWNtv according to you the viewer.
