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News & Blogs
Daily News: "Animator John Lasseter to Recieve Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame"
Nov 1, 2011"John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, will receive the 2,453rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today," reports Daily News Wire Services. More at dailynews.com.
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In Orbit with ‘An Injury to One’
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 21, 2011Accompanied by a program of solar system shorts, Travis Wilkerson’s 2003 look at ruthless union-busting and the rise and fall of Butte, Montana, offers eerie resonance.
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October 20, 2011
In Orbit with ‘An Injury to One’
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 21, 2011Accompanied by a program of solar system shorts, Travis Wilkerson’s 2003 look at ruthless union-busting and the rise and fall of Butte, Montana, offers eerie resonance.
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In Orbit with ‘An Injury to One’
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 21, 2011Accompanied by a program of solar system shorts, Travis Wilkerson’s 2003 look at ruthless union-busting and the rise and fall of Butte, Montana, offers eerie resonance.
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Festivals
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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October 20, 2011
Children’s Film Festival Moves in and out of Shadows
Adam Hartzell
Oct 20, 2011Without marketing tie-ins, plastic toys or corn-syrup confections, a children’s film festival brings energy to the screen.
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Deadlines
Funding: TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund
Oct 10, 2011The TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund supports innovative film and video artists who are living or working in Mexico, Central and South America and working independently in their efforts to reach a larger audience. ELIGIBILITY: Submissions must be animation, documentary and/or hybrid feature-length films with an intended length of at least 70 minutes. Submissions must be in production or post-production and must not have aired on any form of television, been screened publicly or have been distributed in theaters or via the internet. Projects may be in any language or dialect. Applicants must be over 18 years old. Student films and stand-alone short films are not eligible for submission. $25 entry fee. AWARDS: Last year, the Fund administered $10,000 grants to four selected films. In addition to funding, each grantee will receive a U.S. based advisor and guidance from the Tribeca Film Institute. DEADLINE: October 10, 2011. WEBSITE: tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/latin_fund/.
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August 25, 2011
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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August 25, 2011
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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Reviews
PFA Animates with Bay Area Works
Jonathan Kiefer
Aug 24, 2011SF State professor Karl Cohen’s animation collection investigates the nature of pictorial movement itself.
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August 2, 2011
The Animator's Art with John Musker
Aug 8, 2011Disney animation director John Musker, responsible for 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and a number of other contemporary favorites, appears at The Walt Disney Family Museum to give a short demonstration of the craft of animation to youth ages 8-12. Older aficionados of the director's work can head to PFA on Wednesday for a lecture and presentation by Musker. More info at sffs.org and bampfa.berkeley.edu.
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May 24, 2011
The Art of ‘Howl’ at the Cartoon Art Museum
May 19, 2011The vivid mindscapes of Allen Ginsberg's poems come to radical life in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's James Franco-fied 'Howl' via the art of Ginsberg collaborator Eric Drooker. The Cartoon Art Museum showcases 'The Art of Howl,' with Drooker's work, storyboards, photos and multimedia. More at cartoonart.org.
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December 7, 2010
'Pixar: 25 Years of Animation' Exhibition
Dec 8, 2010This popular Oakland Museum of California exhibition is an all encompassing look at the world’s leading animation studio and includes artwork from 'Ratatouille', 'Wall E', 'Up' and 'Toy Story 3.' More at museumca.org
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Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Dennis Harvey
Nov 24, 2010The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
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November 24, 2010
Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Dennis Harvey
Nov 24, 2010The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
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Reviews
Season's Screenings Bring out Best Films of the Year
Dennis Harvey
Nov 24, 2010The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
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Festivals
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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November 18, 2010
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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Festivals
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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November 18, 2010
New to SFIAF: Online Screening Room
Andrew Provost
Nov 13, 2010SFIAF's Online Screening Room gives the festival's animation another dimension.
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Semiconductor's Binary Opposition
Sean Uyehara
Nov 12, 2010San Francisco International Animation Festival: Semiconductor's Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt talk about their work in music, movies and animation. What do you call a duo that considers itself a trio? Or videomakers who call themselves sculptors? Semiconductor has been making video and installation work for over ten years. They consist of Joseph Gerhardt, Ruth Jarman and a computer. They create animations and present live music and visual shows. Everything they do is slightly inside out. The computer is more or less an antagonist in their midst. They haven’t quite broken up the band yet, because the....
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November 11, 2010
Semiconductor's Binary Opposition
Sean Uyehara
Nov 12, 2010San Francisco International Animation Festival: Semiconductor's Ruth Jarman and Joseph Gerhardt talk about their work in music, movies and animation. What do you call a duo that considers itself a trio? Or videomakers who call themselves sculptors? Semiconductor has been making video and installation work for over ten years. They consist of Joseph Gerhardt, Ruth Jarman and a computer. They create animations and present live music and visual shows. Everything they do is slightly inside out. The computer is more or less an antagonist in their midst. They haven’t quite broken up the band yet, because the....
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November 10, 2010
San Francisco International Animation Festival
Nov 11, 2010Animated stories from around the world gather at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema for the fifth SFIAF. Six wide-ranging shorts programs as well as features like Brent Green’s ‘Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then’ and Sunao Katabuchi’s ‘Mai Mai Miracle’ take the screen. Four diverse animators interpret folk rock band The Decemberists’ 2009 concept album in ‘Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized,’ which opens the festival. Opening Night party follows the screening at La Mar Cebichería Peruana at Pier One and One-Half on the Embarcadero. More at sffs.org.
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November 2, 2010
American Indian Film Festival
Nov 5, 2010The 35th Annual AIFF kicks off at Landmark’s Embarcadero Cinema. Armand Garnet Ruffo interweaves two stories inspired by Ojibway spiritualism in the opening night film, ‘A Windigo Tale.’ The festival also includes animation and shorts programs, as well a toy drive. More at aifisf.com.
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October 5, 2010
'Redline'
Oct 8, 2010VIZ Cinema hosts the U.S. premiere of this highly anticipated racing animation film the same day it opens in Japan. Five years in the making, ‘Redline’ is a collaboration between the creators of the 'Kill Bill Vol. 1' animation segments and 'The Animatrix.'
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Festivals
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
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A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
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September 30, 2010
A Children's Film Festival Finds Inspiration for All Ages
Gianmaria Franchini
Sep 24, 2010The NY/SF International Children's Film Festival offers a mix of animation, live action, fantasy, entertainment and insight.
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'Howl' Revisits Key Literary Chapter in SF History
Susan Gerhard
Sep 23, 2010Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman offer insight into the making of 'Howl,' a movie about a poem and a time.
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September 23, 2010
'Howl' Revisits Key Literary Chapter in SF History
Susan Gerhard
Sep 23, 2010Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman offer insight into the making of 'Howl,' a movie about a poem and a time.
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'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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Q & A
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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September 9 2010
'Them Greeks' Tests Independent Digital Production Model
Jessica Sapick
Sep 7, 2010An animator collaborates over the ether to bring 'Them Greeks....!' to life.
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Festivals
SFIFF53 Reports: The Butcher Block; Opening Night
SF360
Apr 24, 2010To be from the Bay Area and called The Butcher Brothers might mean you get mixed up with purveyors of grass fed meats.
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Reviews
Pixar's Latest Oscar High
Michael Fox
Mar 8, 2010Cementing its status as the preeminent animation company of the 00s, Pixar won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for the third time in seven years.
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Reviews
Pixar's Latest Oscar High
Michael Fox
Mar 8, 2010Cementing its status as the preeminent animation company of the 00s, Pixar won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for the third time in seven years.
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Reviews
Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends
Susan Gerard
Dec 31, 2009While the U.S. moved from rebuilding decimated skyscrapers to the rebuilding of an entire economy, film moved from the multiplex to the mailbox to the mobile.
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Reviews
Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends
Susan Gerard
Dec 31, 2009While the U.S. moved from rebuilding decimated skyscrapers to the rebuilding of an entire economy, film moved from the multiplex to the mailbox to the mobile.
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Reviews
3D Reloaded: Where Does 3D Go From Here?
Sean Uyehara
Dec 27, 2009The release of Avatar puts a fitting capstone on a frenzied campaign by studios to reintroduce stereoscopic 3-D to audiences in 2009.
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Reviews
3D Reloaded: Where Does 3D Go From Here?
Sean Uyehara
Dec 27, 2009The release of Avatar puts a fitting capstone on a frenzied campaign by studios to reintroduce stereoscopic 3-D to audiences in 2009.
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Reviews
Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview
Dennis Harvey
Nov 25, 2009Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
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Q & A
Russell Merritt at the SF International Animation Festival
Sura Wood
Nov 9, 2009A conversation on Walt Disney's Alice Comedies with a lively raconteur and Professor of Film Studies at UC Berkeley.
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Q & A
Russell Merritt at the SF International Animation Festival
Sura Wood
Nov 9, 2009A conversation on Walt Disney's Alice Comedies with a lively raconteur and Professor of Film Studies at UC Berkeley.
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Q & A
Seiji Horibuchi on VIZ Cinema
Michael Fox
Aug 8, 2009Seiji Horibuchi, founder and chairman of VIZ Media, speaks about VIZ Cinema, a built-from-scratch venue located in the New People building in Japantown.
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Reviews
'Howl' is Poetry in Post
Michael Fox
Jul 28, 2009Academy Award-winning documentary filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman combine live-action period drama and animation in retelling of Ginsburg's Howl
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Reviews
SFIFF52 Blogs: Dinosaurs, Disease, and Delirium
Robert Avila
May 7, 2009The Lost World, the 1925 silent fantasy
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Festivals
SF International Film Festival Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 31, 2009The two weeks of programs offers 151 films from 55 countries, awards and prices, and a wide array of San Francisco talent, from legendary names to the fledgling artists.
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Reviews
William Kentridge at SFMOMA
Robert Avila
Mar 25, 2009The films of William Kentridge make up a significant and absorbing part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art enthralling survey of recent work by the acclaimed South African artist
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In Production
Sam Green's Utopian Experiment
Michael Fox
Mar 18, 2009Sam Green talks about his latest project, an experimental documentary where the stories tease out, in more of an emotional way, ideas about hope and imagination of the future
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Sam Green's Utopian Experiment
Michael Fox
Mar 18, 2009Sam Green talks about his latest project, an experimental documentary where the stories tease out, in more of an emotional way, ideas about hope and imagination of the future
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Festivals
SF Indiefest 2009
Dennis Harvey
Feb 5, 2009With a roster that sprawls from horror to softcore to verite-style drama and documentary, the only constant is that you won't be bored.
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Reviews
Autobio-Animation and the Horrors of War
Dennis Harvey
Jan 6, 2009Waltz with Bashir is another animated feature that embraces a more grown-up story and audience than anything in the long history of "cartoons."
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Reviews
Autobio-Animation and the Horrors of War
Dennis Harvey
Jan 6, 2009Waltz with Bashir is another animated feature that embraces a more grown-up story and audience than anything in the long history of "cartoons."
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Reviews
Something Wild: Martha Colburn's Collage Animations
Max Goldberg
Dec 1, 2008Martha Colburn's recent shorts plunge the interstices of Americana for a hidden history of fanaticism and double-faced hypocrisies.
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Reviews
Something Wild: Martha Colburn's Collage Animations
Max Goldberg
Dec 1, 2008Martha Colburn's recent shorts plunge the interstices of Americana for a hidden history of fanaticism and double-faced hypocrisies.
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Festivals
Sean Uyehara On the S.F. International Animation Festival
Michael Guillen
Nov 10, 2008If, in the ol' days, they were called "'toons," these days, some heavy-duty words are required to express the strength and breadth of contemporary animation.
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Festivals
Sean Uyehara On the S.F. International Animation Festival
Michael Guillen
Nov 10, 2008If, in the ol' days, they were called "'toons," these days, some heavy-duty words are required to express the strength and breadth of contemporary animation.
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Q & A
James Savoca's 'Around June' Casts Spell Around Potrero Hill
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2008It used to be standard for San Francisco to be portrayed in movies as a magical, mythical, and slightly mysterious catalyst for transformation.
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Festivals
Inside the Telluride Film Festival
Hilary Hart
Aug 29, 2008A Telluride veteran gives a festival overview, and explains why film lovers and filmmakers travel to a remote corner of Colorado on blind faith.
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Festivals
SF International's Golden Gate Awards: Alive and Cooking
Susan Gerhard
May 8, 2008Food scents and film sensibilities mingled in a pungent party atmosphere at the California Culinary Academy.
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Q & A
Peter Galison, "Secrecy," and Sundance
indieWIRE
Jan 22, 2008Galison, whose film is competing at Sundance '08, answers questions about the world of hidden national security policy.
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Festivals
Second S.F. International Animation Festival
Susan Gerhard
Nov 12, 2007The S.F. International Animation Festival experienced a major bounce, with a number of sold-out shows in its venue at the Embarcadero Center Cinema.
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Festivals
Second S.F. International Animation Festival
Susan Gerhard
Nov 12, 2007The S.F. International Animation Festival experienced a major bounce, with a number of sold-out shows in its venue at the Embarcadero Center Cinema.
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Festivals
International Latino Film Festival and S.F. International Animation Festival
Robert Avila
Nov 8, 2007In the wake of Mexican cinema's triumphant showing at the 2007 Oscars, these films serve to confirm how some of the biggest surprises can come from the shortest of distances.
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Festivals
International Latino Film Festival and S.F. International Animation Festival
Robert Avila
Nov 8, 2007In the wake of Mexican cinema's triumphant showing at the 2007 Oscars, these films serve to confirm how some of the biggest surprises can come from the shortest of distances.
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Q & A
Sean Uyehara Talks S.F. International Animation Festival
Eve O'Neil
Nov 7, 2007SFFS programmer Sean Uyehara gives some perspective on the shifting dimensions of animated filmmaking.
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Q & A
Sean Uyehara Talks S.F. International Animation Festival
Eve O'Neil
Nov 7, 2007SFFS programmer Sean Uyehara gives some perspective on the shifting dimensions of animated filmmaking.
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Q & A
Bruce Fletcher, Dead Channels and the Living
Dennis Harvey
Aug 6, 2007Fletcher explains what will hopefully be an annual event that encompasses all kinds of worldwide cult-skewing fun.
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Reviews
Rodents we love
Claire Faggioli
Jul 6, 2007List: Most of us talk to our pets, but very few of us talk our Camrys or toasters. That's where animation fills our need to fantasize about our interactions with animals.
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Reviews
Rodents we love
Claire Faggioli
Jul 6, 2007List: Most of us talk to our pets, but very few of us talk our Camrys or toasters. That's where animation fills our need to fantasize about our interactions with animals.
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Q & A
Dennis Nyback and "Bad Bugs Bunny"
Michael Guillen
Jun 6, 2007"SF Indiefest: Gets Animated," piggybacking on the 4th Annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, co-presents an animation program with the popular archivist.
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Reviews
Guillen's Top Five from Another Hole in the Head
Michael Guillen
May 25, 2007Five recommendations chosen from among the gore, ghouls, ghosts, gags, and animation at Indiefest's Holehead festival.
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Festivals
SFIFF50, Diving In
Johnny Ray Huston
May 8, 2007The 50th annual SF International Film Festival is as good a time to put forth an argument. Here’s one: The most compelling movie stars of the current era are athletes, and the most dynamic 21st-century cinema is sports cinema.
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Q & A
Kerry Laitala and Her New "Muse"
Katherin McInnis
Apr 25, 2007The artist's filmsÑsensual, intricate, tactileÑare a magical combination of optical artistry, snippets of forgotten films, and bits of lace, tape, and glitter.
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Festivals
Uyehara Hits High Notes on Music of SFIFF50
Sean Uyehara
Apr 20, 2007Thinking about the upcoming SFIFF, music may not be the first thing that pops into your head. It may not even be the second.
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Festivals
Indiefest Lineup Announcement
Miljenko Skoknic
Jan 19, 2007SF IndieFest's founder/director Jeff Ross announced the ninth edition of the Bay Area's indie showcase festival
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Q & A
"One Man Band," two Pixar geniuses, and "The Iron Giant" revisited
Sean Uyehara
Oct 13, 2006Mark Andrews and Andrew Jimenez co-wrote and co-directed the unexpected, surprisingly funny short about two musicians vying for a young girl's lone coin.
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Q & A
"One Man Band," two Pixar geniuses, and "The Iron Giant" revisited
Sean Uyehara
Oct 13, 2006Mark Andrews and Andrew Jimenez co-wrote and co-directed the unexpected, surprisingly funny short about two musicians vying for a young girl's lone coin.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Animation Showcase
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 12, 2006San Francisco Film Society programming associate Sean Uyehara has pulled off a feat with the opening program for the first San Francisco International Animation Showcase.
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Festivals
San Francisco International Animation Showcase
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 12, 2006San Francisco Film Society programming associate Sean Uyehara has pulled off a feat with the opening program for the first San Francisco International Animation Showcase.
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Festivals
Mill Valley Film Festival 2006
Dennis Harvey
Oct 5, 2006By the youth-rhetoric standards of another era, this is the last year we can trust the Mill Valley Film Festival. Next year, it turns 30.
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Festivals
Fall 2006 Festival Season
Susan Gerhard
Aug 25, 2006SF360 checks in with a few Bay Area festival insiders to see what they're excited about at upcoming festivals.
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News & Blogs
Morpho Power at SIGGRAPH
Sean Uyehara
Aug 16, 2006The Association for Computing Machinery Ôs 2006 conference and exhibition offered animation, new media art exhibits and the latest techniques in interactivity.
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News & Blogs
Morpho Power at SIGGRAPH
Sean Uyehara
Aug 16, 2006The Association for Computing Machinery Ôs 2006 conference and exhibition offered animation, new media art exhibits and the latest techniques in interactivity.
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Reviews
Showstopping Filmmakers Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon
Danny Plotnick
May 17, 2006Rodney Ascher and Syd Garon are only two people whose works curator Danny Plotnick would show sight unseen.
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Reviews
Masharawi Finds Palestinians In States of Suspended Animation
Robert Avila
Apr 20, 2006Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi's Waiting intricately and ingeniously intertwines irony, humor, and pathos.
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Q & A
Tommy Pallotta's Reanimation of "A Scanner Darkly"
Daniel Cowles
Apr 18, 2006The producer talks about the barriers filmmakers have faced in bringing Philip K. Dick's novel to the screen.
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Q & A
Tommy Pallotta's Reanimation of "A Scanner Darkly"
Daniel Cowles
Apr 18, 2006The producer talks about the barriers filmmakers have faced in bringing Philip K. Dick's novel to the screen.
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