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In This Issue
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ASIFA events
Animator’s Salon - Seattle
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Screenings & Exhibitions
OMSI’s Animation exhibit - Portland
Big Shorts IMAX Animation Film Festival - Portland
29th Portland International Film Festival - Portland
Children’s Film Festival - Seattle
Harry Smith: Connections and Transformations - Seattle
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Workshops
Collage Animation - Seattle
Optical Printer Basics - Seattle
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Contest
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Resources
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ASIFA Event in Seattle
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ANIMATOR’S SALON
February 9, 2006 - 7pm
Socialize with friends old and new in the Seattle filmmaking community.
Open Screening
Bring your work to show on DVD or VHS
10 mins. max, please que any VHS tapes
A joint event by ASIFA-NW and NWFF at:
Northwest Film Forum (aka Wiggly World)
1515 - 12th Ave., Seattle, WA
$3 ASIFA and WigglyWorld / $5 Public
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Portland Screenings & Exhibitions
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OMSI’s ANIMATION EXHIBIT
October 5, 2005 - April 23, 2006
History of animation, mutoscopes, cels, soundtrack area, hands on
exhibits, and much more.
www.omsi.edu/visit/featured/animationsite/index.cfm
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
1945 SE Water Ave., Portland, OR
www.omsi.edu
BIG SHORTS IMAX ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL
www.omsi.edu/visit/omnimax/showdetail.cfm?ID=34
Five animated shorts created for IMAX. Runs 32 minuets.
“IMAX Slit-Scan”
“Arthur C. Clarke’s Search for Infinity”
- Experimental film using fractals
“Primiti-Too-Taa”
- Sound poem with animated type
“Where the Trains Used To Go”
- Stop motion on a narrow-gauge railway
“The Old Man and the Sea”
- By Alexander Petrov, based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel.
Painting on glass.
2000 Academy Award for Best Short Animated Film
29th Portland International Film Festival
February 10-25, 2006
www.nwfilm.org/festivals/piff29/welcome.html
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Seattle Screenings & Exhibitions
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CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL SEATTLE!
January 28-February 4, 2006
Northwest Film Forum
1515 - 12th Ave., Seattle, WA
Info: 206-267-5380
www.nwfilmforum.org/cinemas/cinemak.php
Animated Genius: The Films of Koji Yamamura
February 3, 2006 - 3pm
A retrospective of award-winning Japanese animator Koji Yamamura.
He uses a mixture of 2D, 3D (including clay), and photography.
The Wheels on the Bus: A Program for the Tiniest Cinephiles
February 3, 2006 - 1pm
February 4, 2006 - 11am
Mostly animation with a bit of live action.
Ravens, Frogs, Dogs and More!
January 30, 2006 - 10am
February 1 - 10am
February 3 - 11am
February 4 - 1pm
A mix of animated and live action films.
Includes “What Robots Bear” by ASIFA-NW member Natt Thangvijit
Scary Stuff
February 3 - 1pm
A mix of live-action and animated shorts.
Includes “Stranger in the Woods” by ASIFA-NW member Natt Thangvijit
HARRY SMITH: CONNECTIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
February 10-12, 2006
A tribute to a Northwest experimental filmmaker.
Screenings of rarely seen Smith films from 1946 to 1980,
early hand-painted works, collage animations, and the
Seattle premiere of the multiple-screen “Mahagonny.”
www.nwfilmforum.org/cinemas/smith
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Seattle Workshops
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Northwest Film Forum (aka Wiggly World)
Collage Animation
February 4-5, 2006 - 12-3pm
Optical Printer Basics
February 16-25, 2006
Plus many more listed at their site:
www.nwfilmforum.org/wiggly/workshops.php
1515 - 12th Ave., Seattle, WA
Info: 206-267-5380
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Contest
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VisionFest
Deadline: February 10, 2006
Juried high school and college students animation festival
VisionFest 2006 takes place June 1- 4, 2006
on the campus of Indiana University Purdue
University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, Ind.
Entries accepted in five categories:
2D Animation, 3D Animation, Visualization/Simulation,
Sequential Art, and Integrated Media.
All students submitting complete entries will receive written
critique from a panel of judges who will select the Visionary 100 -
student entries that will be screened publicly during the festival.
Entry forms:
www.visionfest.org or
www.visionfest.org/06VisionFestEntryForm.pdf
Submit entries to:
Vicki Cummings Daugherty, VisionFest 2006 Submissions,
535 W. Michigan Street, Suite 475, Indianapolis, Ind., 46202-3103
Information: vicki@visionfest.org
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Resources
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www.911media.org
911 Media Arts
206-682-6552
402 - 9th Ave N., Seattle, WA
www.nwfilmforum.org
Northwest Film Forum (aka Wiggly World)
206-329-2629
1515 - 12th Ave., Seattle, WA
www.nwfilm.org
Northwest FilmCenter
503-221-1156
1139 SW 11th Ave. Portland, OR
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