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FLOYD NORMAN: AN ANIMATED LIFE Screens at Webster University April 22nd ‘Kinematifest!’

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FLOYD NORMAN: AN ANIMATED LIFE Screens at Webster University Saturday April 22nd at 7:30pm at Winifred Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) . This event is free. It’s part of KINEMATIFEST 10! Floyd Norman himself will conduct a master class in animation that afternoon at 2pm. This will take place at Webster University’s  Sverdrup Complex (8300 Big Bend Boulevard, 63119) in room 123. Space is limited for the class so please RSVP by email to:  emilyimmer03@webster.edu

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KINEMATIFEST 10 is Webster University’s International Animation and Interactive Media festival. The mission is to showcase student work and foster a worldwide interest in animation and interactive media striving to give students an opportunity to have their work critiqued by industry professionals, facilitate networking opportunities and advocate learning through workshops and seminars. For more details on all of the events, visit the site HERE

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When Jim Batts reviewed FLOYD NORMAN: AN ANIMATED LIFE here at We Are Movie Geeks, he wrote “FLOYD NORMAN: AN ANIMATED LIFE, (is) a film not only for cartoon fanatics, it’s a soul-stirring, inspiring tale for the artist in all of us.” Read all of Jim’s review HERE

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Floyd Norman presents his life and work as part of Kinematifest 10. Back in the mid-1950s, Mr. Norman was the first black animator ever to be hired by Disney. His cartooning career spans 60 years… and counting. He’s still working today, at age 81. He will share a lifetime of stories. Floyd has worked on SLEEPING BEAUTY, MARY POPPINS, JUNGLE BOOK, 101 DALMATIONS, SESEME STREET, SCOOBY-DOO, TOY STORY 2, MONSTERS, INC., ROBOT CHICKEN, and many other important animated films and television shows.

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PINK RIBBONS, INC. Opens June 1 in New York & Los Angeles

First Run Features Announces U.S. Theatrical Premiere of
Controversial Documentary by Léa Pool

Opening in New York & Los Angeles June 1, 2012
Nationwide Rollout Begins June 8

Who really benefits from the pink ribbon campaigns – the cause or the companies?

Directed by veteran filmmaker Léa Pool for the National Film Board of Canada, Pink Ribbons, Inc. examines the ubiquitous pink ribbon campaigns for breast cancer. The film looks at how the breast cancer movement has moved from activism to consumerism and challenges viewers to rethink their assumptions about the meaning of breast cancer in our society.

The film is inspired by the book Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy by Dr. Samantha King, who is interviewed in the film along with activists and medical experts like Barbara A. Brenner, Dr. Charlene Elliott, Barbara Ehrenreich and Dr. Susan Love. Also featured are candid personal discussions among women living with breast cancer, as well as interviews with the leading players in breast cancer fundraising, including the director of the recently embattled Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Nancy Goodman Brinker.

Pink Ribbons, Inc. reveals how breast cancer fundraising may boost corporate profits and brand awareness more than it benefits people with the disease. After all, despite the millions of dollars raised each year for the cause, breast cancer rates are rising, prevention is vastly underfunded and, over the decades, we’ve seen only incremental improvements in chemotherapy and surgery treatments. Even worse, the film suggests that some of same companies profiting from pink marketing campaigns may actually be contributing to the breast cancer epidemic by selling known carcinogens.

Director Léa Pool hopes the film will encourage people “to be more critical and more politically conscious about our actions and to stop thinking that by buying pink toilet paper we’re doing what needs to be done.” She adds, “I don’t want to say that we absolutely shouldn’t be raising money. We are just saying, ‘Think before you pink.'”

Léa Pool’s highly personal and emotional vision has singled her out as one Canada’s great filmmakers. In 1979, Strass Café launched a career that was to bring us great productions such as La femme de l’hôtel, Anne Trister, À corps perdu, La demoiselle sauvage, and Mouvements du désir, which garnered eight Genie Award nominations. Emporte-moi won several awards including the Berlin Festival Ecumenical Jury Special Award; and Lost and Delirious was shown at many festivals. The Blue Butterfly(starring William Hurt) was Léa Pool’s first foray into making a family movie. More recently she directedMaman est chez le coiffeur and La dernière fugue based on Gil Courtemanche’s novel. She has also directed several documentaries for television such as Gabrielle Roy, winner of a Gémaux award for best documentary. Léa Pool’s impact on the seventh art can be measured by the many tributes and retrospectives of her work that have been held around the world since 1989. In 2006 she won the prestigious Albert-Tessier Award and in 1994 she was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France.

First Run Features will partner with Breast Cancer Action (BCAction) for the U.S. release of Pink Ribbons, Inc. In 2002, BCAction launched the highly successful direct action campaign Think Before You Pink® in response to growing concern that pink ribbon marketing in the name of breast cancer fundraising was doing more harm than good. BCAction demands accountability and transparency from those claiming to support women with breast cancer, and in the last ten years the Think Before You Pink campaign has achieved a number of successes. For more information, please visit www.bcaction.org.

PINK RIBBONS, INC. 
Run Time: 98 minutes
Language: English
Format: 35mm & digital
Year: 2011
Genre: Documentary
Director, Writer: Léa Pool
Producer: Ravida Din
Executive Producer: Ravida Din
Associate Producer: Nancy Guerin
Researcher/Writers: Patricia Kearns, Nancy Guerin
Interviewees: Judy Brady, Barbara A. Brenner, Nancy G. Brinker, James Brophy, PhD, Janet Collins, Carol Cone, Dr. Charlene Elliott, Barbara Ehrenreich, Charlotte Haley, Jane Houlihan, Marc Hurlbert, PhD, Dr. Marion Kavanaugh-Lynch, Margaret Keith, PhD, Samantha King, Evelyn H. Lauder, Ellen Leopold, Dr. Susan Love, Kim McInerney, Dr. Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, IV League, The Plastics Focus Group

Disney And DISNEY•PIXAR Favorites Poised To Return To Theaters In 3D

“Beauty and the Beast,” “Finding Nemo,” “Monsters, Inc.”
and “The Little Mermaid” Will Make 3D
Theatrical Debut in 2012 and 2013

BURBANK, Calif. – October 4, 2011 – On the heels of the phenomenal success of The Lion King 3D – which will cross the $80 million mark at the domestic box office today – The Walt Disney Studios has announced limited theatrical engagements for four of its classic films for the first time in 3D. The following titles from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios will be released in 2012 and 2013:

* Beauty and the Beast – January 13, 2012
* Disney•Pixar’s Finding Nemo – September 14, 2012
* Disney•Pixar’s Monsters, Inc. – January 18, 2013 (Monsters University, a prequel to the original film, arrives in theaters in Disney Digital 3D on June 21, 2013)
* The Little Mermaid – September 13, 2013

“Great stories and great characters are timeless, and at Disney we’re fortunate to have a treasure trove of both,” said Alan Bergman, President, The Walt Disney Studios. “We’re thrilled to give audiences of all ages the chance to experience these beloved tales in an exciting new way with 3D – and in the case of younger generations, for the first time on the big screen.”

Originally released in 1991, Beauty and the Beast is a classic “tale as old as time” that follows the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman imprisoned in the castle of a mysterious beast and his enchanted staff, who must learn the most important lesson of all – that true beauty comes from within. Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Picture, earning an additional five Oscar® nominations and winning two. It has grossed $380.4 million worldwide.

First released in 2003, Disney•Pixar’s Finding Nemo takes audiences into a whole new world in this undersea adventure about family, courage and challenges. When Marlin, an overly cautious clownfish living in the Great Barrier Reef, helplessly watches his son get scooped up by a diver, he must put aside his fears of the ocean and leave the safety of his coral enclave to find Nemo. Buoyed by the companionship of Dory, a forgetful but relentlessly optimistic fish, Marlin finds himself the unlikely hero in a seemingly impossible land-and-sea rescue. Finding Nemo won an Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for three others. With a total of $867.6 million worldwide, it was the second highest-grossing film of 2003.

In 2001, Disney•Pixar released Monsters, Inc. Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. But when a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it’s up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home. Monsters, Inc. shattered every DVD-era home entertainment sales record when 11 million DVD/VHS copies were sold during its first week of release. It won an Academy Award® for Best Song and has grossed $526.9 million worldwide.

Released in 1989, The Little Mermaid, stars Ariel, a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid, off on the adventure of a lifetime with her best friend, the adorable Flounder, and the reggae-singing Caribbean crab Sebastian. But it will take all of her courage and determination to make her dreams come true and save her father’s beloved kingdom from the sneaky sea witch Ursula. One of the most celebrated animated films of all time, The Little Mermaid was nominated for three Academy Awards®, winning two. It has grossed $228.9 million worldwide.

ABOUT THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS
For more than 85 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) was built. Today, the Studio brings quality movies, music and stage plays to consumers throughout the world. Feature films are released under four banners: Walt Disney Pictures, which includes Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios; Disneynature; Marvel; and Touchstone Pictures, which includes the distribution of live-action films from DreamWorks Studios. Original music and motion picture soundtracks are produced under Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records, while Disney Theatrical Group produces and licenses live events, including Broadway theatrical productions, Disney on Ice and Disney LIVE!. For more information, visit www.waltdisneystudios.com.

Academy’s Contemporary Documentaries Series Returns Tonight With FOOD, INC., MUSIC BY PRUDENCE And MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences kicks off Part Two of its 29th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” screening series with “Food, Inc.” and “Under Our Skin” TONIGHT, Wednesday, March 23, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the series is FREE.

From cruel and unsanitary conditions in cattle and chicken farming to the addition of corn syrup and sodium to many foods, “Food, Inc.” examines the ways in which large corporations in the American food industry dominate the marketplace and affect the quality of what we consume. Directed by Robert Kenner and produced by Kenner and Elise Pearlstein, “Food, Inc.” earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Feature. Robert Kenner & Elise Pearlstein will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening.

Directed and produced by Andy Abrahams Wilson, “Under Our Skin” investigates the untold story of Lyme disease.  As it follows patients and physicians fighting for their lives or livelihoods, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of America’s broken healthcare system.

The 29th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series is a showcase for feature-length and short documentaries drawn from the 2009 Academy Award nominations, including the winners, as well as other important and innovative films considered by the Academy that year.

The screening schedule for Part Two, which runs through June 2011, is as follows:

Wednesday, March 30
“Music by Prudence”
Directed by Roger Ross Williams
Produced by Williams, Elinor Burkett
Academy Award winner: Documentary Short Subject

“Music by Prudence” is the story about the most unlikely voice of hope – singer-songwriter Prudence Mabhena and her band of seven young disabled Zimbabweans – trying to survive in a bankrupt country.  Directed by Roger Ross Williams and produced by Williams and Elinor Burkett, the film earned the 2009 Academy Award® for Documentary Short Subject.

“Mugabe and the White African”
Directed by Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson
Produced by David Pearson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock

In “Mugabe and the White African,” a courageous white farmer, Mike Campbell, challenges Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, before an international court in an effort to protect his property, his family’s livelihood and that of the 500 black workers who also live on his farm. The film was directed by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson and produced by David Pearson and Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock.

Wednesday, April 20
“Rabbit à la Berlin”
Directed by Bartek Konopka
Produced by Anna Wydra
Academy Award nominee: Documentary Short Subject

“We Live in Public”
Directed by Ondi Timoner
Produced by Timoner, Keirda Bahruth

Wednesday, April 27
“The Fence”
Directed by Rory Kennedy
Produced by Kennedy, Liz Garbus, Keven McAlester

“Which Way Home”
Directed and produced by Rebecca Cammisa
Academy Award nominee: Documentary Feature

Wednesday, May 11
“Soundtrack for a Revolution”
Directed by Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Produced by Joslyn Barnes, Jim Czarnecki, Guttentag, Sturman, Dylan Nelson

“Every Little Step”
Directed and produced by James D. Stern, Adam Del Deo

Wednesday, May 18
“Lt. Watada”
Directed and produced by Freida Mock

“Sergio”
Directed by Greg Barker
Produced by John Battsek, Barker, Julie Goldman

Wednesday, May 25
“Woman Rebel”
Directed and produced by Kiran Deol

“Burma VJ”
Directed by Anders Østergaard
Produced by Lise Lense-Møller
Academy Award nominee: Documentary Feature

Wednesday, June 1
“Facing Ali”
Directed by Pete McCormack
Produced by Derik Murray

“Tyson”
Directed by James Toback
Produced by Toback, Damon Bingham

All films will screen at the Linwood Dunn Theater at the Academy’s Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. All seating is unreserved. The filmmakers will be present at screenings whenever possible.

The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood. Free parking is available through the entrance on Homewood Avenue (one block north of Fountain Avenue). For additional information, visit http://www.oscars.org/ or call (310) 247-3600.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world’s preeminent movie-related organization, with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema. In addition to the annual Academy Awards – in which the members vote to select the nominees and winners – the Academy presents a diverse year-round slate of public programs, exhibitions and events; provides financial support to a wide range of other movie-related organizations and endeavors; acts as a neutral advocate in the advancement of motion picture technology; and, through its Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, collects, preserves, restores and provides access to movies and items related to their history. Through these and other activities the Academy serves students, historians, the entertainment industry and people everywhere who love movies.

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Guillermo Del Toro Names DreamWorks Animation His Home for Feature Animation

The official press release from Dreamworks Animation:

DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) announced today (Sept. 27, 2010) that famed Oscar-nominated director Guillermo del Toro has named the studio his home for animated feature film projects. Del Toro will join Andrew Adamson and Michelle Raimo as Executive Producer on Puss In Boots, which is scheduled to be released on November 4, 2011.

DreamWorks Animation has acquired from del Toro Trollhunters (working title), an original project from which the Company plans to produce a 3D animated feature film, which will be written and directed by del Toro himself. The exciting new story of Trollhunters is being kept entirely under wraps at the studio. Additionally, del Toro will consult on a number of DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming feature film releases.

“Animation is a singularly unique medium in that it allows an artist to envision, articulate and manipulate whole new worlds that spark the imagination in amazing ways,” said Guillermo del Toro. “Nowhere have I found a greater concentration of spirit and creativity than at DreamWorks Animation and I cannot imagine a better place for me to pursue my ambition as a filmmaker: to tell the best possible stories that can reach the biggest number of people around the world.”

“On behalf of the entire studio, I’d like to warmly welcome Guillermo into the DreamWorks family of filmmakers; we are incredibly honored that he has chosen our studio as his home for feature animation,” said Bill Damaschke, Co-President of Production at DreamWorks Animation. “Guillermo brings a unique vision and unmatched level of inventiveness to his storytelling and we cannot wait to see what he can do together with our creative team here at DreamWorks Animation.”

Source: DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.

Sony and Platinum Developing an Animated Feature

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Sony Pictures Animation and Platinum Studios, Inc. have made a deal to develop an animated feature.   The news came today from  Bob Osher, president of Sony Pictures Digital Productions and Hannah Minghella, president of production for Sony Pictures Animation.

Platinum Studios, which controls an international library of comics and graphic novel content with over 5,600 characters, brings comic book projects to feature film and television.

“I have known and respected Scott Rosenberg for many years as a great resource of characters, stories and ideas,” said Bob Osher. “We’re looking forward to working with him and Platinum Studios to develop a feature from their library of stories and characters.”

“It is great to be working with Bob and Sony again,” said Rosenberg. “And Hannah has the perfect energy and creative tenacity to drive us into a fantastic feature world.”

Platinum Studios’ film and TV division has various other properties in development at major film studios, including ‘Atlantis Rising’ at DreamWorks with Kurtzman/Orci (‘Transformers’) set to produce, ‘Cowboys and Aliens’ also at Dreamworks with Kurtzman/Orci partnering with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, and ‘Unique’ at Walt Disney Pictures and ‘Dead of Night’ with Hyde Park Entertainment with Brandon Routh (‘Superman Returns’) starring and Kevin Munroe (2007’s ‘TMNT’) directing. Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures and Platinum Studios are currently co-developing feature films based on the soon-to-be-published action thriller graphic novel Final Orbit and Top Cow’s Magdalena.

Source: Coming Soon.net