Vancouver Short Film Festival gets animated with the NFB

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      Now here's something to get animated about.

      This year, the Vancouver Short Film Festival, now in its fifth year, is celebrating International Animation Day by partnering with the National Film Board of Canada.

      VSFF marketing director and programmer Sandra Garcia mentioned that they became involved with the NFB's free Get Animated! animation festival (October 28, 30, and 31, and November 1) after they asked former NFB producer Martin Rose to be a part of their "Using Animation In Your Short Film panel discussion at VSFF (which runs from October 28 to 29 at Vancity Theatre [1181 Seymour Street]).

      That panel (October 28, 5:30 p.m.) will also include animators Emilie Goulet of Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada and Mario Pochat ("Bye-Bye!", Tropic Thunder), and it will be moderated by Jeff Chiba Stearns ("Yellow Sticky Notes"), whose latest work, One Big Hapa Family, will be shown at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival.

      Amazingly, everything at the Get Animated! festival is absolutely free.

      Animators will want to check out the free master class (October 30, time has switched to 2 to 3:30 p.m.) with Vancouver animator Matthew Talbot-Kelly (whose latest work, "The Trembling Veil of Bones", will play as part of the NFB New Releases Program on Thursday, October 28 and Saturday, October 30 at Vancity Theatre).

      On Sunday (October 31, 10 a.m.), there's an all-ages morning screening of the Fairy Tales For All program, which features the likes of "The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin" and "Sleeping Betty" (a reworked Sleeping Beauty story).

      And on Monday (November 1, 7:30 p.m., Emily Carr University [1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island]), The 12th Animation Show of Shows, which brings the best animated works from around the world.

      Meanwhile, at VSFF, there'll also be showcases of the best work from:
      Ӣ B.C.'s postsecondary students (Emerging Filmmakers Screening) from educational institutions such as Emily Carr University, Pull Focus Film School, Vancouver Film School, Simon Fraser University, and the University of British Columbia;
      Ӣ international filmmakers (World's Best Shorts), including work from Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, the U.K., and the U.S.;
      Ӣ B.C.'s professional artists (Professional Filmmakers Screening), including some titles you might recognize, such as Brianne Nord-Stewart's "Trolls", Anand Kanna's "Serum 1831", "Everything's Coming Up Rosie" (featuring The Twilight Saga's Jodelle Ferland), Chiba Stearns' "Ode to a Post-It Note", and "Exposed" (starring Gabrielle Rose), which recently played in one of the Vancouver International Film Festival's Canadian shorts programs.

      Plus there'll also be a retrospective of the best work from the past five years.

      There's clearly plenty to check out and lots of reasons to celebrate animation.

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      Barb Parker

      Oct 29, 2010 at 1:53pm

      VSFF news: Just saw the student line-up of 10 best short films at the VSFF. Great stuff, particularly Dave McDonald's Empire City. WOW! It won best director, editing, cinematography and people's choice - 4 out of the 7 awards presented. A real talent! Check it out!

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