Mary and Max – 3CR fundraiser

See the animated masterpiece MARY AND MAX with 3CR on Thursday 16 April 6.45pm at the Kino (Melbourne) and meet the director Adam Eliot

Adam Eliot (Harvie Crumpet) and his film crew have created a funny and bittersweet tale of oddballness, friendship and humanity (sound familiar?!) with their first feature length adventure. Adam shall be there to introduce the film.

Book your ticket now for only $20 full and $16 concession -  go to http://www.3cr.org.au and pay online with your credit card or paypal account or call the station b/hrs on 03 9419 9377.

Find out more about the film at http://www.maryandmax.com/

The 12th over the fence short film festival

“For short films with an excellent sense of humour.”

The Over The Fence Short Film Festival is the coolest, boldest, funniest film festival in the land. Animation, Drama, Documentary, Mocumentary and Experimental comedy! So if you’re thinking about making a comedy…if you’re in the middle of making one…or you’ve finished your comic masterpiece – then get cracking !!!

Entry deadlines:
$35 Before April  24 – Mid Deadline Special
$45 From April 24 – June 30,  Deadline
$55 LATE FEE – until July 10.

Visit http://www.overthefence.com.au to download an entry form that can be sent to:

Over The Fence
PO Box 468
Hamilton Hill WA 6963

Films entered must be no older than 2005 and no longer than 20 minutes.

Contact : Deanna 0415 221 024 or Greg (08) 9337 6049
http://www.overthefence.com.au
mail@overthefence.com.au or deanna@overthefence.com.au

Location Location Location! Melbourne Arts Project Exhibit

Location Location Location! encompasses themes and concepts surrounding architecture, interiors, the urban and suburban. Works from a wide range of mediums-2D, 3D and animation- explore the built environment and the way we inhabit it.

A number of these works investigate the local and often immediate Northcote environment, celebrating the iconic weatherboard house in its various stages of development and decay. Immaculate attention to detail and a celebration of materiality are engendered in the works of Chris Mason and Chris O’Brien, the latter of whose ‘houses’ are the starting point for intricate narratives, bold characters and social commentary.

Gallery Talk:
Saturday 18 April from 11 – 11.30am
Talk presented by Gallery Manager Sim Luttin.

Exhibition Dates:
Thursday 19 March – Friday 24 April 2009
Free and open to the public.

Location:
Arts Project Australia Gallery
24 High Street
Northcote Victoria 3070 Australia
T: +61 (03) 9482 4484
E:info@artsproject.org.au
web: www.artsproject.org.au

Portable Film Festival – Call for entries

The Call for Entries for the fourth annual Portable Film Festival is now open!
 
PFF is currently taking entries across all festival categories: Short Film, Music Video, Look at Me (online video including serials and webisodes), Get Animated (a dedicated animation category), First Hand Capture (for content shot on mobile devices like cell phones), and full Feature Films. The PFF will award prizes over 6 categories, as voted by users plus a grand prize across the entire festival as voted by PFF.
 
Entry is free.
Entry deadline:  April 30
Contact: info@portablefilmfestival.com 
Visit http://www.portablefilmfestival.com for further information.

Lights, Camera TRACKtion

The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is now open for submissions for the Lights, Camera TRACKtion: Melbourne Shorts presented by Yarra Trams competition, a special event to be held at the 2009 Festival to celebrate Melbourne’s iconic trams on film. Entry is open to all short films (Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Experimental, Music Videos) that must feature either a tram/trams as a focal point or as imagery in the film.

A judging panel will select the ten best Lights, Camera, TRACKtion shorts which will be shown at the Australian Centre of Moving Image (ACMI) on Thursday 6 August, 2009 at 7.00pm. First, Second and Third prizes will be awarded by a special judging panel on the night made up of prominent film industry and Melbourne personalities.

First prize will be awarded $3,500.
Second prize will be awarded $2,500.
Third prize will be awarded $1,000.

The Lights, Camera, TRACKtion competition is an initiative to provide a forum for professional and amateur filmmakers alike to celebrate the tram as a Melbourne icon.

•    Lights, Camera, TRACKtion short film entry deadline – 5pm Friday 5 June 2009.

More information: http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/lights_camera__tracktion

Big Eye – Aboriginal Animations

An exhibition of the moving image, including stop-motion, 3D and other animation techniques, Big Eye showcases Aboriginal animations from Australia and Canada in a unique cross-tribal exchange of ideas and world views. Aboriginal Australian screen artists use digital storytelling techniques to bring cultural knowledge and contemporary exploration of country to the fore, with an original and distinctive voice.

First World countries Australia and Canada are two of very few countries in the world who recognise their first people as Aboriginal. Philosophically, this exhibition explores a shared heritage by Aboriginal Canadians and Aboriginal Australians through the intersection of Aboriginal Aesthetics and Culture, with the endurance of a similar colonisation as a background.

Featuring Dark Thunder Productions, Raven Tales, Skawennati Tricia Fragnito, Rabbit and Bear Foot, The Healthy Aboriginal Project and Anthony Wong, Frank Mcleod & Aboriginal Nations, Aroha Groves, Christine Peacock & Rebekah Pitt & John Graham, the Gunbalanya Community & Gozer Media, and artist/curator Jenny Fraser.
 
The exhibition opens at QUT Creative Industries Precint ‘the Block’ at Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Australia – Tuesday April 28th, 2009 – 6 for 6.30pm
 
Opening hours Tuesday & Wednesday 2pm – 6.30pm, Thursday & Friday 2pm – 8pm,
Saturday 4pm – 8pm
Until May 30th 2009.
also with a drop-in Animation Lab
How to get there:
http://www.ciprecinct.qut.com/whatshappening/howtogethere.jsp

Ostatic

Read about trends, technologies and best practices covered by experienced Giga Omni Media editors and writers. 7 free resources for eye-popping-graphics and animation.

Participate in daily blog discussions and post your thoughts and opinions.

CultureTV

Although it is already 2009, we still remember very well the light and media art installation Spots 2007 in Berlin. Watch the impression of this one of the largest media facades. There is also the beautiful animation video ´London after the Rain’ by London based artist Ben Marzys. And discover how Australian photographer Keith Loutit created a Playmobile effect in his video, ‘Beached’ ™. French artist and film director Pierre Wayser has made a very special videomix. And last but not least a personal aesthetical black and white project of Maxim Zhestkov.
  
Enjoy the CULTURETV program!
http://www.culturetv.tv/

Lantern La Lumiere: Call for Animators – Adelaide

Lantern la Lumiere is a digital art project, which will see 16 South Australian animators create content for the Rundle Lantern. Each work will be approximately 60 seconds duration and will be narrative in style. These mini-stories on giant pixels will be created under the guidance of mentors and within the technical guidelines supplied by Fusion. During the workshops animators will create and edit their digital clips, culminating in a launch and then nightly screenings during the Fringe. Two FREE workshops will be held on the 31st of January and 1st February to provide animators with requirements and support to create their content. All content will be featured for the duration of the Fringe from the 26th February.
 
31 January and 1 February, 10am – 4pm
Media Resource Centre, Lion Arts Centre at 13 Morphett St, Adelaide
Entry is limited and competitive. 
 
For further information, visit the website at: http://www.mrc.org.au#lantern

Sundance – loves Mary and Max – plus ten short films free to download.

The opening night selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival MARY AND MAX has gotten rave reviews!! This clayography feature film from Academy Award® winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, features the voice talents of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries and Eric Bana.

This brilliant Australian animation production spans 20 years and 2 continents, MARY AND MAX tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City.

As MARY AND MAX chronicles Mary’s trip from adolescence to adulthood, and Max’s passage from middle to old age, it explores a bond that survives much more than the average friendship’s ups-and-downs. Like Elliot and Coombs’ Oscar® winning animated short HARVIE KRUMPET, MARY AND MAX is both hilarious and poignant as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual differences, trust, copulating dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and many more of life’s surprises.

MARY AND MAX now takes off for Berlin to screen in the Generation 14plus section at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival.

MARY AND MAX will be in competition amongst 27 features from 25 countries selected in total for Generation 14plus section. The Generation 14plus programme will open on February 6, 2009.

*****

Sundance is also providing ten short films for free download on iTunes from January 15 through the 25th in association with Shorts International. Once downloaded, the films will be available for a 24-hour period. So you get all the talent, none of the altitude sickness. In the spirit of all things diez, here are ten reasons to watch these ten great films over the next ten days:

1. Dancing zombies never get old.
2. There was never a ‘Naked Therapist’ episode on Seinfeld.
3. You need to ease your anxiety about communicable diseases.
4. Sad, Swedish Magicians are the most entertaining.
5. No man is an island.
6. Johnny Depp made singing while ravaging acceptable.
7. Bullied adolescent boys from Great Britain will always hold a special place in your heart.
8. A magnetic field is more than just a magnificent band and it’s about time you learned that.
9. Hugs not drugs. Live it. Love it. Rap it. Rhyme it.
10. There’s nothing more satisfying than watching pure, unadulterated humiliation.