http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com Nancy's Animated World Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:09:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MONSTRA, Lisbon Animated Film Festival (May 8 -18 in Portugal) is indeed a monster of a festival. For 11 days the festival brought together the cream of United Kingdom animators for a salute to British Animation along with quality competition programs. ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/07/08/monstra-a-monster-of-a-festival-part-one/ The 2nd ANIMART, a summer meeting about animation and related arts, will be held 13 through 20 July in Monodendri, near Ioannina, Greece. 2008 is the Year of Intercultural Dialogue and so workshops and programs will be presented by many leading professionals from around the world. Workshops will ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/07/06/animart-%e2%80%9908-in-monodendri-ioannina-greece/ As I watched noted director and film critic Natalia Lukinyk's touching moving documentary film Alexander Tatarsky, Or How To Embrace The Immense . . . I found it hard to believe that it has been almost a year since one of the biggest hearts in Russian animation stopped beating. ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/06/30/alexander-tatarsky-or-how-to-embrace-the-immense/ My spring festival season got off to a great start in Stuttgart, Germany at the 15th INTERNATIONAL TRICKFILM FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILMS, May 1 through the 6th. For Nik and me the big event of the week was to finally get to see the entire 82 minutes of Nina ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/06/21/15th-international-trickfilm-festival-stuttgart-%e2%80%9808/ Nik and I have just returned from the Annecy International Animation Festival where the Cristal for the Best Feature Film was won by Nina Paley for SITA SINGS THE BLUES. Nik and I are so thrilled for Nina who put five years of work ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/06/16/exciting-annecy-headline/ ASIFA Croatia hosted a lovely brunch for the ASIFA members at the festival. Buba (former head of ANIMAFEST ZAGREB and Vice President of ASIFA Croatia) and Vesna Dovnikovic (Secretary of ASIFA International) brought tasty and powerful traditional Croatian liquors which truly added to the festive air of the party. ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/06/06/last-day-of-animafest-zagreb-and-the-winner-is/ The ANIMAFEST staff planned a trip to the country with a picnic for festival guests, but sadly it had to be canceled due to rain. Instead that hosted a lovely and delicious lunch for us all at a near by restaurant. It would have been a great treat ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/06/05/animafest-zagreb-day-5/ Yesterday the rain came down but it didn't dampen the spirits at ANIMAFEST ZAGREB. The two highlights of the day for me were Clare Kitson's talk and the final presentation of the Priit Parn retrospective. It was fascinating to hear Clare tell about the time she spent in Russia talking ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/06/04/animafest-zagreb-day-4/ I started out my viewing day at the Anima Docs program which was by and large a very strong session. Even though I have seen John Canemaker's beautifully animated The Moon and the Son many times it never fails to move me. Dennis Tupicoff's gut wrenching film His ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/06/03/animation-marches-on-in-zagreb-day-three-at-animafest/ The second day at Anima Fest Zagreb was packed full of special events to go along with the numerous screenings. The festival hosted a lovely lunch for the guests at the Restaurant Dvorisce. Since there is really no central meeting place at the festival this year it was ... http://sprockets.animationblogspot.com/2008/06/02/anima-fest-zagreb-day-two/