Thursday, October 30, 2014

Women in Animation San Francisco Presents An Evening With Darla K. Anderson

Women in Animation San Francisco Chapter is pleased to announce November's Members Only Event:

An Evening With Darla K. Anderson 



Photo courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter
Tuesday November 11th
Pixar Animation Studios

6:15 pm - 7:00 pm Mix and Mingle
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Talk and Q&A 


Light hors d'oeuvres and specialty cocktails will be served!

A Pixarian since 1993 and a member of Pixar's Brain Trust, Producer Darla K. Anderson is best known for her work on such beloved films as A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc. Cars, and Toy Story 3. 
Her accolades include winning the BAFTA award for Monsters, Inc. and Producer of the Year in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures from the Producers Guild of America for Cars. 
She also participated in the video project It Gets Better, an anti-bullying video that has garnered more than 1 million hits on YouTube. 

Ms. Anderson will be speaking about her work within the animation industry. A Q & A session will immediately follow. 

Please RSVP via email at womeninanimationsf@gmail.com by Friday November 7th and include your First and Last name as it appears on your photo ID.

Remember to bring your Photo ID to show at the Pixar security gate the evening of the event. 

*This event is open to all WIA members in good standing. As this is a members only event we do not have space available for guests at this time. If this changes we will send out a second announcement.* 

Pixar is located at 1200 Park Ave, Emeryville, CA 94608  (510-922-3000). The event will be held at Pixar's Presto Theater. 
Here are directions to Pixar Animation Studios' Presto Theater, where the Darla K Anderson Event will be held:





Brooklyn Building Presto Theater

When you get to campus and park you will walk past the Luxo statue and Steve Jobs building down the walkway to the large building on your left.  This is Brooklyn.  We'll have our greeters right inside the door to help you sign in and direct you further.  

There will be signs up on campus directing for the WIA meeting as well, so you can just watch for those. 
RSVP Today! See you on Tuesday November 11th!

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

National Film Board Of Canada Animation Event from ASIFA-SF

Hello Women in Animation SF members! ASIFA-SF has invited us to their National Film Board of Canada Animation Event at the Walt Disney Family Museum this FRIDAY! Read the details below and be sure to RSVP to ASIFA-SF President Karl Cohen. 


THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA IN COLLABORATION
 WITH ASIFA-SF AND THE DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM PRESENT:

AN IN-PERSON EVENING WITH TWO REMARKABLE FILMMAKERS OF THE
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA

TORILL KOVE
DIRECTOR OF THE ACADEMY AWARD® WINNING SHORT FILM THE DANISH POET

NICOLA LEMAY
DIRECTOR OF NO FISH WHERE TO GO WINNER OF FIPRESCI PRIZE @ ANNECY 2014



FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 7 PM
AT THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM, FREE!


PLEASE RSVP by 6 pm, THURSDAY, OCT. 3  to: karlcohen@earthlink.net
RSVPs will be confirmed.  If the list is full there will be a waiting list. If your RSVP and can’t come, please tell us, so someone on the waiting list can have your seat.
THIS IS OUR INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION DAY EVENT

TORILL KOVE will show her witty semi-autobiographical trilogy for the NFB. My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts (2001) was nominated for an Academy Award® and The Danish Poet (2006) won the Oscar® for Best Animated Short.  Her latest NFB film, Me and My Moulton, recounts memories of growing up in a creative and unconventional family in 1960s Norway.  In addition to screening the three films, Torill will discuss the creative process of writing, storyboarding and animating shorts, using clips, sketches and storyboard panels from her past and current works.

NICOLA LEMAY has been an acclaimed collaborator with the NFB since 1999 as an animator, designer and director. Following his one-minute episode of NFB’s innovative Science Please! TV series, Nicola will show his new film No Fish Where to Go, co-directed with Janice Nadeau and winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at this year’s Annecy International Animation Festival. His presentation will address the challenges of adapting a renowned illustrated literary work into a powerful animated short.

The program will also include three new NFB animations, including Michèle Cournoyer's Soif, a depiction of alcoholism in the bold, metamorphic graphic style of The Hat, her acclaimed study of sexual abuse; Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre’s Jutra, an animated short documentary about Claude Jutra, the celebrated French-Canadian director of live-action features, who committed suicide after becoming afflicted with Alzheimer's disease; and Tali's Bus Story, winner of the Best Short Film award from the Annecy 2014 Junior Jury.