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.