ASIFA-East Exposure Sheet

Article written by Josh Weisbrod.

Being an animator, and finding myself in the company of other animators more often than not, I tend to see a wide range of social quirks and eccentricities.  Living in New York in and of itself is basically akin to plunging oneself into a social experiment– there are so many people in such close proximity to each other, everyone a little off-kilter– some who obsess, some who overeat, some who can’t see any beauty in themselves, and many who are lonely.

The other … Continue Reading

In celebration of International Animation Day, SVA and ASIFA-East present MARY AND MAX, a clayography feature film from Academy Award® winning writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs, featuring the voice talents of Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries and Eric Bana.

Spanning 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 … Continue Reading