Manticores, dandies, and party streamers took over the 9th floor of the Tisch building on Monday the 13th. Lots of happy animators roamed around, finding a place among a sea of blue chairs, eating prosciutto and cheese, and inspecting puppet-armatures. …
2013 ASIFA-East Animation Festival Awards Ceremony! This Sunday, May 19th!
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Are you as excited as we are? Dagan Moriarty’s signal film is super awesome, BatteryPop is super awesome for sponsoring our reception, and YOU are super awesome for joining us in an evening of animation celebration!! ASIFA-East will hold its…
ASIFA-East Festival Awards
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CMA Presents “The Do’s and Don’t's of Pitching with Linda Simensky”
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By Jose Maldonado On Saturday April 27th, the Children’s Media Association presented “The Do’s and Don’t’s of Pitching with Linda Simensky” whose career has spanned three major networks, beginning with Nickelodeon where she launched NickToons, then Cartoon Network where she…
We Remember Ray Harryhausen
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Memories of a Master by Richard Gorey and Mark Bailey When a friend called to tell me that Ray Harryhausen had died, I was sitting at my drawing table on my light box, animating a Triceratops for a sequence of…
Don’t Miss Opening Weekend of Rooftop Films!
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Our friends at Rooftop Films are once again offering ASIFA-East members a discount to their summer film festival! Thank you Rooftop! This year’s festival opens this weekend, Friday, May 10 with a selection of wonderful short films – including some…
Atlanta Film Festival now taking submissions!
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Our friends from ASIFA-Atlanta want you to send your animation to the Atlanta Film Festival! What are you waiting for? See below for all info! Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying…
Another chance to win tickets: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
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ASIFA-East is excited to announce a lottery drawing a pair of tickets to see the groundbreaking new film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty! We’ve been given 2 more tickets to see the film at Cinema Village during the week of…
2013 ASIFA-East Animation Festival Awards Ceremony
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Everyone here at ASIFA-East is busy gearing up for the 2013 ASIFA-East Animation Festival Awards Ceremony! This just in – Dagan Moriarty is putting the finishing touches on our signal film, batteryPop is an official sponsor of our reception, and…
Student Showcases
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It’s that time of year again where local schools have their annual student showcases. Here are the ones we know of as of press time: Please contact us for updates and additions. This post will be updated.
Tickets to An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
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ASIFA-East is excited to announce a lottery drawing for a pair of tickets to see the groundbreaking new film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty! Open to current ASIFA-East members only. To enter, please send your full name and email address…
2013 ASIFA East Animation Festival Awards Ceremony and Reception
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Please join ASIFA-East for our 2013 Animation Festival Awards Ceremony! Awards will be presented, bashful thank you’s recorded, and a lively reception will follow. Sunday, May 19th 2013 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tishman Auditorium at The New School 66…