ASIFA-East

Lovecraft Film Screenings: The Set NYC Feat. animation
2017-10-09 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
The SetNYC presents: lovecraft film screenings A New York City screening event helping end NYC depression and poverty. The mission of The Set NYC is to empower and build people up from poverty/ depressed situations to sustainable living. The Set NYC has featured filmmakers featured in the NY Times, The Walking Dead, AMC, and Bravo TV. Monday Oct 9, Films Industry networking party begins at 6pm. Screening begins 7:30pm with afterparty.
RSVP: https://lovecraftfilmsoct9.eventbrite.com/
@Lovecraft NYC Theater, 50 Ave B NY NY
$5 entry donation, one drink min.
Monday, Oct 9 21 and over event
www.thesetnyc.com/giveback

Featuring:
Christi Bertelsen “TIDAL WAVE”
Jamila J. Brown “PREVIOUS”
Jaime Ekkens “SUFFERING IS THE EASY PART”
John Walter Lustig “Eye in Tuna Care”

Figure Drawing @ The Productive 7pm to 9:30pm
2017-10-05 08:00 - 17:00
Quick nude gesture poses. 1 min to 10 min poses.
Free for members of ASIFA East and The Productive Coworking Studio. $10 for non-members.

The Second Annual 2017 ANNY BEST OF FEST
2017-09-29 12:00 - 2017-09-30 22:00 | 180 Maiden Lane , New York, 10038, United States
ENTHUSIAST PACKAGE (FREE) AND INDUSTRY PACKAGE ($30)
Tickets at www.animationnights.com
Mark your calendars! The ANNY Best of Fest is a TWO DAY symposium (Fri & Sat, Sept 29-30, 2017) featuring animation screenings, fine art installations, virtual reality animation experiences, professional panels, and industry events at 180 Maiden Lane in the Seaport District of NYC.
Enthusiast Packages (FREE) and Industry Packages ($30) are available now! Reserve your tickets, today!
Festival Schedule
ANIMATION SCREENINGS
(Saturday, Sept 30, 7pm & 8pm) – Our panel judges have selected their favorite 20 films of the 175 selected for screening this season. Congratulations to our ANNY Best of Fest Winners! http://www.animationnights.com/screening25/
PROFESSIONAL PANELS
Kickstarter, The Molecule, ASIFA East, Penrose Studios, The Mill, Sesame Studios, Artella, SketchFab, SVA, VR Voice, Tommy Stathes, Stash Media, Max Rothman, John Dilworth, Augenblick Studios, Abelana, Children’s Media Association, High Fidelity, and Framestore are just a few of the organizations on board. (See schedule for panel details.)
VIRTUAL REALITY SHOWCASE
Our showcase is happening on the 29th Floor Showroom at 180 Maiden Lane. It’s a 26,000 sq ft space with 360-degree views from 500 ft above Manhattan. We will be presenting work from a number of amazing creators including Chris Milk, Penrose Studios, Jakob Steensen, David O’Reilly, Pirahna / Hey Mister!, Midas Touch, Artella / Sketchfab, and Nvrmind!
FINE ART INSTALLATION
Anderson Contemporary is curating 2017 Art in Motion featuring installation celebrating animation!
Opening Reception: Wed, Sept 13
INDUSTRY EVENTS
One-on-one Speed Pitching Blocks (Invite only)
We will be putting out a call for artists, soon!
Wrap Party (TBD)
Not an official ASIFA East event*

Animation Open Screening @ SVA
2017-09-26 19:00 - 22:00 | SVA 3rd floor Amphitheater, 209 E. 23rd, new york, ny, United States
Have a work-in-progress you’d like to show an audience? Maybe it’s your animatic, a reel you cut together, or a film you sort of just finished but haven’t shown it and want feedback. Bring a flash drive with a thing you’d like to show. First come first serve. We will start playing animations at 7pm. SVA main building 3rd-floor Amphitheater.

ASIFA Figure Drawing Thursdays @ The Productive
2017-09-21 19:00 - 21:30 | The Productive, 40 West 38th street, 5th FL, New York, 10018, United States
Photo by Stanley Kubrick

Quick nude gesture poses. Free for members of ASIFA East and The Productive Coworking Studio. $10 for non-members.

ASIFA East Figure Drawing is BACK! FREE for members
2017-09-14 19:00 - 21:30 | The Productive, 40 West 38th street, 5th FL, New York, 10018, United States
Quick nude gesture poses from 1 min to (sometimes) 10min. Free for members of ASIFA East and The Productive Coworking Studio. $10 for non-members.

School of Visual Arts' 2017 After School Special
2017-09-11 19:00 - 2017-09-17 22:00 | SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Featuring some of School of Visual Arts’ most accomplished film, television, animation and visual effects alumni, this week-long festival will include screenings, premieres of new work and behind-the-scenes looks at cinema and television hits and classics, and all events will feature special Q&As with industry insiders. A full schedule and list of participants is below (subject to change) and can also be found at svatheatre.eventbrite.com
Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. RSVPs via the Eventbrite pages linked to below are appreciated, but not necessary, and do not guarantee entrance.
Doors will open approximately 30 minutes prior to each screening, and guests can enjoy virtual reality and music video experiences in the lobby while waiting to enter.

ASIFA East Karaoke @ Karaoke Duet 53
2017-08-27 16:00 - 20:00 | Karaoke Duet 53, 900 8th Ave, New York, 10019, United States
“Karaoke Marathon” pricing, $14 per person for an all-you-can-sing private room, from opening until 8:00.

Artwork by ASIFA East Member: Nelson Diaz

ASIFA East Figure Drawing
2017-07-27 19:00 - 21:30, 2017-07-20 19:00 - 21:30, 2017-07-13 19:00 - 21:30, 2017-07-06 19:00 - 21:30, 2017-06-29 08:00 - 17:00, 2017-06-22 19:00 - 21:30, 2017-06-15 19:00 - 21:30, 2017-06-08 19:00 - 21:30 and 5 more dates | The Productive, 40 W 38th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Nude figure drawing is held at The Productive every Thursday from 7pm-9:30pm. Sessions are free to all current ASIFA East members ($10 for non-members) and are hosted by Dan Pinto and David Langkamp.

Queer Animation: From A to Z
2017-06-29 19:00 - 22:00 | Metropolitan Bar, 559 LORIMER ST, Brooklyn, NY, 11211, United States
Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgenders, Queers, Asexuals, Intersex, Questioning, even Demisexuals… they all make films too!

Celebrate Pride month with “Queer Animation: From A to Z”!

A selection of short films from the last 5 years and from more than 5 different countries, curated by Tristian Goik. Grab a Happy Hour drink at the bar, find someone nice to sit with, and enjoy! Everyone is welcome at Metropolitan Bar!

The program currently consists of 20 shorts, running about 1.5 hours, including such films as: “Arrival” by Alex Myung, “Hanging” by Nick LeDonne, and “Confessions of a Breastimator” by Jisu Kim, amongst others.

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Make Love Not War! Erotic Animation From the Heart
2017-05-30 19:30 - 20:30 | Nitehawk Cinema, 136 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Nitehawk Cinema presents Make Love Not War! Erotic Animation from the Heart. Join curator Willy Hartland and his sexually liberated friends, for this raunchy and historic program of animation.

Run Time: 57 min. Format: Digital Rating: NR Language: English and French

PROGRAM
1. George Griffin’s “The Club,” 1975 (4 min)
2. Michaela Pavlátová’s “Carnival of Animals,” 2006 (9 min)
3. Lisa Craft’s “Desire Pie,” 1976 (5 min)
4. Signe Baumane’s “ Five Fucking Fables,” 2002 (7 min)
5. Willy Hartland’s “Mister Smoothy,” 1998 (2 min)
6. Bill Plympton “How to Make Love to a Woman,” 1996 (5 min)
7. Leah Shore’s “Boobatry,” 2010 (3 min)
8.) Mike Sullivan’s “Sex Life of Robots” trailer, 2006 (2 min)
9.) Pez’s “Roofsex,” 2002 (1:30 min)
10.) Jun Cen’s “Mutual Tunnels,” 2013 (5 min)
11.) Brett thompson’s “One Minute Fluidtoons on Paper Four,” 2013 (1:30 min)
12.) Laurence Arcadias & Juliette Marchand’s “Tempest in the Bedroom,” 2011 (11:30 min)

ASIFA-East Awards Show 2017
2017-05-21 18:00 - 22:30 | Tishman Auditorium, University Center, 63 5th Ave (at 13th street), New York, NY, 10003, United States
Stop working and come to the
48th Annual ASIFA East Animation Awards Ceremony!
Awards will be presented, bashful thank you’s recorded, winning films screened, and a lively reception will follow.

This event is organized by ASIFA East in collaboration with New School’s Parson’s School of Art Media and Technology.
Admission, Free and Open to All! Doors at 6pm.
After 10:30 PM: Party at FiddleSticks Pub & Grill, 56 Greenwich Ave!

"This is What We Mean By Short Films" Rooftop Films Screening
2017-05-19 20:00 - 23:00 | The Old American Can Factory, 232 Third St, Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States
“Rooftop turns 21 this year. We’re legal, but not playing it safe. On opening night, we’re celebrating with our favorite stories from the moral grey zone: a mushroom of colorful balloons kills two before escaping to Canada, an unnatural presence enters a tickle fight, a subversive dance number takes down the patriarchy, and a Russian circus meltdown is played in reverse. Like they say in our story of a robbery gone not-quite-wrong, but more just ok, “‘precitate ya!” See you at the after party!”

EVENT DETAILS

8:00 PM
Doors Open

8:30 PM
Live Music

9:00 PM
Films Begin

10:30 PM
After party sponsored by Corona, Tanqueray and Fever Tree

No Refunds. In the event of rain this show will be rescheduled. Seating is first come first served. No outside alcohol permitted.

VENUE
THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY
232 Third St., Brooklyn, NY 11215

BALLOONFEST
Nathan Truesdell | USA | 6
Cleveland attempts to overcome its nickname, ‘The Mistake by the Lake’ by launching a bunch of balloons.

BLIND SEX
Sarah Santamaria-Mertens | France | 31
At the end of the summer holidays Louise a 20 years old blind girl is stuck with her mother and sister. Lost in a forest she reaches a nudist campsite where an unexpected encounter will shake up her habits.

BOSS BITCH
Winona Regan | U.S.A. | 2
A mom, a judge, and a firefighter each battle sexism in this animated music video created by Winona Regan. Each woman is a boss bitch in her own way, twerking and shooting lasers as they take on the patriarchy to a rap by PTAF.

FLOWERS
Nikyatu Jusu, Yvonne (Michelle) Shirley | USA | 19
Brooklyn teens Mya and Erin are thrust into a revenge scheme that threatens an irrevocable domino effect. The two girls navigate a Brooklyn summer they will never forget.

HI STRANGER
Kirsten Lepore | USA | 3
I made this film especially for you. I needed to check in with you. I needed to tell you how I feel.

LENINGRAD-KOLISHIK
Ilya Naishuller | Russia | 4
A circus of destruction, played in reverse.

THE ROBBERY
Jim Cummings, Dustin Hahn | USA | 10
Crystal robs a liquor store – it goes pretty ok.

THE TALE OF HILLBELLY
Daren Rabinovitch, Isaiah Saxon, Sean Hellfritsch | USA | 9
In high alpine pastures, a rural young man performs advanced yoga. He meets a fragile fox andcommunes with it. He journeys to high peaks and through deep meditation, attempts to reach further enlightenment. However, his own physical hunger prevents this and drives him deeperinto nature than he could have ever wished for.

TICKLE MONSTER
Remi Weekes | UK | 5
When Natalie learns that Elliott is ticklish, things get bad. And then they get worse.

MUSIC
INNOV GNAWA
Innov Gnawa is a young musical collective dedicated to exploring Morocco’s venerable gnawa music tradition in the heart of New York City. Formed in the summer of 2014 by Moroccan expat Samir LanGus, the group draws on the considerable talents and expertise of Hassan Ben Jaafer, a Maâlem, or master gnawa musician, originally from Fes, Morocco. Under the guidance of Ben Jaafer, Innov has delved deep into the roots and rituals of gnawa music, and made a big splash in NYC, playing some of the city’s most prestigious rooms including Lincoln Center, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn Bowl and the storied backroom of Brooklyn’s Barbès. For the uninitiated, gnawa music is the ritual trance music of Morocco’s black communities, originally descended from slaves and soldiers once brought to Morocco from Northern Mali and Mauritania. Often called “The Moroccan Blues”, gnawa music has a raw, hypnotic power that’s fascinated outsiders as diverse as writer/composer Paul Bowles, jazz giant Randy Weston and rock god Jimi Hendrix. The music is utterly singular, played on an array of unique instruments — from the lute-like sintir that the Maâlem uses to call the tune, to the metal qarqaba (castinets) with which the kouyos (chorus) keep time and pound out clattering, hypnotic rhythms. Hailed by Brooklyn Magazine as one of the “”5 Bands You Need to Know in Brooklyn’s Arabic Music Scene””, Innov Gnawa make great use of this traditional repertoire, and add their own, contemporary spin with additional African and Latin percussion. Taken as a whole, this exciting new outfit works hard to fuse a centuries old North African tradition with the pulse and attitude of New York City.

NYU Tisch 2017 Spring Animation Showcase!
2017-05-11 16:00 - 21:00 | NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, New York, NY, 10003, United States
“Each Spring, the NYU Animation Area students, faculty, friends and family come together to celebrate the films and work created throughout the year! Please join us in enjoying this year’s Showcase, complete with a screening of animated films, galleries of physical art, and wonderful company and refreshments!
The 2017 NYU Spring Animation Showcase will take place on Thursday, May 11th in the basement of Tisch, 721 Broadway!
There will be two screenings at 4pm and 7pm.”

Animation Nights NY: Animated Spirits 2017
2017-05-10 20:00 - 22:00 | ANNY, 180 Maiden Lane, NY, NY, 10038, United States
Animated Spirits 3rd Edition 2017
New Animation from Europe
“Animation Nights New York (ANNY) is a monthly animation event held in the South Street Seaport District of New York City. Our program consists of select animated short films and virtual reality animation experiences from all around the world.
This month we are proud to host day two of the Animated Spirits 3rd Edition 2017: New Animation from Europe.

Initiated and powered by the Balassi Institute, Hungarian Cultural Center, NY.
Organized by Balassi Institute, Hungarian Cultural Center, NY in partnership with the Austrian Cultural Forum NY. A European National Institutes of Culture Project (EUNIC) – New York City Cluster event.
Animated Spirits 2017 is made possible by Austrian Cultural Forum, NY; Balassi Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center, NY; Bonobo Studio Croatia; Consulate General of Estonia in New York; Consulate General of Slovakia in New York; Czech Center New York; Dutch Culture USA Program of the Consulate General in New York; Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Washington; Flanders House New York; Polish Cultural Institute New York.
Admission is FREE. Beer and wine are on offer. We hope to see you there. Support Independent Animation!”
Online program:
http://www.animationnights.com/screening21/
FAQs
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
No
What are my transport/parking options getting to the event?
Parking is available. Take the J,Z,2,3,A,C to Fulton
Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
info@animationnights.com

Inside Out: Sunset Park Cinema Club
2017-05-06 10:00 - 14:00 | Industry City, 274 36th St, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY, 11232
The first ever Sunset Park Cinema Club for Kids! Join us for an afternoon of activities with Sunset Spark, and a screening of Disney/Pixar’s heartwarming Inside Out!

INSIDE OUT (Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen | USA | 96 min.)
Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is a happy, hockey-loving 11-year-old Midwestern girl, but her world turns upside-down when she and her parents move to San Francisco. Riley’s emotions — led by Joy (Amy Poehler) — try to guide her through this difficult, life-changing event. However, the stress of the move brings Sadness (Phyllis Smith) to the forefront. When Joy and Sadness are inadvertently swept into the far reaches of Riley’s mind, the only emotions left in Headquarters are Anger, Fear and Disgust.

10:00AM
Doors Open

10:30AM
Activity led by Sunset Spark

11:45AM
Film Begins

Dusty Film & Animation Festival
2017-05-05 - 2017-05-08 | School of Visual Arts Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street , New York, NY, 10011, United States
School of Visual Arts
8th Dusty Film & Animation Festival
May 5 – 8, 2017

ANNOUNCING
2017 Dusty Outstanding Alumni Award Recipients
Shannon Prynoski
(BFA 1994 Film & Video)
Producer and Founder of Titmouse
The Venture Bros., Nico and the Sword of Light, Nerdland
Chris Prynoski
(BFA 1994 Animation)
Director/Producer and Founder of Titmouse
Motorcity, Nerdland, Metalocalypse
Michael Giacchino
(BFA 1990 Film & Video)
Academy Award-winning Composer
Up, Lost, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Since 1990, the School of Visual Arts’ Dusty Film & Animation Festival has become one of the country’s foremost events to discover exceptional new talent in film and animation. The Dusty Film & Animation Festival gives BFA Film and BFA Animation thesis students the unique opportunity to exhibit their work to industry professionals, family and friends. The festival culminates in our eminent Dusty Awards, attended by luminaries and distinguished guests from the film and animation industries.

The 2016 Dusty Awards presenters were: Academy Award-winning screenwriter Josh Singer (Spotlight, The Fifth Estate, The West Wing), actress/producer/director Trudie Styler (American Honey – Official Selection for the Festival de Cannes 2016, Freak Show, The Seagull), director/writer/producer Mark Osborne (The Little Prince, Kung Fu Panda, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie), Academy Award-winning production sound mixer Chris Newman (The Godfather, The Exorcist, Amadeus), Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laurens Grant (The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Freedom Riders), writer/director Ti West (The House of the Devil, Wayward Pines, VHS), editor Aaron Yanes(Tyson, You Don’t Know Jack, Europa Report), director of photography Michael Simmonds (Nerve, White Girl, Vice Principals), animator Howard Beckerman (Boop-Beep), producer and New York Women in Film & Television president Alexis Alexanian, IFP program manager and producer Zach Mandinach and filmmaker Neil Burger (Limitless, The Illusionist, Divergent, Billions).
Producer/Director: Annie Flocco
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Little Cinema No. 30 SECRET IMMERSIVE SCREENING
2017-05-03 - 2017-05-06 | Little Cinema, 2 Wyckoff Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11237, United States
“We love color, we love whimsy and we love venturing into a new world we’ve never ventured into – ANIMATION!
Little Cinema is celebrating it’s 30th Anniversary in an explosion of music, color, psychedelia, fun and ridiculousness.

And if you love us the way we love you, you’ll trust us with our new ticket class.

‘Little Secret’ – $20
(Price goes up once movie is announced)

GET TICKETS NOW
A 2nd show added Sat May 6!

Love,
Jay & Team Litte Cinema x”
