Our good friend Edward Bakst, Director and Designer at Ideaforia and Professor, has a lot of film equipment for sale. Please read below and share amongst your colleagues and friends who might be interested in this offer. Equipment list: Mitchell Camera 35 mm # 1332 HS-STD rock over 4 primary lenses 115 VAC DC Live…
DetailsHello all! I hope you’re enjoying your summers! We here at ASIFA are still on hiatus but I wanted to send a little reminder of some fun summer happenings going on. Rooftop Films, which is offering our members a discount off tickets all summer long (email us for your code), sends us news of next…
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Most corporate offices are content to dress their entrances with glass doors, frigid marble and post-9/11 turn-styles, which means Viacom is not most corporations. The 1515 Broadway lobby has those features and more: a leviathan of a yarn sculpture, which adamantly refuses to camouflage itself. Porous and vibrant, it winds its way past you…
DetailsOur good friend, world-renowned animation historian and Oscar-winning animator John Canemaker, who has just completed a new book on Disney’s feature film Fantasia, will speak at Museum of Modern Art Saturday, August 1, in conjunction with a screening of the 1940 classic. Fantasia —even 75 years after its premiere—continues to fascinate and dazzle audiences. It was a bold experiment from…
DetailsYou’re invited to a screening of Nickelodeon’s brand-new animated series, Pig Goat Banana Cricket! Followed by a Q&A with series co-creators and co-exeuctive producers Dave Cooper and Johnny Ryan and executive producer David Sacks. Pig Goat Banana Cricket is a series of absurd interwoven stories that follows the eponymous characters Pig, Goat, Banana and Cricket,…
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Warm weather has finally come to New York City and that means the Rooftop Film Festival is in full swing! This wonderful festival shows outdoor films all summer long throughout New York City. Many of these include animated shorts and amazing independent productions, both short form and feature length. ASIFA-East members qualify for a special…
DetailsHello there! Hope you all are enjoying your summers! Our friends Signe Baumane and Alba Garcia-Rivas invite the lovely ladies of ASIFA-East to join them for dinner this August: Hello Ladies! This is your official invitation to the 2015 Ladies of Animation Dinner Party! Last year was a BLAST! For any first timers on the…
DetailsThank you all for joining us for our 2014-2015 ASIFA-East programming season. We are on summer hiatus from June 2015 – August 2015. Please enjoy your summers and join us in September for our fall programming! In the meantime, take part in our free life drawing sessions at The Productive, held every Thursday until July…
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On Sunday, May 17 2015, ASIFA-East held its 46th Annual ASIFA-East Animation Festival at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium. Hosted by the hilarious Tom Warburton, awards were given out across a variety of categories from Student, Commissioned, and Independent Films, to Excellence in Animation, Sound Design, and Education. Tom loves auctioning artwork and so we…
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And the Award goes to… *** 2015 ASIFA-East Peggy Award for Best in Show Driving Nate Theis *** Student Films First Place Birthday Nick Tustin School of Visual Arts Second Place Religatio Jaime Giraldo Vancouver Film School Third Place Panty Fairy Juanwei Chen School of Visual Arts Honorable Mention re+belief Raymond McCarthy Bergeron Rochester Institute…
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