Member News: Rocks In My Pockets

From ASIFA-East member Signe Baumane: Animation Meets Mental Health on VHX Finally, a film where Art, Humor and Animation meets Mental Health is available on VHX, Vimeo On Demand and iTunes! “With ‘Rocks In My Pockets,’ Signe Baumane presents a sharp, surprising and funny animated feature, plumbing the depths of depression via her family history.…

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Picture That

Tess Barker: That’s a popular thing with booze, you just gotta do a one to one ratio… Welcome to the secret to your life. Barbara Gray: What do you mean one to one?  Brandie Posey: With water.   Tess: For every cup of coffee, you drink a cup of water, for every alcoholic drink, you have a cup…

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Camera Equipment For Sale

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…

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PIG GOAT BANANA CRICKET!!!!

            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…

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Canemaker on Fantasia at MoMA, August 1

Our 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…

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Pig Goat Banana Cricket Screening and Q & A: RSVP By 6/24

You’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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2015 Ladies of Animation Dinner Party

Hello 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…

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