This Sunday (May 22), Los Angeles Filmforum presents Triumph of the Wild: New Experimental Animation from Around the World, an evening of recent animation made for “thinking adults.” The slate…
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Something for the Kid in All of Us: REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival
For the next four weekends (from March 26-April 17), REDCAT will present its 6th annual International Children’s Film Festival. The festival will include a new mind-expanding collection of short film…
Continue reading »How to Train Your Dragon, Day and Night Among Annie Award Winners
The Annie Awards—the highest honor given for excellence in animation—were handed out in a ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Saturday evening (Feb. 5). The award’s 38th edition featured a…
Continue reading »The Official Word on Disney/Pixar’s A113 Easter Egg
It’s been part of CalArts lore for a long time, and now Disney/Pixar’s “Chatter Phone” series officially reveals the meaning behind the A113 Easter Egg that appears in every Disney/Pixar…
Continue reading »Animator Danielle Ash’s Pickles for Nickels Featured on PBS and NPR Shows
Pickles for Nickels, a short film by experimental animator and recent CalArts grad Danielle Ash (Film/Video MFA 09), has been garnering national attention lately. Earlier this year it won the…
Continue reading »Battle Bears Dominates on the iTunes App Store
With the iTunes App Store boom continuing, more and more entrepreneurs are creating innovative applications for the mobile device market. On the gaming front, Battle Bears, a game app for…
Continue reading »Congratulations! CalArtians Win Tony, Student Academy Award this Weekend
This weekend, two CalArts alumni were awarded honors in their respective fields. Kevin Adams (Theater MFA 86) won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for American…
Continue reading »Animation Alumnus Wins 2010 Student Academy Award
Lifeline from Andres Salaff on Vimeo. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the winners of the 37th Annual Student Academy Awards competition on Tuesday. Among the 13…
Continue reading »CalArts Student Teams Take Home PSAid Animation Awards
Two groups of students from the program in Character Animation in CalArts’ School of Film/Video and the School of Theater’s Scene Design programs have placed first and second in a…
Continue reading »Artist and Alumna Allison Schulnik Talks Hobo Clowns and Grizzly Bear
In an earlier post, 24700 discovered that a CalArts alumna Allison Schulnik (BFA Film/Video 00) created a short film and music video Forest (2009) for the band Grizzly Bear. The…
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