Daily post 27 Jan 2007 09:48 am
Animation Shows
Last night at the Museum of the Moving Image, David Levy (NY animation director and ASIFA East President) moderated a panel to talk about general information about the business: from education to opportunities to business. The panel included: Dan Haskett (Bi-coastal animator supreme), Bill Plympton (NY Independent who doesn’t need an introduction), Traci Paige Johnson (creator of Blue’s Clues), me, and Ila Abramson
(i spy animation recruiter).
Dave’s question were thoughtful, provocative and interesting. It instigated a lot of good conversation and kept us all on our toes. It was a really nice event. The house was full which was a surprise given the other event taking place in town.
L to R: Dan Haskett, Bill Plympton, Traci Paige Johnson, David Levy, me, Ila Abramson
The Animation Show played at Roseland. According to Bill Plympton (who had to leave early to make that program – he had films being shown there) some 600 people had shown up on Thursday night. I’m glad they were able to see Don Hertzfeldt‘s Everything Will Be OK and Joanna Quinn’s film, Dreams and Desires: Family Ties. I love hearing about the success of animated programming. Kudos to Don Hertfeldt and Mike Judge for putting The Animation Show together and making it such an enormous success.
And kudos to Dave Levy for doing such a great job moderating that panel.
Nancy Bieman will be in town on Monday.
MOCCA, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art will present a program of animation from the students of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Nancy is the animation instructor for those lucky students.
The program begins at 6:30PM at
594 Broadway
Suite 401.
Admission is free.
Not too far off the subject is the 5th World Summit for Media and Children which is taking place Mar 24-28 in Johannesberg, South Africa. Their objectives, as ever, are good ones, in line with UNICEF:
- - To raise the status of children’s programming both around the world.
- To draw attention to the importance of children’s media issues.
- To encourage International collaboration on the production of program content.
- To share expertise and ideas for future quality children’s programming.
- To encourage media to actively focus on the social development of youth, HIV & AIDS.
- To unlock developmental potential and business opportunities.
- To initiate debate and discussions around children’s media issues.
