Joanna Priestley Screenings at the REDCAT

PRESS RELEASE
FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS
Joanna Priestley: Fighting Gravity
Mon Apr 20 | 8:30 pm
Jack H. Skirball Series
$9 [students $7, CalArts $5]
Los Angeles premiere
Dubbed “the queen of independent animation” by Bill Plympton, Joanna Priestley unveils her new short Missed Aches, a humorous rant about the need for proofreading. This can’t-miss program for animation buffs also includes a series of animated gems representing the range of the artist’s techniques: Voices, Grown Up, All My Relations, Streetcar Named Perspire, Utopia Parkway, Candyjam, She-Bop, Pro and Con, and Dew Line. Mentored by Jules Engel at CalArts, Priestley had previously made 19 award-winning films about subjects as varied as relationships, plants, magic, menopause, abstraction and prison. [...]

by Andre Soares | April 6, 2009   
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Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration

"Milt Kahl: The Animation Michelangelo, A Centennial Celebration," an homage to Disney animator Milt Kahl (right), will be presented on Monday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Animator Andreas Deja (creator of characters such as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Scar in The Lion King, and Lilo in Lilo & Stitch) will host the evening, which will include a panel discussion moderated by animation critic Charles Solomon.
Among the scheduled panelists are Kathryn Beaumont (the voice artist for Alice in Alice in Wonderland and Wendy in Peter Pan), Academy Award-winner Brad Bird (for The Incredibles and Ratatouille), [...]

by Andre Soares | March 28, 2009   
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