3rd San Francisco International Animation Festival
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- Event has passed (Thu Nov 13, 2008 - Sun Nov 16, 2008)
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- $10 - $20
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- Movies, Action/Adventure, Film Festivals
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Currently one of the most fertile, creative and productive forms in cinema and television, animation occupies a pressure point between artistic, experimental, commercial and industrial media. It ranges from the latest visual FX-based arthouse films to family-friendly cartoons. The four-day San Francisco International Animation Festival celebrates San Francisco’s preeminence as a hub for one of the most creative forms in cinema today..........
November 13 - OPENING NIGHT
Sita Sings the Blues @ 7 & 9pm
Nina Paley (USA 2008)
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Betty Boop meets bhangra in Nina Paley’s celebrated first feature-length film, a beautifully animated visual feast of East meets West that has delighted audiences around the world.
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION @ 8pm
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November 14
The Best of Annecy 2008 @ 8:30pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
The Best of Annecy 2008 presents a selection of the best shorts to have appeared this year at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the most important festival for animation in Europe.
Locomotion @ 6:30pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
The short films in this program bring a fascinating and fascinated eye to the mechanics of movement.
Play It by Eye @ 10:15pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Play It by Eye reprises the San Francisco International Animation Festival’s popular survey of the best recently completed animated music videos
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November 15
Play: The Art of the Animated Film Title @ 12noon
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Film title experts Design Films offer an entertaining showcase of animation and motion design in the modern era. Clips from more than 20 film title sequences will be shown.
The Best of Annecy 2008 @ 1:45pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
The Best of Annecy 2008 presents a selection of the best shorts to have appeared this year at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the most important festival for animation in Europe.
Encyclopedia Pictura @ 3:30pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
This shorts program features wildly creative music videos and animated, live action and hybrid pieces created by the enigmatic Bay Area collective known as Encyclopedia Pictura.
Control Freaks @ 5:15pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Are we masters of our own destinies? The short films in this program dance around the question, and ultimately evade it.
Waltz with Bashir @ 7:15pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Ari Folman's animated Waltz with Bashir is a direct and uncompromising look at the effects of war, and one of the most inventive and powerful films of the year.
Idiots and Angels @ 9:45pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Indie animation king Bill Plympton’s newest feature is a dark and humorous allegory about morally bankrupt men. Bill Plympton expected to attend.
Meet the Maker: Practice and Craft with Gene Deitch @ 10 am
Maverick animator Gene Deitch discusses his 50-plus years in animation. At Ninth Street Independent Film Center Screening Room, 145 Ninth Street, $10 member, $15 general public.
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November 16
Gene Deitch: A Retrospective of Films for Children @ 11am
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
This child-friendly program of work by maverick animator Gene Deitch includes adaptations of stories by Maurice Sendak, an Oscar-winning classic, and some of Deitch’s own favorites and surprises. Gene Deitch in person.
Idiots and Angels @ 1pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Indie animation king Bill Plympton’s newest feature is a dark and humorous allegory about morally bankrupt men. Bill Plympton expected to attend.
Waltz with Bashir @ 3:30pm
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema
Ari Folman's animated Waltz with Bashir is a direct and uncompromising look at the effects of war, and one of the most inventive and powerful films of the year.
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