animation

Acclaimed NFB Films Named to Canada’s Top Ten

Acclaimed NFB Films Named to Canada’s Top Ten

Three hit National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films have just added to their lustre with a selection to Canada’s Top Ten, an annual list of the country’s finest short and feature-length films, announced by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on December 7. Winners of a combined 30 Canadian and international honours to date, […]

Harryhausen Master Class: John Landis on JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

As part of Magic Motion: The Art of Stop-Motion Animation, director, screenwriter and producer John Landis (American Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers) leads an extended introduction and post-screening discussion on special effects master Ray Harryhausen and his memorable contributions to Jason and the Argonauts (1963), hosted by Jesse Wente, Director of Film Programmes at […]

Busan 15 – MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO – Open Cinema

This film is also known as Tonari no Totoro. First Festival Screening – October 2, 2015 @ 8:00 PM at The Busan Cinema Center BIFF Theater Second Festival Screening – October 5, 2015 @ 1:30 PM at The Sohyang Theater Centum City Last Festival Screening – October 10, 2015 @ 10:00 AM at The Busan […]

Sebastián 15 – THE BOY AND THE BEAST – Official Selection

This film is also known as Bakemono No Ko First Festival Screening – September 22, 2015 @ 9:30 AM at The Teatro Victoria Eugenia Second Festival Screening – September 22, 2015 12:00 PM at The Kursaal Theatre Third Festival Screening – September 22, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at The Kursaal Theatre Fourth Festival Screening – […]

Ottawa Animation 15 – HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 – Special Screening

Festival Screening – September 20, 2015 @ 5:00 PM at The ByTowne Cinema Dracula’s rigid monster-only hotel policy has finally relaxed, opening up its doors to human guests. But behind closed coffins, Drac is worried that his adorable half-human, half-vampire grandson, Dennis, isn’t showing signs of being a vampire. So while Mavis is busy visiting […]

Workman Arts Announces a Special Event

Workman Arts Announces a Special Event

Rendezvous With Madness And The Department Of Psychiatry At University Of Toronto Co-Present A Special Screening: Signe Bauman’s ROCKS IN MY POCKETS Tickets on Sale Screening – Monday October 5, 2015 – 7 p.m. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King St. West Mindfest 2015 Film Screening @ Mental Illness Awareness Week Rendezvous with Madness […]

Ottawa Animation 15 – ADAMA – Featured Competition

First Festival Screening – September 17, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at The ByTowne Cinema Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 9:15 PM at The ByTowne Cinema Adama is the story of our 12 year-old eponymous hero and his decision to leave the remote West African village in which he grew up in order […]

Short Cuts: McLaren 3D and Other Gems Restored

Short Cuts: McLaren 3D and Other Gems Restored

PROGRAMME SCREENING ON JULY 16, 2015 – 6:30 PM AT TIFF’S BELL LIGHTBOX, TORONTO, ON. Digitally restored versions of four 3D films by the great Norman McLaren and some of his closest collaborators anchor this programme of classic Canadian animation, which also includes the new documentary Norman McLaren: Animated Musician. To view details and the […]

Bill Plympton’s new film Cheatin’ to open HAFF in March

Bill Plympton’s new film <em>Cheatin’</em> to open HAFF in March

from haff On Wednesday March 19, the seventeenth edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF) will kick-start with the Dutch première of Bill Plympton’s striking romantic comedy Cheatin’. For more info on the festival please visit website and to view trailer of film click here