Thursday, Nov. 20, 8pm • FREE 

Gene Deitch is a veteran of 62 years in the animation industry, with credits including work at U.P.A. and Terrytoons in Hollywood (including an Academy Award for his adaptation of Jules Pfieffer’s Munro). He served as art director for the legendary jazz magazine The Record Changer and even drew a short-lived cartoon strip entitled Terr’ble Thompson.

Since 1968, Deitch has been the leading animation director for the Connecticut organization Weston Woods/Scholastic, adapting children’s picture books. In 2003, he was awarded the "Annie" by ASIFA Hollywood for a lifetime contribution to the art of animation. And now, following his appearances at the San Francisco International Animation Festival, Gene will present a lecture on adapting children’s books for animation. His adaptations include Where the Wild Things Are (1973), In the Night Kitchen (1987), The Emperor’s New Clothes (1990) and Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1993); don’t miss this opportunity to get up-close-and-personal with a great animator (and a real mensch) before he returns to his home in Prague!

8 pm • August Coppola Theater
San Francisco State University,
1600 Holloway Ave. S.F.
FREE • Public Invited!

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