Cartoon Art Museum benefit at Pixar Animation Studios 11/14



Spend the day at Pixar Animation Studios
For the Sixth Annual Cartoon Art Museum Benefit!
Saturday November 14, 2009

 

The Cartoon Art Museum, the only museum in the western United States dedicated to all forms of cartoons and comics, is delighted to host its sixth annual benefit onSaturday, November 14, 2009 at Pixar Animation Studios.  From Pixar’s inception in 1986 with the premiere of its iconic short film, Luxo Jr., to the studio’s latest full-length feature, Disney•Pixar’s Up, Pixar has wowed and charmed the world with its incredible computer animated creations. This year, there are two great ways to experience the magic of Pixar up close and personal at the studio’s Emeryville home:


The Family Fun Tier 
(1:00 – 4:00 pm)


The Family Fun Tier is designed for families to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the world of Pixar.  Entry includes the chance to get up close and personal to rarely seen Toy Story art, sculptures, and other items from the Pixar archives and experience a gallery exhibition featuring stunning pre-production artwork from Up.  Family Fun Tier members will also be able to participate in a Silent Auction to bid on original and signed works by Pixar creators.  Pixar artists will be on hand to teach kids how to draw Pixar characters.  Finally, a selection of Pixar short films (including One Man Band, Lifted, Presto, Burn-E and several Cars Toons) will be showing in Pixar’s state-of-the-art screening room in a continuous loop. 

For this Tier, doors open at 1 pm.  Tickets are $35 for an individual or $100 for a Family Four Pack, which includes entry for 2 adults and 2 children under 18 (or 1 adult and 3 children).  
 

The VIP Screening Tier 
(11:00 am — 4:00 pm)
 

The VIP Screening Tier is designed for the biggest fans to help support the Cartoon Art Museum and to experience Pixar’s state-of-the-art digital theater.  Entry includes access to everything from the Family Fun Tier plus access to Pixar’s Studio Store where guests can purchase Pixar items at employee prices. The centerpiece of the event is a noon time 3D screening that includes the rarely seen Cars Toon Tokyo Mater , and the feature film Toy Story 2.  The screening will be hosted by Dr. Michael B. Johnson (Pixarian and CAM board member), who will lead a Q&A session along with several other Toy Story 2 crew members.  The VIP Screening Tier also includes an offering of light lunchtime snacks, treats and conversation with the speakers and other Pixar employees.  Just announced:  Attendees of the VIP screening will get to view exclusive footage from Pixar’s upcoming feature Toy Story 3!

For this Tier, doors open two hours early — at 11 am.  Cartoon Art Museum members can purchase tickets for the reduced rate of $99, while the non-member rate is $149. Save money and become a member of the Cartoon Art Museum today!  Reserved rows for ten are available for $1,500.  Treat your friends or employees to an evening of animated fun.  

Pixar Animation Studios is located in Emeryville, California.  Free parking is available on site.  Call 415-227-8666, ext. 300 to purchase tickets. Tickets will not be sold at the door.


About the Cartoon Art Museum

Founded in 1984, the Cartoon Art Museum is the only museum in the western United States dedicated to cartoons and comics.  The Museum was started by a group of cartoonists and collectors who wanted to share their appreciation of this unique art form with the rest of the world.  The Museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation, study and exhibition of original cartoon art in all forms to benefit historians, cartoonists, journalists, artists, collectors and the general public.


About Pixar Animation Studios

Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation.  Creator of some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo,The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL•E, and most recently, Up. The Northern California studio has won 22 Academy Awards® and its ten films have grossed more than $4.5 billion at the worldwide box office to date.  The next film release from Disney•Pixar is Toy Story 3 (June 18, 2010).

POSTED BY Mr. Hyde ON 10.30.09 @ 5:09 am | 0 Comments

What’s NFB?

New from the National Film Board of Canada

As of October 8, 2009, NFB.ca will feature exclusive programming as part of Get Animated!, with new shorts joining over 150 NFB animation productions already online. New titles include The Brainwashers and Subservience, puppet-animated films from two-time Jutra award-winner Patrick Bouchard, as well as Iriz Pääbo’s HA’Aki, a highly inventive and unorthodox look at hockey.

Also added: Tzaritza and Drux Flux by Theodore Ushev; Here and There by Diane Obomsawin; Uncle Bob’s Hospital Visit; by Prince Edward Island animator JoDee Samuelson; Engine 371, a short about the construction of Canada’s transcontinental railroad by Kevin Langdale; and Forming Game by Alberta?s Malcolm Sutherland.

Animation Express Get Animated! will feature the national launch of the 2-disc set Animation Express, a dazzling collection of 26 films by animation innovators. These include Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski?s Oscar-nominee Madame Tutli-Putli, Cordell Barker’s Runaway and Claude Cloutier’s Sleeping Betty, winner of 20 awards including the Genie Award for Best Animated Short. A deluxe Blu-Ray edition of Animation Express features 13 extra titles, including the Oscar winners Ryan by Chris Landreth and The Danish Poet by Torill Kove. Animation Express will be available for purchase at all Get Animated! screening venues, at a discounted price. Animation Express is distributed by Mongrel Media and Metropole Distribution.

The NFB is Canada’s public film producer and distributor (aka the National Film Board of Canada) which creates social-issue documentaries, auteur animation, alternative drama and digital content that provide the world with a unique Canadian perspective. In collaboration with its international partners and co-producers, the NFB is expanding the vocabulary of 21st-century cinema and breaking new ground in form and content, through community filmmaking projects, cross-platform media, interactive cinema, stereoscopic animation—and more. Since the NFB?s founding in 1939, it has created over 13,000 productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 12 Oscars and more than 90 Genies. In 2009, the works of NFB animation pioneer Norman McLaren were added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Registry.

The NFB’s new website features over 1,000 productions online—visit and start watching.

POSTED BY CaliforniaKid ON 10.13.09 @ 9:20 pm | 0 Comments

Coraline Comes Back

Henry Selick presents his stop-motion masterwork

On Sunday, Oct. 11, 5:30 PM  Focus Features, ASIFA-SF AND ASIFA-Hollywood cordially invite you and your family (limit 4) to a special 3-D screening of Coraline. Immediately after the screening please join us for a Q & A and light reception for director Henry Selick.

At the AMC Metreon 16 & IMAX, 101 4th St (at Mission) 3rd floor, SF. RSVP (818) 777-3623 

Can’t make it to SF? Want to delve more deeply? The Mill Valley Film Festival is presenting, on the same day, INSIGHT: HENRY SELICK AND THE ART OF Coraline, a 90-minute illustrated talk by Henry about the making of his remarkable feature.  Sunday, Oct. 11 at 3:15 pm, Rafael Center in San Rafael. Visit the Mill Valley Film Festival website for tickets and more info.

POSTED BY CaliforniaKid ON 10.03.09 @ 1:33 am | 0 Comments