Posts Tagged 'shorts'
Mike Kuchar in the press!
Published July 16, 2010 Uncategorized ClosedTags: Artscape, Baltimore Sun, City Paper, Film, free, Maryland Film Festival, Mike Kuchar, shorts, underground
TONIGHT!!! Underground film legend MIKE KUCHAR
MFF PRESENTS: FREE Shorts at The Charles during Artscape!
Published July 12, 2010 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: Artscape, flier, free, Maryland Film Festival, Mike Kuchar, shorts, The Charles
Click on the flier to see the full lineup of shorts programs presented by the Maryland Film Festival at The Charles Theatre this weekend:
Thoughts on the Oscar Shorts
Published February 25, 2010 1 ClosedTags: Academy Award, Brown Bag Films, Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, Kathleen O'Rourke, Nick Phelan, Oscar, Platige Image, shorts, sleeping beauty, The Kinematograph, Tomek Baginski
It was fun seeing this years’ Oscar nominated Animated Shorts at the Charles Friday night. The program runs about 90 minutes, and there is quite a handful of “highly commended” films. One of them, THE KINEMATOGRAPH, really captured the audience. A 12 minute film from the Polish studio Platige Image, it was adapted from a comic and tells the story of an inventor in late 19th century England who is obsessed with his dream of inventing a film process. According to the press kit, the film includes 17,250 frames, 40,000 frames in strips. 5,000 trees with 10,000 leaves and 100,000 polygons each were created in the computers’ memory. Its from Polish filmmaker Tomek Baginski. You can watch the trailer on Youtube.
Another one we all liked was GRANNY O’GRIMM’S SLEEPING BEAUTY, from Ireland’s Nick Phelan who is part of the animation shop Brown Bag Films in Dublin. Adapted from a comedy sketch developed and performed by Phelan’s friend Kathleen O’Rourke (who voices Granny), it tells the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale as twisted through the eyes of a cranky grandmother. You can watch the film on Youtube.
~Jed Dietz, MFF Director
Jed Dietz to host Oscar-Nominated Shorts at The Charles!
Published February 19, 2010 1 ClosedTags: 2/19, Bret McCabe, Jed Dietz, Logorama, Mike Sragow, nominated, Oscar, shorts, sundance, The Baltimore Sun, The Charles Theatre, The City Paper, Wallace and Gromit
I’m really looking forward to hosting the Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts at 5:00pm this evening at the Charles. I saw LOGORAMA at Sundance, and am a big Wallace and Gromit fan. Whether or not you can join us this evening, I hope you can fit these two programs in to your weekend. Here’s Mike Sragow’s piece in today’s Sun.
~Jed Dietz, MFF Director
COME SEE THE OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS AT THE CHARLES!
Continuing a popular tradition, the Charles will offer two programs this weekend of Academy Award nominated Shorts- Animated and Live Action. These are not to be missed because they are hard to find anywhere else, and this will probably be the only chance you’ll get to see them on the big screen.
This represents a particularly diverse range of filmmaking talents, so we hope you can catch both Shorts Programs. Here’s Bret McCabe’s posting from 2/1710 on the City Paper website.
The Maryland Film Festival has a special commitment to Short Films, programming lots of them, and devoting our Opening Night to them (with crucial support from the Baker Fund). Festival Director Jed Dietz will host the Animated Shorts Program that starts at 5:00PM on Friday. There will be a brief intro and some Q&A afterwards. The whole program runs about 90 minutes.
Sragow Profiles Local and Nation Oscar Noms
Published February 4, 2010 1 ClosedTags: American Heart, Baltimore, Edward Furlong, Jeff Bridges, MICA, Mike Sragow, Music by Prudence, Oscar Nominations, Oscars, Patrick Wright, shorts
Sragow, one of the best film writers in the country, explores one of the documentary short nominees, MUSIC BY PRUDENCE, produced and co-edited by MICA’s Patrick Wright. Patrick’s been such a great partner with us on the film series’ we’ve done at MICA, often including special sessions in the classroom with the students and visiting filmmakers. He’s put together a pretty great film program for MICA students. I haven’t seen his finished film, but early scenes I saw were unbelievable, and it’s been fun watching the project grow. MICA has been supportive from the beginning. I don’t know any of the other nominees, but I hope this one wins.
No news flash: Jeff Bridges is going to win the Oscar for Best Actor. It will act as a Lifetime Achievement Award and, on that basis, is richly deserved. If you want to see him deliver a really fresh performance of a man struggling with self-destructive impulses, rent AMERICAN HEART. Bridges plays a reluctant father to Edward Furlong (discovered by Jim Cameron for TERMINATOR), and he’s just great.
Academy Award Nominated Animator BILL PLYMPTON to Host MFF’s Friday Night Shorts Program at Artscape 2009!
Published July 15, 2009 Blog Posts ClosedTags: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Academy Award, animation, Artscape, Bill Plympton, free, friday, Kanye West, Maryland Film Festival, Oscar, Santa: The Fascist Years, shorts, The Charles Theatre
Bill Plympton, one of the most widely recognized and respected animators in America, will be hosting the Friday night premiere of the Maryland Film Festival Shorts at the Charles at Artscape 2009.
Starting at 7:00pm at the Charles Theatre, 1711 North Charles Street, the “Cartoons from Hell” collection represents a wide array of animated shorts. Plympton will host the evening and will be selling some dvds of his work. All Shorts Programs at Artscape are FREE!! Additionally, everyone who attends the screening will receive a FREE Bill Plympton drawing!
Nominated for an Oscar for his hilarious short, GUARD DOG, which was featured as part of MFF 2004 Opening Night Shorts Program, Plympton has won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and has collaborated with artists ranging from Kanye West to Weird Al Yankovic.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE FREE MFF SHORTS PROGRAM AT ARTSCAPE, CLICK HERE!
Click here to watch Bill Plympton’s music video of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Don’t Download This Song!”
For more info on Bill Plympton: http://www.plymptoons.com/gallery/gallery.html
BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT to Host Opening Night!
Published April 21, 2009 1 1 CommentTags: Bobcat Goldthwait, Film, Maryla, Maryland Film Festival, Opening, Opening Night, shorts
We are pleased to announce that in addition to presenting his new feature World’s Greatest Dad (starring Robin Williams) at this year’s Maryland Film Festival, Bobcat Goldthwait will be hosting our Opening Night Shorts Program, and presenting a short film of his own, “Goldthwait Home Movies!”
For the entire listing of Opening Night Shorts, and ticket sales,visit our website!
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