Showing posts with label new york. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new york. Show all posts

September 22, 2013

A Tule Lake Rocktober

This October looks to be a busy month for "Tule Lake", where our film will be hitting five venues across the U.S.!

Kicking off the month, "Tule Lake" will be showing on its home turf in the Bay Area for 2013 APAture: A Window into the Art of Emerging Asian Pacific American Artists  held at multiple venues in San Francisco and Oakland, all month long (4-26 October 2013).

APAture returns to the Bay Area to present the brightest emerging Asian Pacific American talent in a month-long multidisciplinary arts festival.

Date: Friday, 4 October 2013
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: The New Parkway, Oakland, CA [Buy Tickets]

"Join us for an evening of live and animated film shorts by a new breed of independent filmmakers. Screenings will be followed by audience Q+A."
_________________________________________________________________________

"Tule Lake's" Washington state premiere will be the following week at the Social Justice Film Festival, held at various theaters in the Seattle area (10-13 October 2013).

Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Location: Schedule TBA

The Seattle Social Justice Film Festival is back! Films will cover all apects of social justice but, in conjunction with our lead sponsor, Books to Prisoners, this year's special festival focus will be on issues related to Prisoner Justice. The rest of the festival program includes an array of new films on women's rights, political dissent, prisoner justice, LGBT issues, homelessness, health care, marginalized populations, indigenous rights, environmental degradation, alternative economic models, and more.
_________________________________________________________________________

Our film has also been selected as a finalist at the SoDak Animation Festival in Brookings, SD, which will be running from 17-19 October 2013.

Date: Friday, October 18
Time: 6:15 PM
Showing: Shorts Block 2 [$5 or FREE with SDSU ID]
Location: Performing Arts Center, South Dakota State University

The SoDak Animation Festival is the result of animators, artists, and faculty, staff and students coming together to celebrate that ultimate art form that is animation. This year's jurors include Ryan Woodward, Patrick Smith, and Corrie Parks.
_________________________________________________________________________

That same week, "Tule Lake" will be returning to Manhattan for the 2013 International Film Festival Manhattan (17-20 October 2013), screening films at the Anthology Film Archives

Date: Saturday, 19 October 2013
Time: 5:50pm-7:40pm
Screening: IFFM 2013 "Program #7" [Buy Tickets]
Location: Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave (at 2nd St), New York, NY 10003

IFFM is committed in showcasing entertaining and diverse films in all genres and scope to equal the diversity of New York. It is also committed in exploring all opportunities to promote the artists, his work, his vision, and his cause if he has any, during the showing of the films and the events during the festival.
_________________________________________________________________________

The following week, we'll be screening at the 5th Annual Boston Asian American Film Festival (24-27 October 2013)
Date: Friday, October 25, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: The Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA
                Bright Family Screening Room, 559 Washington ST, Boston, MA

The Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF) empowers Asian Americans through film by showcasing Asian American experiences and serving as a resource to filmmakers and the Greater Boston Community.

July 17, 2013

Three more festival screenings: New York, California, & São Paolo

Still going strong!  "Tule Lake" is going to be back in New York this July for the Animation Block Party 2013!

"Tule Lake" will be screening as part of ABP's Student Films, Independent Animators block at BAMcinématek.

Date: Sunday, July 28, 2013
Time: 4:30 pm
Location:  Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Rose Cinemas
Animation Block Party is the premier animation festival of the East Coast - dedicated to exhibiting all genres of the world's best independent, professional and student animation.  The tenth annual Animation Block Party is July 25-28, 2013 at The Music Hall of Williamsburg, Rooftop Films & BAMcinématek. 
_______________


We're also excited for our film's Brazilian premiere at the 14th Electronic Language International Festival (FILE) ANIMA+ in São Paolo!

Dates: July 23 to September 1, 2013
Location: The programme will occupy four spaces at Centro Cultural FIESP - Ruth Cardoso, on Paulista Avenue: the Art Gallery, the SESI-SP Digital Art Gallery (facade of the FIESP/SESI-SP Building), the FIESP Space, and the Mezzanine Floor, in addition to the Trianon-Masp subway station. FREE OF CHARGE!

_______________


Finally (apologies for the posting after the fact) "Tule Lake" was aired as part of the California International Animation Festival from June 15-27, where it won in the 2D Animation category!
 


Way to go, guys!!

May 15, 2013

Tule Lake at ASIFA-East

Great news guys!  Last week ASIFA-East sent out announcements for their 2013 award winners, of which "Tule Lake" was included among the student categories!

By lucky coincidence, the director will be in New York during the award ceremony weekend, where she'll be accepting on behalf of "Tule Lake", as well as bringing back a well-earned ASIFA award for House of Chai's "A Knock On My Door". 

Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013
Time: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th St, NYC
Awards will be presented, thank you's recorded, and a lively reception will follow.  The Awards Ceremony and Reception afterwards are free and open to the public.  (After-Party TBA)

_______________

EDIT: At the May 19 screening, it was announced that "Tule Lake" would be taking home FIRST PLACE in the STUDENT FILM category!  Great work too to David Chai on his new Excellence in Writing Award--congratulations all around!