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What:<\/strong> Animation Weekend<\/p>\n When:<\/strong> July 24th-26th<\/p>\n Where: <\/strong>BAM Rose Cinemas, Lawn @ Automotive High School To explore the official ABP line of films, spend opening night out of doors with Rooftop Films<\/a> lawn screening at the Automotive High School. Today\u2019s heat will have dried the grass for tonight, where you can enjoy a screening of over 20 short films like Mother’s Day<\/em><\/a> by local director David Lobser, new film Puffer Girl <\/em>by Academy Award winner Joan C. Gratz and Mutt<\/em> by Australia\u2019s Glen Hunwick. Following the Rooftop screening on July 24th, all in attendance will have the opportunity to meet the filmmakers and festival organizers at the after party at Bar Matchless, beer courtesy of Radeberger.<\/p>\n ABP\u2019s festival curator, Casey Safron along with his go-to guys at Rooftop and BAMcin\u00e9matek put the shorts into two sequential programs that would respectively fit each venue. With over 600 initial submissions, the process of selecting films becomes easier as they win awards at other acclaimed festivals like Sundance, Cannes, and South by Southwest. \u201cThe cream always rises; it’s just a matter of who gets to premiere it,\u201d said Safron.<\/p>\n On Saturday and Sunday, ABP will premiere four scheduling blocks of new and award-winning films in the afternoon and throughout the evening. Some standouts include Robyn Yannoukos\u2019 2009 Student Academy Award winning film Alice\u2019s Attic<\/em> and South by Southwest winners, Shaman<\/em> by Luc Perez and Sweet Dreams<\/em> by Kristin Lepore.<\/p>\n \u201cThe rarest thing about the ABP experience is that you would need to travel to Canada or France to see most of these animated films\u2026mainstream U.S. festivals need to focus on Hollywood indies to make their bottom line. At ABP you’ll get to see every best student film from every major art school in America and beyond,\u201d said Safron. How to get there:<\/strong> BAMcin\u00e9matek Screenings:<\/strong> Take the 2, 3, 4, 5 to Atlantic Avenue or the D,M,N,R to Pacific Street. Williamsburg Screening:<\/strong> To the Automotive High School, take the V from Manhattan to 23rd Street-Ely Avenue\/44 Drive. Transfer to the G heading to Brooklyn. Exit at Nassau near Nassau and Manhattan Avenue. Head north on Manhattan towards Bedford to 50 Bedford Ave. For a full list of Animation Weekend film screenings events visit www.animationblock.com\/summerfest09.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What: Animation Weekend When: July 24th-26th Where: BAM Rose Cinemas, Lawn @ Automotive High School Why: Starting tonight, BAMcin\u00e9matek’s annual Animation Weekend film festival will have animation buffs of all ages bounding over to Brooklyn. For the past six years, their partnership with New York\u2019s premier film festival Animation Block Party (ABP) allows them to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,320,315,4],"tags":[108,120,142,96,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-5450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","8":"category-day-trips","9":"category-events","10":"tag-beer","11":"tag-family-fun","12":"tag-festival","13":"tag-film","14":"tag-outdoors"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWhy:<\/strong> Starting tonight, BAMcin\u00e9matek’s annual Animation Weekend<\/strong> film festival will have animation buffs of all ages bounding over to Brooklyn. For the past six years, their partnership with New York\u2019s premier film festival Animation Block Party (ABP) allows them to premiere the best in animation from acclaimed festivals like Sundance, Cannes, and The Ottawa Film Festival. This year also includes a collaboration with underground non-profit Rooftop Films, and together, these local cinema enthusiasts will present over 80 films in the next 72 hours, screened indoors and on lawns, with a slate choc-full of the best in hand drawn, stop motion, and CG films.
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\n\u201cWe cover all the proverbial bases from comfy stadium seating with air conditioning to cartoons under the Brooklyn skyline,\u201d said Casey Safron, ABP\u2019s festival curator. To kick off your experience into this year\u2019s toon fest choose from two programs in and out of doors. At BAMcin\u00e9matek, the Ottawa International Animation Festival returns with their Best of Ottawa program, featuring award winning films from Canada, France and Australia. Their slate of short films all with a running time of less than 30 minutes include interesting titles like I slept with Cookie Monster<\/em> by Kara Nasda Jones, and The Comic That Frenches Your Mind<\/em> by Bruce Bickford. \u201cThis collaboration with ABP has been very successful. We add the best of Ottawa to the mix,\u201d said Molly Gross, senior publicity director for BAM Rose Cinemas.<\/p>\n
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\nCost:<\/strong> $9, $11 depending on location<\/p>\n