Get Animated!

FREE SCREENINGS + WORKSHOPS
October 26, 27, 28

Co-presented in Vancouver by the National Film Board of Canada 
and Pacific Cinémathèque.

Get Animated! is a Canada-wide series of free screenings and activities to mark World Animation Day (October 28) and celebrate the National Film Board of Canada’s 70th anniversary. Events will be held across the country October 23-31, 2009. As part of the festivities, the NFB and Pacific Cinémathèque will present three evenings of screenings and special presentations, October 26, 27 & 28. Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.

Complete nation-wide Get Animated! schedule information, including further details of our Vancouver presentations, will be available online as of September 1st, 2009, at www.nfb.ca/getanimated. You can also enjoy the NFB’s online film festival programmed exclusively for Get Animated!

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Monday, October 26
7:00 pm + 9:00pm - Ron Diamond’s Animation Show of Shows
Ron Diamond in attendance! 
Download: Animation Show of Shows brochure
Download: Animation Show of Shows flyer

Tuesday, October 27
7:30 pm - Special Presentation: A Workshop with Bruce Alcock
Award-winning Vancouver auteur Bruce Alcock (whose new film Vive la Rose screens in the Animation Feast: NFB’s New Releases Program) shares his inspirations, work and passion for animation. For more details, consult the Vancouver Get Animated! schedule at www.nfb.ca/getanimated.
9:00 pm - Animation Feast: NFB’s New Releases Program
See list of films below.

Wednesday, October 28
7:30 pm - Animation Feast: NFB’s New Releases Program
See list of films below.
9:00 pm - International Releases – with Danny Lennon

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ANIMATION FEAST: NFB's New Releases Program

Vive la rose – A tragic love story, set in coastal Newfoundland, by Vancouver animator Alcock. (Bruce Alcock/2009. 6 mins.)

The Spine – The latest film from the maker of the Oscar-winning Ryan. (Chris Landreth/2009. 11 mins.)

Peggy Baker Four Phrases – An artful hybrid of animation and documentary celebrates Canadian dancer and choreographer Peggy Baker. (Howie Shia/2009. 5 mins.)

Spare Change – When animation legend Ryan Larkin died in 2007 before completing this film about "my comical life on the streets," a team of friends and admirers finished it for him. (Laurie Gordon/2008. 7 mins.)

How People Got Fire – An elder forges a connection with a 12-year-old girl in her village through the oral tradition of their culture. (Daniel Janke/2009. 16 mins.)

Land of the Heads / Au pays des têtes – When his vain wife wants to replace her wrinkled head with a pretty one, a vampire reluctantly goes out headhunting. (Claude Barras, Cedric Louis/2009. 6 mins.)

The Sleeping Man / L’homme qui dort – In denial about the loss that has left her alone, a young woman shares her life with a sleeping ghost. (Inès Sedan/2009. 12 mins.)

Robes of War / Robes de guerre – War invades a woman’s very being in this new work from acclaimed Montreal animator Cournoyer (Le Chapeau, Accordion). (Michèle Cournoyer/2008. 5 mins.)

Runaway – Animator Barker, maker of The Cat Came Back, asks the question: What would happen if the world were a driverless train thundering recklessly over bumpy tracks? (Cordell Barker/2009. 9 mins.)

Running Time: approx. 78 mins.