The Providence Children’s Film Festival kicks off this Friday and runs through February 25. Venues include the Wheeler School Gilder Center, South Providence Library, Mount Pleasant Library, the Newport Art Museum, RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium, and the Providence Athenaeum. Go here for event calendar. Opening night party and film Friday, Friday 16, at the Fleet […]
(8.21) This summer the Providence Rink downtown has been hosting outdoor movies . . . with free popcorn! Head down this Saturday for a screening of the 2017 Pixar gem “Coco.” Stretch out under the stars in front of a giant inflatable screen. (Facebook event.) Lawn chairs are permitted in the FREE General Admission section,
(6.29) Sample some of the world’s best animated shorts, culled from hundreds of submissions from women around the globe — Womanimation! takes over AS220 this Saturday. This showcase features a program of twelve short films from eleven countries. Toni Pennacchia, Creative Director of MergingArts Productions is excited about innovations in the genre: . . .
(10.30) When first released in 2001, this movie grossed over $289 million worldwide, becoming the most successful film in Japanese history. In America, Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist, Hayao Miyazaki, already had a devoted following, but ‘Spirited Away’ brought him to a much wider audience, winning the ‘Best Animated Feature’
(7.8) ‘Womanimation!’ a showcase of international women’s animated short films, returns for the ninth year, for one day only, to the AS220 main stage. These shorts, each under 12 minutes, present compelling narratives with distinctive points of view. (Details at MergingArts Productions.) Exhibiting a select program of twelve short films from Europe and Asia, the
The Columbus Cooperative and Peter Glantz present ‘Animation Breakdown Roundup!’ an originally-commissioned shorts festival presented in conjunction with the RI Print Expo. Says Glantz, I saw Animation Breakdown Roundup! at it’s premiere at the wonderful Cinefamily in Los Angeles and I couldn’t pull my eyes away the entire screening and I had to bring it
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