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New York City has a new mini-animation festival, and it's taking place this week.

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The ever-expanding Brooklyn animation scene offers two unique animation screenings this month.

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For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best-selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.

Seventy-nine animated films were selected for competition at Ottawa this year.

An experimental comic-review of "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water" by filmmaker Leah Shore.

Next Wednesday, the animated duo of Jeff Twiller and Randy J. Johnson will host their own animated film screening in Brooklyn. It's a legit line-up of animated shorts, with perceptive cinematic commentary supplied inbetween the films by Twiller and Johnson. Thankfully, they happen to be animation experts.

Filmmaker Leah Shore drops by Cartoon Brew’s Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum to discuss her career path from cleaning Rachel Weisz’s hands to making the controversial festival-circuit-hit-animated-short, Old Man, featuring the voice of Charles Manson. Inbetween, she explains why she needs to get revenge on Golden Girls actress Betty White.

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Leah Shore’s website
Old Man film site

Filmmaker Leah Shore drops by Cartoon Brew’s Frenzer Foreman Animation Forum to discuss her career path from cleaning Rachel Weisz’s hands to making the controversial festival-circuit-hit-animated-short, Old Man, featuring the voice of Charles Manson. Inbetween, she explains why she needs to get revenge on Golden Girls actress Betty White.

LINKS RELATED TO THIS EPISODE
Leah Shore’s website
Old Man film site

SXSW has announced the selections for their 2013 film festival, which takes place in Austin, Texas from March 8-16. Ten shorts were selected for the animation category. Several animated projects were also chosen for other categories, including Chris Mars’ In Hanford for the documentary category, and Daniel Garcia and Harry Teitalman’s “Reagan” in the music video category.

Below are the animation selections, which includes the first US screening of the new Pixar short Blue Umbrella:

The Blue Umbrella
Director: Saschka Unseld
It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters. And in the midst, two umbrellas — one blue, one not — fall eternally in love.

Cicada Princess
Director: Mauricio Baiocchi
Cicadas spend a long time planning…

The Event
Director: Julia Pott
Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world.

The Gold Sparrow
Director: Daniel Stessen
In a black and white world artists must defend their color.

Kishi Bashi — ”I Am The Antichrist To You”
Director: Kishi Bashi
A surreal stop motion collaboration between avante-pop/violinist Kishi Bashi and acclaimed animator Anthony Scott (Coraline, Paranorman). An abandoned puppy awakes in a post-apocalyptic world with vivid memories of his love and all that he lost.

Marcel, King of Tervuren
Director: Tom Schroeder
Greek tragedy enacted by Belgian roosters.

Oh Willy…
Directors: Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels
Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.

Old Man
Director: Leah Shore
For more than 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate directly with the outside world. Until now.

The Places Where We Lived
Director: Bernardo Britto
A man wakes up with a weird feeling. His parents are selling his childhood home.

Shelved Director: James Cunningham
Two loser robots discover they are being replaced … by humans

Tonight, ASIFA-East handed out prizes for its 43nd annual Animation Festival. The Rauch Brothers took home the Best in Show for their 9/11-themed short John and Joe. Two children’s films that I particularly enjoyed at the screening were Michael Sporn’s inspiring I Can Be President (which was shown in excerpted form) and an adaptation of Mo Willems’ book Don’t Let The Pigeon Stay Up Late directed by Pete List. The latter showed that preschool animation can engage audience participation without talking down to kids.

The most surprising film of the evening was Leah Shore’s Old Man. The “old man” in question is Charles Manson, and Shore uses a breathless array of techniques and styles to illustrate recordings of his schizophrenic ramblings. Though we’ve posted Shore’s films here before—see BOOBatary and Meatwaffle—I’d suggest that Old Man is a breakout work for the young filmmaker. She is a talent to watch.

A full list of winners follows the jump.

BEST IN SHOW

John and Joe
StoryCorps/Rauch Brothers

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

1st Place
Taxonomy
Karen Aqua – Director

2nd Place
Two
Steven Subotnick – Director

3rd Place
Old Man
Leah Shore – Director

BEST MUSIC VIDEO

1st Place
the light that died in my arms
Alan Foreman – Director

2nd Place
(Baby) It’s You!
David Cowles, Jeremy Galante, Brad Pattullo – Directors

3rd Place
Le Soleil Chante (The Sun Sings)
Delphine Burrus – Director

INDEPENDENT FILMS

1st Place
Turning A Corner
David B. Levy – Director

2nd Place
Dr. Breakfast
Stephen Neary – Director

3rd Place
The First Time Cee-Cee Did Acid
Twins are Weird
Noelle Melody – Director
Joy Vaccese – Producer

Excellence in Animation
More Than Winning
Nick Fox-Gieg – Director
Susan Murray – Animator

Excellence in Design
The Girl and the Fox
Base14/Tyler J. Kupferer – Director

Excellence in Design
Orbis Park
Andrew Kaiko

Excellence in Soundtrack
Car Crash Opera
Skip Battaglia – Director
Jairo Duarte-Lopez, Michaela Eremiasova – Composers

Excellence in Writing
Wolf Dog Tales
Bernadine Santistevan – Director

COMMISSIONED OVER 2 MINUTES

1st Place
Miss Devine
StoryCorps/Rauch Brothers

2nd Place
Don’t Let The Pigeon Stay Up Late
Mo Willems Studio/Weston Woods
Pete List – Director

3rd Place
I Can Be President
Michael Sporn Animation, Inc.
Michael Sporn – Director

Excellence in Education
Journey of a Water Molecule
The Knowledge Project/PS69x
Jose Maldonado, MB Hunnewell – Directors

Excellence in Writing
A History of Animation
Morgan Miller – Direc

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