Festival Week
{via Bill Plympton ~ the Woodstock Film Festival 2011}
After many weeks of traveling with Place Stamp Here to screenings + animation festivals, pre-parties, after parties + after-after parties … we’re barely human anymore. We’ve become caricatures of ourselves!
In Woodstock, we attended two excellent screenings of the “Dark, Deep, and Funny” Animated Shorts, curated by Bill Plympton + Signe Baumane. LUMINARIS by Juan Pablo Zaramella won Blue Sky Studios Award for Best Animation! We’ve been big fans ever since his last pixilation, HOTCORN.
{Jane Wu, Bill Plympton, Signe Baumane, Joy V + Noelle M, Andy Kennedy, Jacob Kafka}
We were super excited to meet Andy Kennedy, creator of the award winning short film, ACCUMULONIMBUS.
The Coney Island Film Festival Opening Night Party was beyond insane. We’ve never been to any film festival like this one – it truly captured the essence of Coney Island with an outstanding performance by the burlesque ladies, sword swallowers, + fire dancers at the freak show! Sorry, “No freaking photos allowed!” It was so fun to be a part of + we hope to return next year to experience the festival in full. Added bonus, our friend Victoria Cook won Best Animation for her short, DEVIL TOWN. Congrats Victoria!
{Bill Plympton + yours truly at the MV Animation Spectacular}
The Martha’s Vineyard International Film Fest to represent our new film as well as our award winning trailer. It was unbelievable. From the sold out screening, to the bike rides, to the oceans white with foam! God bless Vineyard Haven… To find out more about the films that screened, Bill wrote a great write up. Words alone can’t explain my fun times, so here’s the experience in pictures:
When I was deciding whether or not I could make it out to MV again this year, Mocha Mott’s was the real deal breaker for me. It’s my favorite spot on Main Street. Every year, we sit + sip delicious chai lattes between screenings.
Art Cliff Diner is amazing! The food truck is open late night + has everything you could ever dream of, including enormous whoopie pies.
Jameson + I took a bike ride. Adventure time!
Easily the coolest truck I’ve ever seen.
No bikes allowed here, we continued on foot. There’s a little area on the island that is home to the Gingerbread Houses. Pay close attention to the love that I’m about to express for them. It’s one of the few places that even comes close to the Disney Magic Kingdom’s, It’s A Small World.
These are the Bauers. They fixed up their gingerbread house + painted it in all it’s glory.
A nice lady hanging her laundry out to dry…
This nice man was just sitting out on his porch, carving some kind of artifact out of wood. When I asked him what he was making he said, “A mess.”
Everyone in gingerbread land names their home. Like “Happy Daze.”
Well we had a week! It was fun to reminisce + share it all.
This is the reason why we work so hard, continually making films. Thanks to all the of the festival directors + volunteers for making it all wonderful as usual. I already can’t wait ’til next year!
~Joy
