Our dear friends at the Charleston International Film Festival invited us to design the poster for them again this year!
When they asked us to create an animated festival trailer as well, we decided to bring the happy creatures in the poster to life for the big screen. We hope you enjoy the spontaneous island dance party as much as these little guys.
Noelle
Here’s a little trailer we made to introduce the screening tonight.
We’ll be hosting the show in collaboration with The Big Screen Plaza. The films were selected based on the vision of the individual artists, but their common thread is they are all uniquely beautiful + warm, but not fuzzy. We kill fuzzy.
More info can be found here.
Enjoy the adorable overload,
Joy + Noelle
Joy and I are the proud parents of this year's festival poster
We’ve been attending the Charleston International Film Festival since it was born in 2008 { see recap from 2008 and 2010 } and it gets better and better every year. The weather was perfect for bike rides to screenings, enjoying yummy summer drinks, watching great films and staying up super late only to do it all again the next day. This festival is fun in the sun. Some highlights!
the lovely Tina McCard and Kelly Sharp { who wrote the script to our film }
2 for 1 margaritas for bike gangs
Jameson + margaritas at Taco Boy
iced coffees at our new favorite Charleston spot, KUDU
AND we won Best Animation for our little film Place Stamp Here. This made us smile as the films in the Animation Block were amazing and to be chosen as the best among them is surprising and wonderful.
Place Stamp Here wins the Best Animation Audience Award
Thanks Charleston! Work it baby.
Noelle
hello children! mickey with steve buscemeyes has an important announcement:
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don’t let this fall through your crack! for more information on the deadline and rules (that’s right, we made RULES damnit) go to our Dumb Sh*t tumblr. it has the bokeh!
joy
Did you feel that? It’s film festival time. And when it’s festival time, we make trailers and posters.
Joy and I designed the poster for the Charleston International Film Festival again! (see last year’s poster)
We looooove this festival. I can’t wait for the animation screening where we’ll show our FINISHED new short, Place Stamp Here.
We’ll be screening alongside Patrick Smith’s Masks as well as some more great films on May 19th – 4PM at the American Theater.
CHARLESTON BABY!
Noelle
Sometimes, when Joy and I are supposed to be working on a million other things, we make a film instead.
This inevitably leads to a string of sleepless nights fueled by pots of coffee and takeout. Our friends think we’re crazy and our mom calls to make sure we’re not dead, but it’s really fun when it pays off.
One of our Festival Bumpers, (the one for the Martha’s Vineyard Film Fest 2010) is up for an award at the ASIFA East Festival on May 1st!
And our brand new film, Place Stamp Here – which we made with the fantastic Kelly Sharp – will be screening at the Charleston International Film Festival on May 19th.
Sleep is optional.
Noelle
The Peculiar Picture Parade Joy and I put together at 92YTribeca last night couldn’t have been more fun. The theater is small which makes for a really chill screening with the nearest and dearest.
Look at all the pretty faces
Joy and I surprised everyone with a film we did just for the Parade called “Place Stamp Here.” It’s based on a short story by Kelly Sharp and the three of us made the film in about a month. The music was done by The Chandeliers with Zach Knox on piano.
Thanks again to Brett W. Thompson for making the event flyer.
Brett Thompson rocks
There was a fantastic audience reaction from each film. Our Q+A session with the filmmakers covered animation, crunch berries, sex and death.
Jessica Polaniecki, Brett Thompson, Dusty Grella, Signe Baumane and Kelly Sharp
Joy Vaccese, Lori Samsel, Katie Cropper and Noëlla Borie
Please enjoy the Signal Film by Taylor Armstorng – it is a 25 second documentary about how Joy and I put this lil animation show together.
And that’s how the magic happens boys and girls.
Here is the list of films in the screening:
One Minute Puberty by Alexander Gellner
Snack Track by Lori Samsel
Matter Fisher by David Prosser
Nosy Bear by Fran Krause
The Face Shop by Noëlla Borie
Sugar by Katie Cropper
The Backwater Gospel by The Animation Workshop – Bo Mathorne Schou-Nielsen
Place Stamp Here by Joy Vaccese, Noelle Melody and Kelly Sharp
Boobatry by Leah Shore
Masks by Patrick Smith
Letterbox by Dusty Grella
Animation Hotline Series by Dusty Grella
My Mother’s Coat by Marie-Margaux Tsakiri-Scanatovits
Animated GIF by Josh Burgraff
Fluidtoons Part 1 by Brett W. Thompson
Guard Dog Global Jam by Bill Plympton
To Have and To Hold by Jessica Polaniecki
Matatoro by Mauro Carraro
Excerpt from Rocks in My Pocket (Suicide) by Signe Baumane
Fluidtoons Part 2 by Brett W. Thompson
Thanks to all the filmmakers and friends who made it out. Christina at 92Y invited us back anytime, so hopefully we will do this again soon.
Noelle
Just got back from the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival!
noelle vaccese, peter ahern, joy vaccese, james buran, signe baumane, bill plympton and sandrine flament
Being the happy little procrastinators you know and love, we of course finished creating the animated trailer just hours before leaving for the festival and here it is…
Curating the Animation Screening was so much fun. Noelle and I picked the best of the submissions, including Bill Plympton’s “The Cow Who Wanted to be a Hamburger,” three episodes from Signe Baumane’s “The Teat Beat of Sex,” Peter Ahern’s “Down to the Bone,” our new music video for The Maladies, a collaboration with James Buran called “Golem,” and many more! The show was last Saturday night and it was bad ass! In the following video, there’s a few clips from the our “animation spectacular!” as well as interviews with the famous Bill Plympton and your’s truly squared.
Catch the whole interview at plumtv.com
~Joy
Hello again!
Yay it’s my faaaaaaaaaavorite time of year! Noey and I have been making it a habit to animate film festival bumpers such as these oldies-but-goodies, and this year we’ve been asked to animate another one for the Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival.
Here are some rough character designs!
Which one should we choose? All suggestions are welcome! We’re leaning towards the last one in the first row – obviously because of the giant disproportions. Cracks me up.
~Joy
