YouthItalianmix 2011 winner

VIEW is delighted to announce the winner of the YouthItalianmix 2011: ‘Four’, directed by Margherita Premuroso.

84th Academy Awards Selection

Dear VIEW Friends,

Enrico Casarosa’s “La Luna” (Disney/Pixar) screened/presented during VIEWFest together with two of winners of VIEW CONFERENCE’s VIEW AWARD contest 2011, “A Morning Stroll” (by Grant Orchard, Studio AKA) and “Paths of Hate” (by Damian Nenow, Platige Image) have been shortlisted in the 84th Academy Awards ® (Best Animated Short). 

Furthermore, five of the eighteen animated features included in the Oscar competition were also recently presented during VIEW Conference:  The Adventures of Tintin, Cars 2, Kung Fu Panda 2, Rango and RIO.

Other five films have been selected for consideration for Achievement in Visual Effects: Captain America: The First Avenger, Cowboys & Aliens, Real Steel, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and X-Men: First Class.

VIEW announces dates for 2012

16 – 19 Oct | VIEW Conference, 13th International Computer Graphics Conference

19 – 21 Oct | VIEWFest, Digital Movie Festival

Send us your works:

Papers and Artworks

Deadline August 31st.

VIEW Award 2012:

World Wide Short Competition Using 3D Animation and VFX

Deadline September 15th.

ITALIANMIX 2012:

Deadline September 15th.

VIEW AWARDS WINNERS

VIEW is delighted to announce the winners of VIEW Award 2011!

BEST SHORT: “De Riz ou d’Arménie”, by Hélène Marchal, Samy Barras, Romain Blondelle, Céline Seille, della scuola Supinfocom Valenciennes

BEST DESIGN: “Lumberjack”, by Pawez Debski, FUMI Studio

BEST ENVIRONMENT DESIGN: “La Détente”, by Pierre Ducos & Bertrand Bey

BEST CHARACTER: “A Morning Stroll”, by Grant Orchard, Studio AKA

BEST DIGITAL VISUAL EFFECTS: “Paths of Hate”, by Damian Nenow-Platige Image

The 2011 VIEW AWARD Committee:

Maria Elena Gutierrez, Pam Hogart, Glenn Entis, Sharon Calahan, Lucia Modesto, Wayne Stables, Peter Nofz, Erik Nash, Kris Piotrowski.

Rumblefish – 3D Stereo, VFX e Character Animation

Italian taste: tradition and innovation

Friday, October 21 | 18:00 | Sala 3, Cinema Massimo
Free Entry

Massimo Germoglio, Creative Director and founder of Rumblefish, will tell us how is possible for an Italian facilities do quality projects recognized abroad and how you can compete in the world being serious and reliable in tune with the Italian talent in advertising and features film. Moreover he will explain the path of his company between innovation, growth and respect of the rules and how you can manage a completely digital post-production from editing to color correction included VFX, Character Animation, Digital Color Correction and 3D stereo.

We will show “making of” and reels and a preview of the trailer of a fantastic 3D stereo event soon in the theatre.

The fulcrum between ideas and their execution

Rumblefish was founded in Milan in 1992 by Massimo Germoglio, who today is the company’s Lead Executive Producer and Creative Director. Rumblefish’s philosophy has always been one of providing an alternative to traditional post-production work; coupling comprehensive, project consultancy with creativity and reliability of the Italian taste.

Rumblefish blends technology with human talent and has the most sophisticated systems for features films, adv, VFX, CGI, Character Animation, restoration and 3D stereo.

Indipendent and innovative facilities, but faithful to the tradition and respect for roles in a logic of continuous confrontation with innovation, it becomes more and more indispensable in the center of the creative process. RF through its founder, always offers new systems and production methods that make it the most advanced post-production in Italy able to compete in the international market for film, advertising, television.

World Premiere:
THE 13TH ANNUAL ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS!

Featured in this year’s awesome line up are:

LA LUNA the stunning Pixar masterpiece by Enrico Casarosa is a shining beauty, you won’t be seeing this gem in release until 2012.

Verena Fels’ MOBILE sets a new bar for student filmmakers worldwide, timing’s everything in this hysterical character comedy.

Three years running with high energy Polish dynamism in the Animation Show of Shows, expect nothing less from Platige Image’s director Damian Nenow’s new breathtaking and powerful PATHS OF HATE.

Curious, subtle and enigmatic. Simply drawn but a powerfully composed and executed dream, Claudius Gentinetta & Frank Braun’s SCHLAF will do anything but put you to sleep.

The National Film Board of Canada home to Oscar® Nominated Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby have nurtured these filmmakers of the highest caliber into yet another classic with WILD LIFE.
   
A glimpse into the stop motion pixilated Argentinian world of Juan Pablo Zaramella’s LUMINARIS is a love story that has a spark with an afterglow of its own.

Switzerland’s extraordinary animation impressionist George Schwizgebel takes us on a moving journey of discovery in ROMANCE.

THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE delights us with Keaton-esque action and the artistry of William Joyce & Brandon Oldenberg’s Moonbot Studios first short film.

José Miguel Ribeiro’s JOURNEY TO CAPE VERDE is an gorgeous and majestic travel diary, straight from Portugal.

RANGO

Friday, Oct 21 @ 22.45 – Sala 3, Cinema Massimo | Sunday, Oct 23 @ 11 – Sala 3, Cinema Massimo

Rango is a sheltered chameleon living as an ordinary family pet, while facing a major identity crisis. After all, how high can you aim when your whole purpose in life is to blend in? When Rango accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt – a lawless outpost populated by the desert’s most wily and whimsical creatures – the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out…

Director: Gore Verbinski

Country: USA 2011

Time: 107 Min

European Premiere of the 13th Annual Animation Show of Shows 2011

Since 1998, The Animation Show of Shows has brought together some of the best in animated short films from the world’s most renowned animation festivals and presented them at the major animation studios and schools to inspire their animators, directors, faculty and students. Curated by veteran producer and Acme Filmworks founder Ron Diamond, The Animation Show of Shows provides industry professionals a chance to watch top new films they might not otherwise have an opportunity to see.

CARS 2 in 3D @ VIEWFest

Directed by JOHN LASSETER, Co – Directed by BRAD LEWIS

With the Director of Photography Sharon Calahan, Pixar Animation Studios

Star racecar Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) and the incomparable tow truck Mater (voice of Larry the Cable Guy) take their friendship to exciting new places in “Cars 2” when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world’s fastest car.’

But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours and hilarious surprises when Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.  Mater finds himself torn between assisting Lightning McQueen in the high-profile race and towing the line in a top-secret mission orchestrated by master British super spy Finn McMissile (voice of Michael Caine) and the stunning rookie field spy Holley Shiftwell (voice of Emily Mortimer).  Mater’s action-packed journey leads him on an explosive chase through the streets of Japan and Europe, trailed by his friends and watched by the whole world.  The fast-paced fun includes a colorful new all-car cast, complete with menacing villains and international racing competitors.

John Lasseter returns to the driver’s seat to direct this follow-up to his 2006 Golden Globe®-winning “Cars.” “Cars 2” is co-directed by Brad Lewis, producer of the Oscar®-winning film “Ratatouille,” and produced by visual effects industry veteran Denise Ream (associate producer, “Up”; visual effects executive producer, “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”).  The film hits the track on June 24, 2011, and will be presented in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D in select theaters.

DISNEY•PIXAR (In Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D)

Director: John Lasseter

Co-Director: Brad Lewis

Producer: Denise Ream

Composer: Michael Giacchino

Duration: 106′

Pixar Shorts: 25 years of animation in a small package

In celebration of Pixar Animation Studio’s 25th Anniversary, please join VIEWFest in a never-before-seen program of Pixar Shorts! Pixar loves its characters, and oftentimes continues to tell their stories via short films that appear with its DVD releases. In this program we will present several of these shorts featuring characters you’ve come to know from some of your favorite Pixar feature films.

From “Monsters, Inc.” pals Mike and Sully to Woody and Buzz from the “Toy Story” films, these treasures give you a further glimpse into the Pixar universe. Be the first audience to ever see them screened together!

• Mike’s New Car Directed by Pete Docter & Roger Gould
• Jack Jack Attack Directed by Brad Bird
• Your Friend the Rat Directed by Jim Capobianco
• BURN-E Directed by Angus MacLane
• Dug’s Special Mission Directed by Ronnie Del Carmen
• Hawaiian Vacation Directed by Gary Rydstrom

BRUNO BOZZETTO, Independent Animation Professional

‘UNA VITA ILLUSTRATA’, Tributo a Bruno Bozzetto

Venerdì 21 Ottobre @ 20.30 | Sala 3. Cinema Massimo

Born in Milan, Italy, in 1938.He is a world-famous cartoonist, animator, screen-player and director.

In 1958, barely twenty years old, he drew the audience’s attention at Cannes when he submitted his very first animation short, “Tapum! The weapons’ history”, animated on a 16 mm film by employing an ironing board cleverly adjusted vertically to hold up the camera.

In 1960 the Bruno Bozzetto Film Company was established in Milan. This business covered film production, advertising and television too and saw the start of a very active cooperation within a team of young drawers, animators and script-writers, among whom Guido Manuli, Giuseppe Laganà,Giovanni Mulazzani, and Maurizio Nichetti only to mention a few of them.

In 1965 Bruno Bozzetto produced and directed “West&Soda”, the first animated Spaghetti-Western and only third animated feature film ever made in Italy. This was shortly after followed by “Vip my brother superman” (1968) and “Allegro non troppo” (1976), which most of the Critique defined as the italian answer to Disney’s illustrious “Fantasia”.

Bruno Bozzetto’s best known character is Mister Rossi, conceived to represent the common man, a victim of society and fortune, who nowadays stars in most of the cartoonist’s satirical comics.

The films’ catchy tune “Mr Rossi looks for Happiness” features the films’ trilogy created thanks to the co-production of TSI, Wagner Hallig Film and RAI. The tune, translated into several languages, became so popular and haunting that today it’s still being hummed by young and old.

In the decade that followed, a solid cooperation between Bozzetto and swiss Television TSI gave way to some unforgettable TV popular series such as “Lilliput-put”, “Mr Hiccup”, “Stripy” and “Sandwich”.

Together with renowned science journalist Piero Angela, the cartoonist also directed a hundred animated shorts of educational scientific matter.

Bruno Bozzetto’s films are appreciated all over the world for their unique graphic style and highly educational content.

As a lonesome and meticulous watcher observing an event taking place in a far distance, the cartoonist manages to remark and show the innermost features of mankind.

His skills are regularly recognized and awarded all over the world with many noteworthy prizes, among which the Golden Bear to “Mister Tao” at the Berlin Film Festival in 1990 and the Oscar nomination to “Grasshoppers” in 1991.

He also received five Career Awards and one Honorary Degree.

Since 2000 Bruno Bozzetto has been devoting his time to Flash, a new technique and means of animation that he, being a tech lover, has taken up straight away. Indeed, the Web-famous short “Europe and Italy” fully represents this new era.

While churning out new animation shorts, Bruno Bozzetto has been also creating new series for RAI Television: “Spaghetti Family”, “Things” and “Psicovip”, co-produced by RAI itself and other animation companies such as The Animation Band and Maga Animation Studio.

Today, with the full support of his Studio of production, Studio Bozzetto&Co., based in Milan, the Cartoonist has been exploring the 3D field, working on new animated series for the Television and conceiving new high-impact characters and stories.

The most recent of all is “Bruno the Great” created for Disney Channel for a worldwide distribution.

Bruno Bozzetto’s official website is www.bozzetto.com.

In Praise of Love (Eloge de l’amour)

In Praise of Love (Eloge de l’amour) is a story written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

The project could be construed as an opera or a movie called In Praise of Love evoking the four seasons of a love story: meeting, physical passion, separation and reunion witnessed through three couples representing three different generations.

Synopsis

Edgar, the head of the project, is looking for the main actress and wants to hire a young Algerian woman working as a cleaner. « This is better than what you do » he offers. She turns him down. This first part also deals with the often talked about two-tier French society of privileged high society players (art dealers, high financiers) and homeless people roaming the streets of Paris.

The second part takes place two years before and follows Edgar as he investigates a resistance hero contacted by Steven Spielberg to be featured in his documentary about Holocaust victims. Edgar is the witness of negotiations between Spielberg’s assistant and the hero’s family.

World premiere of “La Luna” with the Director / Head of Story Enrico Casarosa, Pixar Animation Studios

The screening will be Saturday 22 Oct @ 8.30pm – Sala 3, Cinema Massimo + Workshop 22 October @10:30

La Luna is the timeless fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait.  A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family’s most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his Grandpa? Will he be able to find his own way in the midst of their conflicting opinions and timeworn traditions?

Enrico Casarosa will deliver a workshop open to aspiring filmmakers, scriptwriters and animation artists. Saturday 22 October from 10.30am to 12.30am – Sala 1, Cinema Massimo

Enrico Casarosa, Director / Head of  Story, Pixar Animation Studios

Enrico Casarosa joined Pixar Animation Studios in January 2002.  He began working as a story artist on “Cars” and the Academy Award®-winning feature “Ratatouille.”  Casarosa’s next project was as story artist on Disney•Pixar’s Academy Award®-winning feature film Up. Most recently, Casarosa made his directing debut with the short film, “La Luna,” which will screen with the Disney•Pixar feature film, “Brave,” in 2012. Currently, Casarosa is working as head of story on an upcoming Pixar film.

As a story artist, Casarosa creates visual sequences from the script.  Story artists also generate new ideas and gags, and provide feedback regarding the plot, characters and overall story of the film.  With help from story artists, the film’s director finds the story they want to tell and the best cinematographic way to tell it.

Casarosa found early influences in Hayao Miyazaki’s work and grew up watching Miyazaki’s television series in Italy. Born and raised in Genoa, Casarosa moved to New York City in his twenties, to study animation at the School of Visual Arts and Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Before coming to Pixar, Casarosa worked as a storyboard artist at Blue Sky Studios on Ice Age and Robots.  He also worked as a background designer and storyboard artist for a number of Disney Channel Television Series’ including 101 Dalmatians and PB&J Otters.

Casarosa lives in San Francisco, California with his wife Marit and their little daughter Fio Giulietta.

FRATELLINI D’ITALIA at the VIEWFest!

Sometimes History can be different from the one told in the books.
So, we have to follow Camilla, the enterprising dog of Count Cavour, and Marquis Drilling-Cheese a noble mouse who, despite himself, will be involved in an incredible adventure that will contribute to create a new Italy. In this way the company Lanterna Magica tribute the anniversary of the Italian Unification and present to the audience of the VIEWFest is last feature film ‘Garibaldi and the kid Brothers of Italy’.

Maria Fares, the most famous Italian Executive Producer and co-founder of the Lanterna Magica, will attend the Festival, with the animated feature film’s director Enrico Carlesi

Garibaldi and he Kid Brothers Of Italy

Turin, year 1860. King Vittorio is restless in his Palace: he writes, crumples, re-writes and throws away the same letter. Annoyed by these noises, Marquis Drilling-Cheese puts on his night-gown and comes out of his hole to protest… but he ends up in a document holder that will be open by Garibaldi on the Thousand Redshirts’ Ship.

On the same ship, we also find Ciro and Cecilia, two revolutionary mice who, together with Camilla, the Cavour’s fugitive dog, will take part to the enterprise. But Ernest, the mouse who has followed Garibaldi since the South American period, accuses them to be stowaways and spies. Everything will be solved when Garibaldi recognizes Camilla. Ernest will appoint them “secret agents” and fund a secret society called “The kid brothers of Italy” to help Garibaldi in this enterprise… Obviously Drilling- Cheese wants to go back home and on the road is kidnapped by General Mincing-Mice, chief of the secret Borbonic police. Thanks to professor Cloudy’s balloon, the kid brothers of Italy will save him. Our story goes on and we arrive at Calatafimi and to the famous story.

The picaresque journey of our heroes continues, mixed of fights and balloons, that will take them from Sicily to Naples where Ciro and Cecilia will finally free their father,

Don Pummarò, great patriot captured by Mincing-Mice… History says that the Thousand expedition ends in Teano where Garibaldi meets Vittorio Emanuele and greets him as first King of Italy, but our story goes on.

Garibaldi and the kids brothers of Italy is the new work of the studio ‘Lanterna Magica’.
Lanterna Magica (www.lanternamagica.it) is a dynamic animation production company based in Turin. It was born in 2000, from the experience of the previous and homonymous Cooperative Company established in 1983. Lanterna Magica, through its experience, production and creative teams, business partnerships, is ideally positioned to develop, produce and distribute high quality 2D animation programs. During the last ten years, the company has produced some successful European animation programs, all distributed at international level, such as the feature movies Blue Arrow  – Lucky and Zorba – Aida of the Trees – Totò Sapore – Eleonor’s Secrets. and TV Movie for the 150° Jubilee of Italy Garibaldi and the Kid Brothers of Italy (2011).
During all these years Lanterna Magica has been making several TV series in co-production with RAI Fiction and trans-national partners: Kamillo Kromo – Le nuove avventure della Pimpa – Marco and Gina – Neve & Gliz – The Chicken lost in the net – Matt’s Monsters.
Roberto Baratta is the C.E.O. while Maria Fares is the Producer and Michele Buri is the Production Manager

ITALIAN PREMIERE: SIGGRAPH 2011 Computer Animation Festival

The leading annual festival for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. Selections include outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts. The Computer Animation Festival is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival.

Downlad dossier (Pdf)  ￫

Since 1999, several works originally presented in the Computer Animation Festival have been nominated for or have received a “Best Animated Short” Academy Award. The Computer Animation Festival Director, Mr. Joshua Grow, will introduce the screening of the CAF at the VIEWFest!

Best in Show Award Winner: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Escape of the Gingerbread Man!!!

EUROPEAN PREMIERE: SIGGRAPH Asia 2010

VIEWFest is proud to present the third edition of SIGGRAPH Asia’s Computer Animation Festival

The third edition of SIGGRAPH Asia’s Computer Animation Festival presents the year’s finest achievements in computer animation and visual effects by artists, designers, researchers, and scientists from around the world.

The Electronic Theatre, that will be screened at VIEWFest, is a two-hour overview of the best animations, visual effects, and scientific visualizations produced in year. The jury assembled this show to represent the must-see works in computer graphics for 2010.

The Electronic Theater will be presented by Ms. Jinny Choo, SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Computer Animation Festival Chair.

Downlad dossier (Pdf)  ￫

ITALIANMIX and YOUTHITALIANMIX finalists:

VIEW is pleased to announce the finalists of ITALIANMIX and YOUTHITALIANMIX

The finalists of the ITALIANMIX are:

The finalists of the YOUTH ITALIANMIX are: