2011 Winners:

FRIDAY full program

JULY 29, 2011

ABP 2011 opens on Friday, July 29th at Rooftop Films, located at the Automotive High School - 50 Bedford Avenue, North 13th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11222.

The evening will feature live music, followed by an outdoor simulcast screening on both lawns at Automotive High, featuring international cartoons, world premieres and fan friendly shorts. Doors to ABP @ Rooftop Films on July 29th will open at 8pm for live- music and the ABP screenings will start around 9pm. There will be a short ten-minute intermission after Xxcuzxme.

• 2011 ABP Intro (Casey Safron / NYC / 30 seconds)
• Greetings from the Year 3000 (Barbara Benas / Brooklyn / 1:00 min)
• La Plage (Agathe Bray-Bourret / Canada / 1:46 min)
• Birdboy (Alberto Vazquez and Pedro Rivero / Bilbao, Spain / 12:36 min)
• The Inkwell Shuffle (Christopher Diaz / Concordia University / 2:30 min)
• The Girl and the Fox (Tyler J. Kupferer / SCAD / 5:30 min)
• All Consuming Love - Man in a Cat (Louis Hudson / United Kingdom / 9:00 min)
• Stay Home (Caleb Wood / RISD / 5:36 min)
• Xxcuzxme (Aaron Keuter and Ashley Anderson / 2:06 min)
• Little Thoughts (Alexander Geifman / Brazil-Israel / 6:16 min)
• She Was The One (The Rauch Brothers / Brooklyn / 2:37 min)
• Tempestade (Cesar Cabral / Brazil / 10 min)
• 7th (Sara Pocock / Cal Arts / 5:02 min)
• The Leaf Woman and the Centaur (Jordan Bruner / Brooklyn / 3:10 min)
• Venus (Tor Fruergaard, Instructor / National Film School of Denmark / 8:09 min)
• Notes on Biology (Will and Danny Madden / Alabama / 5:38 min)
• 2011 ABP Outro (Aaron Hughes / Brooklyn / 30 seconds)

The screening will be followed by an after party at Matchless, located at 557 Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn, featuring free beer courtesy of Radeberger.

SATURDAY full program

JULY 30, 2011

Animation Block Party continues on Saturday, July 30th at BAMcinématek located at the Peter Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11217.

On Saturday, July 30, 2011 - ABP will hold its first ever animation trade show and art gallery exhibition at BAMcinématek from 12pm-8pm. Trade show attendees will include Animation Mentor, NY Bike Jumble, L-Magazine, DaVinci Artist Supply, Green Mountain Energy, The Community Bookstore and many more.

The ABP gallery exhibition will feature content from animation talents such as Doug Crane, Howard Beckerman, Deborah Ross, Maori Stanton, Jeff Scher, Mike Lapinski, Caroline Foley, Michael Langan and London Squared alongside festival photos from Jazzmine Beaulieu. The Saturday ABP trade show and art gallery is free and open to the public. Movie tickets must be purchased separately.

Saturday, July 30th at BAMcinématek features three different animation programs. A special screening at noon will feature Animation for Kids (also showing 12pm on Sunday). Program One will feature experimental animation, fresh music videos and subversive design works. Program Two will showcase exceptional student films and professional shorts.

12:00pm

Animation for Kids

• (also screens @ BAMcinématek at 12pm on Sunday, July 31)
• Bridge (Ting Chian Tey / Academy of Art / 2:44 min)
• Free to be Me (Michaela Copikova & Veronika Obertova / Slovakia / 4:05 min)
• Slap Back Jack — High Five Master (Mark Newell / NY / 11 min)
• The Games I Made Up (Mary Twohig / Ohio State / 3 min)
• Flora (Brett Swanson / Huntington University / 2:19 min)
• The North Star (Peter Reynolds / Boston, MA / 14:30 min)
• The Snowman (Kelly Wilson & Neil Wrischnik / Mill Valley, CA / 4:30 min)
• Christmas Time (Brittany Biggs / Los Angeles / 2:40 min)
• Potty Monsters (Courtney Pure / Long Island / 6 min)
• BumbleVille (Gary Giambalvo / NYC / 1:35 min)
• Bored (Messina Smith / Maryland / 4:05 min)
• A Busy Bee (Don and Jen Skinner / Bracebridge, Ontario / 3 min)

2:00pm and 6:50pm

Animation Block : PROGRAM ONE

• City of Tomorrow (Camy Lee / NY / 1 min)
• Animation Hotline — Call One (Dustin Grella / NY / 1 min)
• Entanglement (Renae Radford / USC / 6:01 min)
• Bleu (Mike Bentz / Sarah Lawrence / 1:05 min)
• Terra Firma (Ted Wiggin / RISD / 5:30 min)
• Dwellings (Aaron Wendel / Seattle / 3:54 min)
• OHOK (Lyla Ribot / Pratt / 2 min)
• Reloaded (Marieke Verbiesen / Norway / 3:36 min)
• Sister Fight (Crystal Campbell & Jen Campbell / Brooklyn / 2:30 min)
• Spin (Max Hattler / UK-Germany / 4 min)
• On Water's Edge (Tommaso de Sanctis / Royal College of Art / 9:25 min)
• Theme, Alone (M. Ribeiro / Mass Art / 2 min)
• Libangbang (Chia-Chi Tseng / USC / 4:37 min)
• Hail (Emily Hubley / New Jersey / 3:06 min)
• Excerpts from Concerto Piccolo & Gameboy (Amber Boardman / Brooklyn / 2 min)
• The Language (Tobias Stretch / Pennsylvania / 6 min)
• Timber (Adam Fisher / Maine / 1 min)
• Outside the Lines (Juno Mendiola / UARTS / 1:47 min)
• The Wendy-Lady (Amy Alexander / RMIT University, Australia / 4:18 min)
• Urban Legend 2 (Wojtek Skowron / Germany-Poland / 2:32 min)
• Hello, I Like You (Mixtape Club / Brooklyn / 2 min)
• Animation Hotline — Call Two (Dustin Grella / NY / 1 min)
• Spectacle! Artifice! Jiggling! (Janelle Miau / Cal Arts / 3:02 min)
• Who's That Brown (Thomas DeNapoli / NY-LA / 4:08 min)
• A Very Large Number of Microphones (Adam Rosenberg / VCU / 40 seconds)

4:30pm and 9:15pm

ANIMATION BLOCK: PROGRAM TWo

• Jeff Scher (You Might Remember This / NYC / 2:30 min)
• The Quiet Life (Timothy Hittle / San Francisco / 12 min)
• How to talk to Women (Josh Weisbrod / Brooklyn / 2 min)
• Minstrel and the Duck (Stephen Leeper & Luke Nimtze / Huntington, IN / 4:15 min)
• The Epileptic Bicycle (Lauren Horoszewski / University of Connecticut / 6 min)
• Bike Race (Tom Schroeder / St. Paul, Minnesota / 12 min)
• The Joke (Melanie Barreto and Tom Kyzivat / Addison, IL / 2 min)
• Barko (Allison Craig / Los Angeles / 7:39 min)
• Extinction of the Saber-Toothed Housecat (Damon Wong / Rhode Island / 3:32 min)
• There's a Dead Crow Outside (Morgan Miller / NYC / 1 min)
• Enrique Wrecks the World (David Chai / San Jose, CA / 4:30 min)
• Got Milk (Logan Hugueny-Clark / Los Angeles / 1:34 min)
• Marvin (Mark Nute / United Kingdom / 7:11 min)
• Wonder Hospital (Beomsik Shimbe Shim / Los Angeles / 11:34 min)
• Kubla Khan (Joan C. Gratz / Portland, Oregon / 3:38 min)

10pm - 2:00am

ABP 2011 : Saturday Night Party

The Saturday night after party will start around 10pm at the Fourth Avenue Pub located at 76 4th Avenue in Brooklyn. The party will feature free beer with proof of ABP-BAM ticket purchase. Please trade your ticket for a wristband when leaving movie-theater.

sunday full program

JULY 31, 2011

Animation Block Party closes on Sunday, July 31st at BAMcinématek, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. Program Three will feature award winning independent shorts, studio animation and other standout works. Program Four will mix global films with New York premieres and local animations.

12:00pm

Animation for Kids

(also screens @ BAMcinématek at 12pm on Saturday, July 30)
See Saturday program listed above.

2:00pm and 6:50pm

Animation block : program three

• Get with the Program (Jennifer Drummond Deutrom / Austin, TX / 3:30 min)
• Nigiri (Judy Lee / Brooklyn / 2 min)
• Friday Night Tights (Joonki Park / UCLA / 4:01 min)
• Floyd the Android (Jonathan Lyons / San Rafael, CA / 2 min)
• Frogs and Gods (Brad Pattullo / PA / 8 min)
• Plump (Marcelo Gorenman / Toronto / 2:15 min)
• Laika (Avgousta Zourelidi / National Television School, UK / 9 min)
• Don't Tell Santa You're Jewish (Jody Kramer / Canada / 3:47 min)
• Morning (Tom Decker / CA / 7:30 min)
• The Old Flame (Anita Drieseberg / Canada / 4 min)
• The Doctor's Wife (Julian Grant / Chicago / 6 min)
• Contexting (David Donar / Canada / 1:08 min)
• Photographs (Christina Manrique ' Brendan Clogher / Loyola Marymount / 6 min)
• Teru Teru Bozu (Lori Samsel / Brooklyn / 2 min)
• Heart (Erick Oh / UCLA / 8:33 min)
• Desert Veil (Lyz Holder & Ed Janne / California / 3:14 min)
• Caffeine (Danae Diaz and Patricia Luna / Berlin / 5 min)

4:30pm and 9:15pm

ANIMation block : program four

• Wordsmithery (Joel Brown / VFS / 3:20 min)
• Craft (Mari Jaye Blanchard / Brooklyn / 5:22 min)
• Meu Medo (Murilo Hauser / Brazil / 10:43 min)
• Metro (Jake Wyatt / BYU / 4:44 min)
• Teddy Goldblatt (Rob Munday / United Kingdom / 9:34 min)
• Treasure of the Golden Skull (Mirella Toncheva / Brooklyn / 3 min)
• Shapes in the City (Becky James / Brooklyn / 4:43 min)
• The Eagleman Stag (Michael Please / Royal College of Art / 9 min)
• Place Stamp Here (Joy Vaccese and Noelle Melody / NYC / 4:23 min)
• Preferably Blue (Alan Dickson / New Zealand / 11 min)
• Fini (Han Han Li / Concordia University / 2:26 min)
• Paths of Hate (Damian Nenow / Lodz, Poland / 10:31 min)

ABp 2011 : sunday night party

9:30pm - 1:00am

The closing evening after party is at Habana Outpost at 757 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, featuring streaming videos, free Six Point Ale and delicious Habana corn and is only for those with ABP-BAM Tickets.

2011 ABP festival prize jury is Emily Carmichael, Mike Hollingsworth, Lisa Crafts and Max Winston. Prizes include software from Toon Boom, DigiCel FlipBook, Dragon Stop Motion, Script Pipeline, designer bags from Crumpler, DVDs, a production grant and Boinx iStopMotion Pro for Best Student Film. Festival honors will be announced at www.animationblock.com the day after the festival.

To vote for ABP 2011 Audience Award, please tweet your favorite film title to hashtag #ABP or reply to @animationblock on Twitter OR email your title of choice to abp2011@animationblock.com.