2013 Winners

Thursday Opening Night

JULY 25, 2013

Animation Block Party kicks off on July 25th with an Opening Night concert at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, located at66 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Adam Green and Binki Shapiro will be headlining the event with an opening performance by Dovecote recording artist Hooray For Earth. Les Savy Fav frontman and comedian Tim Harrington will host. The evening will feature exclusive animationcontent from Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Pixar. Doors at 8:30pm.

• Irreversible (Sarah Beeby / UK / 60 seconds)
• The Blue Umbrella (Saschka Unseld / Pixar / 6:30 min)
• Breadwinners (Gary Doodles / Nickelodeon / 4:33 min)
• Clarence (Cartoon Network / Skyler Page/ 3:50 min)
• Steven Universe (Rebecca Sugar / Cartoon Network / 4:17 min)

FRIDAY full program

JULY 26, 2013

ABP 2013 festival screenings commence on Friday, July 26th at Rooftop Films, located at the Greenpoint High School for Engineering and Automotive Technology - 50 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg. Brooklyn NY 11222.

The evening will feature live music followed by an outdoor screening, featuring international cartoons, exceptional student films, world premieres and visually stunning shorts.

Doors to ABP @ Rooftop Films on July 26th will open at 8pm for live-music and the ABP screenings will start around 9pm. There will be an intermission after Passer Passer.

• ABP 2013 Intro (Taylor Armstrong / Chicago / 45 seconds)
• Spacetime Fabric Softner (Ryan Mauskopf / NYC / 3:45 min)
• The Hungry Boy (Cem Kurtulus and Jake Nelson / Brooklyn / 5:06 min)
• Jamon (Iria Lopez / National Film & Television School / 8:51 min)
• Wolf Within (Alex Horan / Mass Art / 9:34 min)
• Sidewalk (Celia Bullwinkel / Brooklyn / 4:16 min)
• Loud Boy (Amy Lee / CalArts / 3:58 min)
• Kalte (Guilt) (Reda Bartkute / Lithuania / 5:22 min)
• Bridge Wish Love (Jonathan Hance / Brooklyn / 2:41 min)
• Passer Passer (Louis Morton / USC / 3:46 min)
• Elk Grass (Abbey Luck / Brooklyn / 2:32 min)
• Swift (H. Kristen Campbell / Emily Carr University / 4:39 min)
• Stoplight (Simon Wilches-Castro / USC / 3:03 min)
• Feral (Daniel Sousa / RISD / 12:46 min)
• Umbrellacorn (Stephen Neary / Blue Sky Studios / 4:14 min)
• I Am Tom Moody (Ainslie Henderson / UK / 6:52 min)
• ABP 2013 Outro (Greg Condon / Brooklyn / 45 seconds)

The screening will be followed by an after party at Matchless, located at 557 Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn, featuring an open bar courtesy of Red Stripe and Tito's Vodka.

SATURDAY full program

JULY 27, 2013

Animation Block Party continues on Saturday, July 27th at BAMcinématek located at the Peter Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11217.

ABP Saturday at BAMcinématek features five different animation programs. A special screening at noon will feature Animation for Kids. The 2pm slot offers a screening of Experimental Films, Motion Graphics, Design Shorts and Music Videos. At 4:30pm, there will be a silent film screening from Tom Stathes’ Cartoons On Film. The 7pm show is the first of two individual International Shorts programs. At 9:30pm, there will be a 35mm screening of Beavis and Butt-head Do America.

12:00pm

Animation for Kids

• Saturday Morning (Angela Devito / SVA / 3:27 min)
• Bubble Boy (Tang Tao / RIT / 2:20 min)
• Box Forts (Anthony Fariello / UCF / 5:44 min)
• Someone Who Gets You (Tony Dusko / Womelsdorf, PA, / 1:08 min)
• Sun Dog (Tegan Thomas / Emily Carr University / 4:40 min)
• Jingle and Bell’s Christmas Star (Chel White / Portland / 23:53 min)
• Rainy Day Ducks (Danielle Heitmuller / UCLA / 2:37 min)
• Icarus Falls (Jesse O'Brien / Syracuse / 2:58 min)
• Slothfulness (John McGowan / UMass Dartmouth / 2:46 min)
• Spacebound (Ellen Su and Kyle Moy / SVA Computer Art / 3 min)

2:00pm

Experimental, Graphic Design/Music Videos

• Dawn of the Rainbow 1939/2011 (Katie Goodwin / UK / 3:30 min)
• Tumbleweed Tango (Sam Stephens and Christopher Mauch / 3:15 min)
• The Heart (Marina Gagarina / Brooklyn / 3:30 min)
• Shelter (Carl Burton / Astoria, NY / 6:05 min)
• Never Be That Tough (Nancy Jean Tucker / 3:20 min)
• Breathing In (Jason A. Harrington / Ithaca, NY / 4:54 min)
• Rietokki (Rami Kim/ UCLA / 3:23 min)
• Pedro dos Porcos/Peter of the Pigs (Michael Ribeiro / Mass Art / 3:45 min)
• Le Festin/The Feast (Daphné Loubot Landreville / Concordia / 2:50 min)
• The Rose of Turaida (Ryan Grobins / Australia / 6:15 min)
• A Tangled Tale (Corrie Francis Parks / Colorado / 5:30 min)
• Separated (Mark Borgions / Belgium / 3:38 min)
• Love Ball (Dana Sink / Harrisburg, PA / 2:28 min)
• Fingers Tail (Luca Schenato and Sinem Vardarli / 4:07 min)
• Cyclone Forever (Faiyaz Jafri / Elmhurst, NY / 3:45 min)
• Ludic Chase (Overture / US & Japan / 6:52 min)
• Tap to Retry (Neta Cohen / Jerusalem / 4:26 min)
• Great Plastic Purge (Alberto Scirocco / 2:02 min)
• Black Light Dinner Party: We Are Golden (Jonathan Seligson / NY / 4:24 min)

showcase  -  4:30pm 

ABP Showcase: Tom Stathes’ Cartoons On Film w/ Q&A

Casey Safron moderates a panel after screening with Howard Beckerman, Greg Ford, David Gerstein and Tom Stathes.

• The Artist's Dream / Bray Studios / John Bray / 5 min / 1913
• Farmer Alfalfa Sees New York / Bray Studios / Paul Terry / 6 min / 1916
• Fireman Save My Child / Bud Fisher / 5 min / 1919
• Felix Comes Back / Otto Messmer / 6 min / 1922
• Col. Heeza Liar, Detective / Bray Studios / 8:30 min / 1923
• Jolly Rounders / Paul Terry / 6:30 min / 1923
• Trip to Mars / Max Fleischer / 7 min / 1924
• Felix the Cat Trips Thru Toyland / Otto Messmer / 6 min / 1925
• Krazy Kat in Scents and Nonsense / Bill Nolan / 7 min / 1926
• *Making ‘Em Move / Van Beuren Studios - Harry Bailey & John Foster / 7 min / 1930
• *rare 35mm print

Felix Courtesy of Don Oriolo & Felix the Cat Creations, Inc – All Rights Reserved FTCP, Inc.

7:00pm

International Shorts, Program I

• AMEN (Moritz Mayerhofer / Berlin, Germany / 4:57 min)
• Chopper (Frederik Palmaers / Netherlands / 2:10 min)
• Oh Willy (Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels / France / 16:42 min)
• Dog Judo Exchange Program (12Foot6 Animation / UK / 1:59 min)
• Outro Homem Qualquer - Any Other Man (Luís Soares / Portugal / 11:20 min)
• Dents de lait / Milk Teeth (Julie Charette / Montreal / 4:19 min)
• Bibo (Anton Chistiakov & Mikhail Dmitriev / St. Petersburg, Russia / 7:25 min)
• Rising Hope (Milen Vitanov / Berlin / 9:37 min)
• Astigmatismo (Nicolai Troshinsky / Madrid / 4:00 min)
• 21 (Yann Ben Alluch / Montreal / 8:27 min)
• Wind & Tree (Konstantin Steshenko / Canada / 6:25 min)

Feature  -  9:30pm

Beavis and Butt-head Do America

35mm presentation of Mike Judge's road trip odyssey, Beavis and Butt-head Do America.

9:30pm - 2:00am

10th Anniversary
Saturday Night Party

All Saturday ABP festival attendees will receive admission to this party upon presentation of movie ticket at entrance to BAM Fisher venue. Party includes carnival and arcade style games from NY Party Works, streaming videos, ping pong,deejay Harry Nutz , Sakura Art drawing station, photo booth, Brooklyn Brewery beer, Brooklyn Gin, food, wine and much more.

sunday full program

JULY 28, 2013

Animation Block Party closes on Sunday, July 29th at BAMcinématek, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11217.

ABP Sunday, July 28th at BAMcinématek features five different animation programs. Secret of NIMH projected on 35mm at noon. Narrative works, studio shorts and local films screen at 2pm. Student films and independent animators showcase at 4:30pm. Jerry Beck Presents 1960’s Oscar Shorts at 7pm. The evening will close with a fresh program of International Shorts at 9:30pm.

feature  -  12:00pm

Secret of NIMH

35mm presentation of Don Bluth’s 1982 adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's children's novel Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

2:00pm

Narrative Works, Studio Shorts, Local Films

• Out To Sea (Jodie Rae Plaut / Brooklyn / 2:59 min)
• Gum (Noam Sussman / Sheridan / 1:15 min)
• Mooon (James Kwan / Brooklyn / 5:42 min)
• Cee Cee’s Bedtime Stories #1 (Twins are Weird / Brooklyn / 2:12 min)
• Kick-heart (Masaaki Yuasa / Japan & NY / 13 min)
• SuperF*ckers - Burger Brothers (Fran Krause / Burbank / 3:46 min)
• Woman Who Hates Plants (Morgan Miller / Brooklyn / 1 min)
• Breadheads (Cody Walzel / Pratt / 5:31 min)
• Air (Stephanie Egan / Mass Art / 1 min)
• Rain Dance (Nate Swinehart / Los Angeles / 6:32 min)
• Off Duty (Courtney Pure / Patchogue, NY / 1 min)
• Hu's Game (Shaun Seong-Young Kim / USC / 7:30 min)
• Bird Doggin (Bram Cayne / Canada / 1:56 min)
• The Gutbomb (Shay Lurie / Brooklyn / 5:29 min)
• Knock Knock (Chadwick Whitehead / Brooklyn / 1:14 min)
• Disney Star Wars Corporate Retreat (Ron Yavnieli & Ethan S. Smith/ Los Angeles / 4:43 min)
• Serial Taxi (Paolo Cogliati / Ringling / 2:16 min)
• Handle With Care (Jun Iwakawa / UK / 4:32 min)
• Red (Corey McDaniel and Ted Wilson / Canada / 1:51 min)
• Crabby Day (Sara Ho / SVA / 3:21 min)

4:30pm

Student Films, Independent Animators

• The Event (Julia Pott / Brooklyn / 3:19 min)
• Backyard Jam (Randall Christopher / San Diego, CA / 5:23 min)
• Lemons (Kate Burck / CCS / 4:08 min)
• You, Me and The Ocean (Cecilia da Rocha / UPENN / 2:49 min)
• And/Or (Emily Hubley / New Jersey / 5:25 min)
• A Life with Asperger's (Jaime Ekkens / NYC / 4:04 min)
• Tule Lake (Michelle Ikemoto / San Jose State / 6:25 min)
• 18 Minutes (Christopher Mennuto / Florida / 2:55 min)
• Borrowed Light (Olivia Huynh / MICA / 4:09 min)
• Olive (Harriet-Lane Ngo / SCAD / 3:04 min)
• Model Starship (Max Hattler / UK / 38 seconds)
• Tooth Tale (Ron Fleischer / Chicago / 6:30 min)
• Commando Chimp (Chris Nyarady / VFS / 1:19 min)
• Fatal Vittles (Devin Bell / DePaul / 3:42 min)
• Runaway (Emily Buchanan, Esther Parobeck and Susan Yung / Ringling / 3:37 min)
• Sumo Roll (Jay Kim / USC / 3:48 min)
• Medical Adventure Power (Josh Weisbrod / USC / 2:47 min)
• Hooba Jooba (Max Swiecki / Sheridan / 1:20 min)
• Parks + Re-creation (Brent Sievers / RISD / 3:30 min)
• Move Mountain (Kirsten Lepore / Cal Arts / 11:12 min)

showcase  -  7:00pm

Jerry Beck Presents: 1960’s Oscar Shorts w/ Q&A

Jerry Beck hosts panel after screening with J.J. Sedelmaier, Michael Sporn and Emily Hubley. All films projected in 35mm. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive and Prints courtesy of the Academy Film Archive unless otherwise noted.

• Munro / Gene Deitch / 8:20 min / 1960
• Ersatz (The Substitute) / Dušan Vukotić / 10 min / 1961
• The Hole / John Hubley and Faith Hubley / 15 min / 1962
• The Critic / Ernest Pintoff / 4 min / 1963 *print courtesy of Sony
• The Pink Phink / Friz Freleng and Hawley Pratt / 6:38 min / 1964
• Dot and the Line / Chuck Jones & Maurice Noble / 10 min / 1965 *collectors print
• Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature / John Hubley / 6 min / 1966
• The Box / Fred Wolf / 9 min / 1967

9:30pm

ABP INTERNATIONAL SHORTS – PROGRAM II

• PICT-O-PICT (Jacob Stalhammar / Sweden / 6:24 min)
• La Grosse Bete (Pierre Luc Granjon / 6:15 min)
• Head Over Heels (Timothy Reckart / National Film & Television School / 10:21 min)
• Hyperquench (Dani Alon and Nikolai Efimov / Toronto / 4:40 min)
• Yellow Sticky Notes / Canadian Anijam (Jeff Chiba Stearns / Canada / 7:44 min)
• Boles (Spela Cadez / Slovenia / 12:17 min)
• Junk (Kirk Hendry / UK / 6:31 min)
• Rootless Heart (Toshiko Hata / Tokyo University of the Arts / 9:52 min)
• The Dukes of Broxstonia (Stu Connolly / Australia / 3 min)
• Beerbug (Ander Mendia / Spain / 7:49 min)
• History of Pets (Kris Genijn / Netherlands / 5:33 min

The closing evening after party will start around 9:30pm at Habana Outpost at 757 Fulton Street, Brooklyn and features free Six Point Ale and delicious Habana corn.

Please bring movie ticket to Matchless/Habana parties for proof of fest attendance or get a wristband from ABP staff members before leaving screening venues. Must have proof of ticket purchase to access free beer on Friday and Sunday night. All moviegoers who purchase tickets to ABP Saturday shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music will have access to the Saturday Night Party at the BAM Fisher.

Must have proof of Saturday ABP movie ticket for entry to BAM Fisher party.

The ABP 2013 jury includes Jerry Beck, Carrie Miller, Devin Clark and Scout Raskin. Award categories are Student Film, Best in Show, Audience Award, Narrative Short, Computer Animation, Minute Movie, Original Design, Music Video, Experimental Animation and Animation for Kids.

Prizes include software from Toon Boom, DigiCel FlipBook, Dragon Stop Motion, art supplies from Sakura, designer bags from Crumpler, T-Shirts and DVDs. ABP jury awards will be announced at www.animationblock.com the day after the festival.

ABP Weekend Events at Brooklyn Industries:

ABP Meet & Greet and T-Shirt Release Party at Brooklyn Industries Williamsburg

Wednesday, July 24th, 6-9pm at 162 Bedford Ave. (Corner of N.8th)
Drinks & Snacks + 20% off t-shirt purchase
Open to the public or RSVP with Flavorpill.

ABP Meet the Animators at Brooklyn Industries Boerum Place

Saturday, July 27 12-2pm at 342 Fulton Street
Coffee & Mimosas + 20% off t-shirt purchase
Animators please RSVP via email to rsvp@animationblock.com or with FlavorPill.

Nickelodeon Animated Shorts (out of competition)

• Tallie Peer Counselor (Created by Laura Sreebny / Directed by Julia Vickerman)
• Pam & Sid’s Port-a-Party (Created by Annie Sertich & Mindy Sterling / Directed by Gary Doodles)
• Carrot & Stick (Created by Derek Iversen and Miles Hindman / Directed by Joel Trussell)