PLASTIC PAPER: Winnipeg's Animation Festival

OCT 29 - NOV 1, 2008    

In honour of World Animation Day, Cinematheque and the National Film Board of Canada present PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG'S ANIMATION FESTIVAL, featuring the GET ANIMATED! program of new NFB work. Come and discover animation in all its forms with regional premieres of new independent animated features, a showcase of classic NFB vignettes, local animators, international shorts and even something for the kids.

 

WED OCT 29	THURS OCT 30	FRI OCT 31	SAT NOV 1	SUN NOV 2
			10 AM to 1 PM: The Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Cereal Party	.
			4:30 PM: NFB Kids Program (free admission!)	4 PM: Fantastic Planet (with original score)
7 PM: Sita Sings the Blues	7 PM: Nostalgia / Broken Images: Contemporary Quebec Animation	7 PM: NFB Vignettes	7 PM: New Shorts from the NFB (free admission!)	.
9 PM: I Dream the Taste of Sky and Other Winnipeg Animation	9 PM: Fantastic Planet, with live score by Les Jupes	9 PM: From Inside	9 PM: Idiots and Angels, with the short film Hot Dog	.

• SPECIAL PROGRAMS
  • Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue on Canadian Cinema (ongoing)
  • Cabin Fever: Free Films for Kids (Sundays, Jan 10 to Feb 28, 2010)
  • In the Shadow of the Company: Films of the Hudson's Bay Company (Feb 5 to 7, 2010)
  • Special Programs Archives
    • Plastic Paper: Winnipeg's Animation Festival (Oct 29 - Nov 1, 2008)
    • Gimme Some Truth: The Winnipeg Documentary Project (Nov 6-9, 2008)
    • Open Vault: Independent Film Week (Nov 27 - 30, 2008)
    • Cabin Fever: Free Films for Kids! (Sundays at 2 PM - Jan 11 to Mar 1)
    • Annual Fundraising Gala, featuring Richard Condie (Sat Apr 18)
    • Gimme Some Truth (October 22 to 25, 2009)
    • Get Animated! (October 27 to 31, 2009)
    • Shane Belcourt: Aboriginal Artist in Residence (Jan 12 to 22, 2010)