Events and Screenings
FREE FAMILY-FRIENDLY ANIMATION SCREENINGS
Our screening program at 12 PM is FREE for all to attend, and features the following family-friendly films (total approximate running time: 25 minutes)
Wiggles and Giggles
Directed by Sarah Guindon
A playful group are dancing when they become aware of being watched by a huge, menacing head. When the head interrupts their good time they take action in an unexpected way, forcing the giant head to undergo an altered state of mind.
Lost Monster Hop
Directed by Jody Kramer
At a signpost by the railway tracks, a tidy little banjo-picking monster is trying to find her way. She sets out on a journey and finds what she is looking for...in a rather surprising way.
Sleeping Betty
Directed by Claude Cloutier
Princess Betty sleeps in a narcoleptic stupor. The king appeals to his subjects to wake her, and several respond: Uncle Henry VIII, Aunt Victoria, an emotional alien, a cool witch and a handsome prince. This worthy Prince Charles lookalike has to leave his royal suburb to save the princess, but will Betty be wakened with just a kiss?
Drawn in India ink, this animation sets the Perrault classic in Claude Cloutier’s disjointed, anachronistic and playful universe.
The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg
Directed by Paul Driessen
A playful and poignant animated short about a boy with an over-active imagination, The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg presents two worlds -reality and fantasy. Paul Driessen's multi-layered split-screen approach revels in the shifting boundaries between these two realms. In this cautionary tale, the young protagonist, bored with his lot, imagines a diabolic and dangerous life of adventure. But when our would-be hero, accustomed to eluding mobsters and monsters in his daydreams, finally finds himself facing a real-life drama, he can't believe his eyes. It's even harder for him to convince anyone else of what he's seen - an iceberg! Suddenly, the mundane life that he always wanted to escape, is what he wishes to recapture. Film without words.
A Monster's Calling
Directed by Louise Johnson
A Monster's Calling is a humorous animated film about the nature of personal anxieties, and body image. An "under-the-bed" monster wanders through a slumbering household, wreaking typical monster havoc. First a little girl, then an older brother, and finally the teenaged big sister. It's surprising, to both the monster and to us, what frightens each of them. A film without words.
- August 8 2009
- 12:00 PM