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5th Annual CINEviews Film Festival

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Picture My World

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Video of the Day Opening Night workshops directors tickets

The 5th Annual CINEviews Film Festival will feature animation.   Tuck Tucker, the supervising storyboard director of SpongeBob SquarePants is the 2009 CINEviews Film Festival Guest of Honor.  Mr. Tucker has worked on many different animated television shows and films, including The Simpsons, Jimmy Neutron, The Family Guy, and the Little Mermaid

The weekend will include an opening night gala, workshops on animation by Tuck Tucker, a video dance party and of course, GREAT FILMS!   

CINEviews special events Workshops and Student Opportunities


CINEviews Opening Night 2007
OPENING NIGHT GALA
CINEviews 2009 will celebrate our 5th year of bringing great movies to downtown Lynchburg.  Past celebrity guests have included Mike White, Connie Britton, Dylan Baker, and Paul Fitzgerald  Read more 


Tuck Tucker in his studio at Nickelodeon
Workshops on Animation
Tuck will lead two workshops on animation and drawing for animation.  The drawing workshop is more for younger people.  Click here for details.
 

Video Dance Party
You are invited to animate yourself on the dance floor.  9:45pm in G3 (one floor below the CT Gallery) 21+ only please.  $5 or free to gala attendees. 
Student Animations - The CINEviews Film Festival has asked students to show their pre-screened original animated clips.  

Student Animations will be screened at Saturday, November 21 at 2:30.

Animations can be submitted by Nov. 15.  Not more than 3 minutes long.  Must be submitted on DVD or email for info.

VIDEO OF THE DAY Festival Countdown $20 All You Can See Weekend Film Pass
Each day we post a new video pick of the day demonstrating different animation styles and sensibilities.  Get them delivered to your inbox, or check daily on Facebook - click here for details
Okay, watching six movies in less than 24 hours in your HOME makes you a couch potato but watching them at a FILM FESTIVAL makes you an aficionado!   Buy on line or at the door.  First come, first serve.
CINEviews Featured Films- Saturday CINEviews Featured Films - Sunday

The Secret of Kells

Sat, Nov 21, 2:30pm

Tomm Moore, 75min
The film blends fantasy and mythology to create a richly detailed and striking visual landscape, folding traditionally Celtic influences into a riot of color and detail that dazzle the eyes. The Secret of Kells has been hailed by international critics as one of the most beautiful films of the year and has just won the audience award at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival. $5  
- Trailer


IDIOTS AND ANGELS
Sat., Nov. 21, 4pm
Bill Plympton, 78 min.

Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out at his local bar, berating the other patrons.  One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back.  The wings make him do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries to rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune.  Featuring the music of Tom Waits, Moby and Pink Martini. Recommended for ages 17 to adult.  $5 
 Trailer

Battle for Terra

Sat, Nov 21, 4pm 
Aristomenis Tsirbas, 85min
Senn (Justin Long) and Mala (Evan Rachel Wood), two rebellious alien teens live on the beautiful planet Terra, a place that promotes peace and tolerance, having long ago rejected war. But when Terra is invaded by human beings fleeing a civil war and environmental catastrophe, the planet is plunged into chaos. During the upheaval, Mala befriends an injured human pilot (Luke Wilson) and each learns the two races are not so different from one another. Together they must face the terrifying realization that in a world of limited resources, only one of the races is likely to survive  $5   See Trailer


Mary and Max - 
Sat. Nov. 21, 7pm  East Coast Debut
Adam Elliot, 80 min.

Mary and Max is unique. A claymation animation tells the simple story of a 20-year pen-pal friendship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby, lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horowitz, a 44-year-old Jewish man, who is severely obese, suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, and lives an isolated life in New York City.

The originality of the voices in this ever-spinning kaleidoscope of innocence and idiosyncrasy comes straight from an incredibly rich imagination and complete artistic vision.  CAST Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana.  Recomm. for ages 17 to adult. $5   Trailer


IDIOTS AND ANGELS
Sun., Nov. 22, 2pm
Bill Plympton, 78 min.
see Sat. for description.
 
Battle for Terra
Sun, Nov 22, 2pm 
Aristomenis Tsirbas, 85min
 see Sat. for description


The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 
Sun, Nov. 22, 4pm 
Director: Mamoru Hosoda

Tokyo teenager Mokoto Konno prefers to play baseball with the boys than gossip with the other girls. Stuck in a midpoint between child and adult and with graduation approaching, she's not too sure of what she'd like to do with the rest of her life—that is, until a mysterious accident in the science lab gives Mokoto the ability to leap (literally) back in time. Once she recognizes the life-changing potential of her newfound power, Mokoto's life becomes increasingly chaotic.. 

More than just a visually stunning anime adventure, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a metaphorical tale of teenage angst: Mokoto's manic time-leaping reflects her deeper fear of growing up—a denial of creeping adulthood, of uncomfortable romantic feelings, uncertainty about her future, and a growing nostalgia for her simple high school life circumscribed by the baseball diamond and her two best friends.   Ages 10 and older.  $5  Trailer


The Secret of Kells
Sun, Nov 22, 4:00pm

Tomm Moore, 75min
 see Sat. for description.

Sun, Nov. 22, 7pm 
SITA SINGS THE BLUES 
Nina Paley, USA, 82 minutes

Tragedy, comedy and musical collide in this gloriously animated film from Nina Paley. Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three bickering shadow puppets with Indian accents act as comic narrators as these old and new stories are interwoven in a post-modern retelling of the ancient Indian epic, Ramayana, animated in a dazzling mix of traditional and collage animation style, and backed by a soundtrack from legendary 1920's jazz singer Annette Hanshaw.  $5  Recommended for ages 9 to adult.  Trailer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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