Sometimes a memento only reminds you how little you know someone. Such a thing happened to me when I came to possess my Grandpa Herman’s high school autograph book from 1924. Get more info here.
Two hamsters. One cage. She is sleepy. He is concerned. When she does not wake up, and is laid to rest in rubbish, he is left alone. Refusing to give up on her he finds a way to follow her. After a brief moment of desperation in a desolate place he finds her alive and well. They rekindle their romance and set off in search of adventure in their brave new world.
Featuring the voice of the late voice actor Mel Blanc as both Tweety Bird and Sylvester the Cat, “I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat” has taken Blanc’s voice work from the 1940s children’s record of the same name and separated it out and animated this new 3D short around it. The short will play in theaters in front of Happy Feet Two. Get more on the film here.
I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors is director Ann Marie Fleming’s animated adaptation of Bernice Eisenstein’s acclaimed illustrated memoir. Using the healing power of humour, the film probes the taboos around a very particular second-hand trauma, leading us to a more universal understanding of human experience.
Starting with Ingrid Pitt’s poignant narration and Bill Plympton’s 23 traditional pencil sketches as storyboard, award-winning artist and film critic Perry Chen brings this moving story and its contemporary implications alive. Chen illustrates the miraculous escape of Jewish girl Ingrid Pitt from a concentration camp at age eight during World War II. Like Anne Frank, young Ingrid dreamed of being a movie star. Pitt survived, and fulfilled that dream. She appeared opposite Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare and had a movie career spanning over forty years. She passed away in the UK in November 2010.
Based on a myth from Southern India, this film is a poignant narrative of the relationship between Nirmala and her grandfather who struggles to recall the details of her favourite story. Nirmala confidently takes up her grandfather’s role of storyteller in the hope that by telling the story correctly she can get rid of the demons that riddle her grandfather’s version.
