Support the PA and attend a great teen film festival!

Tickets will be on sale this Wednesday, starting at 7:15 AM!!
 

PARENTS: SEND YOUR CHILD WITH A CHECK OR CASH.

Join CSS students and parents in a special fundraiser for the CSS - Parent Association

Saturday March 13th @ 2 pm Symphony Space - 95th St 2537 Broadway

Tickets - $12 - 10 short films!

Flicker Lounge: For Teens & Adults Only...

Recommended Ages: 12 to Adult

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: FLICKER LOUNGE - A selection of the best short film and animation from around the world, for ages 12 to adult. All audience members receive voting ballots to select the NYICFF 2010 winning films! Program includes:

Time of Eve
Japan - US PREMIERE
Animated, Yasuhiro Yoshiura, 2008, 15 min
In this impeccably drawn, pitch perfect anime, high school students Rikuo and Masaki discover the Time of Eve, a mysterious café where humans and androids are treated as equals – in direct conflict with social mores, as well as the dictates of the powerful Robot Ethics Committee.

The Little Dragon
France - NY PREMIERE
Animated, Bruno Collet, 2009, 8 min
In this kung-fu spoof, an old Bruce Lee action figure comes to life and kicks some ass, despite a deteriorating rubber body. Epic battles include a long awaited rematch with cardboard Chuck Norris. Haay-yah!

Hitchhikers Choice
Sweden/UK– NY PREMIERE
Animated, Kristofer Strom, 2008, 3 min
This tour-de-force in DIY white board animation is a music video for Swedish progressive house techno-minimalists Minilogue.

Screen Test
Germany - US PREMIERE
Animated, Steffen Schaeffler, 2009, 3.5 min
A passionate amateur auditions for the leading part in a costume drama.

My 13
France - US PREMIERE
Live Action, Rudi Rosenberg, 2007, 10 min
She loves me, she loves me not… Thirteen year-old Jonathan has a bad crush on the cutest girl in school and needs to know if she feels the same. When he sneaks into her room and steals her diary, he gets quite a bit more information than he bargained for. Rambunctious treat of a movie is fueled by a great retro 80’s soundtrack, naturalistic performances, and a neat twist of plot guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

The Lost Tribes of New York City
USA
Stop Motion, Carolyn London, Andy London, 2009, 3 min
Humorously revealing “animadoc” recalls Aardman’s Creature Comforts, as the voices of anonymous New Yorkers are brought to life with stop-motion animated pay phones, fire hydrants, suitcases, and other familiar objects.

Madagascar,A Journey Diary
France - EAST COAST PREMIERE
Animated, Bastien Dubois, 2009, 11 min
This visual travel diary uses gorgeous rotoscope animation to capture the luxuriant landscapes of Madagascar, as a Western traveler explores and observes the people, culture and customs of this foreign land.

Photograph of Jesus
UK
Documentary/Photo Montage, Laurie Hill, 2008, 7 min
A wryly hilarious photo montage, documentary-fantasy based on odd, actual requests to the Getty photo archives, such as: Can you provide a photograph of… Jesus, Jack the Ripper, a live dodo in the wild, Adolf Hitler at the 1948 Olympic Games, the Loch Ness Monster.

Star Games
UK
Experimental, Jasmin Jodry, 2008, 3 min
Tron-looking, techno-fantastic, Esther Williams, retro sci-fi rave, with fluorescent planets and zeppelin spaceships beaming up bathing-beauties in a ray of ecstasy.

The Employment
Argentina - NY PREMIERE
Animated, Santiago Bou Grasso, 2008, 6.5 min
In this highly amusing bit of social commentary, a man begins a normal workday, immersed in a world where the use of people as objects is part of everyday life.