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Animation Program 2008
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Producing Toons and Innovations in Children's Television
Linda Simensky Senior Director Children's Programming, PBS
Little Theatre - Little 3
Tickets are $8.00
Join Linda Simensky for a seminar about animation and what it takes to produce quality children's programming, with clips from some new shows in production.
As Senior Director of Children's Programming for PBS, Simensky collaborates on multiple stages of production for existing and new series. Her credits include Curious George, Super Why, Martha Speaks and Sid the Science Kid for PBS KIDS, and FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman, and WordGirl for PBS KIDS GO!
Simensky is a past-president of ASIFA-East, and the founder of New York chapter of Women in Animation. She has lectured at numerous colleges and animation festivals, and has taught courses in animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has written for numerous animation publications and has had several essays published in books including “Nickelodeon Nation” and “The Children's Television Community.”
Simensky holds a BA in Communications and History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Media Ecology from New York University.
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Prior to joining PBS, Simensky was Senior Vice President of Original Animation for Cartoon Network, where she oversaw the development and series production of The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Courage the Cowardly Dog and other major projects. Simensky began her career with a nine-year tenure at Nickelodeon, where she helped build the animation department and launch such popular series as Rugrats, Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show.
Sita Sings The Blues
Animated Feature, US, 2008, 82 minutes Nina Paley Director/Writer/Producer/Designer/Animator
Wed, April 30, 6:55 PM
Tickets are $12.00
Nina Paley is a longtime veteran of syndicated comic strips, creating "Fluff," The Hots," and her own alternative weekly "Nina's Adventures." In 1998 she began making independent animated films, including the controversial yet popular environmental short The Stork. In 2002 she followed her then-husband to India, read her first Ramayana, and was inspired to make her first feature. She produced it single-handedly over five years on a home computer. She teaches at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan and is a 2006
Guggenheim Fellow.
"SITA" SYNOPSIS
Sita is a Hindu goddess, the leading lady of India's epic poem, The Ramayana and a dutiful wife, who follows her husband into exile, only to be kidnapped by an evil king. She undergoes many tests, but remains faithful to her husband. Nina (the filmmaker Nina Paley herself) is an artist who finds parallels in Sita's life, when her husband - in India on a work project - decides to break up their marriage via email. Three hilarious Indonesian shadow puppets with Indian accents - linking the popularity of the Ramayana from India all the way to the Far East - narrate both the ancient tragedy and the modern comedy and can't resist commenting on the action. Paley, a formidable talent making her first feature length animated film, juxtaposes multiple narrative and visual styles with assurance and originality. Musical numbers are choreographed to the gorgeous 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, making for a multi-cultural stew that's both very entertaining and moving as well.
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