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The New York Chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild is proud to sponsor the Guild’s 2006 New York Animation Festival.

The following films have been selected for the “Wanna See Our Shorts” 2006 New York Animation Festival:

== Grand Prix and Jurists Prizes will be announced at the Festival ==

Jung Ju Na- Transmigration

Luan Ling Chiang- Barking Age

Jude Silva- The Turnaround

Luba Drozd- Synth

William Levin (MacBoy)- Dad VS. AOL

William Levin (MacBoy)- NYMUG

Yana Kraeva- Twinning

Eun-Ha Paek- Queen of the May

PLUS Selections TBA by jurists and judge:

Xeth Feinburg
Rebecca Migdal
Signe Baumane

December 21, 2006, from 7-9 PM
– followed by a wine and cheese reception honoring the filmmakers.

Pratt’s Manhattan Campus, 144 West 14th Street, Room 213

Admission:

Guild Member Students w/ ID $5,
Non-member Students w/ ID $10,
Guild members $15,
Non-members $20

Pratt Students w/ID: free admission

to buy tickets:

http://newyork.gag.org/events/aimation%20Festival.htm

About Festival Judge Signe Baumane

Signe was born in Latvia, lived there till she was 18 then went to Moscow to study Philosophy where she obtained BA in
Philosophy .
In 1989 Signe started to work in Riga’s Animated Film Studio as a cell painter and part time animator.
From 1991 to 1993 she received three grants and produced her first 3 animated films.
In September 1995 Signe left for New York with three of her Latvian films tucked behind the belt, looking for independence.
As soon as she arrived to New York she got the best possible teacher of Animated Independence - Bill Plympton, in whose studio she started to work in January 1996.
Signe worked on his 3 features and countless shorts and learned a lot about how an independent animation studio works. She also learned how to make animated films independently - fast and cheap.
With the lessons learned Signe started producing films on her own and regularly travels to festivals with the films.
Her interest in promoting her own and other independent animators work extended into collaboration with festival programmers. She is a programing adviser for Florida Film Festival, Red Bank International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival. She has initiated and curated numbers of independent animation programs and is in the organizing core of Square Footage Films - New York group of independent animators that self publishes and self distributes DVDs of their work.
She has been invited to be a Judge in Red Shift Film Festival in New York 2004, Florida Film Festival 2004, Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2004 and Ottawa International Animated Film Festival 2004.
Signe Baumane is a 2005 fellow in Film from the New York Foundation for the Arts
as well as a Member of Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Signe Baumane
Filmography

2005 Five Infomercials for Dentists 4 min, New York. The five bizarre infomercials introduce dentists to the essential tools of their trade - latex gloves, anesthesia, crowns and chocolate. Writing, directing, design, animation.
Festivals: ASIFA-East Festival 2005, MUFF - Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2005, Synch Cinema - Animated Out Of Synch 2005, 29th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2005 (Germany), L’Etrange Film Festival 2005, The Nicktoons Film Festival 2005, Milwaukee International Film Festival 2005, Edge Works Short Film Festival 2005, Moviefone Short Film Festival 2005, New York Television Festival 2005, Coney Island Film Festival 2005, Animation Block Party 2005, 31st Festival Internacional de Filmets de Badalona 2005, Monitor’s ‘Tunes In’ at the Brudnel Social Club, 3rd Escapism Action Adventure and Animation Film Festival, 9th International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka-2005 (Bangladesh),2006 San Francisco Independent Film Festival, February 2 - 12, 2006, Tiburon International Film Festival, March 9-17, 2006, Animated Film Festival Bimini (Latvia) 2006, Red Shift Festival 2006, 13th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Nashvile Film Festival 2006, Morbegno Film Festival 2006, Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival] 2006, Moondance International Film Festival 2006, International Short Film Festival Detmold(Germany), Independent Exposure (MIcrocinema) 2006, El Segundo Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes “La Noche de los Cortos” (18-19 Sept, Lima, Peru), GIRAF (Giant Incandescent Resonating Animation festival)(Calgari)

Awards: Second Place in the category of promotional and commercial films at 36th ASIFA -East Festival (2005), Second Prize Indpendent Exposure 2006

2005 Dentist 10 min, New York. An enthusiastic dentist, a reluctant patient and a strange picture on the wall… Writing, directing, design, animation
Festivals: Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2005 (in Children’s film program), Florida Film Festival 2005, Nashville Film Festival 2005, Animated Film Festival Bimini (Latvia) 2005, 10. Internationales Filmfestival Dortmund (Germany) 2005, Red Shift Film Festival 2005, Garden State Film Festival 2005, 4th Tehran International Animation Festival 2005 (Iran), Philadelphia Film Festival, Cucalorus Film Festival 2005, III Córdoba Animation Celebration - ANIMA´05 (Argentina), Trenton Film Festival 2005, Tribeca Underground Film Festival 2005, Brooklyn Arts Council 39th International Film and Video Festival, The International Festival of Animated Films AniFest 2005 (Czech Republic), Newport International Film Festival 2005, Brooklyn International Film Festival 2005, Alternative Screen : Independent Film Showcase of American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, April 28th, 2005, Anima Mundi 2005, Hi Mom! Film Festival 2005, Atlanta Film Festival 2005, Stony Brook Film Festival 2005, MUFF - Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2005 (it also made Best of MUFF program), Rooftop Films 2005, Shorts at Moonlight 2005 (Germany), 29th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt 2005 (Germany), Short Film and Video of the Month Club June 2005, Wreck-Beach International Film Festival 2005, Tel Aviv Festival for Comics and Animation 2005, West Chester Film Festival 2005, Big Island Film Festival (Shorts and Ports) 2005, Milano Film Festival (Non Stop Animation Night) 2005, Woodstock Film Festival 2005, Edge Works Short Film Festival 2005, Moviefone Short Film Festival 2005, 4th Annual Portland International Short Short Film Fest (PISS) 2005, L’Alternativa 2005 12th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, 10th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience Chemnitz “Schlingel” /Rascal 2005 (Germany), Animadrid 2005, 2nd No Words - 37th Opere Nuove Film Festival, FREAX Trash-Cash (Germany), 31st Festival Internacional de Filmets de Badalona 2005, 3rd Escapism Action Adventure and Animation Film Festival, ALTER-NATIVE 13th International Short Film Festival 2005, Blue November MicroFilmFest, Film Columbia 2005, Animated Dreams -Black Nights Film Festival 2005 (Estonia), FIKE 2005 Evora International Short Film Festival, 9th International Short & Independent Film Festival Dhaka-2005 (Bangladesh), DaKINO International Film Festival - the 15th Edition (Romania), Emerging Filmmakers Series (Rochester, New York), 6th International Izmir Short Film Festiva (Turkey), Abundant Soul Festival 2005 (Australia), 2006 San Francisco Independent Film Festival February 2 - 12, 2006,
2006 Dam Short Film Festival, 4th ‘Ofensiva’ International Film Festival March 24th, 2006, Third Vilnius Independent Film and Video Art Festival -”Next Festival 2006″, 2nd Basauri International Animation Film festival 2006(competition)(Spain), World Festival of Animated Films Zagreb (films for children competition) 2006, Swiss Strange & Fantastic Film Festival (April 13th), 3rd edition of IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival (April 20th - 30th, 2006), 9th Flying Broom Women’s Film Festival, Turkey ,2006 , 5th Tribeca Film Festival (special program), Big Island Film Festival 2006 (competition), Final Cut 2006, UK, 2006 Harry M. Warner Festival of Short Film and Video, New York Short Film festival (competion) 2006, Moondance International Film Festival 2006 (June 9-11), Dervio Film Festival 2006, Official Selection ‘Movies at the Muster’ Heart Of Gold International Film Festival 2006, Festival Internazionale cinema d’animazione e fumetto (July 18th) Italy 2006,
1st edition of the ESTENEST – International Animation Film Festival (Bucharest,September 22-October 1st 2006), Somehwat North of Boston Film Festival 2006, El Segundo Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes “La Noche de los Cortos” (Competition, 18-19 Sept, Lima, Peru), Coney Island Film Festival 2006, 2006 Heeb Film Festival in Houston (November 11-12), Williamstown Film Festival (Oct 21,2006), International Festival of Animated Films TINDIRINDIS 2006(Competiton), Jigsaw Soul/Bound to Collide Film Festival(NY Nov4-11, 2006)

Awards: Best Animation (Audience Award) at Red Shift Film Festival 2005 (New York), Third Best Animation award of Tribeca Underground Film Festival 2005, Best Short Animation Award at Wreck Beach International Film Festival, Best Picture - Short Film and Best Auteur at Blue November Micro Film Festival 2005, Audience Award at L’Alternativa 2005 12th Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Honorable Mention at Hi Mom! Film Festival 2005, Monthly Prize Winner (for August) at The Moviefone Short Film Festival 2005, Honorable Mention at 25th Black Maria Festival 2006, Finalist for the Pawky.com Little Contest, Best Film From Baltics at Third Vilnius Independent Film and Video Art Festival -”Next Festival 2006″

2002 Woman 10 min, Rija Animated film studio, Latvia. A personal myth of creation of a woman and her two ways to encounter a man. Script, directing, design.
Festivals: Arsenals - Riga 16th International Film Forum, Florida Film Festival 2003, Tehran International Animation Festival 2003, Taos Talking Picture Festival 2003, 21st International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino!(Poznan) 2003, First Latvian Animation Festival “Bimini”, Brooklyn International Film Festival 2003, ASIFA East Festival, Newport International Film Festival 2003, Anima Mundi 2003 -International Animation Festival of Brazil, 27th Open Air Film Fest Weiterstadt, Woodstock Film Festival 2003, Red Bank International Festival 2003, Portland Independent Animation Festival 2003, International Animated Film Festival KROK 2003, Boston Underground Film Festival 2003, Cine Eco 2003 -Environmental International Film and Video Festival (Portugal), ALTER-NATIVE 11. International Short Film Festival (Romania) 2003, The Hamptons International Film Festival 2003, Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia) 2003, Siena 8th International Short Film Festival (Italy) 2003, Tindirindi 2003 - International Animated Film Festival (Lithuania), FIKE 2003 - Evora International Short Film Festival (Portugal), ALTER-NATIVE 11. International Short Film Festival (Romania) 2003, New York Exposition of Short Film and Video 2003, FIPA - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuelles (France) 2004, Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival 2004 (Canada), Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival 2004, 6th San Francisco Independent Film Festival 2004, Garden State Film Festival 2004, Chlotrudis Awards Short Film Festival 2004, Philadelphia Film Festival 2004, 23rd Black Maria Film&Video Festival (Citation Selection) 2004, Eastern European Session of The London International Animation Festival August 23rd to the 28th 2005 at The Curzon Cinema in Soho, London, UK, Eastern European Session at Melbourne International Animation Festival June 2005 (Australia), Salt of Water 2006 (Russia), SouthSide Film Festival 2006, Chily Film Festival (UK) 2006
Awards: First Place at ASIFA East Festival, Kristaps Award (Latvian equivalent of Oscars) for Best Design in Animated Films Category, Silver at New York Exposition of Short Film and Video, First Place Award for Best Cell Animation at 2nd Annual Garden State Film Festival

2002 Five F*cking Fables 7 min, New York City. 5 separate, slightly immoral stories. Writing, directing, design, animation.
Festivals: Florida Film Festival 2002, Annecy 2002, Anima Mundi 2002 - International Animation Festival of Brazil, SinCine-NY Erotic Film Festival 2002, Woodstock Film Festival 2002 , Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival 2003, Cucalorus Film Festival 2003, Las Vegas Erotic Festival 2003, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2003, “Another Connection” International Film Festival (Mediawave 2003) in Hungary, International Competition of 15. Filmfest Dresden 2003, Garden State film Festival 2003, XXI International Film Festival of Uruguay 2003, Dead Center Film Festival (Oklahoma) 2003, Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival 2003, 27th Open Air Film Fest Weiterstadt 2003, Tel Aviv Festival for Comics and Animation 2003, Bearded Child Film Festival 2003, Caroline’s Comedy Club, Giggles-Shorts - Toronto International Comedy Short Film Festival 2003, Boston Underground Film Festival 2003, Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2003, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2003, 12.Short Film Festival in Augsburg 2003, International Schwenninger Short Film Festival 2003, Shorts-Welcome Online Film Festival (Germany) 2003, Animadrid 2003, Sex On Screen Festival (Volume 3) 2004, Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival 2004, 12th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film 2004, Philadelphia Film Festival 2004, Selected for the program Best of International Animation 2003/2004, 6th Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation, L’Etrange Festival Short Film Competition 2004, Long Island Film Festival 2004, The First Sundays Film Festival - The Very Best of Short Comedy Films 2004, Coney Island Film Festival 2004, 2nd Urban Literature Film Festival 2004, I Castelli Animati 2004 (Italy), The Black Nights Film Festival 2004 (Estonia), Lower West Side Film Festival 2005, CineKink NYC 2005, Taiwan International Animation Festival 2006, FIAERio2006 - International Festival of Erotic Animation(Brazil)
Awards: Special Jury Award at Woodstock Film Festival, Honorable Mention at Boston Underground Film Festival, Jury Award at The First Sundays Film Festival - The Very Best of Short Comedy Films 2004, Best Animation Award at Coney Island Film Festival 2004

2001 Natasha 10 minutes, New York City. Conceived and rendered with a partner Josh Rechnitz. A story about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a vacuum cleaner.
Festivals: Florida Film Festival 2001, Intl. Animated Film Festival KROK 2001, New York Animation Festival 2001, Dokfestival Leipzig 2001, Intl. Independent Brussels Film Festival 2001, San Francisco Independent Film Festival 2002, Goteborg Film Festival 2002, Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival 2002, Oporto International Film Festival/Fantasporto 2002, Fayetteville Film Festival 2002, Chlotrudis Awards Short Film Festival 2002, Taos Talking Picture Festival 2002, XX International Film Festival of Uruguay 2002, Nashville Independent Film Festival 2002, Brooklyn International Film Festival 2002, World Festival of Animated Films - Zagreb 2002, Red Bank International Film Festival 2002, SinCine-NY Erotic Film Festival 2002, Marco Island Film Festival 2002, Cucalorus Film Festival 2003, Rencontres Audiovisuelles 2003, AniFest 2003 Trebon, SwissAm Film Festival 2003, Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival 2003, Garden State Film Festival 2003, Rooftop Films (NY) 2003, 27th Open Air Film Fest Weiterstadt 2003, Tel Aviv Festival for Comics and Animation 2003, Bearded Child Film Festival 2003, Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival 2003, International Schwenninger Short Film Festival 2003 ALTER-NATIVE 11. International Short Film Festival (Romania) 2003, 2nd Urban Literature Film Festival 2004, Moviefone Short Film Festival 2005, Wreck-Beach International Film Festival 2006
Awards : Second Place at Caroline’s Comedy Club Funny Shorts Festival

1999 The Threatened One 4 minutes, New York City. An animated, visual interpretation of the poem by Jorge Luis Borges. Direction, design, animation.
Festivals: California Sun Animated Film Festival 2000, Florida Film Festival 2000, Long Island Film Festival 2000, Bambershoot - One Reel Film Festival 2000, Arsenals International Film Festival 2000, New York Expo 2000, 2nd ZEBRA Poetry Film Award 2004, Portland Independent Animation Festival 2004
Awards: Silver at Worldfest - Houston Film Festival 2000, Robbie Burns Award at Cin(e) Poetry Festival 2000, Jury Award at 34th New York Exposition of Short Film and Video 2000

1998 Love Story 3 minutes, New York City. Script, design, and animation. A story about the separation of love and sex.
Festivals: 22nd Goteborg Film Festival, Sweden,1999, Oslo Animation Festival, Norway, 1999, Fantasporto International Film Festival, Portugal,1999, ASIFA-East 1999 Animation Festival, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival 1999, Wine Country Film Festival 1999, Fantoche, Switzerland, 1999, Openair Film Festival Weiterstadt, Germany 1999, Bambershoot - One Reel Film Festival 1999, KROK - 99 International Film Festival, Ukraine,1999, Festival Cortometraje de Santiago, Chile,1999, Festival International du Film Independent Brussels,1999, Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia,1999, International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao,1999, Minneapolis International Film Festival 1999, Florida Film Festival 1999, International Leipzig Film Festival, Germany,1999, Arsenals International Film Festival, Latvia, 2000, Argos Project - the Swiss Tour Underground Film Festival, Switzerland, 2000, Tel Aviv Festival for Comics and Animation 2003, FIAERio2006 - International Festival of Erotic Animation(Brazil)

Awards: First award in category of animated films at Montevideo International Film Festival, Uruguay,1999, Best animated short at 99’ Long Island Film Festival, Bronze Award at Worldfest -Houston International Film Festival , 1999

1995 The Gold of the Tigers 21 minutes, Dauka Animation Studio, Riga, Latvia. Script, design , and direction. A Borges-like tale about tigers that switch the customary places of dream and reality.
Festivals: Nordic Light Film Festival, Lithuania, 1995, Burgsvik Film Festival, Sweden, 1995

1993 Tiny Shoes 10 minutes, Dauka Animation Studio, Riga, Latvia. Script, design, and direction. A modern Freudian fairy tale about a girl, her father, a prince , and a dragon.
Festivals: Arsenals International Film Festival, Latvia, 1994, Nordic Light Film Festival, Finland,1994, Turku International Women’s Film Festival, Finland,1994, Zagreb International Animated Film Festival , Croatia, 1994, Vilnius International Women’s Film Festival, Lithuania ,1994, Ottawa International Animated Film Festival, Canada, 1994, KROK International Animated Film Festival, Ukraine , 1993.
Awards: Grand Prix recipient at Minsk International Women’s Film Festival, Belorussia, 1995

1991 The Witch and the Cow 2 minutes, Dauka Animation Studio, Riga, Latvia. Script, design , and direction. A tiny witch tries to milk an immense cow. Things get out of her control.
Festivals: KROK International Animated Film Festival, Ukraine,1993, Arsenals International Film Festival, Latvia, 1992, Bratislava International Film Festival, Slovakia, 1991.

Exhibitions:

1995 Meeting of Images , Visby, Sweden
2004Toon Town : Comic and Cartoon Art in New York City, New York, USA
2005 47th Annual Exhibition of Society of Illustrators, New York, USA

Retrospectives:

2003 International Animated Film Festival “Bimini”, Riga, Latvia
2003 Two Boots Pioneer Theater, New York, USA
2005 Rencontres Audiovisuelles, Lille, France
2005 4. Festival Internacional de Quadrinhos, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2006 Jacob Burns Center, New York, USA
2006 Anima Basauri - 2nd Basauri International Animation Film Festival, Spain

Fellowships:

2005 Fellow in Film from the New York Foundation for the Arts
2005 Member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences