Very happy to hear this news today, thank you RiverRun! 

2013! The new year brings more screenings of SECOND HAND in new corners of the world. Tehran! Australia! Slovenia! USA!

I’m very late with some of these festival updates, but here are the details. Click the festival links for more info.

Animateka, Slovenia                                 Dec. 3-16, 2012

FlickerFest, Sydney, Australia                   Jan. 11-20, 2013

Animex, Middlesbrough, UK                      Feb. 2013

Durango Film Festival, Colorado, USA     Feb. 27-Mar. 3, 2013

Byron Bay Int’l Film Festival, Australia     Mar. 1-10,2013

Tehran Animation Festival, Iran               Mar. 3-7, 2013

Cinema l’Univers, Lille, France                 Mar. 27, 2013

Citrus Cel Animation Fest, Florida, USA  Apr. 4-6, 2013

RiverRun Int’l Film Festival, NC, USA      April 12-21, 2013

SECOND HAND screens on almost every continent* in November!

(*sorry Africa, Oceania and Antarctica.) 

I attended my local screening at The Regent Park Film Festival in Toronto. Thanks kids for all your great questions like “what was your inspiration? And how old are you?”

Nov 7-11 KLIK, Amsterdam

Nov 7-10 Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto

Nov 7 PISAF, Seoul

Nov 1-8 CurtaCinema, Rio di Janeiro

Nov 10-11 Nerima City Animation Carnival, Tokyo

Nov 16-25 Filmets Badalona, Barcelona

Nov 28 Animax Skopjefest, Skopje, Macedonia

SECOND HAND Wins Best Short Film at the VIEW Conference, in Turin, Italy!

Grazie mille! The View Conference’s slogan is “the creative power of technology”. It was creative technology that allowed me to hybridize two more traditional animated mediums, so thank you very much. I am honoured.

It’s been exciting times since I completed SECOND HAND over a year ago!

The film has screened at over 60 festivals worldwide (some of which I attended) and won the following awards:

• Winner - Audience Award, Annecy Animation Festival, France
• Winner - Best Children’s Film, Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia
• Winner - Best short film, CromaFest, Mexico City
• Winner - Best short film, Cinanima Animation Festival, Portugal
• Winner - Best Ultra Short Film, Reel Earth Film Festival, New Zealand
• Winner - Best Educational Short Film, Anirmau, Spain
• Winner - Children’s Award, EarthVision, Japan
• Winner - Best short film, Earth Port Film Festival, USA
• Honorable Mention, Ottawa Animation Festival, Canada
• Honorable mention, EcoFocus Film Festival, Georgia, USA

Thank you festivals! And thank you everyone I’ve met who have expressed support for the film.

Soon it will be broadcast in Europe and because of licensing rights, I’m not supposed to have it viewable online in that region. I still want it viewable online, but because I can’t geoblock the video, I’ve password-protected it on Vimeo. So if you’re outside Europe, here is the link: http://vimeo.com/21511013

and the password is: sh

Enjoy!

http://animationfest-bg.eu/en/competition/category/ecofilms

http://www.festanca.sk/2012/en/detska-sekcia

THIS REQUIRES ALL CAPS! Thank you so much, audience of Annecy, for this great award. I’m speechless, although I delivered a wobbly one on Saturday at the awards ceremony.

I watched so many interesting films, met so many great people, and then was overwhelmed with this award! A very proud moment for me. Merci Beaucoup. 

Details and other well deserved award-winners: http://www.annecy.org/edition-2012/festival/palmares#cm

What an honour to receive the prize for Best Children’s Film at Animafest last week, as chosen by a jury of youth aged 8-18 years.

I particularly liked their comment about SECOND HAND: “It is a very up-to-date story, for children as well as for adults, offering a lot of answers, but posing even more questions. The excellent and instructive story is accompanied by equally demanding and impressive animation“.

Thank you! Click link above for the other great films that won awards.

The biggest, most picturesque, most croissant-filled animation festival on this planet has chosen SECOND HAND to compete in the Short Film Competition! Very Exciting!

http://www.annecy.org/edition-2012/festival/selection-officielle/fiche-film:f20120830

Comme on dit en francais:

En anglais, le terme “second hand” - ou “seconde main” - désigne la trotteuse d’une montre ainsi que les articles d’occasion. Préféreriez-vous épargner du temps ou des objets ?

I’ll be attending with a beret and baguette. See you all there!

On May 5th, SECOND HAND was shown to thousands of visitors to the Walker Art Center’s Free First Saturday Program. Click link above for info.

SECOND HAND will be screened in competition in the Children’s Program at the legendary ANIMAFEST in Zagreb, Croatia in late May. 

Check it out:

http://www.animafest.hr/en/program/films_for_children_competition_2/films_for_children_competition_14

SECOND HAND wins big at Reel Earth and Earth Port Film Festivals!

The film took home the top award at both festivals, one in New Zealand and the other in New England. Finally our hemispheres have agreed on something!

The TIFF Bell Lightbox was overrun by Kids for the TIFFKids Film Festival last week. I was happy to join them, screening SECOND HAND, attending industry panels and meeting youthful film and TV people! 

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffkids/2012/3700001899

In other news, the film won “Best Educational Film” at Anirmau Animation Festival in Spain! Thank you, Anirmau. 

http://www.anirmau.com/

Second Hand is all over the place in March! If you are in any of these places, watch it at these festivals.

San Francisco Green Film Festival, USA - March 1-7, 2012

Animac, Catalunya, Spain - March 1-4, 2012

Cortoons, Rome, Italy - March 14-18, 2012

EarthVision, Tokyo, Japan - March 16-18, 2012

Cine-Court Anime, Roanne, France - March 20-25, 2012

EcoFocus, Athens GA, USA - March 23, 2012

Project Native Film Festival, Great Barrington, MA, USA - March 25, 2012

Skepto, Calgliari, Italy - March 28-31, 2012

Perth City Screen, Perth, Australia - March 29th, 2012