International animation festival is this weekend





Some of the best animation from around the world will be shown in the Los Angeles area from April 4 to 6 as part of the fifth annual California SUN International Animation Festival, hosted by students, faculty and alumni from Cal State Northridge.


The three-night festival will screen a chosen set of about 100 animation shorts: at CSUN on Thurs., April 4; at Santa Monica College on Fri., April 5; and at Ventura College on Sat., April 6. Winners will be announced and screened at an invitation-only awards ceremony on Fri., April 5 at the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills.


The festival will present traditional, computer and experimental animation from freelance animators, independent studios and student artists. Entries this year have come from animators in Canada, England, Germany, Spain, Japan and other countries, and include this year’s Academy Award-nominated short film "Fifty Percent Gray" by Ruairi Robinson.


Events open to the public are as follows:


At 7:30 p.m. tonight, Thurs., April 4, a public reception will precede an 8 to 10 p.m. screening in the Alan and Elaine Armer Screening Room in Manzanita Hall on the CSUN campus. Both events are free.


From 6 to 8 p.m. on Fri., April 5 a screening will be presented in the Academy of Entertainment & Technology at Santa Monica College, and from 6 to 8 p.m. on Sat., April 6 a screening will be presented in the Science Lecture Theater 222 at Ventura College. Tickets for each screening are $5.50 students, $7 general and are available at the venue 30 minutes prior.


For more information, please call (818) 382-4545 or visit the Web site at www.csun.edu/animate.



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