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Puppet Making with Clyde Petersen

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Thursday, January 24th, 2019
$65 Tuition
$50 for NWFF Members

Ages 8-11

In this special workshop offered with the opening night film sing-along The Muppet Movie, students will learn how to create a puppet character with Seattle animator and musician Clyde Petersen. All puppet materials are provided, as well as pizza dinner for students, and admission to the opening night film for each student and one accompanying adult! Workshop puppeteers will have the option to sit together in reserved puppet choir seating.

Register here:

Other CFFS 2019 Workshops

https://childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org/lets-all-go-to-the-lobby-interactive-filmmaking-installation/

https://childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org/friendly-rhythms-of-the-planet-w-visiting-filmmaker-tatiana-skorlupkina/

 

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360 Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes of the Festival

Saturday, February 2nd, 2019
$65 Tuition
$50 For Members

Ages 11-14

In this workshop, students will learn about virtual reality and 360 filmmaking. They will plan, shoot and edit a short 360 film, getting exclusive access to go behind the scenes of the festival. Students will be able to use Samsung Gear and Ricoh Theta cameras to explore this exciting new medium, and start dreaming in 360. Taught by Jonah Kozlowski.

Register here:

 

Other CFFS 2019 Workshops

https://childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org/lets-all-go-to-the-lobby-interactive-filmmaking-installation/

https://childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org/friendly-rhythms-of-the-planet-w-visiting-filmmaker-tatiana-skorlupkina/

Friendly Rhythms of the Planet w/ Visiting Filmmaker Tatiana Skorlupkina

* Offered twice, for different age ranges.

January 26
1:30-4:30pm
Ages 8-11

In this interactive workshop, students will make an animated short film depicting the rhythms of children and the natural world. Students will learn about rhythms found in the filmmaking process through animating frame by frame in stop motion. They will also get hands-on crafting and coloring figures for the animation. Tatiana Skorlupkina is a musician, artist, composer, director, animator, and screenwriter. Her innovative cinematic works lead viewers into a world come alive, where genres are transformed and interwoven; here, images are music, music is images, and literary works both ‘vibrate and narrate’. Her work has been screened by and won awards at numerous film festivals around the world.

Register here:

 

January 27
1:30-4:30pm
Ages 11-14

This second workshop date is an opportunity for students that are a little older to enjoy the same workshop with Tatiana with a higher level of complexity.

Register here:

 

 

Other CFFS 2019 Workshops:

https://childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org/lets-all-go-to-the-lobby-interactive-filmmaking-installation/

https://childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org/360-filmmaking-behind-the-scenes-of-the-festival/

Let’s All Go to the Lobby! Interactive Filmmaking Installation

 

January 25: 4:00–9:00pm
January 26–27: 11:00am–7:00pm
February 2: 11:00am–7:00pm
February 9: 11:00am–7:00pm

** FREE EVENT! **

Children of all ages can learn about the life and work of influential filmmaker and animation innovator Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981). Children (ages 1 to 101) can experiment with multiplane stop-motion animation, become a life-size shadow puppet, and learn about shadow puppetry techniques from around the world.

 

 

Other CFFS 2019 Workshops

Don’t just watch great films during the festival — make your own! Festival workshops will get you fired up to find out more about the collaborative, magical art of filmmaking. Student films will screen at the festival’s Closing Ceremony on Feb. 9 at 5pm. Classes must be registered for in advance. Questions? Email Elizabeth Shepherd at liz@nwfilmforum.org.

 

https://childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org/friendly-rhythms-of-the-planet-w-visiting-filmmaker-tatiana-skorlupkina/

https://childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org/360-filmmaking-behind-the-scenes-of-the-festival/

 

 

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Wendy: Best Friends Forever

Saturday, February 2 – 1:00pm

Hanno Olderdissen, Germany, 2018, 1h 36m
Ages 8+
(live action, German with English subtitles)
West Coast premiere!

Co-presented with Goethe Pop Up Seattle!

Wendy, an expert rider who has fought her way back from an injury, is working at a beautiful old stable called Rosenborg, where she is able to be with her beloved horse Dixie every day. But when Wendy realizes she must save Rosenborg from bankruptcy by winning the prize money at a nearby tournament, she must ride a new horse, Penny. Will her friendship with Dixie survive and will the stable be saved?

Content advisory: There are a few suspenseful scenes where animal cruelty is threatened but does not occur. In another scene, the horse Dixie appears to be very ill, but she recovers.

** Thanks to our community partners the Seattle Area German American School and Goethe Pop-up Seattle for their support of this screening! **

WATCH THE TRAILER:

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Opening Night: The Muppet Movie

Thursday, January 24 – 7:00pm

James Frawley, US, live action, 1979, 1h 35m, English
All ages

 

** Gala Opening Night, co-presented with Seattle International Film Festival, at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. Celebrate the film’s 40th anniversary with a singalong! **

Make the rainbow connection as you revisit or introduce your kids for the first time to the big screen magic of one of the most beloved classics in the children’s film canon! Sing along with Kermit, Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Gonzo the Great on their epic trek across America to find Hollywood stardom. Voiced by and starring such legends as Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, Steve Martin, Dom DeLuise, Richard Pryor, and Madeline Kahn.

Consider a Muppet Movie sing-along preceded by PIZZA AND PUPPETMAKING with local animator Clyde Petersen… believe it or not, this dream is within your grasp! Read more and register here. Students in Clyde’s workshop, which takes place Jan. 24 at 5pm, are welcome to sit in special reserved puppet choir seating at the Muppet Movie screening, joined by their puppet and an accompanying adult.

Thank you SIFF!

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed

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Friday, January 25 – 7:00pm

Lotte Reiniger, Germany, 1926, 1h 9m
All ages
(animation, silent, with English intertitles)

Co-presented with Goethe Pop Up Seattle!

The oldest existing animated feature, The Adventures of Prince Achmed was made by 23-year-old teacher Lotte Reiniger using the stop-motion and silhouette animation techniques she perfected. Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan, and soars headlong into a series of wondrous other adventures.

Celebrate the 10th anniversary performance of the film score by Miles & Karina, with accordion, guitar, banjo, viola, glockenspiel and percussion, which premiered at Children’s Film Festival Seattle a decade ago and has now traveled the world!

 

** Thanks to our community partners the Seattle Area German American School and Goethe Pop-up Seattle for their support of this screening! **

 

 

WATCH A CLIP OF THE SCORE:

 

 

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