Archive for the 'Animation' Category

Films for hope report

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Wow, what a great weekend in NewYork. Screening La Luna at Japan Society was such a wonderful experience. We had such a warm audience, I was really really touched. I think it’s fair to say I came to New York city on 9/11 weekend, with it also being the six month mark from the Japan [...]

La Luna at Telluride Film Festival

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Here’s what I couldn’t tell you till now since the festival keeps its plans under wraps until the last minute: La Luna is playing at Telluride Film festival this weekend ! I’m so excited about this. It’s playing in front of Vim Wenders Pina. I’m a huge fan, I couldn’t be more honored, I was [...]

La Luna at Films for Hope

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

The next upcoming screening of La Luna will be in New York City! I am excited about this on many levels, I lived in NYC for 7 years! Will be great to be back on my stomping grounds, albeit for just a couple of days. More importantly we are screening La Luna for charity at [...]

La Luna at AnimaMundi in Brazil.

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Bom Dia! Live in Brazil? We just received confirmed dates for screenings of La Luna at the Anima Mundi Film Festival. In Rio de Janeiro: Thursday July 21st , 8:00 pm at Arteplex Saturday July 23rd , 3:30 pm at Odeon In São Paulo: Sunday 31st, 06:00 pm at Memorial da América Latina. I am [...]

La Luna’s north American premiere!

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

I am happy to announce The Los Angeles Shorts Fest will host the north American premiere of La Luna on Sunday July 24th! The short will also screen on Thursday July 21st in their opening night program. I’ll be flying down for the screening on sunday the 24th (@ noon) and I’ll give a “Making [...]

Run Run Thank You Run!

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

I wanted to share with you a little animation I made for the La Luna crew: the Pixarians who have made La Luna possible. I wanted to screen this at the wrap party but my schedule was too hectic at the time. I wasn’t able to finish it until yesterday, but here it is now [...]

A lunatic week in Annecy

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Wow, what a week we had in France. I am back in my office at work, but the experience of premiering La Luna in Annecy is still very fresh. I can safely say our short received a very warm welcome at the festival. The Pixar contingent had a such a great time there. The “Making [...]

I have a favor to ask …

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

… to those of you who have already seen or will see La Luna in the next few months. As you might know La Luna’s wide release won’t happen till next year, which means most people around the world unfortunately will not get to see it for quite some time. I have one wish I [...]

La Luna – the poster

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

I am writing from an hotel room in beautiful Annecy. The lake is a stunning aqua blue outside the window, not unlike the sky hue in the short! The World Premiere of La Luna was held last night. As you can imagine it was a positively memorable night. They showed our short as the closing [...]

the La Luna wrap party

Friday, May 27th, 2011

This past tuesday we celebrated the end of La Luna’s production. We started the evening with a screening of the short for the whole crew. It was pretty darn exciting, the first real audience to see La Luna! What a surreal experience, I felt like I was floating around in mid air most of the [...]