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KIDZFLIX FILMS
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The Secret of Kells
Animation By: Tomm Moore (Ireland/France/Belgium)
Recommended Ages: 6 to Adult
Duration: 75 mins
Do not miss the highly anticipated new animated masterpiece from the producers of Kirikou and the Sorceress and Triplets of Belleville! Magic, fantasy and Celtic mythology come together in a riot of color and detail that dazzle the eyes in this sweeping story about the power of imagination and faith to carry humanity through dark times. Features the voices of Brendan Gleeson (Harry Potter, In Bruges), Mick Lally, Evan McGuire and Christen Mooney.
Young Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide. It is here that he meets the fairy Aisling, a mysterious young wolf-girl, who helps him along the way. But with the barbarians closing in, will Brendan's determination and artistic vision illuminate the darkness and show that enlightenment is the best fortification against evil?
"Four Stars! Ravishing! Magical! Glorious!"- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"Fanciful and captivating! Gorgeous and uplifting!"
- Claudia Puig, USA Today
"Critic's Pick! Extraordinary!"
"The Secret of Kells discloses strange new vistas that nonetheless seem to have existed since ancient times."
- A Scott, New York Times
"Rapturous! Stunning! A riot of color!"
- Ella Taylor, Village Voice
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Azur & Asmar
Directed By: Michel Ocelot (France)
Recommended Ages: 6 to Adult
Duration: 99 mins
Azur & Asmar is a poetic, fairytale-like story set within a shimmering landscape of incomparable brilliance and beauty. Audiences and critics have been unanimous in their outpouring of praise for the film: "Quite simply, it's a visual masterpiece that combines cutouts with CGI and the mesmeric beauty of Islamic art to create a magical world, in which scarlet lions with blues claws and birds with rainbow wings stand between the blonde Azur and Asmar, the estranged Arab friend of his childhood."
"BEAUTIFUL!" - New York Times
"MAGNIFICENT! ENCHANTING!" - Variety
"PURE MAGIC!" - Hollywood Reporter
"GORGEOUS!" "The year's most beautiful animated film!" - Salon
"Is it too early to announce the most beautiful film of 2009?" "It's hard to imagine a more transporting cinematic experience!"
- Chicago Tribune
"DAZZLING! A STORY AT ONCE WHIMSICAL AND EPIC!" "The tale of two brothers from childhood to manhood, it is rife with storybook themes and offers an inspiring vision of harmony between different cultures, different people. Eye-popping and elegant, it's a richly satisfying affair!"- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Sita Sings the Blues
Directed By: Nina Paley (USA)
Recommended Ages: 9 to Adult
Duration: 82 mins
Tragedy, comedy and musical collide in this gloriously animated film from Nina Paley. Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three bickering shadow puppets with Indian accents act as comic narrators as these old and new stories are interwoven in a post-modern retelling of the ancient Indian epic, Ramayana, animated in a dazzling mix of traditional and collage animation style, and backed by a soundtrack from legendary 1920's jazz singer Annette Hanshaw.
"A ONE WOMAN PIXAR!"
- Wired Magazine
"DAZZLING AND POIGNANT!"
"An almost indescribable pleasure!"
- Boston Globe
"I AM ENCHANTED! I AM SWEPT AWAY!"
"I am smiling from one end of the film to the other. It is astonishingly original. It brings together four entirely separate elements and combines them into a great whimsical chord."
- Roger Ebert
"DELIGHTFULLY SUBVERSIVE!"
- Variety
"PUTS DISNEY TO SHAME!"
- Filmmaker Magazine
"BEAUTIFULLY AUDACIOUS AND PLAYFULLY FUNNY!"
- Premiere Magazine
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Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance
Directed By: Darren Ashton (Australia)
Recommended Ages: 9 to Adult
Duration: 95 mins
Razzle Dazzle is an Australian mockumentary that skewers the absurdities of the intense competition between kids on the youth dance troupe circuit—and the hyper-involved parents who live through them. A hilarious cross between Best in Show and All That Jazz, Razzle Dazzle mixes colorful characters, outrageous costumes, and show-stopping dance numbers (by John "Cha Cha" O'Connell who also choreographed Enchanted, Moulin Rouge and Strictly Ballroom), to deliver an immensely enjoyable film that captures our hearts with equal parts comedy and pathos.
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Live Music
Directed By: Jack Smith (USA)
Recommended Ages: All ages
Duration: 18 mins
Live Music is inspired by Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and early CGI shorts. Set in a musical instrument store, the story follows Riff, a rock ‘n’ roll guitar played by the legendary Steve Vai, who falls in love to the wrong song, but ends up with Vanessa, the classical violin of his dreams.
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The Girl Who Cried Flowers
Directed By: Umesh Shukla, (USA)
Narrated By: Virginia Williams
Recommended Ages: All ages
This story is about a mysterious girl who cries beautiful flowers instead of tears. She thinks only of sad things so she can provide blossoms to the villagers. Trouble starts when she falls in love and thinks only happy thoughts.
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Bollywood Beckons
Director, Co-Producer: Sophie Ann Rooney (Canada)
Recommended Ages: All ages
Duration: 15 mins
Neeru dances in her bedroom by herself dreaminsg of becominsg a famous Bollywood actress. The problem? She lives in suburbia, far away from the lights, sounds and color of Bollywood. While her parents try to set her up with a ‘nice Indian boy’, Neeru’s dreams don’t allow her settle down for too long. What develops is a hilarious and touching film about taking risks and living your dream – no matter how crazy they are.
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The Gym Teacher From
the Black Lagoon
Directed by: Galen Fott (USA)
Narrated by: Joey Stack
Recommended Ages: All ages
'There is a new gym teacher cominsg to school. The kids say he is a real monster! Imagine their surprise when they discover he is a regular guy…and they actually like gym.
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Knuffle Bunny Too
Narrated by: Mo and Trixie Willems (USA)
Animation by: Karen Villarreal
Recommended Ages: All ages
'Trixie can't wait to bring Knuffle Bunny to school and show him off. But an awful surprise awaits her: someone else has the exact same bunny! Thus begins an exciting, frustrating and ultimately revelatory twenty-four hours of chaos, where Trixie loses her beloved bunny and gains him back, along with something new: her very first best friend.
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Our Boat is Our Address
Script, Presentation & Direction : Shiropa Purna (Bangladesh)
Recommended Ages: All ages
Duration : 13 mins
People work in different kinds of professions for survival. One of the most interesting professions is the gypsy life. Some particular groups of gypsies live in boats. In Bangladesh, education is not free. The gypsies in this country are so poor that many of them can’t even send their children to school. However, a woman who lives there teaches some of the children of the gypsies. Even without proper education, the children are very creative. They can make ceramics with clay.
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Scrambled States of America Talent Show
Directed and Animated by Galen Fott (USA)
Narrated by Jon Carroll, David de Vries, Diana Canova
Recommended Ages: All ages
'Those wacky scrambled states are having a talent show. Revel in the madcap adventures and silly antics of this star-studded cast, while learning interesting facts about the states and geography.
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WHY DON'T WE RIDE ZEBRAS?
Directed By: Hannah Smith Walker (USA)
Recommended Ages: All ages
Duration: 12 mins
”Why don't we ride zebras?” is a 12 minute, partially animated children's documentary that explains why so few animals had the right stuff to become man's hamburger, man's best friend, and man's trusty steed. The story follows an animated caveman and a zebra through a live-action world filled with nearly-domesticatable animals. Along the way, viewers learn what traits and personality characteristics make for a good domestic animal, and what character tics have kept certain animals, like the zebra, from becominsg perfect pals with humans.
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Thomas Comma
Directed By: by Ken Kimmelman (USA)
Recommended Ages: All ages
Duration: 24 mins
Thomas Comma, based on the story The Comma That Didn’t Belong Anywhere, by the poet Martha Baird, is the charming, humorous, sophisticated and wonderful adventure of a lonely comma looking for the right sentence. Hand drawn and finished on computer, this 24 minute animated film will not only delight and inspire children of all ages (and adults)—but also encourage and educate them to have the best thing in them win! “We’re all of us like commas,” said Martha Baird, “looking for the right sentence.”
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BEST OF NY INT’L CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
KID FLIX MIX 2009 (SHORT FILMS)
Animation, Various, 65 minutes, In English
Recommended for ages 3 to 8
The world renowned New York International Children’s Film Festival presents this kaleidoscopic collection of the best animated short films from around the world, for ages 3 to 8. The program features musical and narrative works from Sweden, France, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, and offers a spectacular array of traditional, CGI, collage, and stop motion animation styles. Program is in English.
7 Days of the Week
Animation, McBride/Cowles, USA, 3 min
Knuffle Bunny
Animation, Mo Willems, USA, 8 min
Breaking the Mould
Animation, Manley/Paulli, UK, 1 min
The Bridge on the River Zzzeee
Animation, Thomas Szabo, France, 5 min
Dinosaur Song
Animation, Christian Robinson, USA, 3 min
Hedgehug
Animation, Dan Pinto, USA, 5 min
Horsie
Animation, Sarah Wahl, Finland, 2 min
The New Species
Animation, Evalds Lacis, Latvia, 10 min
No Monkey
Animation, Harry Flosser, Germany, 4 min
Sooner or Later
Animation, Jadwiga Krystyna Kowalska, 5 min
Spot and Splodge in Snowstorm
Animation, Geffenblad, Sweden, 8 min
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
Animation, Konstantin Bronzit, USA, 10 min
… and more!
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