2012 San Dieg Jewish Film Festival Joyce Forum Flyer
Meet 11-year-old award-winning animator & film critic Perry Chen and his producer mom Dr. Zhu Shen at the 22nd Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival.
Screening: ?Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest? Animated Short (6 min)
Animated by Perry Chen, Storyboard by Bill Plympton, Directed by Kevin Sean Michaels, Produced by Zhu Shen, Jud Newborn
Program: Joyce Forum: Rising Stars & Seasoned Filmmakers
Date & Time: 2:30 pm, Monday, Feb 13, 2012
Venue: Clairemont Reading 14
Q&A: Perry Chen to be interviewed by fellow SDJFF animator/filmmaker Hanan Harchol following the screening
Cost: FREE
Perry Chen & Zhu Shen at their film's ShortsHD premiere (photo by Elena Buenrostro)
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By Yvonne and Paul Greenberg
SAN DIEGO ? Speaking about this year?s Joyce Forum in a recent phone interview, its founder, Joyce Axelrod, proudly pointed out that this year?s shorts program (Shorts in Winter) received a record number of submissions, 100, that almost overwhelmed the all-volunteer curating committee consisting of herself, Claudia and Mark Title and? Don and Marcia Wolochow. According to Axelrod, the number of submissions was due to the large number of people making films and videos and to the ease by which they could be submitted electronically.? ?However, we had to establish guidelines.? There wasn?t always quality control in the past. What we did (this year) was typically we would all watch every film, but his time we divided into groups and we rated our films and shared our ratings with the other curators.? When we got all our films together, we had 30 quality films to choose from, rather than 100.? It was difficult to winnow down, but we think we selected the best of the shorts that were around, and since then, some of the shorts have won prizes at other film festivals, and that was very gratifying to us. ?
Of? all this year?s shorts, she was most impressed with Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest, by the 11 year-old precocious local filmmaker, Perry Chen. ?I got in touch with Perry and his mom, who led me to his website, and I thought it was charming the way he was discovered and how the two veteran filmmakers (animator Bill Plympton and film director, producer, and visual artist Kevin Sean Michaels)? embraced this little guy.? They saw such potential in him.? Then I? read about Ingrid Pitt, who was a heroine in her own right.?? She was a movie star and starred in horror films in England. I think Perry is a typical 11 year-old who has talent.? He talks and looks like a typical kid. He has a mother who is very excited about having a son with so many talents.? He is also a film critic. He will be interviewed by out artist-in-residence., who is an animator who we are bringing in from New York, Hanan Harchol.?
This year?s shorts are a mixture of drama and comedy. ?We had a mix and match of drama and comedy.? It?s will be a really fun afternoon and it will be free to the public.? We like to offer the San Diego public a couple of slots during the year that are free.?
Axelrod talked about the target audience for the feature film, Jewish Food for Thought (Hanan Harchol), that will be showing at the Joyce Forum: ?I think it is 10-11 years old and up to 80.?? It presents things they learn in Sunday School, but what is charming about it is Hanan, in his sketches, has conversations with his father.? And very often they are at odds and they yell at each other. It is so real.? The father is an Israeli, and Hanan gets his voice down pat.? Hanan?s mannerisms and cartoon-like renderings just bring a smile to my face.? He was here in 2004 and was an audience favorite.?
Axelrod promised that ?if you attend the San Diego Jewish Film Festival on Monday, February 13, you?ll get a delicious buffet of films: as an opener, a selection of shorts that is sure to please the most discerning of tastes; for the entree there is a full-featured drama from an emerging filmmaker from Germany (Leo Khasin/Kaddish For a Friend) who will be in attendance to answer your questions; and to round out the menu, the dessert will be a returning award-winning filmmaker, Hanan Harchol (Jewish Food for Thought), who will share with us the bittersweet conversation he has about life with his feisty father.? Bon appetit!?
The Shorts in Winter program starts at 2:30 p.m., Kaddish for a Friend at 5:00 p.m., and Jewish Food for Thought at 7:30 p.m.
Link to original article:
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/02/06/san-diego-jewish-film-festivals-shorts-program-culled-from-100-entries/
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Perry S. Chen is an 11-year-old award-winning child film critic, artist, animator, TEDx speaker, and entertainment personality, currently in 6th grade from San Diego.? He started reviewing movies at age 8 in 3rd grade using a kid-friendly starfish rating system, and has been featured in CBS, NPR, NBC, CNN, CCTV (China Central Television), Variety, The Young Icons, The Guardian, The China Press, etc.? He was a presenter at the 2010 Annie Awards for Animation, and has written movie reviews for Animation World Network, San Diego Union Tribune, Amazing Kids! Magazine, and his own Perry?s Previews blog:
www.perryspreviews.com
Perry won an ?Excellence in Journalism Award? from San Diego Press Club in 2010 and 2011 for his movie and restaurant reviews, an ?Excellence Writer Award? from ?We Chinese in America? Magazine in 2010 for his movie review column. Perry is widely recognized as an authoritative spokesperson about movies for his generation, and appears frequently at red carpet movie premieres, awards, and film festivals, interviewing prominent directors from such films as Toy Story 3, Up, How to Train Your Dragon.? He was a presenter at the 2010 Annie Awards for Animation in Hollywood.
?Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest? is Perry?s first film as the sole animator, with storyboard and character design by Bill Plympton, directed by Kevin Sean Michaels, produced by Drs. Zhu Shen and Jud Newborn, a Holocaust historian. The film premiered to critical acclaim at LA Shorts Fest & Comic-Con in July, 2011, acquired for worldwide distribution in Sep 2011 by Shorts International, distributor of Oscar-nominated shorts, won a ?Special Jury Award? for ?Extraordinary Vision? at Flyway Film Festival in Wisconsin in Oct, 2011, featured as a bonus film at the 2011 Animation Show of Shows, and has been touring film festivals around the world. The film was among 45 animation shorts announced by Animation World Network and Animation Magazine as 2012 Oscar contenders:
http://www.awn.com/news/short-films/academy-screens-next-oscar-winning-animated-short
http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/academy-screens-45-shorts-for-oscar-consideration/
In addition to animating ?Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest,? Perry also animated one scene in Bill Plympton?s award-winning ?Guard Dog Global Jam.?? Perry and his mom Dr. Zhu Shen are featured in a new book about parenting and youth entrepreneurship, ?The Parent?s Guide to Raising CEO Kids,? published in Aug 2011.
http://perryspreviews.com (main website)
Become a fan on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/ingridpittanimation (Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest official FB page)
http://www.facebook.com/perryspreviewsfan (Perry?s Previews fan page)
For more information about Perry Chen, his animation films, and movie reviews, contact Dr. Zhu Shen, bioforesight@gmail.com
Source: http://www.perryspreviews.com/?p=3509
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