Happy birthday to the East Coast beacon of indie tooncraft, Animation Block Party, which will really have something to celebrate this year when the festival returns to Brooklyn, New York’s BAM Film on Saturday, June 3 at 7 p.m. for a special 20th anniversary event.
Festival founder Casey Safron also shared with Animation Magazine that the full 20th annual ABP festival will run August 18-20, and opens for film entries the first week of May.
The big 2-0 celebration kicks off with the unveiling of a festive, Brooklyn skyline-inspired commemorative poster created by longtime ABP collaborator Xiongliang (Ben) Li.
The BAM Film program on June 3rd includes keynote award winners, behind the scenes footage and much more, featuring the following animated shorts (listed by year of release):
- Greg Condon – bodysplash (2005)
- Michael Langan – Intelligent Life (2008)
- Ben Meinhardt – Brain Tea Bumper (2009)
- Choom Lam – Rethink Happiness (2009)
- Arjun Rihan – Switch Today (2010)
- Barbara Benas – Greetings from the Year 3000 (2011)
- Mari Jaye Blanchard – Bullets for Breakfast (2012)
- Celia Bullwinkel – Sidewalk (2013)
- Sarah Beeby – Irreversible (2013)
- Taylor Armstrong – Light Bulb Gasoline Promo (2013)
- Ben Li – Street Justice (2014)
- Chelsea Manifold – Bewitched Barry (2014)
- Ted Wiggin – Stella Nova (2015)
- Turner Lange – Adventures of Wally Fresh (2015)
- Bryan Brinkman – The Troubadour’s Green Room (2016)
- Louis Morton – Nose Hair (2017)
- Sean Buckelew – Lovestreams (2017)
- Will Kim – Glorious Victory (2017)
- Jared D. Weiss – Frog Dog Log (2018)
- Rachel Gitlevich – Why I Don’t Like the Way I Look (2018)
- Sarah Schmidt – Angst Shorts (2018)
- Emily Hubley – Faithy, hey (2019)
- Lindsey DeMars – Welcome to Hell (2019)
- Richard O’Connor – Ride (2019)
- Alisa Stern – Sum of Parts (2020)
- Robert Bohn – BAM Street Team (2020)
- Adam Ansorge – Truck Drop (2022)
- Leilanni Todd – Scrimps Need Love Too (2023)
- Aaron Long – Sublo and Tangy on Love and Hate (2023)
- Mike Hollingsworth – @stufffedanimals Interstitials (various)
BAM Film is located at 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, New York,
11217.
Visit animationblock.com for more information.
