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Cartoons on the Bay, the only festival devoted to TV animation, proved to be a gracious host on my visit there to give a talk. Herewith are a selection of my snapshots and images from some of this year's award-winning entries.
Positano is a former fishing village turned vacation resort south of Naples, which is frequented as much by Italians as by foreign tourists. However, despite the very international flavor of the films in competition, presentations and speakers, Cartoons on the Bay is largely an Italian affair. The event was largely done under the aegis of Rai Trade, the distribution division of Rai, Italy's government broadcaster; its Rai Fiction unit, which also had a large presence, is a major funder of Italian animation production. As such, the festival provided a unique view of what's going on in Italian animation.
This piece, however, is not devoted to an analysis on what went on, but to show a few of the snapshots I took, along with images from some of this year's award winners.
Williams was given a special career Pulcinella Award, as was the Giulio Gianini, who helped create the character which is the festival's mascot and award namesake.
That's all for now, but I hope to write about Cartoons on the Bay 2004 in more detail elsewhere, including some interesting feature films shown at night. — Harvey Deneroff © 2004 by Harvey Deneroff |
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I
just returned from my first visit to Cartoons on the Bay, in Positano,
Italy, a festival devoted to TV animation, where I had a wonderful time.
In terms of size, the festival, held April 21-25, is limited in size because
of the facilities, with films shown in a modest theater-in-a-tent on the
beach — the other main venue was the conference room of the elegant
Covo dei Saraceni Hotel, where I gave my talk on “Innovation in Feature
Animated Films.”
I
was originally only planning to be there as a journalist,but was asked
to also speak at the festival's conference with only a few weeks notice;
the conference theme this year was innovation in animation, and I talked
on “Innovation in Animation.” Linda Simensky (pictured on left)
spoke on “Innovation in Production, which focused on her experiences
at Cartoon Network and why she left to go to PBS. Craig Miller, seen here
with 
Alfio
Bastiancich, talked about “Innovation in Writing.” The star
speaker, though, was Richard Williams, whose topic was “Innovation
in Animation,” but talked about how he came to rediscover the secrets
of the masters, or in his phrase, “drink the blood” of the likes
of Ken Harris, Art Babbit and Grim Natwick.
