Reminder: Frédéric Back

Just a quick reminder about our upcoming week of events celebrating the works of Frédéric Back. Remember, these are all free, so come on out and show Mr. Back some love.

The Toronto Animated Image Society is proud to present:
Frederic Back : Drawing Life
Master animator, Oscar®-winning award, environmental activist.
TAIS will be presenting a program of 80 minutes of 35mm film prints:

All Nothing
Crac!
The Mighty River
The Man Who Planted Trees

Where: The Bloor Cimena ( Bloor and Bathurst )
When: Saturday March 15, 2008 at 4pm ( ARTIST IN PERSON ) -– FREE ADMISSION !

Also for the first time in Toronto, an exhibit of Frederic Back drawings at the Gallerie at the Alliance Française of Toronto, The Bluff Gallery at the Scarborough arts Council and at the gallery Celine Allard at the Centre Francophone.
Visit : www.tais.ca for complete information

This unique exhibition and film screenings is made possible
thanks to the financial support of SAXON INVESTMENTS,
the loan of works of art and films by Radio Canada
and our community partners : LIFT, Cine-Byte Digital,
Alliance Française of Toronto, Centre Francophone and Scarborough Arts Council.

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Toronto Animated Image Society
60 Atlantic Avenue, suite 102
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 1X9

tais@bellnet.ca
www.tais.ca
416-533-7889

Back it up! Post corrections...

Man, oh, man, I can be a goofy pooch sumtimes. Just a few corrections to my post on the most excellent week of special events celebrating the works of Frédéric Back.

The reason why no tickets have gone on sale yet? All the events are FREE. Gratis. Gratuit. Just show up with yer passion for animation and yer in. But show up early! This includes the screening night at the Bloor Cinema...the films showing on March 15th will all be 35 mm prints of the following:

All Nothing
Crac!
The Mighty River
The Man who Planted Trees

Once again, shouts out to our homies at Saxon Investments for helping us put this show together. Sorry for them errors. Be sure to get out to these awesome events and laud the work of one of the world's best animation artists. Cheers!

OIAF '07 notes: Aachi & Ssipak

Back agin' with a few words on the features shown at Ottawa this year. Ottawa features are, well, they've been really hit n' miss in the past...can't even remember the features from 2005 and 2006, quite frankly. Then, something like this year happens...two really strong features showed up in our Nation's Capitol. Persepolis, I'm not gonna talk about. Cuz better folks than me have already weighed in...it's a damn important film, go see it, and grab the DVD when it comes out.

This film I can talk about though, cuz I've been waiting for freakin' YEARS for the likes of it...an unapologetic, punk-ass, balls-to-the-wall action sci-fi freakfest, Akira by way of Stephen Chow as designed by Marv Newland. Just check out that (grainy, sorry) trailer. First released in 2006, it had it's North American premiere at a fest in Seattle, and blew everyone out the door in Ottawa. Haven't seen it? It's comin' to Toronto, for the Toronto_After_Dark film festival in October. Man, my cup runneth over. Can't say much now, but TAIS will have a hand in seein' that Aachi & Ssipak get a warm welcome. Fest trailer below. Cheers!