PARTY MIX: O melhor do New York International Children's Film Fest de 2012

Esta compilação apresenta os melhores curtas do New York International Children's Film Festival 2012. Desfrute de uma nova lista de filmes maravilhosos do circuito mundial de festivais, além de vários favoritos dos últimos Providence Children's Film Fests!

• The Dancer
  USA, 2011 / Documentary / Dir. Seth Stark / 11 min
  This uplifting true story about orphan Satish shows shades of “Slumdog Millionaire.” Beautiful village and pastoral scenery and quick-cut montages revel in the bustling colors, sounds, tastes and textures of India, while Satish’s indomitable spirit and joyfulness prevail against all odds.
• Dawn
  Canada, 2010 / Animation / Jean-François Proulx / 1.5 min
  When a bump in the road causes an unexpected chain of events, a truck driver’s life flashes before his eyes.
• Dripped
  France, 2010 / Animation / Dir. Leo Verrier / 9 min
  A fantastic imagining of how Jackson Pollock came upon his “drip” and action-painting style: by devouring (literally) all the styles of the modern past.
• Extinction of the Saber-toothed Housecat
  USA, 2010 / Animation / Dir. Damon Wong / 3.5 min
  Though scientists have conjectured, none could truly say what caused the demise of the Saber-toothed Housecat. But now this hard-hitting documentary reveals startling new evidence to detail the dramatic last moments of one of Earth’s least-known creatures.
• The Girl and the Fox
  USA, 2011 / Animation / Dir. Tyler J. Kupferer / 5.5 min
  An enemy becomes a friend as a young girl has a life-and-death encounter with a snow fox at dusk in the frozen forest.
• Hello, I Like You
  USA, 2011 / Experimental / Dir. Mixtape Club / 2 min
  Created by Brooklyn’s Mixtape Club, this quick-cut musical montage plays with texture, shape, pattern and movement Rope, leaves, nuts and bolts, and eye hooks twist, dance and pop to a soothing electronic beat.
• Luminaris
  Argentina, 2010 / Animation / Dir. Juan Pablo Zaramella / 6.5 min
  From the director of past NYICFF favorites Lapsus and Journey to Mars comes a brilliantly executed, visually unique and immensely amusing stop motion short that took home the audience award at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival. In a world controlled and timed by light, one man has a plan that could change destiny.
• The Maker
  Australia, 2010 / Animation / Dir. Christopher Kezelos / 5 min
  In a dark room, a glass-eyed puppet is constructing a lookalike companion while the sands drain away in an hour glass and violin music plays in a minor key. He completes the puppet, but she doesn’t come alive. At last her eyes open and they share a few brief moments of togetherness before the sand runs out.
• Maximum Boost
  Switzerland, 2010 / Live Action / Dir. Rolf Hellat / 5 min
  With inventive use of sound, including crackly original audio from the Apollo 13 space mission, Remo and his grandmother blast off from a rainy playground in Switzerland on a journey to the moon.
• The Storyteller
  India, UK / Animation / Dir. Nandita Jain / 10 min
  Nirmala lives in a seaside village with her grandpa, who recites her favorite story about a fisher boy. Yet lately he’s been forgetting some of the details.