A huge congrats to Bill Plympton whose latest short “Hot Dog” won 1st place in the Independent film category at Sunday’s ASIFA – East Awards. For all of you Chicago residents Bill will be on-hand for the big Animation Show premiere at the Music Box Theatre Friday May 23rd! This will be another crazy kick-off with big giveaways, weird preshow oddities, and Bill!
Catching up a bit with Bill today on the phone it sounds like his latest feature "Idiots and Angels" has been going over splendidly at the Tribeca film festival. You can read some the fantastic write ups here from The Gothamist and The Village Voice. I’ve only seen a few of the shorts that screened at the ASIFA awards but I gotta give a huge congrats to Arthur Metcalf for his short "Fantasie in Bubblewrap" which swept up the 'Best in show' award. We weren’t in NYC to attend the awards ourselves but word is Bubblewrap slayed em so look for this to keep grabbing eyeballs at festivals to come later in the year. Great to see NY filmmakers Signe Baumane, Alex Budovsky and Joy & Noelle Vaccese take home some love as well. All in all sounds like a great night of animation was had by all.