The 2012 Festival was a huge success! Thank you to all who attended!
Saturday Activites — January 28, 2012
On Saturday, January 28, during the lunch break, we will have live music courtesy of St. Paul's Episcopal School! The Middle School Jazz Band, led by Charles Lloyd, and the Drum Ensemble, led by Guy de Chalus, will perform from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mr. de Chalus will lead the Drum Ensemble in an interactive demonstration and performance in which audience members will also be invited to come forward and experience drumming.
Learn how to build your own Zoetropes with everyday materials! Nick and Ingrid from Howtoons will join us for this bonus activity.
In addition to quality films, BAICFF offers children hands-on fun. In 2012 we have several exciting workshops. All workshops are led by Academy Award-nominated Pixar animator Jim Capobianco, and staffed by enthusiastic and talented film students from Berkeley City College.
Sand Animation Workshop
Make an animated film with sand! Use your hands to move sand
around inside a box to create patterns and pictures. Then watch the
series of images flow together into a short film. This very simple and
fun technique leads to beautiful and interesting results. After the
festival, we will post the final films for download so that each child
has a copy of her own. DVD copies available upon request. We plan to
screen a sneak peek at footage from the workshop around 4 pm on
Saturday!
Our most popular workshop! Decorate and film your very own, professional clay puppet. Only at BAICFF do you get the chance to animate with a real stop-motion puppet and take it home with you. Spend the first half of the workshop personalizing your "actor" with googly eyes, buttons, feathers, etc. Then lights, camera, action – it’s time to make your puppet come alive. Use your imagination to place your little "actor" in a series of poses that add up to action! After the festival, we will post the final films for download so that each child has a copy of her own. DVD copies available upon request. We plan to screen a sneak peek at footage from the workshop around 4 pm on Sunday!
Short stop-motion animation created by children taking a workshop at the 3rd annual Bay Area International Children's Film Festival in 2011.
Pixilation Workshop
What is Pixilation? It’s an animation technique that uses the most readily available tool at your disposal - your body! In this workshop, the participants are the actors. Just change your pose slightly from one photo frame to the next and you will magically float, fly around a room, ice skate, disappear and reappear in a different location, slide along the ground, drive an invisible car, or almost anything else you can imagine! After the festival, we will post the final films for download so that each child has a copy of her own. DVD copies available upon request. We plan to screen a sneak peek at footage from the workshop around 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday!
