For you stop motion fans!

November Meeting- BOTNIK!

Come see Calabash Animation's newest short animated film, Botnik! Meet and hear from creator, writer, director, Jackie Smessaert Brennan at Columbia College on Friday, Nov 14th at 7pm. Room 502 at 1104 S Wabash Ave.

Fears of the Dark

Have very many of you heard about this movie called Fears of the Dark? It's by 6 well known graphic designers. Here's the trailer for it-



It looks like it's only playing for a few days at the Landmark, so a few of us are planning on seeing it Thur night at the 7:15 showing. If anyone else is interested in going too, please let us know!!

Free Flash Training!

Acend has got a free training seminar.  I've been to one of their workshops before and they're chock full of info.  Register for their Flash training seminar in Chicago here:

http://www.ascendtraining.com/events-detail.php?eventID=37

November Guest Speaker!

Hi everyone! We're working on getting Jackie, the director of Botnik, to be our guest speaker in November. Please check out Botnik at the Chicago International Film Festival if you can!!
http://2008.chicagofilmfestival.org/FilmsEvents/films.php?search=botnik&submit=search

Sita Sings the Blues

A group of us are going to see Sita Sings the Blues on Sunday at 12:15 at the AMC River East. If anyone else is going to that showing, please look for us and say hi!!

http://2008.chicagofilmfestival.org/FilmsEvents/films.php?title&page=9

Botnik!

Botnik!, an 11 minute short from Chicago's very own Calabash Animation, will be playing at the Chicago Internation Film Festival very soon! Come see Jackie Smessaert Brennan's cool new film in the Short 1: Illinois Filmmakers program.

Botnik! (USA)Director - Jacqueline Smessaert Brennan When an artist is forced to unveil his newest art installation ahead of schedule, he turns to an untested robot for assistance. Unfortunately, this robot does not come as packaged. 11 Mins

playing:
Sunday- 10-19: 12:00
Monday-10-20: 6:20
Monday-10-27: 6:15

Please come see it!

For more on Botnik!, please visit:
Botnik's MySpace page
Jackie's Facebook page