Party Mix: The Best Of New York International Children's Film Festival 2012!

The ever popular Kid Flix Mix and Party Mix are back! These compilations showcase the best shorts of last year's New York International Children's Film Festival. You will enjoy seeing several favorites from Providence festivals past and be introduced to a new slate of wonderful films currently traveling the world's festival circuit.
The Dancer
USA / Documentary, Seth Stark, 2011, 11 mins.
This uplifting true story about orphan Satish shows shades of Slumdog Millionaire. Beautiful village and pastoral… Show more 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 / Animation, Jean-François Proulx, 2010, 1.5 mins.
When a bump in the road causes an unexpected chain of events, a truck driver's life flashes before his eyes.
Dripped
France / Animation, Leo Verrier, 2010, 9 mins.
A fantastic imagining of how Jackson Pollack came upon his "drip" and action-painting style: through devouring (literally) all the styles of the modern past.
Extinction of the Sabertooth House Cat
USA / Animation, Damon Wong, 2010, 3.5 mins.
Though scientists have conjectured, none could truly say what caused the demise of the Sabertooth House Cat. But now this hard-hitting documentary reveals startling new evidence to detail the dramatic last moments of one of Earth's littlest known creatures.
The Girl and the Fox
USA / Animation, Tyler J. Kupferer, 2011, 5.5 mins.
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 / Experimental, Mixtape Club, 2011, 2 mins.
Created by Brooklyn's Mixtape Club, this quick-cut musical montage plays with texture, shape, pattern, and movement with rope, leaves, nuts and bolts, and eye hooks twisting, dancing and popping to a soothing electronic beat.
Luminaris
Argentina / Animation, Juan Pablo Zaramella, 2010, 6.5 mins.
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 / Animation, Christopher Kezelos, 2010, 5 mins.
In a dark room, a glass-eyed puppet is constructing a look-alike 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 / Live Action, Rolf Hellat, 2010, 5 mins.
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 and Uk / Animation, Nandita Jain, 2011, 10 mins.
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.
Ages 8+ / English or subtitled / Running time: Various lengths totaling approx. 68 mins.
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