Bill Plympton (two-time Oscar-nominated animator,
Idiots and Angels), 11-year-old prodigy animator and child film critic
Perry Chen, his mother
Dr. Zhu Shen (producer),
Karina Bessoudo (Toon Boom Animation, vice president of marketing and communications), and
Kevin Sean Michaels (director) share insight and a sneak preview of the film
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond The Forest and the cross-generational collaboration that was formed to create it. The short animated film illustrates the miraculous true story of the late actress Ingrid Pitt (
Where Eagles Dare) who, in 1945, escaped at age 8 from a Nazi concentration camp in Poland to later become one of the UK's biggest movie stars. Also screening will be a trailer for the new documentary on animator Bill Plympton,
Adventures in Plymptoons! Moderated by
Pat Swinney Kaufman (executive director for the New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture & Television Development) and
Lloyd Kaufman (president/co-founder of Troma Entertainment, author of
Sell Your Own Damn Movie).
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