Lectures

Georgina Hayns

Friday, October 9^th 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Regal Theater

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Puppet Fabrication Supervisor, LAIKA

Get a personal look behind the scenes of Oregon's own Coraline with LAIKA Puppet Fabrication Supervisor Georgina Hayns. View behind-the-scenes footage and hear about the project firsthand, from the woman who helped create the intricate world of Coraline.

The first stop-motion feature to be conceived and photographed in stereoscopic 3D, Coraline was written and directed by Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach) and based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. The movie includes the voices of Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds, Man on Fire, I Am Sam), Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives), Ian McShane (Deadwood), John Hodgman (The Daily Show) and comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Distributed by Focus Features, the film's world premiere was held in Portland on February 5, 2009. For more information visit: www.coraline.com.

LAIKA is an animation company specializing in feature films, commercials, branded entertainment, broadcast series, interactive content, broadcast graphics and short films. Travis Knight serves as President and CEO of the company, which is owned by Nike co-founder and Chairman Philip H. Knight. LAIKA is located in Portland.

Shawn Levy

Saturday, October 10^th 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

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Film Critic and Best Selling Author

Shawn Levy has been writing for The Oregonian since 1992 and has served a Film Critic since 1997. Over the course of his career, Shawn has written about film, pop culture, books and sports for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian of London, the Independent of London, the San Francisco Chronicle, Movieline, Film Comment, Sight and Sound, Premiere, the Village Voice, the Hollywood Reporter and many other publications.

Film critic and author Shawn Levy will discuss his bestselling biography of Paul Newman as well as writing film analysis in long and short forms.

Mr. Levy has been the editor of and contributor to numerous film magazines and has authored several books including Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show-Biz Party; King of Comedy: the Art and Life of Jerry Lewis; and Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London.

Shawn's insights into films, the film industry and the biggest names in Hollywood are always fascinating and fabulously entertaining. This is one film lecture you won't want to miss!

Saturday, October 10^th 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Two-time Academy Award Nominated Animator

Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon and credits Oregon's rainy climate for nurturing his drawing skills and imagination. After making the Big Apple his home, Plympton spent 15 years as an illustrator and cartoonist. Between toting his portfolio and catching cheap matinees, he designed the magazines: Cineaste, Filmmakers Newsletter, and Film Society Review. His illustrations have graced the pages of The New York Times, Vogue, House Beautiful, The Village Voice, Screw, and Vanity Fair. His cartoons appeared in such magazines as Viva, Penthouse, Rolling Stone, National Lampoon, and Glamour.

Early in his career, Plympton created the animated short film, Your Face, which received a 1988 Oscar nomination for best animated short. Bill later worked on the film, The Tune. Sections of the feature were released as short films, including Push Comes to Shove, which won the 1991 Prix du Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Bill’s short film Guard Dog has been a hit at film festivals and it brought Bill his second Oscar nomination in January 2005. Two equally successful sequels soon followed, Guide Dog in 2006 and Hot Dog in 2008.

Bill’s new feature film, Idiots and Angels, was released in 2008. Featuring the music of Tom Waits, Moby and Pink Martini, it's a much darker and more mysterious film than his previous comedies.
Plympton will give an animation demonstration while sharing a retrospective of his amazing career. He will share some of his classic shorts, clips from feature films and other surprises. Plympton will create individual animated drawings during the course of this event. Additionally, the following short films will screen during the animation film block at the Regal Theater on Saturday at 10:00 am: Santa, The Fascist Years, Shut-Eye Hotel, Hot Dog, Gary Guitar, The Fan and the Flower and Horn Dog.

Ron Shelton

Saturday, October 10, 7:00pm

Tower Theatre

Master of Ceremonies at the BendFilm Awards Ceremony 

Ron Shelton is not your typical Hollywood director. For starters, he began his career after six years playing semi-professional baseball. Shelton worked his way up from being a screenwriter (his first script sold when he was 35) to being a director (he didn't direct his first picture until he was in his 40s).

Shelton is known primarily for his sports-oriented screenplays and films. Shelton can thank his romantic baseball classic Bull Durham for pigeonholing him as one of the leading sports inclined screenwriters/directors in Hollywood, a trend well established by the films Tin Cup and White Men Can’t Jump. But Shelton is certainly not only a “sports” director.

Viewing his other films, such as Dark Blue, Blaze and Play It to the Bone, viewers will reach the inevitable conclusion that Shelton has a talent that stretched far beyond any genre or pigeonhole.