By Allyssa Lewis
October 28, 2009, SCAD will join ASIFA for its seventh anniversay celebration of International Animation Day.
International Animation Day was launched in 2002, but ASIFA-Atlanta celebrated for the first time in 2006 in the basement of Relapse Theater. The next year the event moved to the High Museum of Art, where it has been ever since.
The films shown are received through a DVD exchange within ASIFA chapters.
“We take the best films from our annual showcase of local independent animation, and send it around the world,” said Brett Thompson, president of ASIFA-Atlanta.
This year’s event will feature films from Japan, Korea, Brazil, India and Croatia. Films from Portugal, Russia, and Bosnia may also make a special appearance.
The SCAD Atlanta Animation Society (SAAS) also plans to attend the event.
“I really am excited because I’ve only been exposed to two international animations since I got to SCAD, and I want to see it because I think it will broaden my horizons,” said third-year animation student Adreon Patterson. “I will actually get to see how other people are creating animations in their own way.”
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit ASIFA-Atlanta on the Web at asifa-atlanta.com