Neighborhood Notes

Cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, the Meaning of Life, Billy's Balloon) visits Portland, Oregon for a special one-night-only event! A selection of Don's classic animated shorts return to the big screen, culminating in the exclusive regional premiere of his brand new film, I am so proud of you. His longest piece to date, I am so proud of you is the eagerly anticipated second chapter to Everything will be OK, winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award in Short Film making and named by many critics as one of the "best films of 2007". The screening will be immediately followed by a live on-stage interview and audience Q+A with Don Hertzfeldt. We can't stress this enough: One night only!"

Saturday October 4th 2008,
Show Starts at 5pm
Laurelhurst Theater and Pub
2735 E Burnside
Portland, OR 97714
Phone: (503) 232-5511
Admission: Six Dollars

www.laurelhursttheater.com/special.html

Like all of Hertzfeldt's films, I am so proud of you was single-handedly animated and photographed by hand without the use of computers. It was shot entirely on an antique 35mm animation stand, one of the last remaining cameras of its kind left in America. The film's special effects were meticulously created directly on film, using traditional double exposures, in-camera mattes, and innovative experimental techniques. The 22 minute film was nearly two years in the making. A third and final chapter in the Everything will be OK series is planned.

Don was born in 1976 in California's Bay Area and graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1998 with a B.A. in Film Studies, where he produced his first four short films: Ah L'Amour, Genre, Lily and Jim, and Billy's Balloon, which received a nomination for the Short Film Palm D'Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. His following film, Rejected, was nominated for an Oscar in 2001. In 2003, Don co-created The Animation Show, a touring theatrical program of international animation, which he programmed with Mike Judge for its first three seasons. A retrospective anthology of Don's work, Bitter Films: Volume One, was released on DVD in 2006 (www.bitterfilms.com). Since 1995, his cartoons have collectively received over 130 awards."

Sponsored by The Art Institute of Portland