Thinking of entering  the 2012 NINETY SECOND NEWBERY FILM FESTIVAL?
Learn everything you need to know at Bank Street Bookstore.
Introducing our FILM AND VIDEO WORKSHOPS for children and parents:

In our workshop series, video and animation experts will guide you through all the basics of digital video production and help you get your entry ready in time for the October 27 deadline for the 2012 90-Second Newbery Film Festival.

BE A VIDEO STAR THIS FALL!

Ages 8-18. An adult must accompany each 1-2 children 12 and under. Prices are for each child, adult collaborators free.

•Digital Film and Video Production Workshop (for children and parents)

Sliding scale fees
Per class: $12 low income* - $25 middle income - $40 high income

Register for all eight sessions:
$80 low income* - $160 middle income - $240 high income

Students will learn all the basics of digital video production from script through casting, shooting, and editing using commonly available tools, to final uploading of your film to the internet. Focus will be on the production of shorts for entry into the 90 Second Newbery contest.

Session dates: Tuesdays 7-8:30 pm
July 17, 24, and 31; August 7
October 2, 9, 16, 23

•Animaton Workshop (for children and parents)

Sliding scale fees
Per class: $18 low income* - $35 middle income - $55 high income

Register for all 14 sessions:
$160 low income* - $300 middle income - $440 high income
(price includes $20 materials fee)

An intensive hands-on workshop in stop motion animation. Students will learn video production skills plus tips and techniques for animation using digital cameras, clay, paper puppets and Adobe Photoshop. Focus will be on the production of shorts for entry into the 90 Second Newbery contest.

Session dates:
All dates for Video Workshop, plus the following:
Sundays 7-9 pm,
July 22, 29; August 5;
September 30, October 7, 14

Students will provide their own cameras, tripods, lighting equipment and laptops.

*Limited slots available for low-income students, please send a letter of application to: Rebecca Migdal, migdalart@mindspring.com

Session descriptions:

July 22
Creating art for animation: Character
(Adults welcome, optional)

And this is the BIG DEAL, the event in which we hope our films will appear:

December 2
The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival with Kate DiCamillo, Jon Scieszka, Rita Williams-Garcia and James Kennedy
Symphony Space

About the Instructors:

Rebecca Migdal is a graphic novelist, illustrator, performer, director, videographer and animator. She created her first animated shorts in college in 1978 using the traditional cel animation technique. She has created animation and interactive designs for Icebox.com and Showtime, as well as numerous commercial and publishing clients. Film projects include "Agent Alpha, the Pentagon's Tiniest Covert Operative", a darkly humorous look at Depleted Uranium using a combination of live puppet performance, comics and animation.
Migdal was a 1989 recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Emerging Artists Grant. She holds a BA in Studio Art from UCSC, an MA in Communication Arts from NYIT and an MFA in English and Creative Writing from SUNY Stony Brook, where she studied comedy and scriptwriting with Jules Feiffer and Roger Rosenblatt. She has taught animation, cartooning, comic book illustration, and computer illustration, at Nassau Commnity College, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and Art Studo Hadley.
Migdal has exhibited her art internationally and is a contributing editor to World War 3 Illustrated magazine. Her most recent animation project, "Amazilla VS Barnes Kong", a book trailer for Andy Laties' Rebel Bookseller, has "gone viral" throughout the online publishing community, with mentions on Mediabistro, the Daily News, the New Yorker and the Paris Review websites. Rebecca Migdal's adaptation of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening is due to appear in November in Volume 3 of The Graphic Canon, a critically acclaimed anthology of world literature in comic form, published by Seven Stories Press.

Katalina Gutierrez received her first camera at the age of 15, taking classes in photography and design in high school. She studied Fine Arts and Sociology at the National University of Costa Rica, with a focus in Painting and Photography.
Gutierrez spent a year in Mexico City studying traditional painting and working as an assistant puppet maker and animator for a traveling puppeteer troupe. At that time she was passionate about capturing the most bizarre imagery from the landscape with her SLR camera. Exposed to the rich Mexican Aztec and Mayan culture, she worked in collaboration with performer and playwright Angeles Romero as camera operator and director of photography on Sueño, a film based on the life of Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz.
In 2009 Gutierrez directed and produced a trailer for the play Hamlet by the The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre in New York. In 2012 she directed and co-produced an indie music video titled Space Time.
Her recent video work, Synesthesia, portrays through animation and sound the mystical journey of a young cello player in search of existential freedom and the meaning of emptiness.
Katalina Gutierrez has exhibited her work at galleries in Costa Rica, Mexico, New Orleans, New York, Massachusetts and Chicago.

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