Meet The Filmmakers: Matt Mochary & Jeff Zimbalist

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Location: NY Chapter office: 1375 Broadway (between 37th & 38th) 2103

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM ~ Program: 7:00 - 8:30 PM

*Free to Members! $15 for those without current membership

RESERVATION REQUIRED due to LIMITED SEATING.

Please Call 212-459-3630 ext. 200 or via EMAIL info@nyemmys.org

Matt Mochary & Jeff Zimbalist will show their film, "Favela Rising"

FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sa is a former drug-trafficker who turns revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro’s most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance, he rallies his community to war against the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police.  At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and ’s grassroots AfroReggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.

Producers Guild of America New Media Council East with NATAS Presents the

2006-2007 Panel and Salon Series

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Chris Wedge: 25 Light Years from TRON

Please join us for "25 Light Years from TRON," a look at the past, present and future of digital animation with Academy Award winner Chris Wedge. Chris's deep involvement and contributions to both the technical and the creative aspects of animation are legendary. He has been an animation supervisor, writer, director and/or producer on such films as TRON, Joe's Apartment, Bunny, Ice Age and Ice Age: The Meltdown, Robots, and the forthcoming Horton Hears A Who.  Blue Sky Studios, the company he co-founded in 1987, has become the major player for 3D animation on the East Coast.

Chris will screen excerpts from his work and offer insights into the business, the technology, and the art of digital animation. This will be an inspiring evening with one of New York's most significant figures in CGI.

Chris Wedge is an Academy Award winner and Co-founder of Blue Sky Studios - http://www.blueskystudios.com.

Conversation moderated by Shelly Palmer, Chairman, Advanced Media Committee, National of Television Arts and Sciences.  Please visit www.shellypalmer.com for more information.

Open remarks provided by Alison Savitch, PGA NMC Vice Chair. Alison Savitch is a producer whose multi-media works include: feature films, TV, digital visual effects for blockbuster movies, animation for major studios, theme parks, interactive, & internet / broadband. Her screen credits include: The Poseidon Adventure, Messengers, The Abyss, Dracula, Terminator 2, The Grudge & The Grudge 2, Rise, Aliens of the Deep, The Last Action Hero, and Mortal Kombat 1 & 2.

 
7pm – 9pm

 
The Screening Room at The Core Club

Street (between and Park Avenues)

New York City

www.thecoreclub.com

Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Space is limited to NATAS members.  RSVP required.   Please email: rsvp_natas@pga-ny.org to RSVP for this event.  All RSVP’s are for one person only.  Attendees will be asked to re-confirm their RSVP 48 hours prior to the event.