Saturday Morning Cartoons at Night is exactly what it sounds like. This Monday, January 23rd, the Hollywood Theater presents ninety minutes of retro (1940s-1980s) cartoon goodness on the big screen, complete with bizarre commercials for the Mattel toys that you wish your mom hadn’t yard-saled.  This promises to be a mighty fun time. The Hollywood sells [...]

On Saturday Feb. 4th at 7:00pm, the Academy Award-nominated, computer-eschewing independent animation icon  Don Hertzfeldt brings his films and his generous Q&A skills to the Hollywood Theater. He’ll screen a selection of his work on 35mm, culminating in the exclusive regional premiere of It’s Such A Beautiful Day , the third and final chapter in a trilogy about [...]

Coming up on January 27 and 28, Portland Animation Now! showcases 20+ short films from local independent animators. Including both masters and remarkable amateurs, this is a line-up of new works and seldom-seen gems you won’t find anywhere else.  Highlights include:

At 6pm on January 26, 3DPDX and AEPDX welcome digital artist Barton Damer to the PCC Moriarty Arts & Humanities Building. Damer will show you what Maxon Cinema4D can do. There’s refreshments and a raffle– check the flyer here.

After a successful launch this past spring, the NW Animation Festival is now accepting entries for 2012. Films from anywhere in the world are welcome. The fest will be held here in Portland on the weekend of May 18-19. Early deadline for submissions is December 15, final deadline April 1. See website for details: http://www.nwanimationfest.com

DMTV2 is a collection of experimental and psychedelic animation from around the world. The emphasis is on non-commercial work; we seek pure vision. Some of the films push visual noise and glitch to the limit while others reach a peak of ambient degaussed bliss. Highlights include David O’Reilly’s latest award winning film, The External World, [...]

Next weekend is the Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, and the Northwest Film Center has a whole weekend of screenings, discussions, parties, and more! On Saturday, they’ll be hosting a filmmaking barcamp. For those of you that have attended BeTween PDX, the format will be familiar, and it’s a great way to connect with local filmmakers. And on [...]

On October 23rd, ASIFA Portland is proud to co-sponsor a screening of the 2010 animated feature  Chico & Rita . Directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, the movie is critically praised, award-winning, and packed to the gills with Cuban jazz. The screening starts at 5pm at the Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum. For more information and to [...]

Save the date and brace yourself. On Friday, October 28, we’re combining International Animation Day, Halloween,  Drinking & Drawing, and the unabashed oddity of The Peculiarium for an evening of animation-making strangeness. Costumes encouraged. Details to follow. Get spooky.

It’s that time of year– Ron Diamond (Acme Filmworks, AWN) returns to Portland with an expertly curated sampling of the year’s best new animated shorts. Free to ASIFA Portland members and our non-member friends, the show is at Cinema 21 (NW 21st and Hoyt) at noon on Saturday, October 15. It is not to be missed. Afterwards, [...]

Get out your calendars, because October is a full month! September 23-30th: Spike and Mike’s New Generation Animation Festival is screening nightly at Cinema 21. October 2nd: ASIFA Portland is proud to partner with Fashionbuddha, AEPDX, 3DPDX, and the OMPA to bring you Tron Legacy: Byte by Byte. GMUNK takes apart the VFX of Tron [...]

On Sunday, October 2, come out to the Mission Theater for an exclusive, inside look at the visual effects work that went into the making of  Tron Legacy. Bradley ” GMUNK” Munkowitz presents case studies of the team’s major graphic sequences and shares the immense design process of each task. Brought to you by AEPDX, 3DPX, OMPA, and [...]