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2017 Schedule

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20

US Premiere, Director Q&A

EVENT SOLD OUT
The Breadwinner

Friday, October 20, 7pm
  • TKTS
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North American Premiere

EVENT SOLD OUT
Fireworks

Friday, October 20, 9:30pm
  • TKTS
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21

Special Event

Three Snow Whites

Saturday, October 21, 1:30pm
  • TKTS
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SURREAL STUDIO SHORTS FROM THE 1930s

Outlandish Lands

Saturday, October 21, 11am
  • TKTS
  • INFO
FREE EVENT!

Google VR Lounge

Saturday, Oct 21, 12pm-6pm
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US Premiere, Director Q&A

EVENT SOLD OUT
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales

Saturday, October 21, 1:30pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
North American Premiere, Director Q&A

Zombillenium

Saturday, October 21, 4:15pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
West Coast Premiere, Directors Q&A

EVENT SOLD OUT
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

Saturday, October 21, 4:15pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
West Coast Premiere, Director Q&A

EVENT SOLD OUT
Mutafukaz

Saturday, October 21, 7pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
World Premiere, Director Q&A

Virus Tropical

Saturday, October 21, 7pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
Special Event

Mind Game

Saturday, October 21, 9:30pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22

Special Event, Filmmaker Q&A

EVENT SOLD OUT
Disney • Pixar’s The Incredibles

Sunday, October 22, 11am
  • TKTS
  • INFO
World Premiere

EVENT SOLD OUT
Big Fish and Begonia

Sunday, October 22, 11am
  • TKTS
  • INFO
FREE EVENT!

Google VR Lounge

Sunday, Oct 22, 12pm-6pm
  • INFO
Special Event, Filmmaker Q&A

The LEGO Batman Movie

Sunday, October 22, 2:15pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
US Premiere

EVENT SOLD OUT
Lu Over the Wall

Sunday, October 22, 2:15pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
North American Premiere, Director Q&A

Tehran Taboo

Sunday, October 22, 5:15pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
Women in Animation Short Film Program

Songs of Love and Death

Sunday, October 22, 8pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
North American Premiere, Director Q&A

FESTIVAL EVENT SOLD OUT
Mary and The Witch’s Flower

Sunday, October 22, 5:15pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO
US Premiere

EVENT SOLD OUT
Night Is Short, Walk on Girl

Sunday, October 22, 8pm
  • TKTS
  • INFO

2017 Partners & Sponsors

Founding Partners

Presenting Sponsors

Major Sponsors

Official Airline Partner

Industry Partners

Media Sponsors

Community Partners

Hospitality Sponsors

2017 Jury

Allison Abbate

Allison Abbate is an executive vice president at Warner Animation Group. Prior to assuming her post at WAG, Abbate was an executive producer on the global blockbuster The LEGO® Movie, and a producer on Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie and Corpse Bride, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Brad Bird’s Iron Giant.

Peter Debruge

Peter Debruge is Variety’s Chief International Film Critic. He first joined the Variety team in 2005 as a features editor, compiling the magazine’s annual 10 Actors, Directors and Screenwriters to Watch lists as well as overseeing a range of special editorial sections, including those tied to the magazine’s philanthropy-driven Power of Youth and Power of Comedy events.

Carolyn Giardina

Carolyn Giardina is Tech Editor at The Hollywood Reporter and writes its Behind the Screen blog. In 2015, Carolyn was presented American Cinema Editors’ Robert Wise Award, which recognizes a journalist for contributions to film editing. She was the 2011 recipient of the International Cinematographers Guild’s Technicolor William A. Fraker Award for journalistic contributions to cinematography.

Jorge R. Gutiérrez

Jorge R. Gutiérrez is a painter, writer and director born in Mexico City and raised in Tijuana. Gutierrez has completed various films, cartoons, and paintings exploring his love of Mexican pop and folk culture.

Charles Solomon

An internationally respected critic and historian of animation, Charles Solomon has written on the subject for the New York Times, Newsweek (Japan), Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, Variety, the Manchester Guardian, and National Public Radio.

Mabel Tam

Mabel Tam is VP/Head Film Buyer of LANDMARK THEATRES. Landmark Theatres is the nation’s largest theatre chain dedicated to exhibiting and marketing independent film. A 16 year veteran of the entertainment industry, she is a graduate of UCLA and resides in LA with her family.

Anne Thompson

Born and raised in New York, IndieWire Editor at Large Anne Thompson has been a contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, The Observer, and Wired. She has served as film columnist at Variety and deputy editor of Variety.com. Anne was the Deputy Film Editor at The Hollywood Reporter, the West Coast Editor of Premiere, a Senior Writer at Entertainment Weekly, and West Coast Editor for Film Comment.

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