Update It has been a busy Fall festival season for Betsy’s Night Fishing with Cormorants. With eight shows in the past few months – Strasbourg, London, Stockholm, Krakow, Bucharest, Cetraro, Italy, Tinidirindis, Lithuania, and Chelyabinsk, Russia. Including a very nice, Special Mention award at Premio Simona Gesmundo Animation Festival in Cetraro, Italy:
“A beautiful and fascinating work containing inspirations coming from a distant literary and pictorial past. By using them, with no naturalistic but absolutely modern strokes, the author manages to reach a perfect communion with the natural world.”
Motion Graphic Design instructor, Betsy Kopmar, was recently awarded with the Special Prize at an International Animation Festival in Hiroshima, Japan, for her animation, Night Fishing with Cormorants.
“I am not telling a naturalistic story – I have tried to make a work that will hold in equal reverence the spirit of the bird, the fish, and the fisherman.”
You can read more about it on Maxon’s site. Maxon is the manufacturer of Cinema 4D, a 3D software used heavily here at Ex’pression College.
You may view the animation here.
Related links
Betsy Kopmar invited to SIGGRAPH ’09
Students place in Adobe Design Achievement Awards
Upcoming and past screenings for
Night Fishing with Cormorants:
2010 Animation, Art Basel Miami
Miami, FL, December, 2010
Hiroshima 2010 Special, Animax TV,
Tokyo, Japan, November, 2010
No-festival of Video Art and Animation
Chelyabinsk, Russia, November, 2010
17th International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima 2010
Krakow, Poland, November, 2010
Kinofest 2010, International Digital Film Festival,
Bucharest, Romania, November, 2010
Tindirindis 8th International Animation Film Festival
Tindirindis, Lithuania, November, 2010
Prize Simona Gesmundo for Animated Films
Cetraro, Italy, October, 2010
Special Mention
FIA Festival 2010, Forum for International Animation
Stockholm, Sweden, October, 2010
London International Animation Festival
London, UK, September, 2010
Strasbourg International Film Festival
Strasbourg, France, August, 2010
Hiroshima International Animation Festival
Hiroshima, Japan, August, 2010
Awarded Special Prize
New Filmmakers, Contemporary Experimental Animation
New York, NY, July, 2010
Melbourne International Animation Festival
Melbourne, Australia, June, 2010
Vesak 2010 International Buddhist Film Festival
Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 2010
backup_festival 2010
Bauhaus Film Institute
Weimar, Germany, May 2010
SoundImageSound VII
University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA, March 2010
Videographies 21
Digital and Experimental Film Festival
Liege, Belgium, March 2010
ByDesign10
Seattle, WA
March, 2010
Anima2010
Brussels Animation Festival
Belgium, Feb 2010
Iota Salon
UCLA Art and Media Dept
Los Angeles, Ca Jan 2010
Music &Technology Concert,
DeMontfort University, Leicester
UK, Oct 2009
Stash DVD magazine #60,
Sept. 2009
Siggraph 2009 Computer Animation Festival
New Orleans, LA, Aug.3-7, 2009

