The beautifully animated film AZUR & ASMAR will screen at 3:30 PM at the Family Festival on Nov. 21
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The day begins with two screenings of the very popular ANIMATED BEST LOVED CHILDREN'S BOOKS from Scholastic/Weston Woods Studios, featuring award-winning adaptations of some of the most well-known children’s picture books of recent years. The 10:30 AM show is geared toward ages 2-7 and the one at 12:30 PM toward ages 4-9. This year’s festival features favorites such as CRAZY HAIR DAY by Barney Saltzberg, ART by Patrick McDonnell, featuring the music of Bobby McFerrin, and DON'T LET THE PIGEONS DRIVE THE BUS, by perennial favorite Mo Willems. Willems’ KNUFFLE BUNNYand KNUFFLE BUNNY, TOO along with Peter Reynolds’ THE DOT, audience favorites from Belmont World Film’s earlier fests, will also be included in this year’s line-up, as well as a premiere screening of SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY, adapted from the Caldecott-winning book by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, with illustrations by Mary Azarian.
From 2:00-3:00 PM, Boston-area animator Joel Frenzer will talk to kids about how to become an animator while showing some of his films, as well as those of renowned animator Karen Aqua. Frenzer is currently a full time animation instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, but has been involved as an animator and voice over for the Cartoon Network when he was with Olive Jar Animation Studio and The Animation Cowboys. Frenzer’s films will include PAPER BEARS, THE BEATBOX BASTARD ON A DATE and BANNAKY, whereas Aqua’s films will include KAKANIA, NINE LIVES, and YOURS FOR THE TAKING, as well as ones created with children, such as ROSWELL: NOT JUST ALIENS! and IN THE SHADOWS OF MONADNOCK.
The day closes at 3:30 PM with the acclaimed animated feature film AZUR & ASMAR by Michael Ocelot ("Kirikou & the Sorceress"), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. Made in Paris by individuals from 25 different countries and featuring the voice of Hiam Abbass, recently seen in "Amreeka" and "The Visitor," the film tells the story of two boys raised as brothers, but then separated, until as adults they mercilessly become rivals in the quest for the Fairy Djinn in a medieval Maghreb: blonde, blue-eyed, white skinned Azur and black-haired, brown-eyed, dark-skinned Asmar. Ty Burr of the Boston Globe says, “…the movie plays like an illuminated picture-book version of a tale from "The Arabian Nights…" [my] 11-year-old daughter was wowed: an easy four stars from her and probably your guys, too.”
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