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In February 2013, Maeya proudly presented Cheng Ying Rescues the Orphan, Maeya’s first theater production at Studio 54
Theater in New York’s Broadway as well as at the Warner Grand Theater in Los Angeles.
The Maeya Culture Exchange Group LLC provides a platform for different cultures to explore, share and communicate with one another. Our purpose is to increase mutual understanding and appreciation between people from different cultures through education and culture exchange. The Economic globalization brings financial benefit; Maeya Culture Exchange Group LLC brings harmony through culture and art environment.
As a cultural project management firm, Maeya Culture Exchange Group LLC produces and manages two international film festivals every year in the United States. One is Universe Multicultural Film Festival that is held in Los Angeles every April, and the other is San Diego International Kids’Film Festival that is held in San Diego every September. Maeya’s brand-new annual production is Epic ACG Fest that is held in Albany every November.
Maeya has many years of experience in the promotion and distribution of family-friendly films, both in the U.S. and in China. As of to date, Maeya has the distribution rights of 63 films imported from China. All of the films have been promoted through participation in various film festivals.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Lynn Tang
MARKETING DIRECTOR Ni Huang
PUBLIC RELATION Judy Hu
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Elaine Hu
Haily Duke
VIDEO EDITOR Yunicia Sun
SHOWCASE DIRECTOR Sheila Santa Maria
Facebook.com/EACGFest @ EpicACG
Dear EACG attendees, Welcome to the 2014 Epic Animation Comic and Game (EACG) Fest in
the beautiful East Bay of San Francisco in California. All EACG activities
will be held in the Albany Community Center in the city of Albany. This
will be our very first edition of showcasing animations, comics, and
games. We will be bringing artists from around the world to screen,
exhibit and compete their work for the local audience.
We will be screening over 20 animated films that have been selected
from submissions from all over the world. There will be special guest
appearances from both domestic and international, such as top
Japanese animator Yuichi Ito, and two-time Emmy Award winner
Nelson Recinos. The jury members will consist of Pixar animators and
DreamWorks team of Animation TV series.
This year's gaming tournament will be a cube puzzle competition, a
class but very challenging game. In addition to the fun, we will also be
hosting panels regarding industry updates and a red carpet award
ceremony with recognitions to some of the best competitors.
On behalf of the entire EACG committee, we thank you for being a part
of our festival. EACG will continue to grow with your support and care.
I sincerely thank for the sponsors, supporters, volunteers who make
this event possible.
Sincerely,
Welcome Letter from
Executive Director
Lynn Tang
Nelson Recinos Robb Denovan
Ashanti Altovese Griffin Vindi Birch
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SPONSORS/PARTNERS
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SPONSORS/PARTNERS
Courtyard Oakland Emeryville
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SPECIAL GUESTS
Yuichi Ito Animator/Director
Yuichi Ito mainly uses clays, but also uses any other materials and animation techniques. He directed the original animation film Harbor Tale, which won the Best Animated Film and Audience Awards at The 52nd Zlín International Film Festival. He established and became the president of I.TOON Ltd. in 1998. He became a professor of Graduate School of Film and New Media Tokyo University of the Arts in 2008.
Nelson Recinos Animator/Director
Nelson Recinos is a two-time Emmy Award-winning Animation Director. He has more than twenty years experience in the animation industry, the last ten as a Producer/Director/Creator. At Warner Brothers Animation, he directed some of their top rated shows, including Pinky and the Brain (for which he received five Emmy nominations), Batman, Animaniacs, and Baby Looney Tunes. He has worked on 2D-traditional, CG-computer and flash projects for companies such as Disney, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, 20th Century Fox, Starz, and Scholastic Entertainment.
Lon Lopez Animator/Producer
Lon Lopez is an award-winning filmmaker and producer from San Jose, CA. Known for his narrative and documentary features, Lon also has a passion for animation. His last short, the stop motion action figure film, The Setback won best animated short at the Famous Monsters of Filmland filmfest 2014 and at the Big Wow Comic Fest. He is currently in post-production of his next stop motion film, C.O.B.A.L.T., which is slated to release later this year. As a huge fan of Comics, Games and Films, Lon and the EACG just might be a perfect match.
Robb Denovan Animator
Robb Denovan has worked in the animation industry for over a decade at some of the industry's top studios including MPC London, Weta Digital and Pixar Animation Studios where he has been for the past 5 years. Mr. Denovan studied Classical Animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario before animating on the Academy Award winning short film, Ryan. Since then, he has worked on many highly successful films including King Kong, Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Clash of the Titans, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Brave, Cars 2 and Monsters University. He is currently working as a Senior Animator on Pixar's upcoming film Inside Out.
John Tupper Animator
John Tupper has been a freelance animator at Illusive Reality Animation, in Silicon Valley, since 1998, and was an aerospace engineering designer before that. John’s passion remains story telling. His first animated short film, On the Rise, played in some 40 film festivals internationally and won multiple awards, including a Platinum Award at World Fest. His first feature-length animation screenplay, Spirit of the Rain, also won multiple awards including a Diamond Award at the California Film Awards.
Ashanti Altovese Griffin Costume Designer
Dancer, Actor, Model, & Costume Designer are just some of the titles Ashanti Altovese dons on a daily basis. She uses her skills in the creative arts to develop original designs for bikini competitions, dance performances, and pageant shows. With a single semester of Sewing 101 during her high school learning, Ashanti has gone on to create a fashion line for women called Bellas & Bikinis, a collection of matching evening gown and swimwear sets. In addition, she developed her own fragrance line called Salsalicious to celebrate the sexy dance of Salsa, in which she is a professional performer, instructor, and competitor.
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Events Schedule
Comic Art Show
1:30 PM – 9:00 PM Saturday, November 22, 2014 The Community Room (Hall)
1:30 PM – 6:00 PM Sunday, November 23, 2014 The Community Room (Hall)
Sherwood Jones
Chairman
2014 San Diego
International Kids’ Film
Festival
Game Tournament
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Saturday, November 22, 2014 The Community Room (Hall)
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Sunday, November 23, 2014 The Community Room (Hall)
Masquerade Contest and Red Carpet
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM Sunday, November 23, 2014 The Community Room (Hall)
Industry Panel Discussion
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Saturday, November 22, 2014 Talk about Animation
The Community Room (Hall)
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Sunday, November 23, 2014 Talk about Cosplay
The Community Room (Hall)
Award Ceremony
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Sunday, November 23, 2014 The Community Room (Hall)
Vindi Birch Cosplayer
Vindi Birch is a proud, plus-size cosplayer who loves to bring her favorite characters to life using unconventional materials. She has been creating costumes for over ten years and is the founder of the East Bay Renegade Cosplay Meetup. When she isn't helping out with cosplay projects, Vindi is a self-published author, singer, casual gamer and avid reader of comics and other fine literature.
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TICKETING
1-day Fest Pass $20
$10 (Seniors/Students)
Online Ticketing http://2014eacg.eventbrite.com/
Group Tickets (minimum 10) call 310-541-8040
On the Door Accept cash and major credit cards
VENUE
Albany Community Center 1249 Marin Ave
Albany, CA 94706
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Animation Film Screening Schedule
Auditorium
Both on Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, November 23, 2014
1:30 PM
ORANGE DREAMS Slovenia 3 mins
SHOEMAKER SAVES MARIBOR Slovenia 2 mins
COUNTRY BY COUNTRY Russia 11 mins
THE LETTER Slovenia 3 mins
WINTER APPLE Slovenia 4 mins
2:15 PM
TENEBRIS Romania 6 mins
BEAUTY IN THE EYES China 2 mins
LIFE OF SARUMOMO Japan 11 mins
INTERESTING China 4 mins
3:00 PM
JOBWATCH Turkey 6 mins
FIFI CAT THERAPIST: PANIC ATTACK USA 3 mins
LIGHT MAN, THE NEW YORK CITY SAVIOUR UK 7 mins
THE BEGGAR Iran 4 mins
3:45 PM THE GARDEN KEEPER Israel 11 mins
THE PAPA LEONE'S PIZZA SHOW: PUS USA 11 mins
UPGRADE Israel 4 mins
4:30 PM
DORON CORON Japan 3 mins
HARBOR TALE Japan 18 mins
BLUE EYES IN HARBOR TALE Japan 8 mins
YOKOHAMA TALE Japan 3 mins
Special Screening on Saturday, November 22, 2014
5:30 PM
ROXY AND LIAM USA 8 mins
DESERT RAT: DUSTER’S BREAKFAST USA 2 mins
ON THE RISE USA 5 mins
6:00 PM Best Animated Feature Film 2014 San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival
THUNDER AND THE HOUSE OF MAGIC Belgium 82 mins
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ANIMATION
COUNTRY BY COUNTRY
Russia︱11 min Short︱Education︱Animation
Director/Producer/Screenwriter Milana Kasakina
This film is dedicated to the Olympic SOCHI-2014. Earlier the Winter Olympiads were hosted by 10 other countries. Each episode of this film was shot in his animation technique that never repeats.
ORANGE DREAMS
Slovenia︱3 min Short︱Animation
Directors Jakob Korošec, Dominik Pinterič, Uroš Zagoranski Mentor Mojca Guštin
Apple juice? Yummy … Orange … Who knows?
SHOEMAKER SAVES MARIBOR
Slovenia︱2 min Short︱Animation
Director Jakob Korošec, Tomi Peršo Mentor Hana Repše
The story of the little shoemaker who saves Maribor is well known amongst its citizens. But what if, instead of the Turks, aliens come to Maribor?
THE LETTER
Slovenia︱3 min Short︱Drama︱Animation
Directors Maja Kukovičič, Pia Golob, Tinkara Radmilovič Mentor Marko Šebrek
What happens when you send a letter to your favorite music star?
WINTER APPLE
Slovenia︱4 min Short︱Animation
Directors Jakob Korošec, Dominik Pinterič, Blaž Koprivšek, Nino Trdin, Svit Repše Rupnik Mentor Hana Repše Producers Hana Repše, Rene Puhar
The unexpected can happen when someone sneezes in the park...
Made by Kids
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ANIMATION
BEAUTY IN THE EYES
China︱2 min Short︱Romance
Directors/Screenwriters Shanchun Yan, Xiyong Yin, Mingming Chen Producer Shanchun Yan
A shy man and a pretty woman fall in love at the first sight on the side of the West Lake.
BLUE EYES IN HARBOR TALE
Japan︱8 min Short︱Animation︱Fantasy
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Yuichi Ito Animator Fumi Inoue Cast Maria Kawamura
In a port town “Y”, where there are many old artifacts which are animated through a long time, a piece of brick lives as a pilot for the “guests” from overseas. One day, he meets a doll girl came out from a boat house on a river and their story begins.
DORON CORON
Japan︱3 min Short︱Animation︱Adventure
Director/Screenwriter/Cast Yuichi Ito Producer Etsuko Iwata Animators Ikuko Iwatsuki, Mayuko Tazumi, Motoki Ohno Shin Hosokawa, Masato Hayafune
Doron Coron is animated in an unexpected way with mud and angel’s pee. He leaves the town and meets various kinds of creatures throughout the year…
FIFI CAT THERAPIST: PANIC ATTACK
USA︱3 min Short︱Animation︱Comedy
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Mike Blum Animator Ramiro Olmos Cast Sascha Alexander, Artt Butler, Spike Spencer
You’ll never believe what’s causing Jersey-tough, Bobby the Bobcat’s panic attacks! Bada-bing, bada-boom!
HARBOR TALE
Japan︱18 min Short︱Animation︱Fantasy
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Yuichi Ito Animators Fumi Inoue, Masato Hayafune Cast George William, Yuichi Ito
A red brick which is a piece of a brick-buit building has watched the changing times of the Harbor for a hundred years. One day, he gets out of the building wall…
INTERESTING
China︱4 min Short︱Animation︱Music
Director/Screenwriter Zongqing Sun Producers Zongqing Sun, Yamin Feng
The film illustrates an amazing Chinese ink painting. In a river, a black fish was attracted by a beautiful red fish, which is surrounded by flowers and dancing elegantly to the music of a lovely waltz.
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ANIMATION JOBWATCH
Turkey︱6 min Short︱Animation︱Comedy
Director/Producer Yoong Wah Alex Wong Animators Zeynep Ozel, Muge Mahmutcavusoglu, Ecem Bezer, Basak Erbakan, Burak Ertekin, Pamir Mundt, Eylul Guler, Hendrik Ludders, Tugce Karakaya, Ensar Gunesdogdu, Yigit Sakin
"Jobwatch" showcases the conceptual representation of a tedious interview process that leads to humorous and unexpected ending.
LIFE OF SARUMOMO
Japan︱11 min Short︱Animation︱Family︱Romance
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Takumi Kawagoe
A poor mother and her son live in a small house. After the mother dies of illness, the sad son meets a dear girl, but a war begins soon.
TENEBRIS
Romania︱6 min Short︱Animation︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter/Producer/Animator Sova Ion
When death haunts the battlefield, the last wish of a soldier is to join his beloved person. This is the tale of Tenebris who fights his way to meet his wife.
THE BEGGAR
Iran︱4 min Short︱Animation | Comedy
Director Mohammad Reza Gholami Screenwriter Gholami Saadatmand Producers Gholami
This is a story of two beggars who will do whatever to get money...
THE GARDEN KEEPER
Israel︱11 min Short︱Animation︱Drama | Adventure
Directors Ariad Shiknagi, Gal Genossar Producer Netanela Evyatar Screenwriter Ariad Shiknagi Cast Liel Krawczyk, Sara Agmon, Evyatar Halimi
An entire imagined world develops within the mind of Yossi, a daydreaming adventurous boy who decides to save the nursery from the clutches of Lizzy the teacher of "Emerald" preschool.
LIGHT MAN, THE NEW YORK CITY SAVIOUR
United Kingdom︱7 min Short︱Animation︱Crime︱Sci-Fi
Director/Producer Marek Light Animator Jawaad Nazir
Light Man is now the new superhero of the earth, based in New York City. Miraculous changes have happened since his arrival and crime and corruption are starting to fade. The purity of truth of the light exposes the weakness in the darkness through Light Man’s awesome ethereal power.
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ANIMATION
THE PAPA LEONE'S PIZZA SHOW: PUS
USA︱11 min Short︱Animation︱Fantasy︱Mixed Media
Directors/Producers/Screenwriters/Cast David Lowitz, Eon Oxer
Faddy uses the pus from Alvin's wound as a delicious pizza topping, and pizzas start selling like hotcakes!
UPGRADE
Israel︱4 min Short︱Animation︱Adventure
Director/Producer/Screenwriter Koby Hadour
This is a story of an unlucky lizard, in an ongoing epic quest after the unreachable.
YOKOHAMA TALE
Japan︱3 min Short︱Animation
Director/Screenwriter/Producer/Cast Yuichi Ito Production Company I.TOON Ltd.
This film is collaboration by three artists who love the port town “Yokohama” in Japan. There are three parts in the film, which are Chat, Once Upon A Time in Red Brick Warehouse, and The White Seamew.
ROXY AND LIAM
USA︱ 8 min Short︱Animation︱Education | Kids-made
Director/Producer/Screenwriter Ruby Janzen
Using a bag of magic letters, Roxy and Liam Birdie make it through a forest full of dangerous obstacles to get to a campout with their friends.
ON THE RISE
USA︱5 min Short︱Animation︱Comedy
Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Animator John Tupper Cast Tom Shea, Linda Montgomery
Zeke is a rancher with a solution to his sheep’s climate-warming pollution. Bullet is his loyal dog who must save Zeke from his own uplifting brilliance. The result is spectacular!
Special Screening
DESERT RAT: DUSTER’S BREAKFAST
USA︱2 min Short︱Animation︱Comedy
Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Animator John Tupper
Duster is a scruffy little Desert Rat who finds breakfast. Will he eat it or visa versa?
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COMIC
Drift Buyi Li, 2013
Susan’s Dairy Youhui Zhang, 2013, China
Susan’s Dairy is like a prose. With just simple painting and short scripts, it illustrates a city girl’s inner voice, confusions and endeavor.
Survival Rules for
Work Place Youhui Zhang, 2013, China
Survival Rules for Work Place was published as comic series in Guangzhou Daily for quite some time. It tells a cat’s funny stories in his work place. In China, work place has its implicit rules that are never spoken of.
Drift Buyi Li, 2013, Canada
This is a lonely person’s whole world.
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GAME
Harmony in Red, Henri Matissse, 1908
Café Terrace at Arles Van Gogh, 1888
Still Life with La Danse, Henri Matissse, 1909
The Black Table Henri Matissse, 1919
The Window Henri Matissse, 1916
Yellow Chair Van Gogh, 1888
Puzzle Maeya
Puzzle Maeya is a unique puzzle concept consisting of 130 ½” cubes self-packaged in a 5” x 7” clear plastic case.
Presents the incomparable art of Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse (Mar. 30, 1853 – Jul. 29, 1890) (Dec. 31, 1869 – Nov.3, 1954)
Contained in this single set of 130 cubes are two of Van Gogh’s and four of Matisse’s most famous paintings. To solve this puzzle
1 Select one of the images from the full-sized pictures inside
2 Rotate each cube so that the side displayed is one that is included within the selected image
3 Then arrange the cubes to reconstruct the image exactly ( If only it was as easy as these instructions make it sound )
Be prepared for the challenge of a lifetime! Combines six artistic masterpieces in a unique new format that puzzle-lover will find impossible to resist. Have fun in gaming!
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