DBFF ANNOUNCES ANIMATION MASTER CLASS WITH BILL PLYMPTON

DBFF ANNOUNCES ANIMATION MASTER CLASS WITH BILL PLYMPTON

-With More Workshops to Be Held During 2008 Delray Beach Film Festival May 6-11

Current Through: April 12, 2008

FILMMAKERS AND FILM STUDENTS TO LEARN THE ART AND BUSINESS OF FILMMAKING FROM OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATOR, BILL PLYMPTON –AND OTHER INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS

(Delray Beach, Florida) – Oscar-nominated animator, Bill Plympton returns to the Delray Beach Film Festival (DBFF) to fascinate filmmakers and film students with his illustrious workshop, titled Animation Master Class with Bill Plympton. Mr. Plympton’s workshop will be held Friday, May 9, from 2-4 pm at Dolce Amore Café, located in Downtown Delray Beach’s Historic Pineapple Grove District.

Through the use of live drawings and recent short films, Writer-Producer-Director Bill Plympton will talk about how to make a living, producing short films. He will also discuss the creative side of animated shorts. After a short Question & Answer session, Mr. Plympton will give every attendee a sketch!

The 2008 Delray Beach Film Festival invites local and visiting filmmakers and well as college and high school film students interested in the art of filmmaking, to take part in this series of free educational film workshops. Over four days of the festival, industry professionals will present valuable and cutting-edge workshops during the daytime, –from Acting to Script Writing to Film Financing, and more.

The educational film workshops will take place on Wednesday, May 7th through Saturday, May 10^th. Casting Directors/Actors Workshop, hosted by Director/Acting Coach Marc Durso, ( Wed. 5/7), Script Writing Workshop, hosted by Writer-Producer-Director Alyn Darnay, (Thurs. 5/8), Acting for Directors & Screenwriters Workshop, Marc Durso of ActTrue, Inc., (Thurs. 5/8), International Co-Productions Workshop, hosted by Producer Indira Somani and Filmmaker Leena Jayaswall, (Thurs. 5/8), New Digital Technologies for Filmmakers Workshop, sponsored by SONY, (Fri. 5/9), Animation Master Class with Bill Plympton, (Fri. 5/9), Film Financing Workshop, hosted by Jeffrey Taylor, Founder of Showbiz Management Advisors, (Sat. 5/10), and The Future of Interactive On-Demand Media Workshop, hosted by Steve Zuckerman, Founder of GEMS TV, (Sat. 5/10).

All workshop seminars will be held at the Dolce Amore Cafe, located at 241 NE 2nd Avenue, off Atlantic Avenue, in Downtown Delray Beach. For specific times and complete workshop descriptions, please visit our website: www.dbff.us or pick up our program guide from supporting Palm Beach County businesses. School groups may sign up for one or all four days. The workshop seminars are free, on a first-come-first serve basis. All workshop seminars are subject to change without notice.

About Bill Plympton

After a successful 15-year career as an illustrator and cartoonist, Bill Plympton was approached to animate and direct a film based on Jules Feiffer's song, "Boomtown." Plympton followed BOOMTOWN with his own animated film, DRAWING LESSON # 2, which garnered a 1988 Oscar nomination for best animated short. His filmography soon expanded into a succession of short and feature length animated films as well as live-action feature length films, such as YOUR FACE, J. LYLE and HAIR HIGH. Bill received his second Oscar nomination in January 2005 for his short film GUARD DOG. Two equally successful sequels, GUIDE DOG and HOT DOG, soon followed.

His latest feature film, IDIOTS AND ANGELS, will premiere at Tribeca, and close the 2008 Delray Beach Film Festival, (Saturday, May 10th at the Crest Theater at Old School Square). Featuring the music of Tom Waits, Moby and Pink Martini, IDIOTS AND ANGELS is dark comedy about a morally bankrupt man scrabbling to hide the good in himself-which manifests itself in a pair of angel wings that just won't go away.

About the Festival

The Delray Beach film Festival is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that demonstrates its commitment to the community by donating a percentage of the proceeds from the film festival to other non-profits including the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League and The Children’s Coalition, Inc.