SVA Dusty Festival personal site
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Real Name: SVA Dusty Festival
Contact information:
Office Hours: 9am-6pm, M-F
209 e.23rd St.
Room 318
212-592-2124
Biography
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Dusty Film & Animation Festival and Awards. This week-long celebration introduces the works of emerging filmmakers and animators from the School of Visual Arts. Held each spring since 1990, the Dusty Film and Animation Festival culminates in a gala awards ceremony with celebrity presenters and industry professionals. This year, the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department is proud to present the 20th annual Dusty Film and Animation Festival in the school’s new state-of-the-art Visual Arts Theater, located in the heart of New York’s legendary Chelsea neighborhood.
Presenters have included such luminaries as Danny Aiello, Karen Allen, Sean Combs, Wes Craven, James Ivory, Harvey Keitel, David Koepp, Viveca Lindfors, Matthew Modine, Mira Nair, Richard Price, Bryan Singer, Todd Solondz and Arthur Penn.
The School of Visual Arts is widely recognized as one of the finest art schools in the United States for its innovative curriculum, unparalleled faculty of more than 900 creative professionals and its participation in the larger arts community of New York City.
Film and animation students at SVA have received accolades and honors from such renowned institutions and organizations such as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Sundance Film Festival; International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France; American Film Institute; Women in Film; National Board of Review, and many others.
Alumni include: Dan Minahan, director, HBO’s Six Feet Under and Deadwood; Fredrick Chandler, senior vice president feature post production, 20th Century Fox; John Dilworth, creator, Courage the Cowardly Dog; Yvette Kaplan, story editor, Ice Age, Blue Sky Studios; James Muro, director of photography, Crash and Open Range; Bill Plympton, creator, Hair High; Harris Savides, director of photography, American Gangster and Zodiac; Tom Sito, animation director, Osmosis Jones; and Mark Ulano, production sound mixer, Titanic and Kill Bill.
SPONSORSHIP
Sponsorship packages include:
• Company presence on the Dusty Film and Animation Festival Web site
• Inclusion in online screening schedule and announcements
• Company logo on print materials for the festival
• Print ad in the souvenir program guide
• Screen time to advertise your company at festival screenings
• Banner signage at screenings and awards ceremony
• Presentation of a Dusty Award in your company’s name, and company
acknowledgment at awards ceremony
Proceeds help to support the Dusty Scholarship Fund for New Talent in film, video and animation for the class of 2010.
Contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
The Visual Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit organization sustained by charitable contributions from individuals, professional associations, corporations and private foundations. Through scholarships, grants and more, the Foundation supports emerging artists and broadens audiences for their work.
FOR SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION CONTACT
Annie Flocco or Heidi H Hamelin, festival producers: 212.592.2124, dustyawards@sva.edu
ARTWORK SPECIFICATIONS
Book trim size is 7.5x11.5"
There is a .5" white border on each page.
Advertisements should be submitted as follows:
Please submit a CD or DVD saved at 100% size in Macintosh pdf, eps or tiff formats. Files can also be sent via e-mail using STUFFIT X. All supporting files and images must be accompanied by fonts converted to outlines. Scans and Photoshop files must be 350 dpi, grayscale, and saved in tiff format. All advertisements are in grayscale.
ADVERTISEMENT SIZES
FULL PAGE
6.25x10.25"
No bleeds; crop marks must be included on the layout.
HALF-PAGE HORIZONTAL
6.25x5"
QUARTER-PAGE VERTICAL
3x5"
DEADLINE
Reserve ad space by February 2, 2009.
Send artwork to Dusty Film and Animation Festival c/o BFA Film, Video and Animation Department, 209 East 23 St, Room 500, New York, NY 10010-3994 or via email to dustyawards@sva.edu.
