David the Reporter... At OIAF 2015!!!!!!!!!!!! Thursday, September 17, 2015

Hello Evreybody,
My name is David Cuevas and here was my second day at OIAF 2015!

The First thing that I did, was at 9:30 AM, I went to Saint Bridges to see Meet The Filmmakers of Short Film Competition 1! The Discussion was very interesting and amusing to listen and watch at! After that, I managed to interview 2 Directors from the Competition! The first one is Ryan Ines, The Director of Violet (who later on won the OIAF award for Best Undergraduate Animation)!

 

 

The Second Interview that I did was to the director of Sonámbulo, Theodore Ushev, who in 2013 got shortlisted for an Academy Award for his Film, Gloria Victoria!

 

After that, I headed to see the Horror Comedy, Possessed! If you don't mind Clay Gore and you really like Dark Comedy's, then see it! After the screening, I was really lucky to meet the director of the film, Sam Orti! Here's my interview with him!



 

 

https://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=1216#1216

After Possessed, I went to Short Film Competition 5, which in my opinion was the BEST short film screening of OIAF 2015! All of the short films in competition I liked or loved! Here is a list of my top 4 shorts from the Screening! World of Tommorow, Amelia and Duarte, Planeta de Queso, and Wrigley Live Safe!






https://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=1210#1210


After this Amazing Screening, I went to see Michael Kurinsky, An Artists Growth at Sony Pictures Animation! The presentation from Michael was Brilliant and I though it was fantastic!

https://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=1235#1235

After the Michael Kurinsky Talk, I went too Pitch This!, where I was on of the kid pitchers! I had so much fun and I would like to say thanks to Azarin for making me part of this awesome event!

After the pitch this event was over, I went to Arts Court to try out the Oculus Rift, and it was AWESOME!!!!!!! The game felt so realistic with the movement and the visual graphics were amazing!

After that, the last thing that I did, was to go to Feature Competition 3 for Adama, and it was a tour de force! The film was amazing and I highly recommend it to anyone!


https://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=1213#1213

And that was my day at Thursday at the OIAF! Thanks for reading!

See you in my next post!

Meet you at the OIAF 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello everybody,
Starting tomorrow, I will be at the Ottawa International Animation Festival! I will be hosting some TAC events when I'm there and I'm going to try to be at the gala's! Also, on this blog, I will be doing a LIVE blogger feed from OIAF 2015! The label is "David Live at OIAF 2015"! I will be posting videos and photos instantly for the 5 days! Hope to see you there! BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

New Story Published!

Hello readers,
  I have some real important news that just happened! I got another story published called Elsie and the Polar Bear! It has been published by a Canadian Publishing company called Polar Expressions! My story is in the book Paper Shadows! I was competing all around Canada! This is my favorite story that I've written so far! Who knows if I'm going to make a movie for it?

Elsie and the Polar Bear is a 750 word short story! It's about a young girl named Elsie (Elsie is the daughter of Alexander Graham Bell in the real life and in the story) who goes on an adventure and meets new encounters like the artic hare and the Polar Bear King!

If you want to purchase the book click here!

See you in my next post!

We Won!

In February, I won the OPL (Ottawa Public Library) Awesome Authors contest! Then, this month, I went to the book launch to celebrate and have fun! Here's a picture of me at the book launch!

    

The next two pictures show two of my main characters from my story called Mr. Hedgehog and Mr. Turtle!

Here's a picture of me with the book!

Wow! It's been a big year!

See you in my next post!

My Experience at the OIAF... (Part 2)

My experience at the OIAF.....  (Part 2)

In my last post, I was talking about my first two days at the OIAF (Ottawa International Animation Festival). Today, I'm going to continue telling you about my experience at the OIAF. Hope you enjoy!!!
                                        Friday, September 20, 2013
Today in the afternoon I went to the Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse "Get a Horse". Here's a link:
https://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=999#999


I really loved the short! You can see the short in theaters when the movie Frozen comes out to theatres! The whole thing was excellent and I learned how they made the short! Here's a  few picture of me with Lauren MacMullan (Fun Fact: Did you know that she is the first female director to ever work in Disney?) and the legendary  Disney animator, Eric Goldberg (He is one of the few Disney animators who still knows how to do 2D animation and he directed Pocahontas).

                                                                 Me with Lauren MacMullan!

                                                                  Me with Eric Goldberg!
       Oh by the way, did I tell you that they were handing out posters to be signed by Eric and Lauren?

                                                         Me with a poster!

                 Saturday, September 21, 2013

On Saturday, In the morning, I went to Saint Brigid's Centre for the arts, to see "The Blue Umbrella" finding stories and staying true to their heart. Here's a link: https://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=1010#1010
The whole thing was awesome!!!!! I loved how Saschaka Unseld explained the process of the short, from the pitch to the final version! I just love professional developments! Any who, I got a picture of me with Saschaka Unseld signing a poster that they were handing out for free!

                                            Saschaka Unseld giving out his presentation!

                                           Me getting a poster signed by Saschaka Unseld!
                                             Here's a little clip of the blue umbrella!

Before I went, there was a Nickelodeon station to talk out with the people that work there. I met a lady named Veronica Esquivel, who works at nickelodeon. She was very nice!

                                                Me talking with Veronica Esquivel!
Then, I had lunch at the National Gallery of Art!
Remember how I told you  in my last post that when you win the contest you get to be a part of the kids jury? Well that's when I come in!!!!!!! I'm judging television animation for kids competition!
Here's a link! https://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=980#980
You'll see who won later...

The awards ceremony!!!!!!
Here's the winners of Television for Kids competition!!!!!

Oh, and the last bit of the video, was a student called Manabu Himeda from Tama Arts University in Japan! Here's a picture of me with him...

I also got a picture of the director of the group from Tama Art University!!!!!

 Oh! And this is a picture of what they won!!!!!

Oh! That reminds me!!!! I have a few pictures of the people who won from television for kids competition!

SpongeBob (Rich Magallanes)...

Regular Show...

Adventure Time...

                                             This next picture shows me with JG Quintel...

Here's a few (but in this case a few, it means A LOT!!!!) of the awards night....

And then you can't believe who I met after the awards.....

I met Adam Elliot!

Don't remember him from the last post? Well here's a few things that might help you remember...

https://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=987#987

https://www.animationfestival.ca/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=986#986

Now you remember... Well, I got his autograph and I have a few pictures of me with him,

 that I would like to share...

                                                       And that was the end of that day....

Wait! I forgot to tell you something!!! I met a group of animation students from San Jose California, Fiona and friends, they were very nice. If you want to learn more about Fiona, go to this link.
link: http://fionahersewoo.blogspot.com/

Now to the next day...