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July 15th, 2010 The book Fumettisti d’invenzione. L’autore di fumetti nella fiction: al cinema, in televisione, nella letteratura disegnata, alla radio e in altri media, by Alfredo Castelli, published by Coniglio Editore, has won the 2010 edition of the "Franco Fossati" Award! The prize-giving ceremony will take place on Saturday, July 24th, at about 10 pm, in the wonderful setting of Fellini Square. More infos on the official press release. |
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July 15th, 2010 The short film "Gamba trista", made by the director Francesco Filippi, has won the "Cartoon Baby" Award", for short animated films suitable to a target of children. The winner has been decided by a jury made of six very severe children, and the prize-giving ceremony is taking place tonight, at ChiostroEstate, with the screenings of the films that have participated to the award, and the theatre show The Lunar Adventures of a Moody Little Girl, by the Compagnia del Serraglio, inspired by the character "Viperetta", created by Antonio Rubino. More infos on our blog. |
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July 13th, 2010 Happy birthday, Charlie Brown! Sixty years of life, and yet the Peanuts by Charles Schulz still make us smile with their adventures, their gags, their phylosophical chats. The "ArteCartoon" section, dedicated to screenings of animated films at the Civic Museums, makes its debut today with this tender characters. More infos and credits are available as usual on our blog. |
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July 12th, 2010 This time , "Cartoons sotto le stelle" talks serious: theatre and clownerie by the Compagnia dei Ciarlatani, who works in very hard and difficult places of the world, and short films about strong and important themes. The languages of theatre and animation can get everywhere, and can make us think without making us bored. Give them a try! Come and see! |
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July 11th, 2010 "Cartoons under the stars" strikes again! Tonight the program offers three hits from the channel Nickelodeon: the funny Penguins of Madagascar, the exciting Avatar, and the irresistible Fanboy & Chum Chum. Have fun! You can find more infos about these cartoons on our blog. |
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July 10th, 2010 "Cartoons sotto le stelle" goes on tonight with two characters created by the genius director Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of many animated series aired on Cartoon Network (that we thank for giving us permission to offer these screenings). Adults and children, come and enjoy the adventures of Samurai Jack and of little Dexter with his incredible laboratory! Infos on the characters and the director are available on our blog. |
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July 9th, 2010 Today, Cartoon Club invites you to the first long weekend of the "Cartoons Under the Stars", at 21.00 (free entry!). Our special guest for this first night in Fellini Square is the famous Scooby-Doo with the long feature film Scooby Doo! Pirates Ahoy!, that we can screen thanks to the kindness and the collaboration of the satellite channel Boomerang. Official poster and description of the movie are available on our blog. |
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July 8th, 2010 The programme of Cartoon Club is now available, other than on its dedicated page, also in a PDF file. Please click here to download it. |
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July 8th, 2010 Cartoon Club begins with a special night at the Cloister in San Giuliano, with screenings of short animation films from the past editions of the festival, before moving to Fellini Square for the first long weekend of the "Cartoons Under the Stars". Have fun! |
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July 5th, 2010 After a long time of work behind the scenes, away from the web, we can finally reveal the programme of Cartoon Club 2010, exhibitions included. In the next days, we will update the pages dedicated to the single aspects of the program (short films, shows, etc). |
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March 27th, 2010 From March 26th to 28th, Cartoon Club and its magazine "Fumo di China" have participated to the Cartoomics convention in Milan. On Saturday 27th, a round table about essays on comics took place and this was an occasion to promote our "Franco Fossati" Award, dedicated to Italian books about comics. |
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January 9th-30h, 2010 From January 9th to 30th, at the Galleria dell’Immagine (Biblioteca Gambalunga, via Gambalunga 27, Rimini),the exhibition Tears, Wolves and Tragical Mice. How comics told about the Shoah took place. This exhibition, organized by Cartoon Club, is a sequence of images and panels from the most famous comic-books that told stories about the tragical experience of the Shoah. Many people visited the exhibition, and appreciated this particular way to remember such a sad page of European history. Here you can view some photographs of the exhibition. |
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January 6th, 2010 Regulations and entry form to subscribe your animation films to the 26th edition of Cartoon Club are ready: the deadline is May 23rd. You can download the file from the Download page, or from this link. |
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December 25th, 2009 The staff of Cartoon Club wishes, to fans, friends and colleagues, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! |
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December 12th, 2009 From December 5th to 12th, in the Greek city of Pyrgos, the festival Camera Zizanio took place (during the Olympia Film Festival). Since it is an event dedicated to audiovisual creations by young people, Cartoon Club sent to Pyrgos a selection of short films that had been screened during our "Animated Workshop" sections in the last three years. Camera Zizanio has chosen and screend the following ones: |
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October 28th, 2009 This morning, Cartoon Club has participated to the International Animation Day (see our Online Press Room for details) promoted by Asifa International. At the Cineteca Comunale in Rimini, many short animation films have been screened for the children of the primary schools, this way giving an "autumn sequel" to the activities of our summer festival. |
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October 25th, 2009 As our "introduction" to the International Animation Day (see our Online Press Room for details), today Cartoon Club, together with the Supercinema Theatre in Santarcangelo (RN) and the Tiberio Theatre in Rimini, proposes the screenings of Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea (Santarcangelo, Supercinema, 14.45 and 17.30, entry fee € 5,00 adults and € 4,00 children) and My Neighbour Totoro (Rimini, Cinema Tiberio, at 14.30 and 17, entry fee € 5,00 adults e € 4,00 children). Two wonderful films by the Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki, which have been briefly explained and introduced by our cinema critic Paolo Pagliarani on the YouTube channel of Cartoon Club (Itaoian only!).di Cartoon Club. |
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October 23rd, 2009 Cartoon Club, being a publishing house and not just a festival, is going to participate to the most important Italian event in the comics fiels, which is Lucca Comics & Games. We will present our most recent products, such as the last issues of Fumo di China, the most famous Italian magazine about critics and information on comics, and also the comic-books by Marcello Toninelli, dedicated to his character Dante (a parody of Dante Alighieri), which is now 40 years old (the first time it was publishe don a magazine, was in 1969). |
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October 16th, 2009 During this weekend (October 16th-18th) the Festival du Courtmetrage Sur Les Pas De Mon Oncle is taking place in Saint Maur Des Fosses (France). This festival has cooperated with Cartoon Club for two years now, through exchanges of carte blanche and contacts between staff members. For this 7th edition, our staff member Roberto Sardo has gone to Saint Maur, not only to represent Cartoon Club but also because he is the artistic director of Round, the Independent Cinema Festival which takes place every year in Rimini in the month of May. The short film "Beautiful", by the Riminese director Davide Montecchi, was included in the program of Round in 2008 and is now being presented at the Sur Les Pas De Mon Oncle festival, in a special section dedicated to international festivals of independent cinema. |
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October 4th, 2009 If you are looking for Cartoon Club on social networks, you will find us on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. The first two ones will publish updates in Italian and sometimes in English, while the MySpace page is in English only, and... well, you don't need to know Italian to watch the videos on YouTube! |
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September 22nd, 2009 There is a newborn in the Cartoon Club family; after the festival and the publishing activity, it's time for Cartoon Blog. On its pages we are going to talk about directors, artists, films, characters and everything that concerns the world of animation cinema and comics, including press releases and news from other festivals and events. Also, backstage pills and anecdotes about "life in a festival". Most of the blog is in Italian, but there will be some posts in English. |
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September 13th, 2009 From September 14th to 19th, the 34th edition of the Polish Film Festival takes place in the Polish city called Gdynia. Cartoon Club, thanks to the cooperation with the Polish Filmmakers Association, is partner of this Festival and has offered two programmes of Italian animation cinema. |
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September 2nd, 2009 Today a special promotion begins, in order to celebrate the character Dante, created by Marcello Toninelli 40 years ago. If you read Italian and are interested in an exhilarating parody of the Divine Comedy, you can find all the details here. |
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August 5th, 2009 Cartoon Club is not just a festival but also a publishing house. In the occasion of Riminicomix, we have printed two brand-new books: "Dante: La Vita", a comics parody by Marcello Toninelli (art-name simply Marcello) dedicated to the major poet of Italian literature, and the novel "S'i' fosse morte...", written by Marcello as well: a crime story, set in Middle-Age, where the Divine Poet has to become a detective!
To know something more about both , click here! |
