month's screening
| Mark Segall |
rU N I C E F
|
Fri 6:00pm Feb 16 1996 NYU Tisch School of the Arts |
A collaboration between
Ram Mohan of Bombay
and Fil-Cartoons of
Manila, the Meena films
promote gender equality.
Meena and her pet bird, Mithu.
Animation, with its
unparalleled ability to cross gender, age and
 Maximo is produced by Ecuador's Cineart together with Walt Disney Studios. He educates about immunization. | cultural barriers, has become a vital tool for the United Nations Children's Fund. Animated characters are being used to spread life-saving information and raise awareness of children's issues. They're imparting health information, teaching tolerance and providing role models to children and parents worldwide. |
The February ASIFA-East
screening will include short spots from
around the world and excerpts from its most popular films,
featuring Meena, a funny, spirited South Asian girl, and Maximo, a
talking toucan from Ecuador.Since their Second
Animation for Development Workshop in Orlando, Florida, the number
of animation projects at UNICEF has skyrocketed. The 1994 workshop
brought together UNICEF staffers and industry leaders and animators
from over 62 countries to focus on children's issues. Internships
and scholarships were started, storyboard and character contests
launched by the enthusiastic workshop participants.This past year UNICEF
organized The International Animation Consortium on Children's
Rights. It joins together top animation studios, animators and
distributors to produce 52 thirty-second spots which wordlessly, or
through brief narration, impart the UNICEF message. The two-year,
$800,000 program will be underwritten by the animation industry
through donated funds and in-kind contributions. UNICEF
representatives will be at the screening to tell you how to
contribute storyboards, completed spots, or fundraising help and to
answer any questions about IACCR.