Learn Self Defense is touring with Spike & Mike’s new Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation. The show will be playing for the next several months, mostly around the West coast.

Check the Spike & Mike site for current tour dates

The festival got a pretty decent review from the Vancouver Weekly, Straight:

Exerpt:
In general, everyone here is up for quite a bit of pain and violence, with only one short having a real (sharpened) point. Chris Harding’s “Learn Self Defense” would be a handsomely drawn spoof of cowardly machismo even if you didn’t (eventually) recognize that the George doing all the defending here is the president of the you-know-what.

- Ken Eisner, Straight.com
Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005
10-Nov-2005

In the past few weeks, Learn Self Defense has taken home a few more awards at film festivals.

At the Bradford Animation Festival, put on by the British National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television, we won two awards:

The Audience Award for Best Film, as voted by the festival attendees, and Best Professional Film. (”Professional??!!”)

The Toofy Film Festival in Boulder, CO is a small but very cool festival in its second year. In addition to screening films, they also have music and fashion.

Learn Self Defense won the Golden Toof Award for Best Animated Short. Thanks, Toofy!