Two of Chris Harding’s shorts– Learn Self Defense and Make Mine Shoebox– will be included in the new Pictoplasma Collection of Contemporary Character Animation entitled “Characters In Motion.” It’s a beautiful package filled with very inspiring work from directors all over the world.

Learn Self Defense will also screen in the Pictoplasma Animation Festival November 25-26, 2005 in Berlin.

The DVD/book will be available worldwide very soon. Check the Pictoplasma Web site for updates.

Learn Self Defense is right in the thick of the festival tour, and has already screened in 35 cities with many more scheduled for the rest of the year.

The film has also taken home several awards in recent weeks:

Oxford Film Festival
Spirit of the Hoka Award for Best Animation

Irish Animation Festival, Féile Beochan
Special Mention, International Category

1st Sundays Comedy Film Festival
Judges’ Choice Award

Tallgrass Film Festival
Audience Award for Best Short

Arizona International Film Festival
Selected for Best of AIFF Show

Check the homepage for a complete list of upcoming screenings.

We are proud to announce the premiere of Chris Harding's new short, "Learn Self Defense" at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March.

It's a wonderful festival of film, music, and interactive arts. It runs from March 11-19 in Austin Texas.

More details about screening times and locations will be posted as they become available. Hopefully this is just the beginning of the festival tour, so stay tuned. We may be screening in a theatre near you this year.  

The Robot Family Short "The Slick Salesman" has made the top ten in the Nicktoons Film Festival competition. What this means is… well, who knows. But it's an honor to be in the top ten amongst some great films.

Many thanks to Nicktoons and Frederator for holding the contest, and giving independent animators a little peek into television.

By the way, there was a really good little film in the early part of the series called "Attack of the Note Sheep." Very simple and clever. Worth checking out…

Times and dates for the Robot Family short, "The Slick Salesman" in the Nicktoons Film Festival on the Nicktoons Network have been confirmed:

Sunday, December 5th, 10PM Eastern, 7PM Pacific
Monday, December 6th, 1AM Eastern
Monday, December 6th, 10PM Eastern
Tuesday, December 7th, 1AM Eastern

Be sure to tune in if you have Nicktoons!

Chris Harding's Robot Family short, "The Slick Salesman" will be airing in the Nicktoons Film Festival on the Nicktoons Network. The tentative air date is December 4. Stay tuned for more details.

The ComiCon screening of He's A Good Monkey went very well. For an 11:30 AM screening in a tiny, out-of-the-way room, we had a pretty decent crowd. The film played without a hitch, and everyone laughed when they were supposed to. The Q&A afterward was also really fun and nerve-wracking. But the people were nice and had enough questions to fill up the time, which makes it a lot easier for Chris, who would not have otherwise had anything to say.

Here are some photos from the conference and the screening:

	90,000 people! Dang!
	Our friends at the uclick booth
	A Storm Trooper walks by and nobody notices. It's just like the future!
	Amy, happy and content, before the crowds got to us, and we all started killing and eating each other.
	The first screening of "He's A Good Monkey" outside of Kansas City!
	Chris Harding talks about art and life and love and passion and humor, even though the question was about software.
	What?! Chris Harding can't hear you.
	This is the line to pick up your "The Incredibles" gift pack. We gave up and went out for coffee after about 3 hours.
	Awwwww… This is what we had for dinner.

We will be screening two shorts in the upcoming Kansas City Filmmakers' Jubilee festival, which runs from April 1st-6th. The shorts being shown are Chris Harding's very first cartoon, "He's a Good Monkey," and "Robot Family Episode 00A: The Slick Salesman." (While this particular episode of Robot Family was made by Chris Harding, Robot Family is a group effort of Goldhouse Creative)

Robot Family

He's a Good Monkey