Red Stick Festival to Host Special Screening of “Waltz with Bashir” April 23
The Red Stick International Animation Festival will host a special screening of the acclaimed Israeli animated film “Waltz with Bashir.” This film won six Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Movie, and won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. “Waltz with Bashir” was a nominee at the 2009 American Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film, and was a featured showing at the Cannes Film Festival.
“Waltz with Bashir” is an animated, documentary-style story of director Ari Folman’s journey around the world to interview old friends and fellow soldiers as he tries to reclaim his memories of the time he spent on an Israeli Army mission during the 1982 Lebanon War. This film features graphic war scenes and nudity, and it is not suitable for children.
Red Stick will host a free screening of the film, with an opportunity to meet filmmakers and key creative personnel, on Thursday, April 23 at 7 p.m. in the United Artists Citiplace Stadium Theater, 2610 Citiplace Dr. in Baton Rouge.
The screening is free, but adults who wish to attend must register for a complimentary festival Red Pass at http://redstickfestival.org/redpass.asp. Theater seating is limited, and seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Following the showing of “Waltz with Bashir,” Red Stick Director Stacey Simmons, Ph.D., will host a question-and-answer session for the audience.
This film screening is part of events for the Red Stick International Animation Festival, the largest animation festival in the United States, which will take place April 22-25 in downtown Baton Rouge’s Arts District.
LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology sponsors the festival, in partnership with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President’s Office, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism and Louisiana Economic Development.
CCT in the News:
• Animation Festival announces finalists
Source: 2theadvocate.com
The Red Stick International Animation Festival has selected the finalists for its 2009 Best of the Fest Awards from among the more than 400 entries received. The festival will announce the winners in each category on the last day of the festival, Saturday, April 25, at noon in the Manship Theatre.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/fun/42714657.html
• Animation Festival Selects Mark Henn for Award
Source: 2theadvocate.com
The Red Stick International Animation Festival will present its second Lifetime Career Achievement Award to Mark Henn, a Disney animator who is responsible for creating many of the studio’s iconic princesses.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/fun/42710397.html
• Red Stick Fest Names Award Finalists
Source: Animation Magazine
The Red Stick International Animation Festival has announced the finalists for its 2009 Best of the Fest Awards.
http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/9848
Upcoming Lectures:
• Claude Le Bris from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, will speak as part of the Frontiers of Scientific Computing Lecture series on Wednesday, April 15. The lecture, “Computational Multiscale Mechanics: A Mathematical Perspective,” will take place at 1 p.m. in 338 Johnston.
• Luke Owens from the University of South Carolina will lecture on “Solving the Eikonal Equation on Adaptive Triangular and Tetrahedral Meshes.” The lecture will take place on Monday, April 20 at 11a.m. in 338 Johnston.
Pats on the Back:
• Congratulations to Sitharama Iyengar and Tevfik Kosar, whose proposal, “Recruitment of Superior Graduate Fellows in Computer Science,” has been recommended to the Board of Regents Fellowship Funding.
• Congratulations to Jorge Pullin, who is invited to give the plenary talk at the annual Atlantic General Relativity Conference, April 25 and 26. The conference consists of one invited plenary talk, which Dr. Pullin has the honor of giving.
Please Note:
• Red Stick International Animation Festival is fast approaching, taking place April 22-25 in downtown Baton Rouge. All Red Passes for the festival are free, granting general admission to all of the festival screenings as well as family events like Cartoon-a-Palooza, Princess Ball and mutual events with Baton Rouge Blues Week. Gold Passes give access to all festival lectures in addition to the free screenings. Check out the schedule of events at http://redstickfestival.org .
• The LSU Center for Computation & Technology will host the Fifth Gulf Coast Gravity Meeting on the LSU campus this Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18. There is no conference fee to attend the meeting, but registration is required. Register at: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/GCGM2009 .
• The next ALL CCT meeting is this Wednesday, April 15, at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Please make every effort to attend. If you have any information, news or announcements you wish to include at the meeting, please notify Karen Jones, kjones@cct.lsu.edu. The next ALL CCT meeting for this semester is scheduled for May 20.
• The Louisiana Biomedical Research Network and the LSU Center for Computation and Technology invite you to participate in the 2nd Computational Biology Workshop, April 17-18, 2009. The aim of this workshop is to forge a community of computational biologists across the state and bring together researchers using computational approaches in the biological sciences, HPC providers and the Cyber-Infrastructure developers. For more information, please visit http://lbrn.lsu.edu/urls/cw2009 .
• The next training session is on Wednesday, April 15: PetaShare Environment and Client Tools from 10 a.m. until noon in 338 Johnston Hall, with remote options available. This is a new training on the PetaShare storage environment. After this tutorial, users will be able to utilize PetaShare resources and access and use client tools. This tutorial will state the differences between client tools and help users to identify which one is right for them.
For more details visit and to register visit: http://hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials/#spring09petashare
• If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
Note: Please see the CCT deadline Web site, as many NSF deadlines are listed here:
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/about/grants/deadlines/events.php
• Petascale Computing Resource Allocations (PRAC)
April 22 2009 10:00 am
At Most $ 500,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08529/nsf08529.htm
Publish Date:
04-14-2009
