Panels, Speakers
The Secret Behind “The Secret of the Kells”
Title: The Secret Behind “The Secret of the Kells”
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 45 min
Moderator: Charles Solomon
An internationally respected critic and historian of animation, Charles Solomon has written on the subject for “The New York Times,” “TV Guide,” “Newsweek” (Japan), “Rolling Stone,” “Los Angeles Times,” “Modern Maturity,” “Film Comment,” “The Hollywood Reporter,” “Manchester Guardian,” Amazon.com and National Public Radio’s “Day To Day.” His work has also appeared in publications in Canada, France, Russia, Britain, Israel, the Netherlands and Japan. His recent books include “The Prince of Egypt: A New Vision in Animation” (Abrams, 1999), “The Disney That Never Was” (Hyperion, 1995), “Les Pionniers du Dessin Animé Américain” (Dreamland, Paris, 1996) and “Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation” (Knopf, 1989; reprinted, Wings, 1994), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the first film book to be nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Soloman also contributed the animation article to “The International Encyclopedia of Communications” (Oxford University Press, 1989) as well as essays to the exhibit catalogues of “Japanese Animated Films: A Complete View from their Birth to ‘Spirited Away’ and Beyond” (Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004) and “Il était une fois: Walt Disney” (Grand Palais Museum, Paris, September 2006).
He has also done animation programming for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Annecy, Ottawa and Sundance international film festivals and lectured on animation history and aesthetics at UCLA, USC, CalArts, NYU, the School of Visual Arts, La Cinèmatheque Quebècoise, CSU San Bernadino, the California Academy of Science, The Walt Disney Studios (Los Angeles, Orlando and Paris), PIXAR, Turner Animation and DreamWorks Feature Animation.
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Paul Young is a co-founder and CEO of Cartoon Saloon, Producer of the animated feature The Secret of Kells and Executive Producer of the animated children’s series Skunk Fu! which has sold globally to territories including the BBC, Super RTL, Kids WB and Cartoon Network in the US. Paul is also an award winning cartoonist and illustrator.
Paul travels a lot to spread the good word.
Did you know:
People who have met Paul seldom realize that ‘Paul’ is the hat, the body underneath is just a drone who does the hat’s bidding.
Visit their studio. http://www.cartoonsaloon.ie/
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Tomm Moore is co-Founder and Creative director of Cartoon Saloon.
Since founding the company in 1999 with Paul Young, Tomm has worked on almost every Cartoon Saloon production in various capacities including directing and designing commercials for clients including Cadburys and the Irish Independent, illustrating graphic novels and children’s books and working as animation artist on several tv series and feature film productions.
Having completed his first feature film “The Secret of Kells” he is currently working on the graphic novels of the film and his new feature film “The Song of the Sea”.
Tomm was also a member of the once Secret crime fighting group “The living shadows” but failed miserably as a master of stealth, which lead to a lifelong love of comic books and animation.
Cartoon Saloon began as an informal partnership between a group of animators brought together by Paul Young and Tomm Moore in 1999. Cartoon Saloon has since grown into a multi-award winning animation and illustration design studio that develops and produces feature film and TV series projects while producing award winning short films, television commercials, graphic novels and children’s books.
In addition to developing and producing Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells, The Saloon also successfully developed and produced its first TV series, the IFTA award winning Skunk Fu! Which has been sold to broadcasters in over 120 countries worldwide, including the BBC, Cartoon Network, Canal J, France 5, Super RTL Disney and ABC Australia.
The Saloon is in development of a number of new projects.
Three new feature film projects, Song of the Sea, Skunk Fu! The Movie and Bluebeard.
Childrens animated Tv series -Galaxy Boyz, Pirate Zoe and Puffins Rock are currently in development as for the international market.
In September 2008 and 2009, Cartoon Saloon picked up the Producer of the year tribute at the Cartoon forum 2008 and Cartoon Movie 2009. Tomm Moore received the Directors Guild of Ireland and America finders series award 2008 and European Director of the Year at the Cartoon Movie in 2009.
Please help us welcome Paul Young and Tom Moore to CTN-X in an informal discussion moderated by Charles Solomon and join us in the second only Los Angeles screening of “The Secret of the Kells” Saturday Nov 21st, 2009.
Quick Register: http://www.regonline.com/ctnanimationexpo2009
Tags: Directors, Panels, Screenings
Cant wait to see the “The Secret”, and hope to meet you at the expo!