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The Eugene Film Festival gave us the award for Most Unique Film. News aimed at distributors and international buyers, Dante will be screening at AFM in Santa Monica next month. On Wednesday, December 5th Sandow will be giving a lecture followed by a screening of Dante's Inferno. Sandow's exhibit The Depravities of War opened last week at the Cal State Long Beach's University Art Museum. More info at the Horse Hospital's website. There are two screenings of the film: Saturday, December 1st and Friday, December 14th at 7:30pm. The exhibit of Sandow's Dante lithographs opens Friday night November 30th. But in general we're slowing down over the next couple months as we plot a strategy for Dante's Inferno to be the biggest toy theatre DVD release in history.įinally have details for our screening and exhibit in London. Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival in April for one. Dante had a terrific run on the festival circuit in 2007. Happy New Year! This is the first time since the film's premiere that we have no screenings scheduled. A few things on the horizon: Santa Monica Museum of Art's 'Puppet' exhibit the 2008 Toy Theatre Festival Paul Zaloom at the Center for Puppetry Arts. No screenings until we figure out the DVD release date.

See the schedule below.įinishing particulars for a DVD release, but it'll still be some months before it's released. If you want to be notified when the film is released, sign up for our mailing list.ĭates have firmed up for the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival coming up in a few weeks. Thanks for the patience of all you Dante/puppet fanatics. More official news will follow as things are nailed down. We're preparing the supplementary materials, recording commentaries, etc.

screening is on Sunday night, June 15 at 7pm. Tickets are now available for the Toy Theater festivals in NYC and Los Angeles. It's a little thing, but will help raise the film's profile. If you're a fan of the film consider rating it on or writing a review. We're working on other distribution outlets and trying to spread the word.

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The other films they're showing as part of the series is Spirited Away, Tokyo Godfather, and The Triplets of Belleville. It's screening as part of an animation series called Unreal Worlds.

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Ovation TV is on DirecTV, the Dish Network, and some cable systems. First at 8pm Eastern time, then at 8pm Pacific time. Also friends of Dante are performing on July 26th and August 2nd.ĭante will have it's television premiere on OvationTV this Thursday. There's also a cool installation of puppets curated by John Bell. They've both published important works in their fields.ĭante is screening on July 19th at the Santa Monica Museum of Art as part of their exhibit 'Puppet,' which focuses on the intersection of contemporary art and puppetry: my favorite is the Dennis Oppenheim. And John Bell is the Director of Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, a fellow at MIT, and is a puppetry historian. Peter Hawkins is a professor at the Yale Divinity School and noted Dante scholar.

Then later in the week we'll record the commentary of scholars Peter Hawkins and John Bell. First the filmmakers will do a commentary. Here's the link: Looks like a great new resource for all things Alighieri. Also, as a bonus, there are two songs on the DVD's data section.ĭeborah Parker, Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia has told us about the new World of Dante site that's now live. Also included is a 'Making Of' doc that shows the behind the scenes process of the film's production. The DVD has two commentaries: one by us and one by some scholars (read below).

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