Digital Dreams is a 90 minute theatrical presentation
featuring the best in computer animated short films from around the
world. It is being produced by Steven Churchill and Chris Padilla, the
two men most responsible for introducing audiences to computer animated
short films and creating the theatrical niche for animation festivals.
Together, Steven and Chris are utilizing their years of experience in
producing animation festivals and innovative marketing expertise to
bring Digital Dreams to audiences around the
world. Teaser trailer coming soon!
Steven Churchill:
In 1986 Steven produced the world's first CGI theatrical festival,
exhibited to capacity attendances at the Museum of Contemporary
Art in La Jolla, California. In 1987 Steven arranged national
distribution of the festival through the Landmark Theatre chain,
which also had great success. Subsequently Steven produced Future
Visions, premiering at the Reuben H. Fleet OmniMax theatre,
then touring thereafter at several other large format venues around
the country. In 1988 Steven released the world's first computer
animation video, entitled State of the Art of Computer Animation,
which the American Film Institute gave their Best Video Art award
that year. Since then Steven has produced 27 various computer
animation compilations, released on VHS, laserdisc and DVD. In
1990 Steven produced The Mind's Eye, and followed that
up with Beyond The Mind's Eye, The Gate To The
Mind's Eye, and Odyssey Into The Mind's Eye, selling
over 2 million units to date. Works by Pixar, PDI, Blue
Sky's Chris Wedge, Digital Domain, Rhythm & Hues and just
about every computer animation studio in the world have all been
exhibited on these releases.
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Chris Padilla:
In 1976 Chris produced Fantastic Animation Festival, the
first major animation festival to ever take place in the United
States. Nearly 30,000 attended its sold out summer run at
the Laguna Moulton Playhouse in Laguna Beach, California. Its
popularity reached Crest Film, an independent film distributor
in Los Angeles, who released the Fantastic nationwide in
first-run movie theatres in 1977. Its box office success
made headlines in Variety and gave birth to the theatrical
niche for animation festivals. In addition to currently
developing original projects for animation as well as live action,
Chris serves as creative consultant for several producers and
their festivals. In recent years he has also produced various
animation events for leading institutions, ranging from orchestrating
the Hollywood premieres of Disney’s Princess Mononoke and
DreamWorks' Millennium Actress for AFI Fest, presenting
an 85 year retrospective of stop-motion animation with Henry Selick
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and organizing computer
animation conferences with Digital Domain, ILM, PDI, Pixar and
Rhythm & Hues at UC Irvine.
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