FOLKLORE RESTAURANT

FOLKLORE RESTAURANT

 

FOLKLORE RESTAURANT is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts. This film is supported by the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill centennial and in recognition of the valuable cultural contributions of artists to society, and it is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.

FOLKLORE RESTAURANT is a short classic-animation film. Characters are created from the special Japanese paper (washi) and sometimes appear over a background of original photographs of the aurora borealis.


FOLKLORE RESTAURANT explores, in an aesthetically exceptional way, the strength of the fox tales originating from Native America, Finland, and Japan. It is both an educational and entertaining film.

SYNOPSIS

RUNNING TIME  14’ 20”

YEAR  2005

DIRECTOR  TOMOKO OGUCHI

Music  ZBIGNIEW SLESICKI

VOICE  PAUL SAVIOR

  1. •(11/28/2010) Earth Vision Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival The Second Selection (Japan)

  2. •(5/8-9/2010) Womanimation! (Massachusetts, USA)

  3. •(1/9/2010) Museum of Arts and Design: MAD Saturdays (New York, USA)

  4. •(10/6-11/2009) Lahore International Children’s Film Festival (Pakistan)

  5. •(5/9/2009) Nickelodeon Theatre (South Carolina, USA)

  6. •(4/23-24/2008) Bergen County Film Commission / Fort Lee Commission Asian-American Film Festival (New Jersey, USA)

  7. •(2/22-24/2008) San Francisco Bay Area International Children's Film Festival

  8. •(2/3/2008) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  9. •(11/12-17/2007) Saugatuck-Douglas Children's Film Festival (Michigan, USA)

  10. •(11/2-9/2007) Roshd Film Festival (Iran)

  11. •(10/7/2007) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  12. •(9/25-30/2007) The National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Festival of Film & Media Arts (Washington, DC, USA)

  13. •(9/7-10/14/2007) Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival

  14. •(6/10-7/4/2007) San Diego International Children's Film Festival

  15. •(5/18-20/2007) Danville International Children's Film Festival

  16. •(5/5/2007) Walker Art Center (Minnesota, USA)

  17. •(4/11-15/2007) San Francisco Women's Film Festival

  18. •(3/16-25/2007) Skopje Film Festival (Republic of Macedonia)

  19. •(3/17/2007) The Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library

  20. •(3/1-11/2007) The Washington, DC Independent Film Festival

  21. •(12/1-10/2006) Anchorage International Film Festival

  22. •(11/22-26/2006) Wildlife Vaasa Festival (Finland)

  23. •(10/19-29/2006) Hawaii International Film Festival

  24. •(10/19-29/2006) Chicago International Children's Film Festival

  25. •(6/9-17/2006) Atlanta Film Festival

AWARDS

SCREENINGS

collection of WWF-India’s

Film and Documentary Library

First Place

Bergen County Film Commission / Fort Lee Commission Asian-American Film Festival


Diploma of Honor

Roshd Film Festival (Iran)