I'm writing to let you know that the Melbourne International
Animation
Festival 2007 is very excited to announce 2 very special Polish
historical film sessions in this year's festival, screening at ACMI
Cinemas, Australian Center for the Moving Image in Federation
Square,
Melbourne on 23 & 24 June 2007.

Masters of Polish Animation #1
Saturday 23 June 2007, 3.15pm

Masters of Polish Animation #2
Sunday 24 June 2006, 1.15pm

Polish animation holds a very special position in the hearts of all
fans of classic animation. Put simply, Polish animation is superb!
Any
list of 'best ever' animators is going to have a strong contingent
from Poland embedded in it. Indeed, animation has been created in
Poland from the earliest days of cinema with the examples dating
back
to pre-1920s. These two sessions show films dating back to the 1960's.

Recently, the Pompidou Centre in Paris curated an enormous
collection
of Polish Masters and these two programs owe a great deal to that
fine
inspiration. We also owe a very large "Thank You" to Marlena
Lukasiak
of the Polish Cultural Institute in London and Helena Dametka of
Filmoteka Narodowa in Warsaw. This collection is but a glimpse of an
incredible community of animators creating a strong, robust,
challenging, superb body of truly original work - but what a glimpse!

We would very much appreciate your assistance with passing on this
information to friends or colleagues who you think may like to come.
Please feel free to forward this email to them. We can also post you
some information if that is easier.

For full details, please visit
www.miaf.net/2007/polish1.html & www.miaf.net/2007/polish2.html

Tickets: (Each session)
Full price $14.00
Concession price $11.00

Tickets can be only be purchased from ACMI
In person: Australian Center for the Moving Image, Federation
Square,
Flinders St, Melbourne
Phone: 03 8663 2583, 1-6pm daily
Online: www.acmi.net.au/tickets

(Unfortunately admission is restricted to persons 18 years of age and
over.)


Kind regards
Helen Gibbins