PLASTIC PAPER: Winnipeg’s Festival of Animated, Illustrated + Puppet Film presents
HANDMADE PUPPET DREAMS
with HEATHER HENSON in person
Various Artists | 1997-2010 | 102min.

Friday May 7th – 6:30pm
Park Theatre – 698 Osborne
Winnipeg, Canada
Admission $10

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Heather Henson introduces a new generation of puppeteers through a handpicked series of independently produced film shorts, exploring unique approaches to animation through a spectrum of puppetry styles. Since 2005, the series has been screened nationally and internationally, and has been well received around the globe. Recent awards include “The Best Puppet Film” at The World Puppet Festival in Prague and a 2009 “UNIMA Citation of Excellence”. The levitra schweiz series has entertained audiences in the US as well as France, Czech Republic, India, United Kingdom, Puerto Rico and Israel.  

Complete Film Program:

Yamasong
Sam K. Hale | 2010 | 7min.

Unicycle Baby Guy
Matty Sidle | 1997 | 12min.

Omar’s Mother
Puppet Heap | 2007 | 10min.

The Whole World and You
Frankie Cordero | 2008 | 3min.

Too Loud A Solitude
Genevieve Anderson | 2007 | 20min.

Incubus
Lyon Hill | 2007 | 4min.

Harker
Tony Giordano, Jason Murphy + Scott Shoemaker | 2005 | 15min.

Everloving
Steve Johnson | 2003 | 4min.

Sammy & Sofa
Tim Lagasse | 2005 | 27min.

Guest Bio:Heather Henson is the executive producer of IBEX Puppetry, an entertainment company dedicated to promoting the fine art of puppetry in all of its various mediums.  The company nutures work for a myriad of venues including stage, gallery, and film.  Company projects include: The Orlando Puppet Festival, environmental theatre spectacles, Handmade Puppet Dreams Film series, and gallery exhibits.

Hotel for Heather Henson is graciously sponsored by Holiday Inn South. We also thank Delta Winnipeg’s Blaze Bistro for sponsoring an animator’s luncheon.

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer and programmer, founder of Spectacular Optical Publications and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She has been a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, co-founded Montreal microcinema Blue Sunshine, founded the CineMuerte Horror Film Festival (1999-2005) in Vancouver, was the Festival Director of Monster Fest in Melbourne, Australia and was the subject of the documentary Celluloid Horror (2005). She is the author of A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (FAB Press, 2007) and House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (FAB Press, 2012) and contributed to Destroy All Movies!! The Complete Guide to Punks on Film (Fantagraphics, 2011), Recovering 1940s Horror: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington, 2014) The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale (PS Press, 2017). She co-edited (with Paul Corupe) and published the anthology books KID POWER! (2014), Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015), Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (2017) and Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017). She edited the book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (forthcoming), and is currently co-authoring (with Amy Searles) the book ‘Unhealthy and Aberrant’: Depictions of Horror Fandom in Film and Television and co-curating (with Clint Enns) an anthology book on the films of Robert Downey, Sr., as well as writing a monograph about Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter. She was a producer on Mike Malloy’s Eurocrime: the Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s and Sean Hogan’s We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea and her first film as director/producer, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror is due out from Severin Films in 2020.