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FableVision's Blue Shoe Falls in Love With Green Boot at Coolidge Corner Theatre's Valentine Hot-Spot!
Award-Winning Animated Love Story Between a Blue Shoe & Green Boot Featured in Coolidge Corner Theatre's Local Filmmaker Series, Starting Feb. 11th
Boston, MA--
The award-winning Coolidge Corner Theatre's new Coolidge Shorts series is featuring an exclusive Valentine's week screening starting February 11th of the award-winning animated short The Blue Shoe produced by Watertown-based FableVision Studios. Written by author/illustrator Peter Reynolds & co-directed with FableVision's Animation Director Gary Goldberger, the animated short is an unusual love story between a blue shoe & a green boot. With worldwide distribution and over a dozen awards and festival honors, The Blue Shoe is fast becoming a grassroots romantic favorite. The Coolidge Shorts film series, curated by David Nugent, features short films by N.E. filmmakers.
Marcy Gardner, critic for Animation World Magazine, praised the film saying, "Reynolds creates adult children's stories that satiate and remind us to go outside of the lines. After seeing the film I remember feeling like somehow a light had been turned on inside of me." Although The Blue Shoe could pass as children's fare, FableVision's short films are aiming for an adult audience. FableVision Studio's founder Peter Reynolds notes, "There's enough South Park, in-your-face animation out there - FableVision's quirky, gentle style helps the little kid inside every grown up navigate this crazy world just a little bit better."
The Blue Shoe film has had a profound impact on its audience. illustration from The Blue Shoe of the blue shoe and the green boot A Connecticut couple, who was so taken by the film's message, made The Blue Shoe the theme of their wedding, including passing out blue shoe and green boot cookies and having a carved boot and shoe on the top of their wedding cake. Details and photos of the event are available at http://www.fablevision.com/blueshoe.
FableVision's animated shorts The Blue Shoe and the most recently released Living Forever have now racked up over two dozen awards and festival honors - including most recently an ASIFA-Hollywood Annie nomination, the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, the New York International Children's Film Festival and the SlamDunk/Hollywood Shorts festival at this year's Sundance events.
The Blue Shoe was created using a completely paperless digital animation system called TicTacToon from Montreal-based ToonBoom Technologies. FableVision's pioneering use of this paperless technology earned the studio a 1999 Silver BDA Award for "Experimental Technology Animation." Featuring animation talent of FableVision's John Lechner and Matt Ducharme, both are being distributed internationally by UK-based Link Entertainment.
Led by Peter Reynolds, FableVision Studios leverages multiple media platforms including animation, books, CD-ROM, and the web to create "stories that matter, stories that move" for children, adults and families - for museums, publishers and broadcasters. Peter Reynolds is currently writing and illustrating several children's books for Simon & Schuster and Candlewick Press as well as launching two original animated series with Children's Television Workshop/Nickelodeon's new television/on-line network, Noggin.
Coolidge Shorts screening details are available by calling the Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard Street/Brookline - http://www.coolidge.org) at 617-734-2500.
For more information on FableVision, contact Jennifer Hart at 1-888-240-3734, or within MA, 617-926-1231

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