Winter Break Day 3: Family Films & Animation Workshops
Celebrating the Magic of the Moving Image
February 18, 2020 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Film Screening 1: Team Marco
10:30 am
You can learn a lot about the ones you love by playing the games they play. Eleven-year-old Marco cares only about video gaming, and all his friends are online. When Marco’s grandfather moves in for the summer, “Nonno” decides to teach his “robot” grandson how to live. Nonno challenges Marco to learn bocce and make friends, telling him: “Bocce is like life. It’s not about thinking. You have to feel.” Marco resists, but his inevitable awakening is genuinely moving as he rises to the challenge and tries to beat the old man at his own game.
USA / 2019 / 90 min / Ages 10+ (smoking, divorce, death of grandparent)
Tickets: Adults $10, Youth and Seniors $8, available in advance and at the door.
Mini Guided Tour & Drop-In "Animate the Museum" Workshop
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Explore a series of artworks in the galleries in a mini Docent-guided tour, and then head to the Animate the Museum Workshop to create some animated film magic with Museum educators!
What’s in a face? Take a closer look at the distinctive characters on display in the galleries. What are they all about? Using a variety of materials and imagery from artwork in the Museum’s permanent collection, learn the basics of stop-motion animation and make your own miniature film. Write your story’s plot, sketch your storyboard, build your characters, select a backdrop, and learn how to capture your film shot by shot on an Ipad.
FREE, drop-in, no reservations necessary.
Film Screening 2: More Than a Selfie
1:30 pm
How many selfies do you take and “like”? We are so much more than what a single image might capture. This compilation of short films shares the stories of young people from around the world who are discovering, evolving and accepting themselves and their identities. A young woman struggling with the lengths to which she will go to succeed in school, a girl who hates her name until she finds out its origin story, and a shy young man who finds he has a passion for photography…these personal stories tell universal truths and may expand the way you view yourself and the world around you.
Multi-national / in English or with English subtitles / 74 min / 13+ (profanity, parental alcoholism)
Tickets: Adults $10, Youth and Seniors $8, available in advance and at the door.
The Newport Art Museum is pleased to welcome the Providence Children’s Film Festival to bring the best of independent and international children’s cinema to Newport. The Museum and PCFF share a belief in the power of the arts to expand minds and create community. We’ll see you at the Museum!