Awards
Jules Engel To Receive 'Friz' Award. Jules Engel, the founding director of the California
Institute of the Arts Experimental Animation Program, will receive the
"Friz" lifetime achievement award for animation at the 1998 Santa
Clarita International Film Festival. Jules Engel began his career in the
late 1940s at Walt Disney Studios where he was first recognized for his
work on the Chinese and Russian dance sequences in Fantasia. Later,
he was one of the original members of the studio United Productions of
America (UPA), and with the late Robert ("Bobe") Cannon, developed
such cartoons as Gerald Mc Boing Boing, Madeline and Mr. Magoo.
Engel has been a member of the Cal Arts School of Film and Video since
1970 and he has served on the executive board of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences for the past 30 years. Past recipients of the
"Friz" award have been its' namesake Friz Freleng (1995), Stanley
Kramer and Joseph Barbera (1996) and Robert Wise and Marc Davis (1997).
Engel will be honored at the fourth annual awards banquet on Friday, February
13 at the Odyssey restaurant in Santa Clarita. A retrospective of Jules
Engel's work will be screened at the festival, as will other animated programs
and shorts. For information about the dinner or the festival, call (805)
257 3131.
Cinar Gets Parent's Choice. The Parent's Choice Foundation, a non-profit
organization which offers reports on children's educational materials,
has bestowed several honors to Montreal-based programming producer, Cinar
Films. Awards went to four of Cinar's programs, including two animated
series based on children's books: Arthur (produced with WGBH Boston)
and The Busy World of Richard Scarry. Parent's Choice president
Diana Green acknowledged, "It is rare that we honor one company four
times in the same year."
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