Quickdraw Animation Society and Beakerhead present:

Torrey Pines

Thursday, October 20, 2016 @ 7:00 PM
Globe Cinema - 617 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
$10 Advance

Quickdraw is incredibly proud to present Torrey Pines, the new film from director Clyde Petersen, with a live musical score by Clyde’s band, Your Heart Breaks.

We’re also stoked that the event will double as the lineup announcement for this year’s GIRAF animation festival. Come see what we’ve got in store, and then stick around for an amazing, animated musical performance.

About the film:
Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in Southern California in the early 1990’s.

Raised by a schizophrenic single mother, Petersen’s life story unfolds in a series of baffling and hallucinated events. With a mother fueled by hallucinations of political conspiracy and family dysfunction, Petersen is kidnapped at the age of 12 and taken on a cross-country adventure that will forever alter the family as they know it.

About the filmmaker:
Clyde Petersen is a Seattle based artist, working in film, animation, music, installation and fabulous spectacle. He is a member of the transgender and queer communities in Seattle. He travels the world with his punk band Your Heart Breaks and hosts a TV show in a small handmade boat in the Washington Park Arboretum. Boating with Clyde features artists from around the world, performing on the waterways of Seattle and can be seen online. Past projects also include the 90-minute multimedia show Gender Failure with Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote.

His work has been featured around the world at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, SXSW, the Henry Art Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery, Portland State University, Western Washington University, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and many more. His clients include The Thermals, Kimya Dawson, Laura Veirs, Earth, Minor Alps, Quasi, Deerhoof, Sean Nelson, The Portland Cello Project and Thao with the Get Down Stay Down to name a few. He has been awarded grants for filmmaking from the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), The Neddy at Cornish, the City of Seattle, the Artist Trust Innovator Award, the Awesome Foundation and 4Culture.

Thanks to our community partners, funders and GIRAF sponsors:
Sled Island
BeatRoute
Big Rock Beer
Broken City
CJSW 90.9FM
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and the Canada Council for the Arts

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