Event Date and Time:

April 28, 2010
11:30 AM

Location:

Black Box Theatre

Mark Osborne is a director and Guggenheim Fellow (2004). He got his start by studying Foundation Art at Pratt Institute in New York before receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in June 1992. His most well-known work to date, More, a stop motion short film, has screened in over 150 film festivals worldwide. It was the first IMAX animation film to ever be nominated for an Academy Award (1999). Best Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival (1999), The SXSW Best Animated Short (1999), the ResFest Grand Prize (1999), the Critics Week selection for CANNES (1999) and others.

Osborne co-directed Kung Fu Panda aka Kung Fu Panda: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version). He is currently working as director of the comedy segment in the upcoming film Heavy Metal.

Wednesday the 28th at 11:30 in the Black Box Theatre