Frames Per Second magazine is sending me to cover the fifth annual Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema this weekend. I’ll be posting updates regularly to FPS and Drawn! throughout the week-end.

Highlights of the festival include a Kihachiro Kawamoto retrospective, which includes a series of shorts as well as a screening of his 2003 feature, Winter Days.

I’ll also be interviewing veteran animator, Mike Nguyen, who will be speaking at the event. Nguyen was supervising animator on The Iron Giant. Other credits include: The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Quest for Camelot, Osmosis Jones, and The Road to El Dorado.

The schedule for this year’s festival includes:

Thursday, November 17th, 2005
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (Japan)
Terkel In Trouble (Denmark)

Friday, November 18th, 2005
Frank and Wendy (Estonia)
The District! (Hungary)

Saturday, November 19th, 2005
Alosha Popovich and Tugarin the Serpent (Russia)
Fragile Machine, free admission (USA)
Mind Game (Japan)

Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Strings (Norway)