Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Each Shorts Lab is a single day seminar. The full-day event in Los Angeles consists of multiple panel discussions on stage between Short Film Programmers from the Sundance Film Festival and seasoned filmmakers. Each panel begins with moderated discussion and then finishes with 30-45 minutes of questions direct from the audience.
PLEASE NOTE: The 2015 Shorts Lab in Los Angeles will cover strictly ANIMATION only. We will delve into the finer points of making animated shortfilms, from the start of the idea and characters to various types of styles and what to do with shorts in the film festival world.
SPEAKERS
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Tom Kenny is a writer, actor, stand-up comedian and voice actor. He and his wife Jill Talley were part of the cast on the legendary Mr. Show from 1995-1998. For animation, Kenny performs the voice for an incredible number of unique characters, most notably as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants.
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Kirsten Lepore is a director based in LA, whose films have taken top prizes at festivals around the world. She's worked with Google, MTV, Facebook, Whole Foods, Toyota, Nestle and most recently wrote and directed the first ever stopmotion episode of Cartoon Network's hit show, Adventure Time. Her films have taken top prizes at SXSW, Slamdance, the Stuttgart Animation festival and many others. http://www.kirstenlepore.com/
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Julia Pott is a British animator and illustrator based in Los Angeles, An alum of the Royal College of Art in 2011, she has created many works in advertising, music videos, television and her own films. Two of her short films have played at the Sundance Film Festival and around the world: Belly (2011) and The Event (2013). http://juliapott.tumblr.com/
David OReilly is an Irish-born filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles. His animation work, including the short films Please Say Something and The External World, has garnered over 80 awards including Berlin’s Golden Bear, the Cartoon D’Or and awards at Sundance and the Venice Film Festival. He also created fictional video games in Spike Jonze’s Academy Award winning film Her. http://www.davidoreilly.com/Â
Kent Osborne is head of story for Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time. For three years Osborne worked as a writer on SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon as well as The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. He has worked on several Cartoon Network shows such as Camp Lazlo and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack as a writer and storyboard artist.

Run of Show
10:00 a.m.
Intro and Background on the Sundance Short Film Program
11:00 a.m.
Style and Workflow: How to develop an animation style and the tools needed to create it.
With David OReilly and Julia Pott
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12:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
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1:45 p.m.
Writing for Animation: Creating and writing story, characters and dialogue.
With Kirsten Lepore and Kent Osborne
3:15 p.m.
Tea Time
3:30 p.m.
Working with Voice Actors
With Tom Kenny
5:00 p.m.
ReceptionÂ
