NCCC Film & Animation Festival

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM  – Special Effects Makeup for Film & TV

Instructor: Craig Lindberg

Craig has 126 production credits currently listed on IMDB. His television experience includes working on Saturday Night Live for 16 years, season six of The Walking Dead, and season ten of American Horror Stories. Other credits include: Royal Pains, Person of Interest, Boardwalk Empire, Elementary, and many more. His film credits include Lincoln and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Craig is the recipient of a 2012 Emmy Award nomination for Boardwalk Empire and a 2013 and 2017 Emmy Award nomination for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He has also won Contribution Awards for Saturday Night Live, and ABC’s The View. Craig is a contributing writer for Makeup Artist magazine. He has been a professional makeup instructor for over ten years.

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM  – Auditioning for the Camera: More than Meets the Lens

Instructor: Josie DiVincenzo

After living and working as an actor in Los Angeles for over 20 years, Josie’s extensive resume includes major roles in theater both in LA, Arkansas, and Buffalo, guest stars, and series regulars on prime time TV (Friends, 24, CSI:NY, Beverly Hills, 90210, Weeds, and others) and roles in films, including Daredevil (with Ben Affleck), Marshall (with the late Chad Boseman), Bashira, (with Liam Aiken), Plan B (director Natalie Morales) – the last four films shot on location utilizing our great area of Western and Central NY. As a Professor in the Theatre and Fine Arts Dept. at NU, she teaches On-Camera Acting and Shakespeare. She also holds private classes in Buffalo.

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM  – My Career: On the Shoulders of Giants

Instructor: Tony White

Award-winning animator, Tony White, will dig deep into his archives to show and talk about much of his earlier work in traditional 2D hand-drawn animation – including his British Academy Award-winning short, “HOKUSAI–An Animated Sketchbook.” In his early career, Tony apprenticed with some of the greatest traditional animators ever. So Tony will talk about his early experiences with these inspirational master animators, showing some of their outstanding work, too. Tony will conclude by showing material from his current project, “The Old Man Mad About Animating”–a full-length “animated memoirs” project, through which he plans to push the boundaries of traditional 2D animation in America and beyond.