Introduction
Speaker
Speaker：Aubry Mintz(ASIFA-Hollywood Executive Director)
Aubry Mintz has worked as a feature animator (ILM, Square USA) and directed projects for Smirnoff, McDonalds, MuchMusic and General Mills and the Canadian rock band Rush. His short-animated film “Nothing to Say” narrated by celebrity Danny Aiello screened at 41 festivals around the globe and won awards at Australia Independent Film Festival, Arctic Film Festival (a United Nations SDG Initiative), Palm Springs International Animation Festival, Anchorage Film Festival, NFMLA, and Canada Shorts. Mintz is also a co-author for the book “Ideas for the Animated Short 2nd Edition” and writer for Cartoon Brew, Animation Magazine, AnimationScoop.com and IndieWire.com. Mintz presented at Disney Feature Animation, Blue Sky Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation, San Diego Comic Con, SIGGRAPH , Lightbox Expo, and Wondercon. Aubry was also guest host on TV's Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for a 4-hour program on the animated short films from the National Film Board of Canada and he was featured in the documentary “Autism Goes to College” Mintz is Professor of Animation at California State University Long Beach and the Executive Director of ASIFA-Hollywood.