Hoodwinked San Francisco Bay Area Premiere! (Animated Feature) December 11, 2005

The San Francisco Film Society is pleased to present Special Bay Area Premiere of Hoodwinked with Onstage Tribute to Maurice Kanbar Co-director Cory Edwards is expected to attend and participate !

December 11, 2005, at 7:30 pm at the Clay Theatre (2261 Fillmore Street and Clay)
An onstage tribute to Maurice Kanbar, Film Society Board Member and producer of the film will precede the screening. HOODWINKED is a Weinstein Company release, opening in theatres on December 23.

Tickets to this event are $8.50 for San Francisco Film Society members (and $10 for non-members) and are available online at [http://www.trilogyticketing.com/sffs] November 29 ? December 10 or call our box office, 9:00 am ? 4:00 pm Monday through Friday November 29 ? December 9, at 925-866-9559. Day of sales are $10 cash only at the theatre. For more information on the movie, please visit us at [http://www.sffs.org].

About the Story:
Directed by Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards and Tony Leech Hoodwinked is a riotous retelling of Little Red Riding Hood and her wolf-fraught journey to her grandmother?s house. Turning the familiar tale on its head, the film presents a worldly-wise Red, a terribly misunderstood Wolf, a Granny with a secret life and a rather insecure but brawny Woodsman. Featuring the vocal talents of Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, Patrick Warburton and Jim Belushi, this smart and fun-loving tale offers great appeal to moviegoers of all ages.

About the Digital Animation of Hoodwinked:
HOODWINKED not only breaks the conventional mold of fairy-tales. It also breaks the mold of animation production, becoming an example of the new boom in a more iconoclastic, independent digital animation. It?s a frontier that has finally opened up thanks to the increasing accessibility to cutting-edge technology.

Having created a highly stylistic fairy tale world ? and with Edwards and Leech having painstakingly drawn detailed storyboards and eye-popping set designs for locales ranging from quaint cottages to dangerous mountain peaks -- the filmmakers of HOODWINKED knew they would need some serious computer power to bring it all to life.

To turn bits and bytes into the wolves and bears of Red?s ?hood,? the filmmakers jetted off to 5,000 square foot studio in the capitol of the Philippines, Manila, where a team of top-notch animators was assembled. Lovegren and Montgomery chose Manila not only because it has a vast and experienced pool of animation talent but because most of the people there have grown up on American pop culture ? and had a real appreciation for the sly humor and visual style that make HOODWINKED so distinctive.

In Manila, Lovegren and Montgomery worked together to establish cutting-edge procedures that significantly shrank the normal multi-year animation film schedule and turbo-charged the entire process. The break-neck pace was a constant challenge to the Manila artists, who fine-tuned and layered the characters and sets of HOODWINKED in the 3D world of Maya Software. To further speed up the production, an Indian animation team was later brought on board to finish the detailed digital lighting of more than 1300 digital shots.

By the climax of production, work was taking place on three different continents connected only by the thread of broadband. For a fairy tale that?s been around for centuries it was a whole brave new world.

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