Movie and Pizza - “Flatland: The Movie” by Dano Johnson
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Join us for a Movie and Pizza Party for kids of all ages!
"Flatland: The Movie"
produced by our very own Dano Johnson
Saturday, December 12, 10:00 AM till Noon
American Legion*
2201 Veteran's Drive
Austin, TX 78703*On the north side of Lake Austin, just west of Mopac.
Entrance to parking is on Atlanta Drive, just south of the RunTex parking lot."Flatland: The Movie" is an animated, educational family film based on the classic mathematical fantasy novel by Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland is a universe of only two dimensions - length and width - populated by flat geometric shapes who live in a strict, heirarchical society governed by shapes and angles. Theories of a 'third' dimension are heretical, so when flatlander Arthur Square (Martin Sheen) encounters a being from Spaceland (Michael York), he is faced with spreading his new-found knowledge or protecting himself and his ever-curious granddaughter Hex (Kristen Bell) from the evil circular priests that govern Flatland.
Dano Johnson has worked for nine years writing, animating, and directing educational and entertaining multimedia. While at the University of Texas at Austin he studied children's edcuational television and interned at Sesame Workshop in New York. After a harrowing stint in the eLearning industry, Dano co-founded Collection Agency Films with Troy Campbell and began churning out animated music videos (the evolution-centric “Dance Like a Monkey”), political ads (“Save Yourself for Kinky” won a Lone Star Emmy), and short films (“Tall Tales & Other Big Lies”). “Flatland: The Movie” is his first educational film and will be followed by “Flatland 2: Sphereland” which will enter production in 2010.
