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Rita Street
Rita Street is the Publisher and Editorial Director of Animation Magazine. As a journalist, Street has focused the last ten years of her career on the industry of animation, reporting for publications in the U.S, U.K. and Asia. She is the former editor of Film & Video Magazine and is the founder of the International non-profit organization, Women In Animation. Street has also authored three books on graphic arts including the Rockport Publisher hardback, Computer Animation: A Whole New World.
Articles by Rita Street
Mike Gabriel Talks Oscar Nominee Lorenzo
February 25, 2005 – Of a Big Blue Cat, Animation Dreams and the Best Ending for a Fluffy Tail
An hour after accepting the grand prize at the Annecy Int’l. Animation Film Festival for the creation of the Di...
Checking In With The Winners:
The Nicktoons Film Festival Makes an Impact
January 21, 2005 – After last Sunday’s Winners episode of The Nicktoons Film Festival, we thought it would be a good idea to check in with the top filmmakers and see how things are going. Mark Simon and...
The Nicktoons Film Festival Weekend of Winners
January 14, 2005 – Finally! The Winners! In a classy countdown episode, The Nicktoons Film Festival will unveil not only the Pre-Selection Jury’s "Top Ten Films of the Fest," but the winner of t...
The Nicktoons Film Festival Announces Screening 12–The "Fun With Animals and Accountants" Show
January 07, 2005 – The Nicktoons Film Festival continues this Sunday, Jan. 9, with Screening 12–a selection of seven shorts that deal with those creatures we have trouble communicating with–animals a...
The Nicktoons Film Festival Announces Screening: 11–The "Gulp!" Show
December 31, 2004 – The Nicktoons Film Festival continues this Sunday, with Screening: 11– a selection of seven shorts that deal with the totally cartoon sound that describes exactly how we feel the...
The Nicktoons Film Festival Announces
Screening: 6–The "Think About That" Show
November 24, 2004 – The Nicktoons Film Festival continues this Sunday, with Screening: 6, a selection of seven shorts that just happen to be made by professional animators from around the globe. A co-pro...
The Nicktoons Film Festival Announces Screening: 5-The All-Pro Show
November 19, 2004 – The Nicktoons Film Festival continues this Sunday, with Screening: 5, a selection of seven shorts that just happen to be made by professional animators from around the globe. A co-pro...
The Nicktoons Film Festival Announces Screening: 4-A Bit of Diversity
November 12, 2004 – The Nicktoons Film Festival continues this Sunday, with Screening: 4–A Bit of Diversity, a selection of seven different shorts. A co-production of Frederator Studios and Anima...
The Nicktoons Film Festival Announces:
Screening: 3–Five Zany Pieces
November 05, 2004 – The Nicktoons Film Festival continues this Sunday with Screening: 3, a selection of five truly zany shorts. A co-production of Frederator Studios and Animation Magazine for Nicktoons,...
The Nicktoons Film Festival Launches:
Series Starts Sunday!
October 22, 2004 – The Frederator and AniMag Co-Pro Showcases Talented Animators Worldwide
Hundreds of cartoons from around the world were received during The Nicktoons Film Festival call fo...
Hellouin To Form New Studio
September 21, 2004 – Guillaume Hellouin, co-Founder of Paris-based Sparx*, has announced his departure from the large CG house. After majority shareholder Humanoids Group, represented by Fabrice Giger, took control of ...
WB Animation’s Buyer Christopher Keenan: An Exec Who Understands Broadcast AND Animation
June 30, 2004 – Ask anyone in town about Christopher Keenan’s rep and you’ll get the same answer: "Great guy. Knows his stuff." The senior VP of creative affairs for Warner Bros. Animation has definitely paid his ...
ASIFA-Hollywood Event Empowers Advocacy for Hand-drawn Art
June 28, 2004 – Saturday, June 26, was a major day for hand-drawn animation as ASIFA-Hollywood presented its first 2D Expo at Woodbury University in Burbank, Calif. The brainchild of animation historian and board ...
Peter Gal, Director of Development, Buyer & Nick’s New Shorts Meister
June 23, 2004 – Some of us have taken some pretty winding paths to our careers in animation, but few so winding (or so interesting) as Nickelodeon’s director of development, Peter Gal. Not only did Gal study anthr...
Harryhausen and Students Animate Annecy
June 10, 2004 – Pressed for time between screenings, I want to quickly give you Animag readers a rundown of Annecy highlights. Opening night, during the first program of animated shorts in competition, the grand t...
Beautiful Musica Found at Annecy
June 09, 2004 – In addition to all the planned presentations and screenings, the Annecy International Festival of Animation offers a smorgasbord of unexpected events and marvelous chance meetings. Just an hour ago...
Buyer's Corner-
Kevin Corcoran, President, Chief Buyer
& Action Fan for Anime Network
June 09, 2004 – Kevin Corcoran and I have a few things in common. We're both Mac-heads and fans of giant robots. I'm not really sure what that means in the grand scheme of things, but I do know–considering the fac...
Buyer's Corner-
Al Kahn, Buyer, Chief of Fox Box
& Uber-Creator of Kids' Crazes
June 02, 2004 – Anyone who's ever met Al Kahn knows he's a memorable guy. Not only is he a definite personality, he's the salesman who brought Pokémon to the States. Love him or hate him for that, yo...
Buyer's Corner-
Donna Friedman Meir, Buyer and Seller
For National Geographic–and the World and All That’s in It
May 26, 2004 – If you want to sell kids’ animation to the National Geographic Channel, you may be barking up the wrong tree. The channel, as Donna Friedman Meir explains, focuses on the 18-49 audience. The N...
Buyer's Corner-
Alice Cahn, Buyer for Cartoon Network
Still Room for Preschool Content
… and Laughs
May 12, 2004 – Alice Cahn, VP of development for Cartoon Network's kid businesses, is definitely in one of the most unique positions in the industry. Not only is she a buyer at Cartoon Network, she is one of the ...
Greatness Defined: Digital Content Solution Leader, HP’s Carly Fiorina Inspires
April 20, 2004 – In a time of confusion over the power and rapid uptake of media technologies, Hewlett-Packard head Carly Fiorina delivered an inspiring keynote speech yesterday at the National Association of Broad...
MIPTV: Weta Workshop, Nelvana U-Knight for Series
March 29, 2004 – What could be better than having a pet dragon for a friend? A co-production that makes sense for all parties involved, of course, and that’s what Weta Workshop and Nelvana have found in each o...
Countdown to Cannes Got Ya Down?
Never Fear! There's Still Time to Make MIPTV!
March 19, 2004 – If you missed our early MIPTV print edition deadline and the free listings deadline for our NEW Cartoons at Cannes: A Pocket Guide to Animation, don't fret. There's still time to market your...
Pandemic Pipeline Pushes Softimage|XSI
March 18, 2004 – Softimage, the Avid subsid, says that Los Angeles-based Pandemic Studios–creators of the upcoming console titles Full Spectrum Warrior, Mercenaries and Star Wars Battlefront–...
PITCH YOUR TOYS:
TOY FAIR MARKETING OPPORTUNITY
January 08, 2004 – Fancy yourself the next great toy conglomerate, ala Mattel or Hasbro? Maybe you see yourself selling one good idea to a lot of really thankful kids or a really cool, retro animation collectible to ...
The King Is Back, and He's Peter Jackson:
Proud to Be a Kiwi
December 01, 2003 – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King premiered in director Peter Jackson’s homeland of New Zealand over the weekend and our own Rita Street was there to share with you all the ...
Send a Card To Roy Disney!
November 18, 2003 – This week Animation Magazine is celebrating the 75th Birthday of the most famous animated character ever–Mickey Mouse. Because we all owe so much to this special little guy w...
Grand Dame of CBBC Ani Steps Down; Create's Carrington Steps Up
October 28, 2003 – Theresa Plummer-Andrews, one of the most respected development execs in television animation, announced today that she is retiring from her post as head of acquisitions for CBBC. Stepping into her ...
Heartland Tour:
itty bitty HeartBeats Capture Preschool Lovin'
October 28, 2003 – itty bitty HeartBeats producer Anita Mann has a message for kids that's pretty simple but seems doubly important nowadays–learn to think with your heart. Says the Emmy-award winning cho...
Jules Engel, Mentor & Inspired Artist Passes
September 08, 2003 – We are sad to report that Jules Engel, founding director of CalArts' Experimental Animation program, passed away on Sunday. Born in 1918 in Budapest, Hungary, Engel began his professional career in...
Insightful and Noisy!
AGUA Meeting Opens SIGGRAPH 2003
July 28, 2003 – An extremely noisy crowd of more than 1,500 Maya users gathered last night at the 4th R & B concert venue in San Diego, Calif. to participate in the annual AGUA (Alias Global User Association) meet...
E3 News: MegaMan Powers Up E3 & Launches on Kids' WB!
May 16, 2003 – One of the best things about walking a trade show floor is running into old friends. AniMag bumped into ShoPro Entertainment VP John Easum and asked what the big smile on his face was all ab...
Studio Ghibli Returns: The Latest hit Opens Anime Fest at the Cinematheque
May 05, 2003 – The American Cinematheque's First Annual Anime Festival opened in Hollywood at the Egyptian Theatre over the weekend to a rainstorm, sold out houses and the U.S. premiere of the latest Studio Ghibl...
Donner: A Total Party for Kevin Munroe; Airs Thursday, Dec. 12 on ABC Family
December 11, 2002 – Admit it. Besides a little time off, some good food and a couple of presents, the only reason you put up with the holidays is for those sentimental television reruns: animated specials like Rudo...
Dr. Jekyll Transforms In Major Co-Pro Pic: Deal Unites Stardust & TEVA
October 16, 2002 – When animation director Dino Athanassiou read Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 10 years ago, he was haunted by turn-of-the-century, film...
