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This from the Flaherty Seminar website:

The Flaherty is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Leo Awards:

For Excellence in the Field of Exhibition, Distribution or Programming: Filmakers Library - Sue Oscar & Linda Gottesman

For Excellence in the Field of Filmmaking or Producing: Barbara Hammer.

We will also be presenting the Samu Award to the late animator Helen Hill, whose films convey a universal message illuminating our growing sense of world community.

The 2008 LEO AWARDS will be presented on Monday, November 24, 7:30 pm at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The celebration will include presentation of the awards, as well as, clips from the Filmakers Library collection, a short film by Helen Hill, and Barbara Hammers' films, Sanctos and Vital Signs.

As part of the Siren Nation festival here, there will be a screening of 10 short films by Helen Hill.

The Films of Helen Hill
Monday Nov 3rd, 7 pm
Hollywood Theater, Portland OR

Read more about it at Just Seeds

Tonight the CBC is doing a piece on Helen and Paul tonight at 9pm.

Here is the link to the show synopsis

The episode will be available on-line for at least a week, I will post the link to the video when Fifth Estate makes it available.

It has been a year, and I don't know what to say. We still miss you, Helen.

There has been quite a bit of news lately as the anniversary of Helen's death approached, please check out the news/articles section to see.

I know some people are planning small tea parties today in Helen's memory. If you have some time with friends, give them a hug, a cup of tea, and perhaps some vegan cakes and cotton candy.

Also, for those in New Orleans, WYES channel 12 will be showing the Southern Lens documentary on Helen's life at 9pm. There will be a repeat showing next week.

Take care, be good to yourselves, and give someone you love a hug today.

Animator and Halifax resident Heather Harkins was announced as the winner of the first Linda Joy Media Arts Society Helen Hill Animated Award.

click here for the CBC story and here for the AWN story

This Wednesday at 7pm, The Helen Hill Animated Award will be awarded at Eyelevel Gallery, 2063 Gottingen St. in Halifax.

Please see the article in the Chronicle Herald for more information.

South Carolina ETV made a film about Helen earlier this year, and it will be offered up for PBS stations across America to pick up.

This is a note from Amy Shumaker who headed up the making of the film:

Here is the information to share with Helen's friends in other cities so they can ask their public television station to carry the program. It's important for them to act now!!!The way this works is that the PBS station records the show from the satellite and schedules it. Most stations will be finalizing their January schedules and possibly working on Feb. now. The program will be available to the stations for broadcast until 1/30/12

INFO:

The following South Carolina ETV program featuring Helen Hill's life and work will be offered to public television stations across the U.S. by NETA (National Educational Television Association). To see if your local station is a NETA member, please go to www.netaonline.org

Info for TV station: The NETA feed to record via satellite is scheduled on Sunday, November 25 @ 20:00 - 21:00

Helen Hill: Celebrating a Life in Film
The hour-long documentary is a loving look at the Columbia, South Carolina native and filmmaker who was tragically murdered in her New Orleans home in January 2007 by an intruder. Weaving together interviews with close friends and family members and many of her animated films, the program creates a touching snapshot of Hill and many of the pivotal moments in her life, while also offering a unique retrospective of her work.

For more info about the program, contact Amy Shumaker - shumaker@scetv.org.

Anthology Film Archives is hosting a memorial screening of ten of Helen Hill's newly restored films at 8pm on Wednesday October 24th.

Admission will be $9, and a substantial portion of the proceeds will go to the 529 Educational Fund set up for Helen's son, Francis Paul Gailiunas. The entire program should last a little over an hour.

Anthology Film Archives:
32 Second Ave. (at 2nd Street)
ph. (212) 505-5181

From their program:

HELEN HILL MEMORIAL
This program of newly-preserved short films made by New Orleans-based
filmmaker Helen Hill includes animated and experimental works made
between 1990 and 2006. Because she never used a distributor and
because much of her creative work was damaged or lost in the
post-Katrina floods of 2005, it's a small miracle that so much of her
output is suddenly available, and in vivid new 16mm prints. When her
tragic death made headlines at the beginning of this year, it quickly
became clear how many people Helen Hill's work and life had affected.
Among the outpourings of affection and tribute was the collective
effort of many who came together to make this preservation and
restoration work happen: Colorlab, Harvard Film Archive, BB Optics,
New York University, the University of South Carolina, Women's Film
Preservation Fund, The Maxine Greene Foundation, the Orphan Film
Symposium, the Nickelodeon Theatre, and the Center for Home Movies.

Helen Hill's films are hand-drawn, figurative pieces infused with
humor and a loving spirit. Many blend live-action with pixilation,
cut-out, and cell animation. Collectively they are a batch of utopian
love letters, addressed to particular people, communities, and the
world.