Creativity top 50!
Ecstatic to be on Creativity Magazine's list of top 50 creative people of 2011!!!
Bottle wins best Student Animation at the Stuttgart Int'l Animation Fest
Bottle wins award at the Bafta LA
Bottle wins 2nd place at the Bafta LA Student Film Awards
Annecy+ is a program curated and hosted by Bill Plympton of shorts rejected by the official Annecy Int'l Animation Festival. However, Annecy+ is held in Annecy during the official festival. Best of the rejects! Woohoo!
Bottle wins the Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short at the Florida Film Festival. Click for indiewire review from one of the Jurors.
Bottle takes the award for Best Animation at the Arizona International Film Festival 2011!
Prix D'Or at LES Film Festival!
Bottle wins the Prix D'Or/Best of Fest award at the LES Film Festival 2011 (Lower East Side, NYC)
Best Animation at Slamdance!
Bottle took the Grand Jury prize for Best Animation at Slamdance 2011!!! Woohooo!!
Bottle receives an Annie!!!
I was honored to accept the (first ever!) student Annie Award, joining the ranks of fellow 2011 Annie award winners Dreamworks, Brad Bird, Matt Groening, and others. (2011)
Bottle wins Best Film in the International Short (4 - 20 min) category at Cortoons in Italy (2011)
Short of the Week has named Bottle one of the best 10 shorts of 2010!
Bottle wins in the animation category at Animex in the UK (2011)
Award at the Stop-motion Film Festival
Bottle wins Best in the Academic Category at the Stop-motion Film Festival in Montreal (2010)
Was super honored to receive both Best Animation and the overall People's Choice Award at the Rockport Film Festival in Rockport, Texas (2010)
Prize at Linoleum Fest
Bottle takes a Special Jury Prize at Linoleum Festival in Moscow (2010)
Bottle wins Best of Fest at the 6th annual GIRAF animation festival in Calgary (2010)
Community Choice award for Best Animation
Bottle wins the community choice vote for Best Animation at the Vimeo Awards!
Bottle just won Best Student Film at Anim'est Int'l Animation Festival in Bucharest!
Bottle is a Vimeo Awards finalist!
Click above to vote for Bottle! Or come join me at the NYC premiere: The Finalists Part 1 - 6:15pm – 7:45pm at SVA theater 1.
Come see it on the big screen: Sunday, November 7 in the Shorts Two Program at 3:30pm - 4:56pm in the Mann 3 theater
My new film 'Bottle' is up!
To watch a higher quality/HD version, check out my Vimeo page (click above for link!)
Stop-mo whiz kids, compositors, or live action DPs send me your reels!
8/7/10 - Intro for MTV pilot posted
Just did a stop-motion intro and show graphics for MTV's 'incognito' pilot. Check it out in the client section!
Hogle Zoo spot wins 2 ADDY awards!
The "Madagascar" TV spot I animated for Utah's Hogle Zoo just won 2 national silver ADDY awards!
Frederator End Tag airing on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon
Keep an eye out for the Frederator Studios logo animation now airing at the end of Adventure Time (Cartoon Network) and Fanboy and Chum Chum (Nickelodeon)
Sweet Dreams has distribution!
Sweet Dreams now has distribution with FutureShorts
LA Film critic Betsy Sharkey covers Sweet Dreams and the other films from LACMA Young Directors Night
Sweet Dreams receives the Art of Film award at LACMA's Young Directors Night 2010
Watch it, watch it, watch it!
Nov. 12 2009 - Glamour's Women of the Year video is up!
Just got back from the incredible Women of the Year Awards at Carnegie Hall held by Glamour Magazine. You might be asking yourself, how did lil' old Kirsten sneak into such an event? Well, I had the immense pleasure of attending this star-studded gala on account 'a my animations being featured in the opening video of the ceremony. Check out the full video, directed by Kerry Washington, starring Eva Longoria, Estelle, Padma, Rachel Bilson and more! p.s. I'll be posting some pictures of the whole shindig to my flickr soon!
GOOD magazine video is up in the Client section!
Teamed up with the awesome peeps at GOOD magazine to create a video explaining author Matt Mason's fictional invention: the Teleportation Device!
Oct. 26 2009 - New stopmotion Nestle spots!
Be sure to check out 2 new broadcast spots for Nestle in the Client Section!
Check out my interview in the June/July issue of Animation Magazine. It was an honor to be featured alongside animation greats David O'Reilly, Pendleton Ward, Eric Robles, and more.
Interview with Aniboom which accompanied a front page feature!
Feature and interview on the front page of FilmInFocus.com, the official website of Focus Features (Milk, Coraline, Atonement, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine...)
Sweet Dreams wins at SXSW!
My ten minute stop-motion short Sweet Dreams took home a Special Jury Award at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Here's Animation Magazine's coverage and review.
Animation World Magazine: Fresh from the Festivals
Review of Sweet Dreams in Animation World Network's Magazine. Clips of the film also shown on AWNtv.
Interview with F-Bomb magazine
SuperForest Exclusive: An Interview with Kirsten Lepore!
Interview with the awesome site SuperForest. Chiggity-check it!
Sweet Dreams wins Cartoon of the Month
The people voted and Sweet Dreams took home Channel Frederator's Cartoon of the Month prize for March 09!
Front page feature and interview with IllustrationMundo.com
Channel Frederator's All Kirsten Lepore episode!
The long-running weekly cartoon show featured their first ever Artist Spotlight episode, and I had the honor of being that artist! The episode features Story from North America, Craig & Walter, and Sweet Dreams interspersed with video interviews and commentary.
Chow down with Kirsten Lepore...featuring lots of behind the scenes goodies!
Feature in Stash Magazine
The animation/visual effects/motion graphics DVD magazine featured my Ick and Knuckleheads spots to kick off their Jan '09 issue.
Story from North America receives a great review from Amid of Cartoon Brew!