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Current Projects

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FLIEGEN (the German verb "to fly") is the first of Catapult Productions' filmmaking efforts specifically for the international children’s film genre. More than ten years of examination of the genre informs the work. The work features original music, dance and two languages.

Synopsis:  Metaphora is ten years old and going through a growth spurt. Her months of flying dreams come with more frequency now.  She craves the sensation of loft, of feeling wind under her arms and in her hair. Marathon sessions on her pogo stick satisfy her for a period until she discovers the closest thing to flying.  FLIEGEN offers an explanation for the human desire to fly as it passes through its unconscious manifestation in dreams, then its conscious pursuit through a lifetime. [FLIEGEN]
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Ongoing Catapult Projects

Screen 360:  Films for Children of the World  (www.screen360.com)
Launched at five venues in 2003, Screen 360 is a touring exhibition of international films for audiences ages four and up.  The biannual program thus far begins in San Francisco, travels to Portland and rural Oregon. Catapult Productions continues to look for further opportunities to offer Screen 360’s programming, especially in the heartland of America.  Contact us to bring a program to your rural community or local film festival.

PREMIERE SEASON

See the article from Allen Johnson on FilmThreat (http://www.filmthreat.com/FilmFestivals.asp?Id=1213)
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International Film Festivals
Attending international film festivals is an ongoing essential part of Catapult Productions. Catapult Productions Lead, Kavanaugh, has participated annually at the Berlin Film Festival’s Kinderfilmfest as programmer, judge, writer and soon, as filmmaker.  Other festival’s she has participated in are listed on links.
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Where’s EGG?
EGG (Catapult Productions 2000)

So insignificant yet so very essential: EGG is a whimsical contemplation of the oxymoronic egg. Two dancers in their mid-thirties documented their cross-country tour through interviews about the greatest common denominator they could find along Interstate 80: Eggs. Four formats, animation, hand-tinted Super-8, and vintage footage scrambled digitally, seasoned with groovin' Tipsy Trip Hop, The Squirrel Nut Zippers and sounds of an old Victrola, all served on video format.