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  • garage sale

  • happy summer:::: stay hydrated and don't touch the hissing bugs. use coupon code SUMMERTIME for 20% off everything in the shop + free USA shipping for anything over $50

  • hell didn't freeze over, but we did create a youtube channel to drop off a few things... check out "watching grass grow" if you don't already have it

  • don just wrote in his journal

  • here's a nice article from the san francisco event

  • the everything will be ok ROCKET shirts are now available in black. because there are some of us who will only wear black:

  • the i am so proud of you snow globes sold out. we were going to make one more batch of them but the last ones we could find were delivered to us cracked, smashed and leaking. opening the box was like the saddest christmas ever.

  • a recent interview with don for AFI has been posted here. two other new and surprisingly interesting interviews have been posted in here. the new ones are on top.

  • these I AM SO PROUD OF YOU shirts are now in the shop and look pretty great:

    >>>>> FREE SHIPPING is available in the shop with any order over $50

  • the new dvds are here. they sort of squirt when you squeeze them, like weird little sea creatures

  • i guess this was inevitable

    a december08 interview for sundance has been posted here >>an older one and this, not to mention, and here + IFC interview. thank you, thank you, thank you + thank you

  • everythingwillbeok






    • wisdom teeth
    i am so proud of you
    everything will be ok
    the meaning of life
    animation show cartoons
    rejected
    billy's balloon
    lily and jim
    genre
    ah, l'amour

    Remember, the official Bitter Films shop is the only place in the world to find our finely crafted DVDs - Amazon, Netflix, and your corner liquor store are all out of luck. We are weird and controlling like that.

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    don's journal
    DVDs
    FAQ    		 - dvd faq
    ? old rrrrr r
    - archive of interviews
    + contact     		- don on facebook
    - bitter films wiki
    - bitter films myspace
    ::current events:: updated july 27 2010

    :::: In April, Don received the San Francisco International Film Festival's "Persistence of Vision" Lifetime Achievement Award and showed some movies, and a fantastic time was had by all. Previous recipients of the award include Errol Morris, Faith Hubley, and Jan Svankmajer. In 40 years, following the crushing disappointment of the rest of his life, he will be getting a sheepish phone call from the festival asking if maybe they could have it back.

    :::: Wisdom Teeth is an unnecessary new five minute cartoon Don drew last year in between more important things. It first appeared as a surprise conclusion to the last three Evening with Don Hertzfeldt programs in Ottawa + Montreal last October. In January it drunkenly revealed itself at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, punched a woman in the mouth, and ran off into the snow without pants. It next showed up at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where it stumbled into the room cursing God with vodka on its breath. The short reportedly made a brief lewd gesture before disappearing again in a cloud of biting weasels.

    The cartoon will go into wide release all over the world around the end of summer. In the meantime, a few more film festivals. More news coming soon.

    STRANGE REACTIONS at Sundance from around the web:
    "A hilarious animated German short..."
    "...brilliant... funnier than hell."
    "Haven’t laughed that hard in a while."
    "...something that can only happen in animation."
    "This was just awful."

    Here's a few more Wisdom Teeth screenings for now.
    Please note the first three rows of the theater are in the splash zone:

    February 27::: Best of Sundance 2010 program, Montreal Monument-National
    April 8-18::::::: Dallas International Film Festival
    April 15-22::::::Nashville Film Festival
    April 23::::::San Francisco International Film Festival
    April 21-28::::::Independent Film Festival of Boston
    May 20 - June 13::::::: Seattle International Film Festival
    June 5::::::: Rooftop Films, NY
    June 15-19::::::: Southside Film Festival, PA
    ???????????????

    :::: Animation and photography on Chapter 3 of Everything will be OK is underway, now that the 2008-2009 tour has finally come to a close. THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the tour such a smashing success and an amazing series of evenings to remember. Don premiered I am so proud of you in autumn 2008 on a whirlwind tour of 16 cities and carried on in 2009 for a grand total of 33 shows in 22 cities, four countries, about 30 hours of embarrassing onstage interviews, and one new cartoon. Chapter 3 is about two-thirds written and with some luck should be released in 2011.

    ::::: I AM SO PROUD OF YOU IS ON DVD :::::
    This limited edition DVD features a 148 page production archive of deleted scenes, notes, sketches, bad ideas, wishful thinking, regrets, and distant memories; an alternate, narration-free version of the film; a curious booklet; and a dozen blurry mysterious photos from the upcoming Chapter 3:
    		 everything will be ok chapter 2


    .I WANT ONE.
    ...I am so proud of you has won its 25th and 26th awards, with a Special Award for "Original and exciting visual techniques" at Anifest in Zagreb and Best Short Film at the Animage Festival in Brazil. Other awards include a Special Mention at the International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima in Krakow, a Special Jury Prize for "original form and human warmth" at the Message to Man Film Festival in Russia, Best Picture and Best Screenplay from the Fargo Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize at the Florida Film Festival, Best Animated Film at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Best Film at Curta Cinema Rio de Janeiro, and the Golden Starfish from the Hamptons International Film Festival.     Meanwhile, Everything will be OK has won its 39th award, the Special Jury Prize from Italy's Lucca Animation Festival!

    :::: EVERYTHING WILL BE OK IS STARING AT YOU ON DVD ::::
    this limited edition DVD "single" features a restored and remastered high definition film transfer, with a brand new 100+ page archival area of deleted scenes, sketches, production notes, alternate takes, abandoned ideas, embarrassing asides, a strange booklet, an interesting hidden thing, and all the usual nonsense.....
    exclusively available in the BITTER FILMS SHOP