The 2015 Epic ACG Fest Program Book

2015 San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival
2015 Epic ACG Fest
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2015 Epic ACG Fest
Welcome Letter from
Executive Director
Lynn Tang
Dear EACG attendees,
Welcome to the 2015 Epic Animation Comic and Game (EACG) Fest in
the beautiful East Bay of San Francisco in California. All EACG activities
will be held in the Albany Community Center in the city of Albany. This
will be our very 2nd edition of showcasing animations, comics, and
games. We will be bringing artists from around the world to screen,
exhibit and compete their work for the local audience.
We will be screening over 50 animated films that have been selected
from submissions from all over the world. There will be special guest
appearances from both domestic and international.
This year's gaming tournament features two games, Mahjong, a
traditional game originated in China, and cube puzzle, a classic but very
challenging game. In addition to the fun, we will also be hosting panels
regarding industry updates and a red carpet award ceremony with
recognitions to some of the best competitors.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Lynn Tang
MARKETING DIRECTOR
Ni Huang
PUBLIC RELATION
Judy Hu
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Haily Duke
VIDEO EDITOR
Faruq Oyekan
SHOWCASE DIRECTOR
Sheila Santa Maria
On behalf of the entire EACG committee, we thank you for being a part
of our festival. EACG will continue to grow with your support and care.
I sincerely thank for the sponsors, supporters, volunteers who make
this event possible.
Jeff Bedrick
John V. Peters
Lakeshia Davis
Lisa Rose
Sincerely,
Facebook.com/EACGFest
@ EpicACG
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SPONSORS/PARTNERS
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SPONSORS/PARTNERS
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V ENUE
Albany Community Center
1249 Marin Ave
Albany, CA 94706
TICKETING
1-day Fest Pass
$20
$10 (Seniors/Students)
Red Carpet and Award Ceremony Pass
$25
Online Ticketing http://2015eacg.eventbrite.com
Group Tickets (minimum 10)
On the Door
call 310-541-8040
Accept cash and major credit cards
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EV ENTS SCH ED ULE
Comic Art Show
1:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Saturday, November 7, 2015
The Community Room (Hall)
1:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 8, 2015
The Community Room (Hall)
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Saturday, November 7, 2015
The Community Room (Hall)
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 8, 2015
The Community Room (Hall)
Game Tournament
Industry Panel Discussion
Saturday, November 7, 2015
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
The Community Room (Hall)
Pitch Your Ideas
Sunday, November 8, 2015
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
The Community Room (Hall)
Animated Film Production
Cosplay Contest
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Sunday, November 8, 2015
The Community Room (Hall)
Sunday, November 8, 2015
The Community Room (Hall)
Sunday, November 8, 2015
The Community Room (Hall)
Red Carpet
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Award Ceremony
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Sherwood Jones
Chairman
2014 San Diego
International Kids’ Film
Festival
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ANIMATION FILM SCREENING SCHEDULE
Auditorium
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Start
Films
Country
Minutes
Poland
2:00 PM
118
WATER LILIES
Poland
4
THE TENEMENT BUILDING
Poland
13
BUT SHE'S NICE…
Poland
6
DOGGYDENT
Poland
3
THE DRIFT
Poland
5
331 DAYS
Poland
7
ON THE HEDGEHOG
Poland
3
HIPPOS *
Poland
13
OVER MY DEAD BODY
Poland
4
PATE
Poland
6
MY IDENTIFICATION
Poland
4
SUPERNOVA
Poland
8
THE RIVERS
Poland
3
A BLUE ROOM *
Poland
15
DOKUMENT
Poland
7
BEWARE OF SMOKING
Poland
5
AVA'N GARDE
Poland
7
LOOP
Poland
3
HEDGEHOG
Poland
2
69
4:30 PM
2 ROSES
Spain
5
ALWAYS TIRED
BLACK & WHITE
Germany
USA
6
2
MALIKA AND THE WITCH
Burkina Faso
17
MEND AND MAKE DO
ROSSO PAPAVERO
UK
Slovakia
8
6
THUNDERCLUCK: CHICKEN OF THOR
USA
4
TOOT THE TINY TUGBOAT
UK
11
THE ANCIENT GODS **
China
10
Note: The films marked with * are not appropriate for kids to watch. No kids allowed to watch the films with *.
The films marked with ** are featured as special screenings.
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Animation Film Screening Schedule
Auditorium
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Start
Films
Country
Minutes
72
1:30 PM
A PIECE OF GREEN
Japan
6
DAILY LIVES AT DAISY LODGE
Japan
9
DO AS THE FISH TELLS YOU
Japan
6
EVERYDAY SINS
Japan
8
GROWTH FACTOR
Japan
7
MY FRAME
Japan
8
MY MILK CUP COW
Japan
12
PLAYGROUND
Japan
6
WAY BACK TO THE SEA
Japan
10
61
3:00 PM
BIGSHOT SERIES *
France
18
DEMOUNTABLE
Netherlands
12
THE BIG-HEADED BOY
THE SOUND OF ROAD
Portugal
Iran
9
3
VIAJE A PIES
WHAT IS YOUR TALENT?
Spain
Iran
14
5
62
4:15 PM
ALPHA CANIS MAJORIS 7
USA
6
COULD’VE BEEN ME
Iran
1
FROM THE EASTERN LANDS
Iran
5
HI
Korea
15
LEONID IN SPACE
USA
4
PAWO
Germany
8
PORTRAIT OF A WIND-UP MAKER
Spain
4
WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT COSMOS
YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE POROUSNESS OF CERTAIN BORDERS
Russia
USA
15
4
Note: The films marked with * are not appropriate for kids to watch. No kids allowed to watch the films with *.
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ANIMATION
2 ROSES
Spain︱5 min Short︱Fantasy
Director/Producer/Screenwriter Paco Gramaje Calatayud
A child loses his parents in a car accident, but love and strength of nature will not leave him
alone.
ALPHA CANIS MAJORIS 7
USA︱6 min Short︱Sci-Fi︱Adventure
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Diego Guanzon
A space explorer lands in a desolate planet in search of fuel crystals. He finds the crystals, but
encounters an alien who eats them.
ALWAYS TIRED
Germany︱6 min Short︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter/Producer/Animator Jochen Kuhn
This short features brief notes on tiredness.
BIGSHOT SERIES
France︱18 min Short︱TV︱New Media︱18+
Director/Screenwriter Maurice Huvelin
Producer Christophe Camoirano
Bigshot Series is an animated series features little actors with caustic humor, absurd monsters
and ever victorious animals. It consists Bighorror, Bigheroes, Bigwestern, Bigpanic, Bigpeplum,
Bigromance And Bigfantasy.
BLACK & WHITE
USA︱2 min Short︱Action︱Fantasy
Director/Screenwriter Mercer Meeks
Inverted enemies grapple with each other to the end!
COULD'VE BEEN ME
Iran︱1 min Short︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Yaser Moinfar
This film is about a person who makes fun of another person’s insolvency. But when such
thing also happens to him…
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ANIMATION
DEMOUNTABLE
Netherlands︱12 min Short︱Experimental︱Stop-Motion
Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Animator Douwe Dijkstra
War is waged on the kitchen table while a man drinks coffee. The world’s on fire. Helicopters
shred his newspaper, a drone fires at a plate of broccoli. Demontable is a playful film on the
absurd relationship between daily life and global news.
FROM THE EASTERN LANDS
Iran︱5 min Short︱Romance︱Music
Director Sarah Tabibzadeh Screenwriter Nader Rezaeeyan
Producer Ehsan Rasoulof Animator Hesam Javaheri Music Pallett Band
The music video tells a story of the love between a young couple in the eastern lands who live
as neighbors. It is the music that makes their difficult experience of love easier.
HI
Korea︱15 min Short︱Romance
Director/Screenwriter Ye-eun Son
Producer Soon-il Jung
Cast Ye-eun Son, Bbum-Gi Hwang, Eun-a Choi
This film tells a story of a prince, who meets and falls in love with Zerah, a woman who
worries about her children.
LEONID IN SPACE
USA︱4 min Short︱Sci-Fi
Director Kendra Williford
Instructors Sherrie H. Sinclair, Diana Coco-Russell, Michael Vickner
Leonid in Space, inspired by true events, follows Leonid, a homeless dog who goes from living
the streets to becoming the Soviet Union's first Canine Cosmonaut.
MALIKA AND THE WITCH
Burkina Faso︱17 min Short︱Adventure︱Fantasy
Director Nabaloum Boureima Screenwriter Djamila Zoui
Producer Djilali Beskri Cast Narcisse Youmbi
Malika decides to ride alone in the footsteps of her sisters who decide to take part in an
annual special event in the village this year in the hope of finding Prince Charming…
MEND AND MAKE DO
United Kingdom︱8 min Short︱Fantasy
Director Bexie Bush Screenwriter Stefan Kaday
Animators Bexie Bush, Susan Guy, Steven Warne
This film tells a story of Lyn’s love during wartime and witness her belongings come alive with
the hope, fear and humor of one spirited lady.
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ANIMATION
PAWO
Germany︱8 min Short︱Adventure︱Comedy
Director/Producer/Screenwriter Antje Heyn
Animators Alexander Isert, Caroline Hamann
PAWO (Tibetan for “being brave”) is the magical adventure of a little toy figure, who finds
herself in a curious world. Thanks to some strange companions, she gradually becomes aware
of her strength and skills…
PORTRAIT OF A WIND-UP MAKER
Spain︱4 min Short︱Documentary
Director/Screenwriter/Animator Darío Pérez
Producer Almaziga Films
Chema is an expat architect from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He has built up a new life
there as a wind-up toy maker. He creates small pieces of art from recycle items.
ROSSO PAPAVERO
Slovakia︱6 min Short︱Fantasy︱Adventure
Director Martin Smatana Screenwriter Ivana Sujova
Producers Martin Smatana, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava
Once upon a starry night, a small boy with the head full of fantasies witnesses dreamlike
circus performances…
THE BIG-HEADED BOY
Portugal︱9 min Short︱Drama
Director/Producer Nelson Fernandes
Animators Ana Amélia Nunes, Élia Nunes, Marta Nunes, Luis Pinto, Jacinta Alves, Maria
Ramalho, Bruno Vaz, Francisco Roxo, Tiago Santos, Diogo Silva
A big-headed little boy is bullied. At night, with the howl of a wolf, he finds the solution for his
problem.
THE SOUND OF ROAD
Iran︱3 min Short︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Barzan Rostami
A boy and a girl meet each other in the street. After a while they get married. After a period of
time living together and having some conflicts, they have a baby…
THUNDERCLUCK: CHICKEN OF THOR
USA︱4 min Short︱Fantasy
Director Paul A. Tillery IV Cast Dandy Barrett
This film chronicles the birth, life, and legacy of Thundercluck, the viking chicken with the
power of thunder. Half mortal. Half god. All natural chicken.
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ANIMATION
TOOT THE TINY TUGBOAT
UK︱11 min Short︱Fantasy︱Adventure
Director Matt Hood Screenwriters Ian Carney, Elaine McElroy, Moya O'Shea
Producers Ruth Fielding, Adam Jackson-Noche, Clare Hernon
Cast John Hasler, Emma Tate, Duncan Wisbey, Keith Wickham, Osian Gatehouse
Life on the ocean wave is a whirl of fun and adventure when you’re a little boat with big ideas.
Meet Toot, an eager and energetic tug in his first year of service in the busy waters of the
Harbor. ‘Heave Ho, Let’s Go!’.
VIAJE A PIES
Spain︱14 min Short︱Western
Director/Screenwriter Khris Cembe
Producer Iván Miñambres
A night train journey. A wagon full of passengers. An annoying companion in your
compartment. What would you be willing to do in order to have a peaceful journey?
WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT COSMOS
Russia︱15 min Short︱Science︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Konstantin Bronzit
Animators Vera Shiganova, Katya Ryabkova
Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their
common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.
WHAT IS YOUR TALENT?
Iran︱5 min Short︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Barzan Rostami
It is a talent competition in the world that people take part in it, and represent their abilities
and the jurors score them.
YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE POROUSNESS OF
CERTAIN BORDERS
USA︱4 min Short︱Drama
Director Jill Johnston Animators Hannah Shea, Emma Roush, Kimberly Decker
A man and his mother board a bus. The son has flashbacks of a kid falling through the garage
ceiling and releasing spiders. The mother tries to kill the spiders with a spray but ends up
spraying herself in the face and requiring plastic surgery…
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ANIMATION
A PIECE OF GREEN
Japan︱6 min Short︱Drama︱Fantasy
Director/Screenwriter Kaori Iwase
Producer Mitsuko Okamoto Music Noriko Matsumoto
Dwarfs in red, blue and green colors have been working in each dark cabinet in a factory
called television. They have kept working without questioning their own identities. Midori, a
green dwarf, becomes aware of himself and starts to work on his own creation…
DAILY LIVES AT DAISY LODGE
Japan︱9 min Short︱Drama︱Fantasy
Director/Screenwriter Manami Wakai Producer Yuichi Ito
Music Kayoko Naoe
This is a story of Bear, Acorn, Prawn Fritter, and Reading Glasses, or Specs who live in a flat
called Daisy Lodge from summer to a winter morning. And the story continues to some day
when we look back today.
DO AS THE FISH TELLS YOU
Japan︱6 min Short︱Fantasy︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter Onohana Producer Taruto Fuyama
Music Miki Sakurai
"I want to leave home," a pet fish told a boy one day. The boy reluctantly takes the fish out to
the sea to "keep his promise" as it says. Their recollections on the way became slightly
discrepant.
EVERYDAY SINS
Japan︱8 min Short︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter Yewon Kim
Producer Koji Yamamura
Music Kaoru Kubota
Guiltee is an art university student who is slacking off on her school work and feels horrible
about it. Plus, she's confused about her family and Christianity, and she can't even get her exboyfriend to accept a small present she bought for him.
GROWTH FACTOR
Japan︱7 min Short︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter Ryosuke Oshiro
Producer Mitsuko Okamoto Music Ayatake Ezaki
A middle school boy likes to snap photos of things he fancies, and then draws pictures of them.
On his usual route home, he spots the girl he likes with another boy. The balance between his
delusions and reality is in constant flux.
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ANIMATION
MY FRAME
Japan︱8 min Short︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter Yewon Kim
Producer Koji Yamamura
Music Kaoru Kubota
Suffering from her delusion, K tries to depict her disorder in her paintings. In her dream she
finds a frame, which makes her believe that drawing is her destiny.
MY MILK CUP COW
Japan︱12 min Short︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter Yantong Zhu
Producer Koji Yamamura
Music Asuka Horiguchi
Father tells his 4-year-old daughter Nunu that there's a cow at the bottom of her milk cup.
Nunu believes him and drinks all of her milk, but there is no cow. Nunu gradually stops
believing her father, who constantly tells her various lies.
PLAYGROUND
Japan︱6 min Short︱Drama
Director/Screenwriter Ryosuke Oshiro
Producer Mitsuko Okamoto
Music Juri Ito
A boy is always alone, at school, or at home. One day he finds a sandlot on his way home and
thinks of making a "town" of his own. Another boy is watching him and starts to imitate him.
WAY BACK TO THE SEA
Japan︱10 min Short︱Drama︱Fantasy
Director/Screenwriter Kaori Iwase Producer Mitsuko Okamoto
Music Kaoru Kubota
A big catfish can't get back to the sea as it is stuck on a riverbank, where he lives quietly with a
little catfish in a boat packed with memories from back home.
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ANIMATION
WATER LILIES
Poland︱4 min Short︱Music
Director/Animator Marcin Surma
Producer National Polish Film School Lodz
This animation features the beautiful light while the sun revolves around the building…
THE TENEMENT BUILDING
Poland︱13 min Short︱Comedy
Director/Screenwriter Agnieszka Burszewska Producer FUMI Studio
Animators Agnieszka Burszewska, A. Wyrwas, W. Sankiewicz
This is a black comedy about a hungry middle-class inhabitant of the tenement building...
BUT SHE'S NICE…
Poland︱6 min Short︱Romance
Director/Screenwriter Tomasz Pilarski Music Damian Czajka
Producer Artistic University in Poznan (UAP)
This little love story tells us do not forget that your shadow is always nearby....
DOGGYDENT
Poland︱3 min Short︱Fantasy
Director/Screenwriter/Producer Magdalena Pilecka
Animator Rafał Felak Music Remigiusz Zawadzki
This animated short brings us to meet a doggydent and its myriad problems...
THE DRIFT
Poland︱5 min Short︱Music
Director/Producer Marcin Ożóg
Music Zespół Kariera
This is the music video “Cardboard" for Polish band Zespół Kariera.
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ANIMATION
331 DAYS
Poland︱7 min Short︱Experimental
Director/Animator Piotr Mazur
Producer AFA School of Photography in Wroclaw
This short illustarates 331 days of "life" of a flat.
ON THE HEDGEHOG
Poland︱3 min Short︱Fantasy
Director Ala Nunu Leszyńska Producer Artistic University Poznan
Music Magda Tejchma
A hedgehog has the shape of a suckling piglet. On the outside it is entirely covered with spines.
During the grape-gathering season, the hedgehog enters the vineyard.
HIPPOS
Poland︱13 min Short︱Drama︱18+
Director/Screenwriter Piotr Dumała Music Alexander Balanescu
Animators Piotr Dumała, Paweł Dębski Producer FUMI Studio
The film is based on "Ballet of the cruelty“, which is a disturbing study of human nature.
OVER MY DEAD BODY
Poland︱4 min Short︱Fantasy︱Family
Director Agata Mianowska
Producer National Polish Film School Lodz
A young pussy cat shows her parents a new boyfriend, which is a rabbit artist.
PATE
Poland︱6 min Short︱Music
Directors Łukasz Jedynasty, Zuzanna Staszewska
Producer Rainbow Box
This is a fictionalized music video for the band Kasia & Wojtek, and how it is played literally "to
chop".
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ANIMATION
MY IDENTIFICATION
Poland︱4 min Short︱Music
Director Natalia Krawczuk
Producer National Polish Film School Lodz
This is a music video for the Polish band AmperA.
SUPERNOVA
Poland︱8 min Short︱Experimental
Director/Producer Paweł Czarnecki
Music Patryk Bychoski
This short features a poetic image of death (or radical transformation) of a planet.
THE RIVERS
Poland︱3 min Short︱Stop-Motion
Director/Screenwriter Daria Wiktoria Kopiec Music Ola Bilińska
Animator Adam Wyrwas Producers Fundacja Pogranicze / WJTeam
The film illustrates a beautiful interpretation of the poem by Czeslaw Milosz under the title
"The Rivers".
A BLUE ROOM
Poland︱15 min Short︱Fiction︱18+
Director/Screenwriter Tomasz Siwiński Music Rémi Boubal
Animators Tomasz Siwiński, P.Garbacz, A.P.Morawski
This film is an extremely evocative study of the human mind in the state of clinical death.
DOKUMENT
Poland︱7 min Short︱Fiction
Director Marcin Podolec Music Wiktoria Nowak
Producer National Polish Film School Lodz
This film portraits a father whose children live their own lives far away from him.
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ANIMATION
BEWARE OF SMOKING
Poland︱5 min Short︱Drama
Director/Animator Maciej Pestka
Producer Mapepi Animations
Screenwriters Maciej Pestka, Piotr Pestka
Think twice before you light your last cigarette...
AVA'N GARDE
Poland︱7 min Short︱Music
Director Bogna Warszawa Production Bogna Warszawa/ SinSen
Music SinSen, Oz
This is the music video for the Polish rapper SinSen.
LOOP
Poland︱3 min Short︱Experimental
Director/Music Michał Socha
Producer BrosFX
The film illustrates the visual variations on the loops effect.
HEDGEHOG
Poland︱2 min Short︱Fiction
Director/Screenwriter/Animator Anna Nowicka
Producer Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw
A hungry hedgehog finds out an apple on the tree and tries to fetch it…
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COMIC
May’s Machine
Wind Man Studio, 2015, China
In a world full of machines, machinery disease is introduced and
rapidly spread with source of infection unknown. People start to fear
the disease and smash machines. May, a girl whose mom got infected
the machinery disease in the beginning and died years ago, transfers
to a new school and meets her childhood friend Kebowen. Unlike
others, May likes machines. One day, iron eating beast attack them…
Portraits
Florentino Torres Jr, 2015, USA
Florentino Torres Jr began his passion for
drawing at an early age and continued for a
while until other interest side tracked his
artistic side. That passion resurfaced again
when he turned 50. Florentino realized he
truly loved to draw. He mainly draw and
paint in freehand in all mediums and prefer
drawing people and animals.
Mild Family
Yongzhe Pu, 2009, China
In a cold winter, a mother
wolf has to get out of the cave and search for food for its new-born
baby wolves… This pen-and-ink drawing portraits a sad but inspiring
story of baby wolves’ survival in this new world.
We
Zhiwei Liu, 2015, China
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G AME
Still Life with La Danse, Henri Matissse, 1909
Harmony in Red, Henri Matissse, 1908
Puzzle Maeya is a unique puzzle concept consisting of 130 ½” cubes self-packaged in a 5” x 7” clear plastic case.
Presents the incomparable art of Vincent
Van Gogh and Henri Matisse
(Mar. 30, 1853 – Jul. 29, 1890)
(Dec. 31, 1869 – Nov.3, 1954)
Contained in this single set of 130 cubes are two of Van Gogh’s and four of Matisse’s most famous
paintings. To solve this puzzle
1
2
Select one of the images from the full-sized pictures inside
Rotate each cube so that the side displayed is one that is included within the selected image
3
Then arrange the cubes to reconstruct the image exactly
( If only it was as easy as these instructions make it sound )
Be prepared for the challenge of a lifetime! Combines six artistic masterpieces in a unique new format
that puzzle-lover will find impossible to resist. Have fun in gaming!
Puzzle Maeya
The Black Table
Henri Matissse, 1919
Café Terrace at Arles
Van Gogh, 1888
The Window
Henri Matissse, 1916
Yellow Chair
Van Gogh, 1888
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G AME
all suit mahjong
Mahjong
close up of mahjong tiles
, also spelled majiang (麻将), mah jongg, and numerous other variants, is a game
that originated in China. It is commonly played by four players
(with some three-player
variations found in South Korea and Japan). The game and its regional variants are widely played
throughout Eastern and South Eastern Asia and have a small following in Western countries.
The game is played with a set of 144 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols
,
although some regional variations use a different number of tiles. In most variations, each player begins
by receiving 13 tiles. In turn players draw and discard tiles until they complete a legal hand using
the 14th drawn tile to form four groups (melds) and a pair (head).
The 2015 EACG will feature a mahjong tournament for the first time. The tournament is open to any
mahjong player with a fest pass, and adopted the rule of World Series of Mahjong. No cash prizes. Prizes
will be given to the Top 8 places in the tournament for each day, and the winners will also receive
certificates at the award ceremony.
Mahjong
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COSPLAY
EPIC ACG
2015
Cosplay Contest
2015
Albany Community Center (1249 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA 94706)
NOVEMBER SHOW YOUR BEST
COSPLAYCOSTUME
8TH
PREPARE YOUR COSTUME AND WIN PRIZES