Puppet Films at the Orlando Puppet Festival

Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume 3 is coming to the Orlando Puppet Festival next week.

If you are in or near Orlando, Florida next weekend you catch Handmade Puppet Dreams - Heather Henson's ongoing, traveling mini-festival of puppet films and videos - at the 3rd Annual Orlando Puppet Festival. You can also check out a variety of puppetry performances and performances from a wide range of puppetry artists including The Cashore Marionettes, Sandglass Theatre, John Kennedy and more! See the festival schedule for full details.

Handmade Puppet Dreams 3

The third installment of Heather Henson's traveling mini-fest of puppet film and video Handmade Puppet Dreams premiered last night.

I attended the premiere of Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams 3 last night (and saw Handmade Puppet Dreams 2 for the first time the night before) and it was a fascinating presention of independent, underground and alternative puppet films from artists like Lyon Hill, Jason von Hinezmeyer, Guilherme Marcondes and many others. While there's nothing quite like seeing films screened live on a big screen in front of hundreds of people, two of my favourite films that were screened last night - Tyger and In Private - can be watched online.

Handmade Puppet Dreams programs are next appearing at the Puppets on the Sound festival in Huntington, NY August 9th & 15th. Look for Handmade Puppet Dreams 3 at film and puppetry festivals internationally in 2007-08.

21/07/07 Update: Added the information and a link to the Puppets on the Sound festival.