Big Toons in the Big Apple

The festival has also added a subsidiary production company, headed by Safron. “A lot of opportunities have arisen out of ABP. In the past couple years,” he says. “There was a film called Binge and Purge by Ben Weinhart at the Vancouver Film School that won the Audience Award in 2005. Around that time, networks started coming to us asking if there were any filmmakers with ideas to pitch them. So we brainstormed back and forth with Ben, and he came up with a concept for a series called Perfectland. It premiered on MTV this past Earth Day and is now being screened at APB. It was produced by ABP in conjunction with the filmmaker. We really worked together to create something great.”