COC advanced animation students brought back to life memories of Holocaust survivor Leon Malmed, officials said.

A group of 25 College of the Canyons students spent the entire Spring 2017 semester bringing to life an animated documentary “The Promise,” which will be screened at the COC library on Friday.

During Nazi occupation of Northern France, between the years of 1940 and 1945, Malmed and his sister lived in hiding and were saved by a French family in the city of Compithgne, according to a press release.

The film documents Malmed’s experience as a child during those years of the Holocaust.

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“Artistically, the film’s paint on glass technique beautifully illustrates Leon’s story using a fluid style and a subtle color palette,” said Jeff Baker, chair of the COC Media, Entertainment and Arts department. “Students have successfully used the evocative nature of animation to bring out the memories and emotions of the past.”

The Animation Production class offers students the opportunity to work as a team to create an animation for a client or project. Taught by Masha Vasilkovsky, the students also had the guidance of Ruah Edelstein, a filmmaker in residence, according to the press release.

“The Promise is a student-created, instructor-led example of project-based teaching,” Baker said. “Students learned through firsthand experience a part of human history. They heard and had to understand and empathize with Leon’s history in order to successfully create the movie.”

The film also features a musical score composed by Bernardo Feldman, chair of the College of the Canyon’s music department, which was mixed by Jon Amador, a sound arts professor at COC.

“It was truly a collaboration of the School of Visual and Performing Arts,” Baker said.

The animated film will be screened at 6 p.m. Friday in the COC Library. The screening will be accompanied by an exhibition of student artwork made for the film.

A reception with light refreshments will be held before the screening at 5 p.m., according to a press release.

To attend the screening, RSVP to the College of the Canyons Foundation at cocfoundation@canyons.edu or call (661) 362-3434.

Production for “The Promise” was made possible through a grant from the College of the Canyons Foundation.

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