Animating Reality: A Collection of Short Documentaries
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Shorts
Conversing with Aotearoa/New Zealand 15 minutes
director: Corrie FrancisUS
In an age of technological integration and urban life, New Zealanders attempt to fathom their deep, personal connection with their land.
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2008 CinemAmbient Film Festival AnimaFest Zagreb Mycology Festival Queenstown Mountain/Adventure Film Festival Cervino CineMountain International Film Festival Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival EarthVision Environmental Film Festival Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Boulder International Film Festival 2007 Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Autrans International Mountain Film Festival Taos Shortz MountainFilm in Graz Poppy Jasper Film Festival American Conservation Film Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival Colorado Environmental Film Festival Taos Mountain Film Festival Animadrid DOCNZ Homegrown New Zealand Shorts Taiwan International Animation Festival Estes Park Film Festival EarthNotes Film Festival Reel Earth - Aotearoa Environmental Film Festival Wanaka Mountain Film Festival MountainFilm in Telluride Green Film Festival Kalamazoo Animation Festival International Antelope Valley Independent Film Festival Asia Society - New Zealand Shorts Flagstaff Mountains Film Festival Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival Orobie Film Festival Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival Homegrown New Zealand Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2006 Banff Mountain Film Festival, AB, Canada TV Broadcast: Nov. 2007 Natural Heroes on PBS
Awards
Best of Fest Award - Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival Environmental Art Award- Earth Vision Film Festival Best Female Filmmaker Award - Poppy Jasper Film Festival Best Short - Taos Mountain Film Festival Best Film -Mountain Culture and Environment - Wanaka Mountain Film Festival Semi-finalist - Moondance Film Festival Best Student Short – Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival First Prize- Multimedia – Exposure, Auckland University Student Presentation Award – ANZALS Conference
Blue, Karma, Tiger 12 minutes
director: Mia Hulterstam, Cecilia ActisSweden
Spraypainters leave their mark on walls, tunnels and trains. But we rarely see the person behind the painted name. Three unmasked painting girls tell us why they do it.
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2009 Tampere Film Festival 2008 DOXA Documentary Film & Video Festival Brussels Short Film Festival 2007 Back Lot International Documentary Film Festival Festival dei Popoli Swedish Docs at Osaka European Film Festival Fredrikstad Animation Festival Swedish Documentary Now - National Film Center Tokyo Swedish Film Week - Saint Petersburg Tel Aviv International Children's Film Festival IMAGO - International Young Film Festival Swedish Film Week - Moscow Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival Arcipelago International Festival of Short Films and New Images Huesca Film Festival DOXA Documentary Film & Video Festival Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival Viewfinders - International Film Festival for Youth Norwegian Documentary Film Festival Sprockets - Toronto International Film Festival for Children Women’s Film Festival in Seoul Tampere Film Festival Tricky Women Animation Film Festival True/False Film Festival European Youth Film Festival of Flanders International Festival of Animated Objects 2006 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) International Youth Film Festival Ale Kino! Tricky Women 07 Warm Up Programme Siena International Short Film Festival International Images Film Festival for Women, Zimbabwe Animatricks Animated Film Festival Calgary International Film
Awards
Best Animation Award - Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival Special Mention - Tricky Women Animation Film Festival Best Swedish Short Film - Uppsala Short Film Festival
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz 23 minutes
director: Gerrit van DijkThe Netherlands
Three mobsters were shot in a bathroom. Dutch Schultz lived for the next twenty hours, during which he rambled incoherently. This film is an abstract representation of what Schultz tried to say. Voiced by Rutger Hauer.
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2006 Huesca Festival de Cine 2005 Tiblisi Youth Film Festival Sesily Tehran International Animation Festival Riga International shortfilm Festival Bimimi Kracow International Film Festival Etuida & Anima Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Judio en la Argentina Budapest International Animation Festival Anifest Bruxelles International Animation Festival Anima 2004 Zagreb World festival of Animated films Utrecht Holland Animation Filmfestival Tallinn International Animation Festival “Animated dreams” Taiwan International Animated filmfestival St.Petersburg International Documentary short & Animation Festival Nederlands Film Festival Utrecht Kiev International Animation film Festival KROK Brazil International Animation Festival Anima Mundi Boston Jewish filmfestival 2003 IDFA International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam
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The Beloved Ones 6 minutes
director: Samantha MooreUnited Kingdom
An intimate portrait of two Ugandan women living with the repercussions of HIV/AIDS.
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2009 Goteborg International Film Festival Tricky Women Festival 2008 Leipzig Dokfestival Zagreb Animafest Aspen Shortsfest Melbourne International Animation Festival London Internation Animation Festival Human Rights Film Festival, Austrialia 2007 Cannes International Festival (Short Film Corner) Margaret Mead Festival London Short Film Festival
Awards
Special Mention at the Zagreb International Animation Festival
Sold Out 8 minutes
director: Gerrit van Dijk, Marie José van der LindenThe Netherlands
In a tribute to the vanishing breed of small shopkeepers, we see the demise of family shops as a supermarket chain advances.
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2008 Biarritz, France Agri Van Diyarbakir, Turkey Vienna, Austria (SPECIAL MENTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY) Porderone, Italy Bilbao, Spain Jeonju, South Korea Trebon, Czech Republic Bochum, Germany Trieste, Italy St. Petersburg, Russia Nairobi, Kenya Limburgs Museum, Venlo October Warsaw, Poland Utrecht, Netherlands Barcelona, Spain Udine, Italy 2007 Presentation in Verkadefabriek 's-Hertogenbosch Netherlands Presentation in Library Nistelrode Netherlands Presentation 'Bossche filmmakers' Verkade Factory in' s-Hertogenbosch Netherlands Lodz, Poland Film in Brabant Netherlands (Breda, Tilburg, 's-Hertogenbosch, Eindhoven and Oudenbosch) Valparaiso, Chile Zlin, Czech Republic St.Petersburg, Russia Montecatini, Italy Montevideo, Uruguay Rimini, Italy Belo Horizonte, Brazil Boulevard Cinema Theater Festival Boulevard 'S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands Drama, Greece Córdoba, Argentina Patras, Greece Acireale, Italy Special Mention for the best animated film Magma, International Short Film Festival Acireale Kiev, Ukraine Nessebar, Bulgaria Utrecht, Netherlands Belgrade, Serbia Cork, Ireland Amsterdam, Netherlands Paris (Pompidou Center) France Vilnius, Lithuania Istanbul, Turkey Leipzig, Germany Belo Horizonte, Brazil Tirgu Mures, Romania Santiago, Chile All major Animación Segundo Premio Internacional Festival Chileno Internacional del Cortometraje Santiago, Chile Amiens, France Montevideo, Uruguay Mención categoria especial Cortometraje Animado Festival Internacional de Animación Montevideo, Uruguay Bradford, UK Hyderabad, India Aruca, Portugal awarded the prize for the Animação Melhor Filme Krakow, Poland Tallinn, Estonia Ljubljana, Slovenia Athens, Greece 2006 Premiere at the opening of Holland Animation Film Festival (lagoon) in Utrecht, Netherlands Premiere of 's-Hertogenbosch Cultural Salon' Behind the Can ' Netherlands
Awards
Best Animated Film - 2007 Magma International Short Film Festival Acireale Second Major Award International Animation - 2007 Chilean International Short Film Festival Animated Short Film Special Mention - 2007 International Animation Festival Montevideo, Uruguay Best Animated Film - 2007 Arouca International Film Festival Special mention of the international jury - 2008 Vienna, Austria
One Voice, One Vote 14 minutes
director: Jeanne Paturle, Cécile RoussetFrance
In the run-up to the 2007 presidential elections, two strangers discuss the importance of voting. Martine, who took her first political steps in 1968, still extols a passionate and generous vision. Young Arnaud, disappointed by democracy, wonders about the point of politics.
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2009 Fantasporto - Oporto International Film Festival 2008 Vienna Francophone Film Festival Stuttgart Trickfilm International Animated Film Festival Lutin Short Film Awards Festival Mediawave of Gyor 2007 Cannes International Film Festival Lisbon Indie Lisboa International Independent Film Festival Leipzig International Film Festival L'ALternativa Independent Film Festival of Barcelone Krok International Animated Film Festival Istanbul International Short Film Festival Fundao (Imago) International Youth Film Festival Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival
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Learned By Heart 29 minutes
director: Marjut Rimminen, Paivi TakalaFinland
Five episodes explore the legacies of Finland's post-war period by digging into the unspoken stories, misunderstandings and mysteries experienced by a child of the era.
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2007 Tampere Film Festival Aurora Festival - Greece Amsterdam International Documentary Festival (IDFA)
Awards
BEST ANIMATION - Tampere Short Film Festival Finnish State Quality Award SPECIAL MENTION in the category of short films - AURORA International Festival, Norwich
Birdlings Two 6 minutes
director: Davina PardoCanada
In revisiting a computer-animated film her father made when he was 20, this filmmaker explores the relationships between art and invention, hopes and disappointment and fathers and daughters.
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2004-2005 Toronto International Film Festival SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival Slamdance Film Festival Tribeca Film Festival Ann Arbor Film Festival Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Broadcast on CBC's Zed Moving Pictures: Canadian Film on Tour Waterloo Center for the Arts Florida Film Festival Cinequest Film Festival True/False Film Festival Pacific Film Archive: "Alternative Requirements" MadCat Women's International Film Festival Vancouver International Film Festival Cinema Paradise Film Festival Mill Valley Film Festival Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema
Awards
Slamdance, Honorable Mention Best Doc Short
A Shift in Perception 16 minutes
director: Dan MonceauxAustralia
This examination of blindness takes an experimental approach to documentary making. The lives of three blind South Australian women are illustrated using a broad range of camera techniques on Super8 film.
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2008 International Festival of Cinema & Technology 2007 Park City Film Music Festival Black Maria Film & Video Festival Picture This… Film Festival Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Missoula, Montana, USA SA Short Screen Awards, Adelaide, SA, Australia SA Film Corporation Industry Drinks, Adelaide, SA, Australia United States Super8 Film & DV Festival, New Jersey, USA Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide, Australia Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois, USA One World International Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic True / False Film Festival, Columbia, Missouri, USA DocAviv, Tel Aviv, Israel Zagreb Dox, Zagreb, Croatia 700IS, Iceland Oxdox:MK Festival, London, UK Uruguay International Film Festival, Montevideo, URUGUAY Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, Tampa, Florida, USA Arizona international Film Festival, Arizona, USA Iowa City International Documentary Festival, Iowa, USA Dokfilm, Volda, Norway Granada International Short Film Festival, Granada, Spain Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada Bridgetown Film Festival, Barbados CinePobre.com Low Budget Film Festival, La Paz, Mexico Hearts & Minds Film - Family Fare Showcase, Delaware, USA Global Super8 Day, The Squeaky Wheel, New York, USA Super8 Film Day, Chilternwood Studios, Albury Wodonga, AUSTRALIA Con-Can Movie Festival, Japan/Online Documenta Madrid, Madrid, Spain Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France Amakula Kampala International Film Festival, Uganda GAFFERS Global Art Film Festival, Sacramento, California, USA Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia Emotion Pictures – Documentary & Disability, Athens, Greece Strawberry Super8 Film Festival, Cambridge, UK Pärnu International Film Festival, Pärnu, Estonia Da Vinci Film Festival, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, Republic of Korea Assim Vivemos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Assim Vivemos, Brasilia, Brazil In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria Focus on Media Art , Friesland, Netherlands Electroprojections, Electrofringe, Newcastle, NSW, Australia International Film Festival of Lifestyle, Szolnok, Hungary Girona International Film Festival, Girona, Spain Detroit Docs International Film Festival, Detroit, Michigan San Luis International Film Festival, Buenos Airies, Argentina Pantheon Xperimental 6 , Nicosia, Cyprus DocuDays - Beirut Int. Documentary Festival , Beirut, Lebanon Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Melbourne & Sydney, Australia 2006 Living Dreams Exhibition, Higher Ground, Adelaide, South Australia SALA Festival Moving Image Program, Headquarters, Adelaide, South Australia Adelaide University Film Society, Adelaide, South Australia International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands Fleurieu Film Festival, Adelaide, South Australia Tirana International Film Festival, Tirana, Albania Sound Experimental Film Festival, Laredo, Texas, USA
Awards
Noyce Choice, Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, Melbourne/Sydney, Australia Best Film (Jury Prize), Strawberry Super8 Film Festival, Cambridge, UK Best Short Documentary, Arizona International Film Festival, USA Tamashii Award & Global Audience Award (Documentary) , Con-Can Movie Festival, Tokyo, Japan SA Short Screen Awards, Australia Lodestar Award (Best Film), Dawson City International Film Festival, Yukon, Canada Best Film, Strawberry Super8 Film Festival, Cambridge, UK 1st Prize Jury Choice, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, New Jersey, USA Bonnet de Haidouc, Bandits-Mages, Bourges, France Ideology Cola Award, CinePobre.com Low-Budget Film Festival, La Paz, Mexico Gold Award for Excellence, Park City Film Music Festival, Utah, USA Honorable Mention,United States Super8 & DV Festival, New Jersey, USA Nominee for Best Documentary, Tirana International Film Festival, Albania Nominated for Best Experimental Film, Best Sound Design & Emerging Producer awards Best of Show, Sound Experimental Film Festival, Texas, USA Audience Choice Award, Sound Experimental Film Festival, Texas, USA Best Professionally Produced Film, Fleurieu Film Festival, SA, Australia
Wiener Wuast 5 minutes
director: Maya YoneshoJapan
This kaleidoscopic travelogue through Vienna, Austria synthesizes 2D animation and 3D film-making, while using hand-painted-watercolor stop-motion animation.
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In the Same Boat 7 minutes
director: Emily BisslandAustralia
In this true story, a racist Vietnam War veteran's life changes after he meets an Iraqi refugee in a hospital.
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2009 Regent Park Film Festival Planete Doc Review Dungog Film Festival Kinogran Fim Festival Tricky Women Animated Film Festival Heart of Gold Film Festival 2008 Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Victoria Independent Film Festival Antimatter Animated Film Festival Edmonton International Film Festival Bayside Film Festival
Awards
Peter Nichols "Best Concept" Award - RMIT Juror's Birght Future Award - Heart of Gold International Film Festival Bayside Film Festival (Australia)
Do It Yourself 13 minutes
director: Eric LeduneBelgium
Based on the CIA's 1970 instructional torture book, this film uses animated fish to explore ways to execute people without fail.
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2008 Kinofest - Bucharest (ROM) Folie-Ô-Skop 2009 - Abitibi-Témiscamingue (CAN) ISAFF Open Cinema - Saint-Petersburg (RUS) Festival Cinémages - Toulon (FRA) Leiden International Short Film Experience - Leiden (NED) Planete Doc Review Film Festival - Warsaw (POL) Basauri-Bizkaia International Animated Film Festival (ESP) Look at the 13th Short Film Saguenay - Saguenay (CAN) Festimage Festival Short Film Charleroi (BEL) KaraFilm Festival - Karachi (PAK) Film Biennial Social Action - Montrouge (FRA) Festival Tous Courts - Aix-en-Provence (FRA) Film Festival here and elsewhere - St. Livrande sur Lot (FRA) Istanbul Animation Festival (TUR) Barcelona Independent Film Festival - Barcelona (ESP) Festival Internacional de Filmets - Badalona (ESP) Film Festival 2008 Aarhus - Aarhus (DEN) Cortopotere 2008 - Bergamo (ITA) 11 ° Cinemambiente - International Environmental Film Festival - Turin (ITA) VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival 2008 - Girona (ESP) Festival Internacional El Ojo Cojo Cinematográfico - Madrid (ESP) Balkanima 2008 - Bucharest - (SERBIA) ANIM'EST International Animation Film Festival - Bucharest (ROM) Calgary International Film Festival - Calgary (CAN) ANIMANIMA 2008 - Cacak (SERBIA) Aye Aye Film Festival - Nancy (FRA) Tel Aviv Animation Festival - Tel Aviv (ISR) Festival Era New Horizons - Warsaw (POL) Festival Party (s) of campaign Ouroux in Morvan (FRA) Ekwa Festival - Ste-Marie and Saint-Denis, Reunion (FRA) Animate! 08 - Montevideo (URUGUAY) 2007 Festival der Nationen - Ebesee (OST) The Court speaks - Paris (FRA) Animafest - Zagreb (CRO) Documenta Madrid 08 (ESP) International Animated Film Festival reanimacja - Lodz (POL) Human Rights Film Festival - San Sebastian (ESP) Festival of Films on Human Person - Montreal (CAN) Labo Competition at the 30th International Festival of Short Film - Clermont-Ferrand (FRA) Anima 2008 - Brussels (BEL) Anilogue International Animation Festival Budapest, Budapest (HUN) Short Cuts - Cologne (GER) The Summits of Animation - Film quebeckize - Montreal, Quebec (CAN) Media 10/10 - Namur (BEL) Festival International du Film Independent - Brussels (BEL) Interfilm Short Film Festival - Berlin (GER) ALCINA 37 - Madrid (ESP) Festival on Wheels (TUR) Istanbul International Short Film Festival (TUR) KurzFilmFreunde - Cologne (GER) International Eurasia Film Festival - Antalya (TUR) Festival of Freedom - Brussels (BEL) Festival International du Film Francophone d'Acadie - FICFA (CAN) DOK Leipzig - 50th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (GER) & Finito Infinito - Aosta (ITA) VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival of Girona (ESP) SITGES 07. International Film Festival of Catalonia (ESP) Animadrid 2007 (ESP) Lucania Film Festival 2007 (ITA) Docufest - Prizren (KOS) MIFF - Film Festival in Moscow (RU) Annecy International Festival 2007 - Official Competition (FRA) SPECIAL EVENTS: Francophone Film Night 2009 - Vilnius & Kaunas (LIT) Festival of Animated Cinema of Baillargues (FRA) Lecture series at Mundaneum as part of the exhibition "From the Brothers Lumiere Brothers Dardenne - Mons International Symposium of Contemporary Art - Baie-St-Paul (CAN) Festival TOURISTART 1 - Garden Animated 2009 - Saint-Pierre / Val d'Aosta (ITA) CinéMarche - Ciné-club march (BEL) DOK - Liepzig-51st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (GER) Movie Theaters in Belgium Movie Theaters Auvergne (FRA) Program dates 31 "Les Coups de coeur of the Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand 2008" (FRA) "Best of Clermont," Short Take That - Montreal (CAN) Tabacalera, International Center for Contemporary Culture - San Sebastian (ESP) Short Escape - 2008 Barcelona (ESP) Association of Hybrid - 2008 Lille (FRA) Cultural center - Saint-Ghislain Gallery Koma-Mons Opening night screening and loop in the exhibition "Myth in the house. Cultural Center Mouscron "Annecy to Paris in 2007. Pompidou Center - Paris (FRA) Special program "Politically Incorrect" Festival International d'Annecy 2007 (FRA)
Awards
Best Animated Short Film Festival Cortopotere 2008 - Bergamo (ITA) Press Award Telerama the 30th International Festival of Short Films from Clermont-Ferrand (FRA) Be TV Award at the 35th Festival Media 10/10 (BEL)
Talking About Amy 8 minutes
director: Yoriko MurakamiUS
Through her artwork and experiences as a mother in the US, we explore Japanese pop artist Emi Iijima's ideas about family and social norms.
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2007 Mix Brazil COMMFFEST Barcelona International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Kagawa Rainbow Film Festival AQFF Fukuoka Kansai Queer Film Festival Tokyo International L&G Film Festival Asian American International Film Festival Outfest Frameline NewFest Women's International Film Festival Swansea Bay Film Festival Women In Film Festival, BC Northwest Asian American Film Festival Fest-I-Cult 2.2 '07 ALASKA 2006 Fest-I-Kult 2 '06 Ankara Tachikawa International Art Festival Joshi bi ten The 2nd SHow Biz Japan! Sneak Peek LACMA MUSE PRESENTS Young Directors Night Sand Diego Asian Film Festival First Look
Awards
Winner of LACMA MUSE Presents Young Directors Night
Directors
Corrie Francis
Conversing with AotearoaCorrie Francis is a freelance animator, artist and photographer based in South Lake Tahoe, California was born in Massachusetts and grew up in the Bay Area. She has recently shifted her focus to documentary and is exploring how drawn images can imaginatively compliment documented reality. She continues to push the limits of digital and traditional medium with dialogue between technique and content.
Samantha Moore
Beloved OnesSamantha Moore is an independent film maker who makes animated documentaries. She is currently working on a new film “An Eye Full of Sound” for The Wellcome Trust, about the conditions of synaesthesia due for completion in 2009. Samantha is senior lecturer in animation at the University of Wolverhampton and a member of CADRE. She is based in Shropshire, UK.
Eric Ledune
Do It YourselfEric Ledune was born in Belgium, in 1963. At fifteen he became co-founder with Bruno Deprez of Tache d’Encre ("Sport of Ink"), a fanzine of comic strips. He was trained as a visual artist, graduating from the Higher School of the Visual Arts of Mons. He is a photographer and creator in audio-visual and animation. He is also a teacher in the field of Fine Arts and Film animation.
Emily Bissland
In the Same BoatEmily Bissland’s joy of story-telling threads her films together with a gentle but persistent call for human rights and human kindness. Her first film attracted the Peter Nicholson award for Excellence in Best Concept at its premier screening in Australia and has been noted as a highlight of the Memory Grid exhibit at the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI). She is currently working assisting Animators with intellectual disabilities and developing her next film - an epic animated adventure for children.
Maya Yonesho
Talking About AmyMaya Yonesho first learned animation techniques at the Saga Art College. She studied Animation at the Kyoto City University of Arts. She studied Japanese painting and conceptual & media art and also worked for a children’s TV program as a clay animator. After receiving her M.A. of fine arts, she began making independent films and conducting various animation workshops. She has been a lecturer at several Art Universities since 2000.
Yoriko Murakami
Wiener WuastYoriko Murakami specialized in animation and uses a variety of medium such as clay model, hand drawing and both 2D and 3D computer programs. She recently received her MFA at the University of Southern California. She now works as Art Director in advertising in Tokyo.
Dan Monceaux
A Shift in PerceptionDan Monceaux is the founder of Danimations, an Australian agency that produces a broad range of media. He enjoys seeking out and crafting narratives grounded in reality as much as he does exploring the formal relationship to sound and moving image. Since meeting at art school in 2005, he has formed an unbreakable partnership with Cinematographer and Editor Emma Sterling.
Davina Pardo
Birdlings TwoDavina Pardo has produced and directed several short films, including Birdlings Two and Yesterday in Rwanda, both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2004 and 2005. She also produced Cynthia Wade's documentary Freeheld, which won both the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary and the Sundance Special Jury Prize in 2007. She is currently in pre-production for two documentaries, Minka about a Japanese farmhouse and a still untitled project about a Bengali high school student (now living in Brooklyn) who aspires to be a film-maker. In August 2009 she gave birth to her first child.
Cecilia Actis
Blue, Karma, TigerCecilia Actis was born in Cordoba, Argentina studied stage and theater technology in Malmo, Sweden. She is a director, animator and currently a light technician at the Opera of Copenhagen.
Mia Hulterstam
Blue, Karma, TigerMia Hulterstam was born in Linköping, studied stage and theater technology in Malmö, Sweden. She is currently the director, animator and a technician at the Theater of Malmö. She has collaborated on three films with Cecilia Actis.
Marjut Rimminen
Learned By HeartMarjut Rimminen was born in 1944, in Finland. Soon after graduating from the Helsinki Collage of Applied Art 1968 as a graphic designer, she made her first animated commercial Vivante bubble bath. It was awarded as the Best Commercial at the 1972 Zagreb World Animation Festival. The following year Marjut was invited to the UK to join Halas & Batchelor Animation. Since 1974 Marjut has worked independently in London directing and animating commercials for Finland - including several award winners - and producing short films for Channel Four Television. She created a children’s series Urpo & Turpo in partneship with Liisa Helminen for the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation. Her films tour extensively to film festivals, and have been presented in several international retrospectives of her work. Marjut has been a member of many film festival juries, in the UK and overseas. She runs master-classes and workshops all around the world. She is a visiting tutor at the National Film & Television School, the Royal College of Art and the Surrey Institute of Art & Design. She now lives in London.
Paivi Takala
Learned By HeartPaivi Takala is a painter, whose previous exhibitions in Finland have aroused attention, admiration and expectations. Her work has been on show, with acclaim, at events such as Art Forum Berlin and the Stockholm Market Art Fair.
Gerrit van Dijk
Sold Out, The Last Words of Dutch SchultzGerrit van Dijk was born in 1938 in a pious Catholic family in the village Uden. He studied as a fifteen-year-old boy at the academy in Tilburg. He sees his shift to film as a logical continuation of his work as a painter, and considers his films moving paintings. Van Dijk continually searches for new forms and techniques. There are few two-dimensional techniques that he had not used: cell, cut-out, rotoscoping, pixelation or live action combined with animation. In A Good Turn Daily, Van Dijk choses a form of technique for each scene individually, with an eye to expressing the content of thet scene. His films Pas a Deux, which he made with Monique Renault, and I Move, So I Am he received a Golden Bear at the 1989 and 1998 Berlin Film Festivals. An illustrated timeline of Gerrit's life can be found here.
Marie José van der Linden
Sold OutMarie José van der Linden studied audio-visual design at the Academy of Arts in Tilburg where she studied with animator Gerrit van Dijk. After graduating she collaborated on several animation films with van Dijk. Recently she wrote and illustrated three books about her family and life in the village where she was born. With these books van der Linden continues to how memories become combined with fantasy. She is currently working on an animation based on a fairy tale.
Jeanne Paturle
One Voice, One VoteJeanne Paturle specializes in animation with the ENSAD. She realized LES YEUX FERMÉS (selected with the International Festival of Clermont-Ferrand in 2005) and meet Cécile Rousset, with whom she directed ONE VOICE ONE VOTE (Je suis une voix). She holds a master degree in visual and media arts from University from Quebec in Montreal.
Cécile Rousset
One Voice, One VoteCécile Rousset integrates the ENSAD (National Higher School of Decorative Arts of Paris) in 1999. She specializes in the cinema of animation. Its first film PAUL (selected with the International Festival of Clermont-Ferrand in 2005 and 40 other festivals, diffused on ARTE, 5 prices) was directed during its last year of studies with the ENSAD. This first film was also produced by Les Films Sauvages.