Month: December 2012
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No posts for a few days while we take a break from work over Christmas. But we have lots of exciting things in store for 2013: film-maker interviews, guest bloggers and much more! Thanks to you all for following us in 2012. Best wishes for a happy holiday – whatever you’re celebrating – and we…
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Here is the trailer for new film Sticky, a short animated documentary telling the amazing story of the stick insects from Lord Howe Island. A love song to evolution, uniqueness, life and the little creatures underfoot. https://vimeo.com/51155202#
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Due to be released in 2013, the film features 17 different animation styles, which perhaps we get a glimpse of here in this trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbW842eMNtI
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Feature length animated history of poverty reviewed in the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/nov/28/tv-review-poor-us-animated-history
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Just in time for a last minute christmas present: “For the first time: a chance to see these prize-winning 1983-2007 films collected on DVD and BluRay.” www.junglepictures.com.au
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Lies – Part 1 – Directed by Jonas Odell from FilmTecknarna on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/32735700 If you like ‘Never Like the First Time’ you may enjoy this, the first of three first person narratives, from a film which won at Sundance 2009. Review from Short of the Week here.
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Watch the trailer for a new film by Zagreb and Ottawa award winner Claudio Diaz at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc4nNopowHE ‘Fraid my Spanish is not up to translating the film’s blogspot page, but you can read a review in English here. The film’s official site here: http://chileimaginario.blogspot.co.uk
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In April 2010 a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.As the year anniversary was approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.…
