Author: Alys Scott Hawkins
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A live action documentary about the creation of a comic book of Muslim heroes, which uses animated sequences to bring the comic characters to life. The film tells the story of Naif Al-Mutawa’s journey to produce and distribute an animated TV series for children. Clips on the film’s website: http://whambamislam.com and available for download on…
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Here’s Samantha Moore’s 2010 film on synaesthesia, produced by Joshka Wessels of Sapiens Productions and funded by the Wellcome Trust. Screened at many international festivals the film has won several awards including Best Experimental Animation, Scinema Science Film Festival. http://www.samanthamoore.co.uk/#/an-eyeful-of-sound/4516109011
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After fifty years a Holocaust survivor recalls her time as a child in the camps, and afterwards with relatives in Sweden; based on the experiences of Tana Ross. http://archive.org/details/OrlyYadinSylvieBringasSilence Awards: Best Animation, Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia 1999 Grand Prix, Odense Film Festival, Denmark 1999 Gold Hugo Animated Short, Chicago International Film Festival, USA 1998…
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Described as ‘the first CGI-animated documentary film’ this short taking the form of an interview with a hidden refugee child in Sweden has been screened at over 100 festivals and won many awards. This is the first of three animadoc films by directors Heilborn & Aaronowitsch, the second being ‘Slaves’ and the third ‘Sharaf’ –…
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If you don’t know this film, then you should! I certainly consider it one of the films which inspired me in what animation could do. Director Tim Webb worked with autistic children and adults whose artwork informed the visual style of the film, as well as describing their experiences in the soundtrack. The DVD is…
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Much has been said about this highly successful feature – the first animated documentary to ‘break through’ to cinema audiences, and an influence on many films which have followed it. Here’s the film’s official site, with some revealing information about the making of the film in the ‘Production Notes’ section – click ‘The Film’ tab.…
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Launched last year, DOCartoon is ‘the first festival in the world to be primarily dedicated to animated documentaries and non-fiction comics’. A mix of short and feature-length animadoc films, meetings and exhibitions takes place in an ancient city of Tuscany. Sounds like fun! There’s a Call for Entries on the home page for the this…
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Edinburgh College of Art hosted a collaborative event with the Edinburgh International Film Festival: the Animated Realities conference: ‘a truly interdisciplinary event and a new platform for ideas’. The jointly curated animated documentary festival programmes of the festival including Iranian feature ‘The Green Wave’ were screened as part of the conference. Keynote speakers included Sheila…
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A 50 minute film, made for the BBC, in which several couples discuss their relationship problems. In the first full-length animated documentary made for British television drawn characters lipsync to the audio testimony recorded in the counselling rooms of Relate. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0113fwl And co-director Zac Beattie writes on the making of the film here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2011/05/wonderland-trouble-with-love-and-sex.shtml
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Here’s the film I made in my first year of the Animation MA course at the Royal College of Art. The brief was to make an extremely short film, starting from the word ‘bedlam’, which led me from the history of mental health care to treatments of the medical condition hysteria in Victorian Britain. Detailing…
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