Category: Work-in-progress
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Last call from DOK Leipzig: ‘Dear Friends and Colleagues, ***Less than 10 days to submit your film in development to the 10th International DOK Leipzig Co-Production Meeting!!*** If you are looking for co-production partners and to meet financiers in an intimate and productive environment, we invite you to submit your projects now for consideration. Deadline…
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From our friends at DOK Leipzig: “Dear Friends, We are so pleased to announce that the 10th International DOK Leipzig Co-Production Meeting is now open for submissions. We are looking for: Creative documentaries in development that are international in scope and looking for diverse financing partners, from Germany and abroad. In particular, theatrical documentaries intended…
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Image by Samantha Moore for Silent Signal. Animate! projects with the Wellcome Trust has commissioned six artist/scientist teams to put forward ideas for possible animated works under a project called Silent Signal. “Silent Signal explores how research into genetics, cell biology, immunology and epidemiology is advancing our understanding of how the human body communicates with…
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A hybrid film featuring live action alongside animated documentary, this is the story of Ryszard Kapuscinski, a journalist covering independence movements throughout Africa in the 1970’s. The animation and style is sublime, building on the style associated with ‘Waltz with Bashir’. We are not sure when this film will be completed – but we anticipate its…
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‘The Vanni’ is a graphic novel set in Sri Lanka, India and the UK and follows the story of a fictional Tamil family living in a fishing village in Sri Lanka. The story starts in 2004 following the Tsunami and takes us through to the following conflict and then life for the family surviving as refugees. The…
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“An inspirational conference lab on the current trends of new media providing access to new information, intense networking and individual support for transmedia projects linked to documentary or animation. Friday & Saturday, 1 & 2 November 2013 The DOK Leipzig Net Lab 2013 is a two part conference lab open for transmedia creatives, thinkers and…
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Dole Animators is a group of benefit claimants based in the UK who are working together to make an animated documentary about the reality of the impact of the governments recent welfare reform. The final film will use a mixture of stopmotion and collage animation. Animateddocumentary.com’s Ellie Land is working with the group in partnership…
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Although not claiming to be an animated documentary The Last 40 Miles, ‘a short animated film about life, death and compassion’, is based on a true story. The mixed media animation refers to the real life narrative of a death row inmate whom Alex Hannaford, writer and director, came across while working as a journalist…
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No animation here, but a new way with documentary story-telling which we feel sure you’ll want to see! Five years ago, the most iconic of David Lynch’s heroines, Isabella Rossellini, went from ‘Blue Velvet’ to ‘Green Porno.’ The actress and student of biology took on the characters of a mantis, a dolphin, a bedbug, a…
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365 – February from The Brothers McLeod on Vimeo. Might be pushing it a bit here, but the makers describe their project to make 1 second of animation a day, every day of 2013, thus: ‘Some of the days are things that happened, others are things that have been fired off in our imaginations, and…
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