Category: Work-in-progress

  • News of an upcoming Canadian animadoc feature, to be released to compete with Warner Bros’ biopic on anti-virus guru John McAfee, titled ‘Running in the Background’. Click for more details of ‘The Hinterland’.

  • 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#

  • 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  

  • Check out the trailer and campaign film for this work-in-progress from Mosaic Films, the London production company behind the two ‘Animated Minds’ series. And what a great reason to use animation – revealing the secrets of a country where the cameras just couldn’t go. http://nothingtoenvy.net There’s just a week left to go to donate to…

  • A Spanish, German and Belgian co-production, directors Raul de la Fuente & Damian Nenow are making a film based on war reporter Ryszard Kapuścińki’s book about the trip he made to Angola in 1975. The images are beautiful, but funny how they bear more than a passing resemblance to a certain animadoc war feature we…

  •   Here are animateddocumentary.com we are pleased to share the latest work by Samantha Moore. Here are two trailers from her up and coming film Shadow Stories, which features objects from Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery’s pre-historic gallery. Samantha is working with four different animators, two of whom have provided the beautiful, painterly animated responses for the…

  • An animated documentary about all American War hero John Ross. This film has an interesting method of raising funds for its production, including creating characters to look like the Army Platoon ‘Misfits’ currently serving in Afghanistan. The Blog has trailers and concept art, as well as interviews with John Ross himself. http://johnrossamerican.com/

  • Ex Libris is a hybrid non-fiction film using animation, collage, and first person narrative to trace the vanished world of the ex libris collection my grandfather, Marco Birnholz, commissioned, created and lost in Vienna between the two world wars. Ex Libris will explore the intimate, intricate universe my grandfather created in his collection, and the exploding world he…

  • Project in progress – an animation and documentary project with a participatory focus made with a group of school children in Mlali, a village in Tanzania, East Africa. We look forward to seeing the outcome, here’s a little about their project: Central to the project will be an ethic of collaboration, where a group of community…

  • Check out the Kickstarter campaign to fund this paper cut film (to be shot on 8mm!) about American soldiers in the First World War, from US director Andy Smetanka. Campaign here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1486916197/and-we-were-young?ref=card Teaser and pitch here: http://laughingsquid.com/and-we-were-young-a-cut-paper-animated-documentary-about-americans-in-wwi Good luck Andy!