Tag: awards
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Released over a year ago this animated docmentary looks at the current UK trend for labia surgery, a procedure which trims and tidies a woman’s labia. Directed and designed by animateddocumentary.com’s co founder Ellie Land. http://www.thecentrefoldproject.org/
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We are hotly anticipating the results of this years Animadoc Award at Dok Leipzig, the winner will be announced on Saturday 2nd November. If anyone is there at the festival on Saturday night and finds out the winner, please do let us know by either leaving a comment here or posting on our facebook wall!…
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“If they’re not doing time for this, then surely for something else.” The new film from US director Sheila Sofian, follows inmates on life sentences in the US prison system. Sofian “conjures up an inferno of expressive animations painted on glass, abstract re-enactments, and surrealist details, which condenses into a passionate appeal to politicians to…
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Irish Folk Furniture [clip] (2012) from Alan Eddie on Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/59224188 We must have been busy with all sorts of of other things here at the blog (we have! – more soon) as it’s taken us a few months to catch up with this short which won the Short Film Jury Prize for Animation at…
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‘I Met the Walrus’ is the animated extension of an extraordinary interview that took place in 1969. A fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape machine, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto. The ‘Beatle’ rewarded the teenager’s pluckiness with an interview that contains the distillation of the musician’s message of peaceful protest.…
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Great news over at the documentary and animation festival DOK Leipzig, they have just announced that this year they will be giving a prize to the best animated documentary in the festival. There is still time to enter! To find out more, read their press release here: http://www.dok-leipzig.de/festival/festival-news?start:int=0
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https://vimeo.com/13103023 ‘An Oversimplification of Her Beauty‘ By Terence Nance An autobiographical debut feature which documents the frustrations of creator Terence Nance’s ambiguous relationship. Live action is interspersed with a variety of animated sequences from a team of over fifteen animators including Nance (also the writer, director, producer and central protagonist). The film received enough attention…
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A brilliant selection of films this year by the Tricky Women Festival in Vienna, Austria, including a special animated documentary programme. It’s a fantastic festival, do get yourself along if you happen to be in Vienna! 6th – 10th March http://www.trickywomen.at/
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Happy New Year Readers! We have a new category for the blog featuring graphic novels and comics – all exploring real life stories or subjects. Our first post is about the award winning autobiographical graphic novel written and illustrated by a husband and wife team. Article below: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/02/costa-awards-graphic-novel-biography
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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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