Tag: awards
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Why Build a Sun on Earth? from Nik Morris on Vimeo. Short film made by Nik Morris in collaboration with fusion scientists at York Plasma institute, this is a beautifully designed film which disseminates academic research. “Touring UK schools in a portable ‘Sun Dome’, this film offers an informative and entertaining spectacle that demonstrates the…
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Everything was Life is an experimental documentary using animation and live action to explore the practice of female genital mutilation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVbxTB4rzc4
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Inspired by a CIA manual here’s a DIY guide to torture. Winner of many many awards this film now fronts a Belgian Amnesty International campaign. More info here. http://vimeo.com/1450037
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From Beakus in London, two more segments in the BBC’s series on child poverty ‘the Wrong Trainers’ for kids’ news programme Newsround. The series won awards from BAFTA and the National Television Society. Here’s Danielle’s story, directed by Leigh Hodgkinson: http://beakus.com/blog/newsround-danielles-story And here’s Semera’s story, directed by Steve Smith: http://littlebeak.com/blog/newsround-on-poverty
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Here at animated documentary.com we were debating if Persepolis is an animated documentary or not …what are your thoughts? Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as…
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A collection of short animated docs looking at child poverty in the UK. https://vimeo.com/5743346
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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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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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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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