Tag: Sheila Sofian
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Sheila M. Sofian’s animated documentary films have played at festivals including Annecy, Ottawa, Hiroshima, and Zagreb among many others. Her work includes numerous short films as well as the hour-long animation/live action hybrid documentary ‘Truth Has Fallen’ (2013). She received her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the California…
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A young Bosnian immigrant recounts his experience with war, illustrated in painting-on-glass animation. The Paint on glass technique used in this film is a great example of what this technique can do. We are visually drawn, pulled, pushed, washed and wiped through the memories of a young boy as he recounts his experience of war.…
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A documentary animation about domestic violence, distinctively drawn in conté crayon. With images that are sometimes abstract or vividly representational, this animated documentary is based on interviews with victims of domestic violence who bravely recount their brutal histories, and, with the help of counsellors, take their first steps to recovery. Sheila has made many animated…
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We were thrilled to be part of this years Factual Animation Film Fuss festival: hosting an event, giving our first ever award, and mingling with the great and the good of the UK animated documentary crowd. The festival is in its second year, run by Daniel Murtha, and hosted at the Genesis Cinema in London,…
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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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An article about this very blog, which I was invited to write for the the Society for Animation Studies blog. Blogging about blogging! Well in this case it’s reviewing films we’ve looked at on the blog so far, in order to assess the animadoc landscape; as something of a follow-up to other articles on the…
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A short article about animated documentary as a medium growing in popularity, from the Daily News and Analysis, a lifestyle magazine in India. http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_more-real-than-reality_1691156
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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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One from the archives of FPS magazine, published in 2005. Sheila Sofia writes about animated documentary shorts, including her own films ‘Survivors’ and A Conversation with Haris’. [EDIT – FPS magazine is now no longer available online, so the article is uploaded here as a series of jpegs]
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