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Ottawa
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Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, the two form the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area and the National Capital Region. The 2016 census reported a population of 934,243, making it the fourth-largest city in Canada, the City of Ottawa reported that the city had an estimated population of 960,754 as of December 2015. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, the city name Ottawa was chosen in reference to the Ottawa River nearby, the name of which is derived from the Algonquin Odawa, meaning to trade. The city is the most educated in Canada, and is home to a number of post-secondary, research, and cultural institutions, including the National Arts Centre, Ottawa also has the highest standard of living in the nation and low unemployment. It ranked second out of 150 worldwide in the Numbeo quality of life index 2014–2015, with the draining of the Champlain Sea around ten thousand years ago the Ottawa Valley became habitable. The area was used for wild harvesting, hunting, fishing, trade, travel. The Ottawa river valley has archaeological sites with arrow heads, pottery, the area has three major rivers that meet, making it an important trade and travel area for thousands of years. The Algonquins called the Ottawa River Kichi Sibi or Kichissippi meaning Great River or Grand River, Étienne Brûlé, the first European to travel up the Ottawa River, passed by Ottawa in 1610 on his way to the Great Lakes. Three years later, Samuel de Champlain wrote about the waterfalls of the area and about his encounters with the Algonquins, the early explorers and traders were later followed by many missionaries. The first maps of the area used the word Ottawa to name the river, philemon Wright, a New Englander, created the first settlement in the area on 7 March 1800 on the north side of the river, across from Ottawa in Hull. He, with five other families and twenty-five labourers, set about to create a community called Wrightsville. Wright pioneered the Ottawa Valley timber trade by transporting timber by river from the Ottawa Valley to Quebec City, the following year, the town would soon be named after British military engineer Colonel John By who was responsible for the entire Rideau Waterway construction project. Colonel By set up military barracks on the site of todays Parliament Hill and he also laid out the streets of the town and created two distinct neighbourhoods named Upper Town west of the canal and Lower Town east of the canal. Similar to its Upper Canada and Lower Canada namesakes, historically Upper Town was predominantly English speaking and Protestant whereas Lower Town was predominantly French, Irish, bytowns population grew to 1,000 as the Rideau Canal was being completed in 1832. In 1855 Bytown was renamed Ottawa and incorporated as a city, William Pittman Lett was installed as the first city clerk guiding it through 36 years of development. On New Years Eve 1857, Queen Victoria, as a symbolic, in reality, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald had assigned this selection process to the Executive Branch of the Government, as previous attempts to arrive at a consensus had ended in deadlock
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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Masaaki Yuasa
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Masaaki Yuasa is an anime television and film director, screenwriter, storyboard artist and animator known for his wild free form style. He was born on March 16,1965 in Fukuoka, Japan and his most recent work as of September 2014 is the animated adaptation of Taiyo Matsumotos manga Ping Pong. In June 2014 he announced that he, along with his close affiliate Eunyoung Choi, had founded a new animation studio by the name of Science Saru. Pepper Pot opening and ending titles respectively. net Masaaki Yuasa at Anime News Networks encyclopedia Interview with Yuasas about Mind Game Yojō-Han Shinwa Taikei official Web site
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Over the Garden Wall
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Over the Garden Wall is an American animated television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network. The series centers on two half-brothers who travel across a strange forest in order to find their way home, encountering odd, the show is based on McHales animated short film Tome of the Unknown, which was produced as part of Cartoon Network Studios shorts development program. The show features Elijah Wood and Collin Dean as the protagonists Wirt and Greg, over the Garden Wall was broadcast throughout the week of November 3,2014 to November 7,2014. The show marked the first miniseries on the network, which commenced its production in March 2014, McHale first envisioned the show in 2004, and pitched it to the network in 2006. After working on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Adventure Time and that pilot became the catalyst for Over the Garden Wall. Production of the show was handled in Burbank, California. The series environment evokes 19th- and 20th-century Americana, while its digital backgrounds are designed to resemble grisaille paintings, upon its debut, the series received positive reviews from television critics, with praise focusing on its mood and characters and criticism leveled at its storytelling. In 2015, the series won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program, outside of the series, a one-shot comic book adaptation penned by McHale has been produced, with four further issues commissioned. The series follows two half-brothers, Wirt and Greg, who become lost in a strange forest called the Unknown, Wirt, the older brother, is a worry-prone teenager and would rather keep to himself than have to make a decision. His three passions are the clarinet, poetry, and architecture but he keeps this private out of fear of being mocked. On the other hand, Greg, the brother, is all about play and being carefree, much to Wirts chagrin. Greg carries a frog, whose name is undetermined and who can communicate only through singing, stalking the main cast is the Beast, an ancient creature who leads lost souls astray until they lose their hope and willpower and turn into Edelwood trees. In the final two episodes, it is revealed that Wirt and Greg are actually two boys from the modern era, Wirt and Gregs strange appearance stems from the fact it was Halloween the night they were transported into the Unknown. On the other side of the wall, they landed on train tracks where Greg was almost hit by a train, Wirt pushed them both off a hill into a lake/river in an attempt to save him, knocking them both unconscious in the process. At the end of the last episode, Wirt and Greg wake up in a hospital, with Greg telling a story but being cut off before we can hear what its about. As the scene ends, Gregs frog begins to glow, due to having eaten a magic bell in The Unknown, the series ends with a slow montage of how Wirt and Greg affected the inhabitants of the Unknown. Production for Over the Garden Wall commenced in March 2014, the ten episodes ordered for the series marked the first miniseries on the Cartoon Network. The show was first envisioned in 2004 with a scarier and more adventure-based storyline, before working as a storyboard artist on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, McHale pitched Garden Wall in 2006
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Patrick McHale
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By his habitual coolness and daring, and sustained bravery in action, his name has become a household word for gallantry among his comrades. He died at Shorncliff, Kent on 26 October 1866 and was buried at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, near Folkestone, Kent and his Victoria Cross is displayed in the Northumberland Fusiliers Museum at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England. Listed in order of publication year The Register of the Victoria Cross Clarke, a register of awards to Irish-born officers and men. Irelands VCs ISBN 1-899243-00-3 Monuments to Courage Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross Location of grave and VC medal
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Seth's Dominion
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Seth’s Dominion is a 2014 National Film Board of Canada animated/live action documentary directed by Luc Chamberland about the Canadian cartoonist Seth. Seth’s Dominion took Chamberland eight years to create, from conception to release, Chamberland first discovered the work of Seth—whose real name is Gregory Gallant—while he was living in London. He was just dealing with life, but every little detail was magnified and sharpened and explored. I became a reader of his work. Chamberland first approached Seth at a book conference in Montreal. At first, he didnt know whether he wanted to do a film with or about Seth, the two men discussed films that had been done in the past about cartoon artists, and agreed that they didnt want to do anything remotely similar. And with that, an idea started to form for a film about how our memories shape us and we sometimes never realize that all the turmoil and angst that we keep bottled up inside might just evaporate if we could learn to control our inner demons. He would film Seth approximately once a year during time, usually over a three-day long weekend. Chamberland estimates he could have done the film in 12 to 14 months, the film combines animation and live action interviews with Seth, as well as colleagues Chester Brown and Joe Matt. The films title is a both to the film subjects inner world as well as a model city named Dominion that Seth has been building for the last 10 years. The film had its premiere on September 20 at the 2014 Ottawa International Animation Film Festival. It then screened in Montreal at the Festival du nouveau cinéma, the films first screening outside Canada was in London at the Raindance Film Festival on October 4, followed by its U. S. premiere at the 2014 Animation Breakdown festival on November 22. The German premiere of the film was on May 10,2015 at Stuttgart International Festival for Animated Films, the film was released on DVD by Drawn & Quarterly in 2016, and includes additional features such as photos, interviews, and a pair of Cumberlands animated short films. Official website Seths Dominion at the Internet Movie Database Seths Dominion at The Big Cartoon DataBase
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Max Andersson
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Max Andersson is a Swedish comic creator and film maker, mostly doing underground style and artistic comics. His comics have mainly been published in Swedish albums, and in the Swedish art magazine Galago, with the publication of his graphic novel Pixy by Fantagraphics Books in 1993, Andersson became the first modern Swedish artist to have a comic album published in the United States. In the 90s he was a frequent contributor to the comics anthology Zero Zero and he is also the creator of the comic book Death & Candy. The Greek anarchopunk band The No Sin named their albums Drug Called Future and Some Key According to Death, maxandersson. com Max Andersson info from the Lambiek Comiclopedia of Artists Galago Biography from internationales literaturfestival berlin
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Wrinkles (film)
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Wrinkles is a 2011 Spanish animated drama film directed by Ignacio Ferreras, based on the comic book with the same title by Paco Roca. The story is set in a retirement home and revolves around the friendship between two men, one of them in the early stages of Alzheimers disease. Wrinkles was released to UK DVD and Blu-ray on April 28,2014, special features in this release include Wrinkles Animatic, Wrinkles Making Of, Peter Bradshaw reviews Wrinkles, Wrinkles Trailer, Wrinkles Teaser Trailer, and Recording the Music for Wrinkles. Álvaro Guevara as Emilio Tacho González as Miguel Mabel Rivera as Antonia Martin Sheen as Emilio George Coe as Miguel The film was produced through Perro Verde Films, the budget was two million euros. 75% of the work was done in Spain, the rest was outsourced to the Philippines. Wrinkles premiered on September 19,2011 at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a genuine crowd pleaser deserving of the widest possible exposure and one of the most accomplished Spanish films, from any genre, of recent years. Theres no shortage of genuine poignancy here and though Nani Garcias score largely hits conventional, predictable beats, each tear is hard earned, Ferreras animation style is realistic and direct with close attention paid to tiny specifics of decor, clothing and gesture. There are nicely-judged moments of humour, however, and Wrinkles restrains itself in a most dignified manner when it comes to the inevitable,2011 in film Cinema of Spain List of animated feature films Official website Wrinkles at the Internet Movie Database Wrinkles at Rotten Tomatoes
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Phil Mulloy
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Phil Mulloy is a British animator of Irish ancestry. He was born in Wallasey, Merseyside and studied painting and filmmaking. Mulloy worked as a screenwriter and director of films until the late 1980s before becoming an animator. His visual style is distinctive in its use of primitive, often skeletal figures, Mulloy has made over 30 animated films many of which are in themed groupings based on Hollywood genres. Mulloy has won international awards for his work and has conducted several workshops for young animators. Mulloy was born in Wallasey to an Irish father, Michael Mulloy, who migrated to Liverpool to work on the docks, Mulloy studied painting at Ravensbourne College followed by film at the Royal College of Art graduating in 1973. Mulloys 1982 drama film Mark Gertler, Fragments of a Biography won the British Film Institutes Grierson Award, Mulloy created many of MTVs iconic idents during the 1980s and 90s. Mulloy produced the Cowboys series in 1991 with funding from Channel Four, the series consists of six 3-minute-long films on 35 mm, Slim Pickins, Thats Nothin, Murder. High Noon, The Conformist and Outrage, the shorts brought Mulloy to the attention of audiences in the UK and internationally. Mulloy, commenting on his creative approach said, “The audience is familiar with genres and clichés, the viewers soon discover their position in the usual scheme of things, and become conscious of their role. ”Music for the films was provided by Alexander Bălănescu and Keith Tippett. Mulloy created The Ten Commandments series between 1994 and 1996, the animations, created using brush and black ink on white paper in Mulloys characteristic satirical grotesque style, employ black humour throughout. Mulloy, commenting on the series in 2006, said, I had a structure I could work within and a set of ideas I could reinterpret for myself. Similarly reworking and playing with narrative structures creates ways of reinterpreting elements to do with my own thinking about and experiencing of the world. ”The series won the Jury Award in Vila do Conde and a Special Award in Hiroshima. The title of this dark satire refers to the chain reaction that follows the cruel treatment of a child whose drawing is thrown away. The 10-minute-long 35 mm film won the Jury Award at the Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival, Mulloy created Seasons Greetings in 1999 for Animate Projects with funding from Channel Four and the Arts Council. The three-minute film mixes live-action and animation to produce A greetings card for the new millennium, Mulloy created The Christies series in 2006 for Spectre Films. Mulloy produced the films on computer using the Buahaus Mirage 1.5 package. The series won the Mercury Filmworks Prize For Animated Feature in Ottawa,2006, at present Mulloy is working on a trilogy based on the Christie family
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Mary and Max
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The voice cast included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore with narration by Barry Humphries. The film premiered on the night of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival on January 15,2009. The film won the Annecy Cristal in June 2009 from the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the film was theatrically released on April 9,2009 by Icon Entertainment International. Mary and Max received very positive reviews critics and it earned $1.7 million USD on a $8.2 million AUD budget. In 1976, eight-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle lives a life in Mount Waverley. Her only comforts are her pet rooster, Ethel, her food, sweetened condensed milk. One day, while at the post office with her mother, Mary spots a New York City telephone book and, becoming curious about Americans, decides to write to one. She randomly chooses Max Jerry Horowitzs name from the book and writes him a letter telling him about herself. Max Jerry Horowitz is a morbidly obese 44-year-old Jewish atheist who has trouble forming close bonds with other people, though Marys letter initially gives him an anxiety attack, he decides to write back to her, and the two quickly become friends. Due to Veras disapproval of Max, Mary tells him to send his letters to her neighbour, Len Hislop. When Mary later asks Max about love, he suffers an anxiety attack and is institutionalized for eight months. After his release, he is hesitant to write to Mary again for some time, on his 48th birthday, he wins the New York lottery, using his winnings to buy a lifetime supply of chocolate and an entire collection of Noblet figurines. He gives the rest of his money to his elderly neighbour Ivy, meanwhile, Mary becomes despondent, thinking Max has abandoned her. On the advice of his therapist, Max finally writes back to Mary, Mary is thrilled to hear from him again, and the two continue their correspondence for the next several years. When Noel retires from his job at a tea bag factory, he takes up metal detecting, Mary goes to university and has her birthmark surgically removed, and develops a crush on her Greek Australian neighbour, Damien Popodopoulos. Drunk and guilt-ridden over her husbands death, Vera accidentally kills herself after she drinks embalming fluid, Mary and Damien grow closer following Veras death and are later married. Inspired by her friendship with Max, Mary studies psychology at university and he breaks off communication with Mary, who, heartbroken, has the entire run of her book pulped, effectively ending her budding career. She sinks into depression and begins drinking cooking sherry, as her mother had done, while searching through a cabinet, she finds a can of condensed milk, and sends it to Max as an apology
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Adam Elliot
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Adam Elliot is an independent Australian stop-motion animation writer, director and producer based in Melbourne, Australia. His five films have collectively participated in seven hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Academy Award for Harvie Krumpet. Elliot calls himself a filmmaker and each of his films have a bittersweet nature to them. He does not engage with commercial work and works exclusively on his own film projects, based loosely on his family and friends, Elliot calls each of his works a Clayography – clay animated biography. Each film takes up to five years to complete and he is noted for his use of traditional in-camera techniques, which means every prop set and character is a real miniature handcrafted object. Elliot does not use digital additions or computer generated imagery to enhance his visual aesthetic and his company, Adam Elliot Clayographies, produce the films and Elliot’s work practices adhere to the French auteur methodology. Each film has been voiced by actors including, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Geoffrey Rush, Eric Bana, William McInnes, Barry Humphries. Elliot is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Elliot was raised in the Australian outback on a farm with his father, Noel, a retired acrobatic clown, his mother Valerie, a hairdresser. After the farm went bankrupt, Elliots father moved the family to the city of Melbourne, a very shy child, Elliot was very creative and was constantly drawing and making things out of found objects. Elliot had an ambition to be a veterinarian but did not obtain the necessary grades to enter university. In extra-curricular activities Elliot was a member of the schools Highland Pipe Band, born with a hereditary physiological tremor, Elliot incorporated his disability into his visual aesthetic with his work displaying uneven lines and an organic feel. After completing his year twelve, he spent five years hand-painting T-shirts at the St Kilda, in 1996 he completed a postgraduate diploma in film and television, specialising in animation, at the Victorian College of the Arts. There he made his first stopmotion film, Uncle, which won numerous film awards, made in 1996, Elliots first short film was created at the Victorian College of the Arts under the tutelage of Sarah Watt, Robert Stephenson and Ann Shenfield. With a running time of six minutes Uncle won numerous awards including an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Australian Animated Short. The film was shot with a 16mm Bolex camera using completely traditional stopmotion techniques, and edited on a Steenbeck and these traditional techniques taught Elliot a craft that would influence his later works and provide a strong respect for handcrafted films. To date he refuses to apply any digital effects to his films despite economic and aesthetic pressures, the budget for Uncle was approximately A$4000. Uncle is semi-biographical, about an anonymous uncle narrated by an anonymous nephew, extremely static and minimalist, the story is driven by the narration and is a balance between comedy and tragedy, humour and pathos
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Battle for Terra
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The film was directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas who conceived it as a hard-edged live action feature with photo-real Computer-Generated Imagery environments. The close collaboration with producing partner and investor Snoot Entertainment redirected the project to become fully animated, the film features the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, Luke Wilson, Amanda Peet, Dennis Quaid and Justin Long among others. It premiered on September 8,2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival and it was widely released in the United States on May 1,2009. The film was shot in 2D but was made in such a way that a second camera could be added to the film. After the film was shown at festivals and distributors showed an interest in it a small team was hired to render the film again from the perspective of the second camera for a true 3D effect. It won the Grand Prize for Best Animated Feature at the 2008 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Mala and her friend Senn are young alien creatures who live on Terra, a planet from a star system in the Milky Way. Terra is a planet of alien creatures who have a rich semi-advanced culture. One day a large, mysterious object blocks the Terrian sun and she returns to the city to find that the scout spaceships have already started abducting Terrians. After Malas own father, Roven is abducted she goads a ship into tailing her and lures it into a trap, afterward, she saves the life of the pilot, revealed to be a human, an officer named Lieutenant Jim Stanton. The Robot informs Mala that the object is a generation ship called The Ark. Centuries beforehand, both Mars and Venus were terraformed by humans and colonized, but 200 years later, the two planets demanded independence from Earth, which the Earth government refused to grant them due to the high demand of resources from the two colonies. The dispute between the three planets escalated into a violent interplanetary war that left all three planets uninhabitable, the Ark, containing the remnants of the human race, traveled for several generations looking for a new home. When Stanton awakes the robot informs Stanton and Mala that a part of the ship was damaged in the crash. When Stanton, Mala, and the return to the crash site. The trio track the ship to an underground military facility which had been built by a previous. The trio realizes that despite the current peaceful nature of the Terrian city, after infiltrating the facility, fixing the ship and flying back to the Ark, Jim orders Mala to stay and goes to be debriefed. Mala ventures off and finds Roven, but before she can rescue him, while trying to save Mala, Roven kills himself and two men after breaching the hull, and she is captured, but Stanton helps her to escape back to Terra. The commander of the wing of the Ark, General Hemmer, takes power over the civilian leaders in a coup
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Aristomenis Tsirbas
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Aristomenis Tsirbas is a Greek-Canadian film director, producer, writer, animator and visual effects animator. He directed the short films The Freak and Terra which was adapted into the 2007 feature film of the same name produced by MeniThings Productions. He is currently in development on his feature film. Aristomenis Tsirbas has been directing film and TV for over 15 years and he also has 20 years experience as a visual effects supervisor and digital artist. Meni was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and majored in film production at Concordia University, in 1996 he moved to Los Angeles to work on James Cameron’s Titanic and national advertising spots for Nike, 7UP and Coca-Cola. As a visual effects supervisor Meni worked on Miramax’sA Wrinkle in Time, Disneys’ My Favorite Martian and Paramount’s Star Trek, Deep Space Nine. In 2004 Tsirbas worked on two music videos including Tears For Fears’ Closest Thing To Heaven before setting off to direct his first feature film. Meni is currently working on his feature film. Menis films have received over two dozen awards from film festivals such as Sundance, Hollywood and Palm Springs. com
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Persepolis (film)
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Persepolis is a 2007 French-Iranian animated biographical drama film based on Marjane Satrapis autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud, the story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The title is a reference to the city of Persepolis. The film was co-winner of the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and was released in France, in her acceptance speech, Satrapi said Although this film is universal, I wish to dedicate the prize to all Iranians. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. At the airport, Marjane is unable to board a plane to Iran and she then takes a seat and smokes a cigarette. She reflects on her childhood, full of politically driven conflict, as a young girl, Marji lived in Tehran and wanted to be a prophet and a disciple of Bruce Lee. Her childhood ambition is the uprising against the Shah of Iran. Her middle-class family participates in all the rallies and protests, Marji and a group of friends attempt to attack a young boy named Ramen, whose father, a member of SAVAK, killed Communists for no particular reason. One day, Marjis Uncle Anoush arrives to have dinner with the family after recently being released from his sentence in prison. Uncle Anoush inspires Marji with his stories of his life on the run from the government, political enemies cease fighting and elections for a new leading power commence. Marjis familys situation does not improve as they are upset when Islamic Fundamentalists win the elections with 99. 99% of the vote. The government forces women to dress modestly, including wearing a head scarf, profoundly disillusioned, Marji tries, with her family, to fit into the reality of the intolerant regime. The Iran-Iraq war breaks out and Marji sees for herself the horrors of death, the Iranian government begins implementing ridiculous laws that create blatant injustices. The family tries to find solace in secret parties where they enjoy simple pleasures the government has outlawed, as she grows up, Marji begins a life of over-confidence. Fearing her arrest for her outspokenness, Marjis parents send her to a French lycée in Vienna, Austria and she lives with Catholic nuns and is upset with their discriminatory and judgmental behaviour. Marji doesnt make any friends, and ultimately feels intolerably isolated in a foreign land surrounded by annoyingly superficial people who take their freedom for granted. As the years go by, Marji is thrown out of her temporary shelter for insulting a nun and is driven out into the streets, Marji continues to go from house to house, until ending up in the house of Frau Dr. Schloss, a retired philosophy teacher
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Marjane Satrapi
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Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and childrens book author. Satrapi was born in Rasht, Iran, and grew up in Tehran in a middle-class Iranian family, both her parents were politically active and supported Marxist causes against the monarchy of the last Shah. When the Iranian Revolution took place in 1979, they were dismayed and intimidated by the Muslim fundamentalists who took power, during her youth, Marjane was constantly exposed to the growing brutalities of the various regimes. She witnessed many family friends being persecuted, arrested, and even murdered and she found a hero in her uncle, Anoosh, who had been a political prisoner and lived in exile for a time. Young Marjane adored her uncle and greatly admired him, and he in turn doted on her, tragically, as detailed in Satrapis autobiography, Anoosh was arrested again and executed, his body was buried in an unmarked grave in the prison. Anoosh was only allowed one visitor before his execution, and he requested Marjane, the loss of her uncle left her deeply upset. As a young teen, Marjane began to act out, getting into trouble with the police for breaking modesty codes and her parents grew concerned that the young Marjane, a strong-willed and rambunctious teenager, would run afoul of the strict new public codes for women. They arranged for her to study abroad, and in 1983 she arrived in Vienna, Austria, according to her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, she stayed in Vienna through her high-school years, staying in friends homes, but spent two months living on the streets. After an almost deadly bout of pneumonia, she returned to Iran and she studied visual communication, eventually obtaining a masters degree from Islamic Azad University in Tehran. During this time, Satrapi went to numerous illegal parties hosted by her friends, where she met a man named Reza and she married him at the age of 21, but divorced him roughly a couple years later. Satrapi then moved to Strasbourg, France, Satrapi is married to Mattias Ripa, a Swedish national. Apart from her native language Persian, she speaks French, English, Swedish, German, Satrapis career began in earnest when she met David Beauchard, a French comics artist who became her mentor and teacher. Persepolis won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival and her later publication, Embroideries, was also nominated for the Angoulême Album of the Year award in 2003, an award that was won by her novel Chicken with Plums. She has also contributed to the Op-Ed section of The New York Times, Comics Alliance listed Satrapi as one of twelve women cartoonists deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. Satrapi prefers the term comic books to graphic novels, people are so afraid to say the word comic, she told the Guardian newspaper in 2011. It makes you think of a man with pimples, a ponytail. Change it to novel and that disappears. Persepolis was adapted into a film of the same name
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The District!
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Is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder. Its original title is a colloquial form of nyolcadik kerület. It is sometimes labelled as the Hungarian South Park and it has been distributed in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, United Kingdom, France, the Benelux countries, Romania, Poland, Portugal and Taiwan, and it is going to be shown in the United States. It was also shown at festivals in Helsinki, Toronto, Copenhagen, Zagreb, Karlovy Vary. The animated technique for this movie was rather innovative, the artists took 350 headshot pictures of each actor and used these photos for the expressing emotions and the animation of the heads. Archived from the original on 25 May 2007
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Ryan (film)
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Ryan is a 2004 animated documentary created and directed by Chris Landreth about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who had lived on skid row in Montreal as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. Landreths chance meeting with Larkin in 2000 inspired him to develop the film and it was co-produced by Copper Heart Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada, and its creation and development is the subject of the NFB documentary Alter Egos. The film incorporated material from sources, particularly Larkins works at the NFB. The film is an interpretation of an interview of Larkin by Landreth. Development of the characters was inspired by the plastinated human bodies of the Body Worlds exhibition. The animation was created at the Animation Arts Centre of Seneca College in Toronto, some of the animation was based on cords, mathematical equations modelling the physical properties of curves and used to animate filamentous objects in the film. The visual effects of the film has been described by reviewers and film critics as difficult to describe, Ryan won over 60 awards, including the 2004 Academy Award for Animated Short Film and the 25th Genie Award for Best Animated Short. It was presented and won awards at film festivals, including Cannes Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival. It also won Jury awards at SIGGRAPH and the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, as a result of the films popularity, Larkin became famous once again and received requests for his animation services. He began work with Laurie Gordon on an animated film Spare Change about his panhandling on the streets of Montreal, Larkin died in 2007, and Spare Change was completed by Gordon and released in 2008. Landreth received offers to feature films, but instead chose to continue producing animated short films. Larkin was a Canadian animator who had worked at the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, Best known for his film Walking composed of animated vignettes of people walking, Larkin was considered one of the best animators of his generation. In 1969, the Montreal Gazette referred to him as the Frank Zappa or George Harrison of animation, in the 1970s, unable to cope with his success and the pressure to develop more works, and facing a creative block, he became addicted to alcohol and cocaine. By 1978, he was broke and no longer working for the NFB and he worked as a commercial animator and painter for the next ten years, but by the late 1980s he was living in the streets of Montreal. He continued to draw and sculpt, Chris Robinson first learned of Larkin in 2000 after his name was mentioned in a discussion by staff member Lesya Fesiak, who had heard about Larkin panhandling in Montreal from a friend. At the time, he resided at the Old Brewery Mission and spent his days wandering around town visiting art galleries, museums and he always had a notepad with him for drawing. They offered him dinner at a bar, where he recounted his life story. Before leaving, Robinson invited Larkin to Ottawa to watch a few entries for that years film festival, Landreth met Larkin at the suggestion of Robinson
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Daimon Hellstrom
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Daimon Hellstrom, also known as the Son of Satan and Hellstorm, Damien Hellstorm, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Encouraged by the success of the titles Ghost Rider and The Tomb of Dracula, editor Roy Thomas had reservations about this idea and suggested a series focusing on the son of Satan instead. According to Thomas, Lee approved of the idea, and Gary Friedrich, however, Trimpe denies this, claiming Friedrich alone designed Daimon Hellstrom and only brought him in as artist after the character was fully realized. Thomas has said he realized that a 1960s fanzine character created by his friend Biljo White had looked very similar. As Thomas recalled in 2001, Stan called me into the one day, and said he wanted to do a book called Mark of Satan, but this time. I went to a parochial Lutheran school, but Im not religious, but I thought this was going to get us in trouble, I didnt even like the idea. So I went off and thought about it for a bit, and I came back and said, I think were asking for trouble with Mark of Satan. You could still have Satan as a character, but hes not the hero and its a little different from Dracula, where the heroes were the human beings fighting the vampire. Stan loved it, and it was only a little later I realized that name and basic concept had been a comic by a friend of mine, Biljo White. The branded chest, a trident, and so forth, I think it just came out looking almost identical. I explained it to Biljo, and he understood, but it was weird, because if you look at his old fanzine. The character Daimon Hellstrom first appeared in Ghost Rider vol,1, #1, then was spun off into a feature, Son of Satan, in Marvel Spotlight #12–24. Nonetheless, sales were strong, prompting Marvel to launch the character into his own series, Son of Satan, written by John Warner. The characters success faded soon after the launch, and Son of Satan was cancelled with issue #7. One of the writers on Defenders, J. M. DeMatteis, featured a number of subplots focused on Daimon Hellstrom. Characters like Son of Satan are a metaphor for what we all contain, good and evil, high. Hes literally the son of the Devil, trying not to be what his father is, for a writer like me, how can you not feast on that. In 1993, he once more received his own series with Hellstorm, as suggested by the title, his surname was spelled Hellstorm during this series
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Waking Life
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Waking Life is a 2001 American adult animated docufiction film, directed by Richard Linklater. It is the first animated film released by Fox Searchlight Pictures, the film explores a wide range of philosophical issues including the nature of reality, dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism. Waking Life is centered on a man who wanders through a succession of dream-like realities wherein he encounters a series of individuals who engage in insightful philosophical discussions. The film contains several parallels to Linklaters 1991 film Slacker, ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their characters from Before Sunrise in one scene. Waking Life premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Waking Life is about an unnamed young man living an ethereal existence that lacks transitions between everyday events and that eventually progresses toward an existential crisis. Other scenes do not even include the presence, but rather, focus on a random isolated person, group of people. Gradually, the protagonist begins to realize that he is living out a perpetual dream, so far he is mostly a passive onlooker, though this changes during a chat with a passing woman who suddenly approaches him. After she greets him and shares her creative ideas with him, afterwards, he starts to converse more openly with other dream characters, but he begins to despair about being trapped in a dream. The protagonists final talk is with a character who looks similar to the protagonist himself. The protagonist is last seen walking into a driveway when he begins to levitate. The protagonist uncertainly reaches toward the handle, but is too swiftly lifted above the vehicle. He rises into the blue expanse of the sky until he disappears from view. Adding to the effect, the film used an animation technique based on rotoscoping. Animators overlaid live action footage with animation that roughly approximates the images actually filmed and this technique is similar in some respects to the rotoscope style of 1970s filmmaker Ralph Bakshi. Rotoscoping itself, however, was not Bakshis invention, but that of experimental silent film maker Max Fleischer, a variety of artists were employed, so the feel of the movie continually changes, and gets stranger as time goes on. The result is a surreal, shifting dreamscape, the animators used expensive off-the-shelf Apple Macintosh computers. Linklater used this animation method again for his 2006 film A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2001, and was given a limited release in the United States on October 19,2001. Critical reaction has been mostly positive, roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four, describing it as a cold shower of bracing, clarifying ideas
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Richard Linklater
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Richard Stuart Linklater is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Linklater is mostly known for his realistic and natural humanist films which mainly revolve around suburban culture, in 2002 he began filming Boyhood, a passion project which took over twelve years to finish. The film was premiered in 2014 to critical acclaim, Linklater won the Golden Globe, Critics Choice Movie Awards and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Original Screenplay, in 2015, Time magazine named Linklater one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list. Many of his films are noted for their loosely structured narrative, films and Boyhood – feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years. He is also known for loyalty to his actors, having worked with Ethan Hawke, Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Diane Margaret, who taught at Sam Houston State University, and Charles W. Linklater, III. He attended Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Texas, during grades 9-11, as a teen, Linklater also won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award. Linklater studied at Sam Houston State University, until dropping out to work on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He frequently read novels on the rig and, upon returning to land, at this point, Linklater realized he wanted to be a filmmaker. He used his savings to buy a Super-8 camera, a projector, and editing equipment and he was influenced by Martin Scorsese Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. He enrolled in Austin Community College in the fall of 1984 to study film, since his early 20s, Linklater has been a vegetarian. In 2015, he explained the dietary lifestyle in a Boyhood-style documentary for PETA, Linklater founded the Austin Film Society in 1985 together with his frequent collaborator Lee Daniel. One of the mentors for the Film Society was former New York City critic for the Soho Weekly News George Morris who had relocated to Austin, Morris had previously written articles on Leo McCarey, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney, and Douglas Sirk. For several years, Linklater made many films that were exercises. He finally completed his first feature, the rarely seen Its Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, the film is significant in the sense that it establishes most of Linklaters preoccupations. The film has his trademark style of camera movements and lack of narrative. These idiosyncrasies would be explored in detail in future projects. To this end Linklater created Detour Filmproduction, and subsequently made Slacker for only $23,000 and it went on to gross more than $1.25 million
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Andreas Hykade
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Andreas Hykade is an animation director from Germany. Before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1988 to 1990 and he worked as an animator in London in 1991, then studied animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg until 1995. Since then he works as director, partly at Studio Filmbilder in Stuttgart. Hykades trademark style is based on very simple characters which move in smooth animation, sometimes, like in the two music videos for Gigi DAgostino, theres just a line over a flat color, much like the classical La Linea-character of Osvaldo Cavandoli. Often his characters feature single strokes as arms and legs, in this Hykade is similar to German comic artist OL and we Lived in Grass is a student film and Hykades first part of The Country Trilogy. The set of the film is a place just two away from the end of the world. The film is told from the point of view of a little boy, all women is whore and all men is soldier, the father of the boy says. So go into Grass and kill a tiger for the best tits you can find, as the father gets testicular cancer, a journey into Grass for the young hero begins. We lived in Grass won numerous awards including the German short film Price, ring of Fire is the second part of The Country Trilogy. It is set in a bright and shining bazaar of sexual desires, the film is describing an archaic Machomyth and the desire of two cowboys to break with this myth. Ring of Fire won countless awards including the Grand Price at the Ottawa Animation Festival, in 1995, Hykade, along with Gil Alkabetz and Film Bilder, were commissioned to do a series of network IDs and commercials for Nickelodeon UK. The Runt is Hykades third and final part of The Country Trilogy, the once dead father of We Lived in Grass returns. I give you the runt, he says, but you take care of it and you kill it next year. With The Runt, Hykade finished what he calls his early work, at present, Hykade is working at his first feature-length film. During a live talk at the Bradford Animation Festival on 17 November 2006, Hykade did not reveal exactly how he would treat the project, but mentioned his admiration for the films Life of Brian, The Last Temptation of Christ and Jesus Christ Superstar. Since 2008 Hykade has taught animation at Harvard University, hunt was employed as the animator in residence working on the award-winning short, Ah Pook is Here. Hunt enlisted the help of the entire Academy staff, all apart from Hykade who continued producing his graduation piece, hunt recently interviewed Hugi on stage at the Bradford animation festival where a retrospective of Hykades work was shown. Andreas Hykades Website Andreas Hykade at the Internet Movie Database AWN Studio Filmbilder
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The Wrong Trousers
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The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his second half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his silent but intelligent dog Gromit, following 1989s A Grand Day Out, and preceding 1995s A Close Shave. As in A Grand Day Out, the film uses sight gags and exaggerated physical comedy and quiet moments. The film premièred in the United States on 17 December 1993, and it won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It was highly successful, and inspired a charity fundraising day, known as Wrong Trousers Day, one of several events organised by the charity Wallace, Wrong Trousers Day falls on the last Friday in June every year. During the day, participants wear the trousers to work or school etc. and donate a pound to help sick children in hospitals. The film begins at 62 West Wallaby Street on Gromits birthday at breakfast, after being tipped out of bed and dressed using several mechanical contraptions, Wallace is greeted with a large pile of overdue bills. Wallace remembers Gromits birthday and presents Gromit with a pair of “ex NASA” robotic Techno Trousers, while Gromit is out on a walk, Wallace realises they are in financial difficulty and decides to let the spare bedroom out. He is answered by a penguin named Feathers McGraw. The penguin comes to stay at the house, pushing Gromit out of his bedroom, into the spare bedroom and keeping him awake at night with loud organ music. On the other hand, Wallace takes a liking to him, Feathers also takes an interest in the Techno Trousers after seeing Gromit use their suction feet to walk on the ceiling while decorating the spare bedroom. Distressed that Feathers has barged in on his relationship with his master, Gromit packs up his belongings, after watching Gromit leave, Feathers secretly modifies the Techno Trousers for his own use. He removes the controls on the trousers and adapts them into a remote control, the next morning, Gromit hunts for suitable lodgings. He notices a poster offering a reward for the capture of a chicken – actually a criminal penguin who disguises himself by wearing a rubber glove on his head. Meanwhile, Wallaces normal morning routine is interrupted when his trousers are replaced with the modified Techno Trousers. Trapped inside the trousers, Wallace is marched out of the house and sent running around town on an extended test run. Gromit witnesses this spectacle and later spies on Feathers as he measures up the exterior of the city museum and he returns home and uncovers Feathers plans to steal a large diamond from the museum. However, Feathers returns and Gromit is forced to hide and he watches as Feathers arrives dressed in the chicken disguise
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Nick Park
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Nicholas Wulstan Nick Park, CBE is an English director, writer, and animator best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of six times, and won four with Creature Comforts, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and Wallace & Gromit, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. He has also received five BAFTA Awards, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation for A Matter of Loaf and Death and his 2000 film Chicken Run is the highest-grossing stop motion animated film. For his work in animation, in 2012, Park was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life, Park was born in Brookfield Park in Preston, Lancashire in the north-west of England to Mary Cecilia Ashton, a seamstress, and Roger Wulstan Park, an architectural photographer. The middle child of five siblings, Park grew up on Greenlands Estate, the later moved to Walmer Bridge. His sister Janet lives in Longton and he attended Cuthbert Mayne High School. He grew up with a keen interest in drawing cartoons, and as a 13-year-old made films with the help of his mother and her movie camera. He also took after his father, an inventor. He studied Communication Arts at Sheffield City Polytechnic and then went to the National Film and Television School, in 1985, he joined the staff of Aardman Animations in Bristol, where he worked as an animator on commercial products. He also had a part in animating the Pee-wees Playhouse which featured Paul Reubens, along with all this, he had finally completed A Grand Day Out, and with that in post-production, he made Creature Comforts as his contribution to a series of shorts called Lip Synch. Creature Comforts matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about their homes, the two films were nominated for a host of awards. A Grand Day Out beat Creature Comforts for the BAFTA award, in 1990 Park worked alongside advertising agency GGK to develop a series of highly acclaimed television advertisements for the Heat Electric campaign. The Creature Comforts advertisements are now regarded as among the best advertisements ever shown on British television, as voted by viewers of the UKs main commercial channels ITV, two more Wallace and Gromit shorts, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, followed, both winning Oscars. He then made his first feature-length film, Chicken Run, co-directed with Aardman founder Peter Lord and he also supervised a new series of Creature Comforts films for British television in 2003. On 10 October 2005, a fire gutted Aardman Animations archive warehouse, the fire resulted in the loss of most of Parks creations, including the models and sets used in the movie Chicken Run. Some of the original Wallace & Gromit models and sets, as well as the prints of the finished films, were elsewhere. Parks most recent work includes a US version of Creature Comforts, in the series, Americans were interviewed about a range of subjects
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The Man Who Planted Trees (film)
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The Man Who Planted Trees is a 1987 Canadian short animated film directed by Frédéric Back. It is based on Jean Gionos novel The Man Who Planted Trees and this 30-minute film was distributed in two versions, French and English, narrated respectively by actors Philippe Noiret and Christopher Plummer, and produced by Radio-Canada. It is available on a Region 1 DVD, either on its own or with other animated films directed by Frédéric Back, the film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It also competed for the Short Film Palme dOr at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, in 1994 it was voted number 44 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. Olivier Cotte Secrets of Oscar-winning animation, Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animations, ISBN 978-0-240-52070-4 Media related to Inspired by the film at Wikimedia Commons The Man Who Planted Trees at the Internet Movie Database
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Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema
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The Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema was an annual international film festival for animated feature films, held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It ran for 13 years, from 2001 to 2013, the festival was unique in its focus on feature animation. The programme was also surprisingly comprehensive - in its first year the festival was dedicated mainly to anime, perhaps reflecting its focus, WFAC has presented more animated feature films in public exhibition than any other festival in the world. World Cinema, Canadian/North American/International premieres of Green Days, 마당을 나온 암탉, den kæmpestore bjørn, FIMFÁRUM – DO TŘETICE VŠEHO DOBRÉHO. Also Chico y Rita, とある飛空士への追憶, 鋼の錬金術師 嘆きの丘（ミロス）の聖なる星, El Sol, christie, NA PŮDĚ ANEB KDO MÁ DNESKA NAROZENINY
