Digital Movie Festival
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ALIVE IN JOBURG
CANADA/SOUTH AFRICA | 6:20 | 2005 DIRECTOR/VFX/EDIT: NEILL BLOMKAMP EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: CARLO TRULLI SOUND DESIGNER: FRANCOIS LAFLEUR COMPOSER: CLINTON SHORTER PROSTHETIC EFFECTS: SARAH BERGEEST With Alive in Joburg, award-winning director Neill Blomkamp, recently tapped to direct a feature film based on Halo, brings American science-fiction into a third-world context. Set in Johannesburg, the CG-driven piece is presented as a documentary which grapples with one of the most pressing topics in South Africa today – the influx of illegal aliens. However, Blomkamp treats the term a bit more literally than you might expect. BADGERED
UK | 7:00 | 2005 DIRECTOR: SHARON COLMAN PRODUCTION COMPANY: TANDEM Growing up, director Sharon Colman often wondered what the animals must have thought about the subterranean weapons caches at the nuclear base near her childhood home in Scotland. In her Oscar-nominated student film, Badgered, she uses traditional hand-drawn animation to imagine their side of the story, telling an emotional tale of a badger whose sleep is disturbed when a truck comes to store weapons beneath his hillside home. FOREST CLEARING
UK | 2:53 | 3006 DIRECTORS: SIMON ROBSON, PATRICK VALE TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: ALI MATAR TOOLS: DIGIBETA Produced under Channel 4’s MESH animation scheme, Forest Clearing offers a cautionary tale of environmental destruction and mankind’s hubris, in which a lame deer makes a Faustian bargain with a sinister figure with frightening ambitions. The film’s animation was painstakingly created by printing out UV maps of the film’s 3-D models, which were painted, scanned and finally wrapped back onto each model. HUNGRY PLANET
US | 1:40 | 2006 ANIMATION: HOWARD TSAI CINEMATOGRAPHER: ROXANNE LEE MUSIC EDITOR: MIMI HU TOOLS: ILLUSTRATOR, PHOTOSHOP, AFTER EFFECTS, CINEMA 4D, FINAL CUT PRO Winner of a 2006 Adobe Design Achievement Award, Hungry Planet transforms woodcut illustration into a pointed motion graphics piece that employs the visual vocabulary of the organic food movement to challenge consumers to imagine a world without genetically modified food. The film is also a tribute to the American agricultural scientist and Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug. PIZZA SURVEILLANCE FEATURE
US | 2004 | 2:20 DIRECTOR: MICAH LAAKER Produced for the American Civil Liberties Union, Pizza Surveillance Feature is a simple Flash animation imagining privacy in the not-so-distant future. It’ll make you laugh… nervously. WHAT WE'VE FOUND OUT ABOUT STEM CELLS UK | 13:00 | 2006 WRITER/DIRECTOR RICHARD FENWICK PRODUCER: MARK GALES RESEARCH: MARK GALES, RICHARD FENWICK NARRATOR: JOY SANDERS ILLUSTRATOR: RELUCTANT HERO ANIMATORS: RICHARD FENWICK, STEPHEN AGNEW COMPOSER: MICKEY CLARKE SOUND DESIGNER: STU WRIGHT ONLINE: CONDOR POST COMMISSIONER: AV FESTIVAL FUNDERS: WELLCOME TRUST TOOLS: ILLUSTRATOR, AFTER EFFECTS Director Richard Fenwick worked with the Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the University of Newcastle in an effort to go beyond the two-dimensional sound bites with which the media has discussed the embryonic stem cell debate and really delve into the ethics of the issue. The result is this simple, colorful animated film, which seeks to demystify the complicated world of stem cell research. |
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