Five brilliant new short-shorts by students at Gobelins were released last week. They were produced for the 2011 Annecy Festival, which has just wrapped up in France, and these gorgeous, musically-driven 1-minute pieces were directed by 5-member teams:
Jazz’in
by Joël Corcia, Wandrille Maunoury, Bong Nguyen, Thomas Reteuna and Bernard Som
Oh gee Oh why
by Hanne Galvez, Yoann Hervo, Juliette Laurent, Stéphanie Mercier and Pierre Zenzius
The 2011 Annecy Festival is a couple months away (June 6th – 11th), but today we get to watch the teaser, wihch was created by the Paris-based studio La Station Animation.
For the 10th Tribeca Film Festival, which begins on April 20th, the programing team is including an animation collection. The assembly of films is being presented under the title All You Can Eat, and it includes Dancing Squirrel’s film A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation. Here’s the trailer, in which you’ll hear the familiar voice of Ian McKellen (Gandalf) as the narrator.
Back in 2007, Steve Baker won Tropfest, the biggest film festival in Australia. To help promote this year’s event, which is being held on February 20th, the festival invited Baker to produce an animated trailer. It’s surely more than a sizzle reel – this is a story unto itself, titled Everyone has a story to tell…
This clever, traditionally-animated trailer for the upcoming 2011 Internationales Trickfilm Festival (Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film) was directed by Viola Baier. She is a student at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, but Baier has also studied at Gobelins in France (and it shows). The festival runs from May 3rd to the 8th.
Here’s a snappy ident for the 10th River to River Indian Film Festival, which is held each year in Florence, Italy. The piece was directed by Suresh Eriyat and produced out of Mumbai-based Studio Eeksaurus.
Pierre Mousquet and Jérôme Cauwe’s animated tale of two wrestlers won the CANAL+ creative aid Award at the 2010 Annecy Festival. Je Te Pardonne (I Forgive You) is the result of their studies at La Cambre in Brussels.
