Magnolia Pictures and
SHORTS INTERNATIONAL
present
THE 2007 ACADEMY AWARD®
NOMINATED
SHORT FILMS
Live Action: 137min.; Animated: 90 min.; Digital; 1.85:1; Dolby SRD
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LIVE ACTION SHORT FILMS
AT NIGHT
Denmark – 40 Minutes, Danish with English subtitles
Oscar Nominees: Christian E. Christiansen & Louise Vesth
Three young women share their problems while spending the holidays in a hospital
cancer ward.
Filmmaker bio:
Christian E. Christiansen
2007 “At Night” (Short film/Zentropa Entertainments 10) - Director
2006 ”Life Hits” (Feature film/Zentropa Productions) - Director
“Don’t Panic/Street Corner Poets” (Music video/Zentropa Productions) - Director
“Få din Flask På/L.O.C.” (Music video/Zentropa Productions) - Director
”Du Gør Mig/L.O.C.” (Music video/Zentropa Productions) - Director
”Berlin/Nordstrøm” (Music video/Zentropa Productions) - Director
2004/05 ”Nynne” (Feature film /Angel Production A/S) - Producer
2003 ”Manden Bag Døren” (Feature film /Angel Production A/S) – Line producer
2002 ”Monsteret” (Short film/NWR ApS) – Producer
2001 ”Gottlieb” (Short film /The National Film School of Denmark) – Producer
”Postkort fra Mars” (Short film / The National Film School of Denmark) – 1.A.D.
2000 ”Laïla” (Feature film /Angel Arena) – Producer Trainee
”Calgon Tabs” & “Vitroclean” (Commercials/Angel Arena) – Production manager
1999 ”Ilddaab” (Short film / The National Film School of Denmark) – Producer
”Ingen Elsker Mig” (Short film/ The National Film School of Denmark) – 1. A.D.
1998 ”Something About Harry” (Feature film/Arena Film) – Producer
”The Paul Show” (Promotion film for Sony/Arena Film) – Production manager
”Olsen Bandens Sidste Stik” (Feature film/Nordisk Film) – Producer-Trainee
Louise Vesth
2007 “At Night” (Short film/Zentropa Entertainments 10) - Producer
2006 How To Get Rid of Others (Feature Film/Zentropa Entertainment) - Producer
2005 Råzone (Feature Film/Zentropa Entertainment) – Producer
2004-2005 “Klovn” (TV/Zentropa Entertainment) – Producer
2003 Kick N’ Rush (Feature Film/Jutlandia Film ApS) – Producer
2002 Wallah Be (Feature Film/Zentropa Entertainment) - Producer
These are the first Academy Award nominations for Christian E. Christiansen and Louise
Vesth.
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IL SUPPLENTE (THE SUBSTITUTE)
Italy – 17 Minutes, Italian with English subtitles
Oscar Nominee: Andrea Jublin
The arrival of an unusual newcomer galvanizes the students in a high school classroom.
Filmmaker bio:
Andrea Jublin was born in 1970. He is from Turin and graduated in politics. He
graduated at the Genova Theatre acting school and acted in many of the plays there. He
attended a course in direction at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and
studied script writing on the RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) course in Rome. He founded
“Independent cinema company” for which he wrote, directed and performed the film
BROOM and two short films CORAGE. COURAGE. COURAGE. and THANK
HEAVEN. THE SUBSTITUTE is his third short film, winner of the skylab short film
contest. He has won multiple awards for his work in acting, writing and directing.
This is the first Academy Award nomination for Andrea Jublin.
IL SUPPLENTE (THE SUBSTITUE) International Film Festivals:
SYDNEY (FLICKERFEST) 2008: In Competition, ASPEN SHORTFEST
2007: In Competition, CINEMA MEDITERRANÉEN MONTPELLIER 2007:
Shorts Panorama, CLERMONT-FERRAND SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2007:
International Competition: Canal+ Award, ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL UK
2007: Shorts, PRAGUE SHORT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2007: International Competition 3, SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL SHORT
FILM FESTIVAL 2007: International 09, ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL 2007: Shorts Program 1, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
2007: Short Program III
LE MOZART DES PICKPOCKETS (THE MOZART OF
PICKPOCKETS)
France – 31 Minutes, French with English subtitles
Oscar Nominees: Philippe Pollet-Villard
A pair of unlucky thieves find their fortunes have changed when they take in a deaf
homeless boy.
Filmmaker bio:
Philippe Pollet-Vilard studied at the School of Fine Arts at St Etienne and Lyon before
joining a communications agency when he was 19. As its artistic director, he gained a
background in the areas of image, lighting and sets. He directed various music videos
(Les Négresses Vertes), before making commercials, particularly for the Fnac stores. His
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work has merited the Statégie Prize several times over.
He directed his first short film, "Ma place sur le trottoir," with Jacqueline Heslo - who
he'd met during a theater course - in the lead part. It won the Grand Prize for Best Film at
the 1998 Clermont-Ferrand Festival of Short Film. Heslo was also awarded Best Actress
Prize.
After six months of writing and improvisation, Pollet-Vilard developed the short into a
feature film "Jacqueline dans ma vitrine." It was co-directed by Marc Adjadj, a drama
teacher.
Philippe Pollet-Vilard has also worked as an actor in Christophe Blanc's "Une Femme
d'extérieur."
This is the first Academy Award nomination for Philippe Pollet-Villard.
LE MOZART DES PICKPOCKETS (THE MOZART OF PICKPOCKETS)
International Film Festivals:
Arcipelago - Rome International Festival of Short Films & New Images –
2007 International Competition - Short Waves; Brest - European Short Film
Festival - 2006- Compétition européenne; Cannes - International Film Festival
- 2007- Prix Gras Savoye - Coup de cœur du court-métrage; Clermont-Ferrand
International Short Film Festival - 2007- National Competition; FilmVideo Montecatini International Short Film Festival – 2007 - Compétition Les
migrants; Filmfest Dresden - International Short Film Festival - 2007 Programme Paris-Rap-Rage; Groningue - 2007 ; International Short Film
Festival in Drama - 2007 - Official Selection; International Youth Film
Festival of Gijon - 2007 - Compétition officielle; Istanbul International Short
Film Festival - 2007 - Official Selection; Lutin Short Film Awards - 2007 Fiction Films Nominated; Oh, ce court ! - Brussels Short film festival - 2007 International Competition; Palm Springs International Short Film Festival 2007 - Official Selection - Fictions over 15 minutes in length; Regensburg Short
Film Week – 2007 - International Competition; Sacramento - French Film
Festival – 2007 - Séance spéciale courts-métrages - Programme 2
Awards:
Brest - European Short Film Festival - 2006 - Prix du public de la Fondation Gan;
Cannes - International Film Festival - 2007 - Prix France 3 - Sélection Gras
Savoye - Prix RTP2 Onda Curta - Sélection Gras Savoye - Prix Gras Savoye;
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - 2007 - Prix du public Grand prix - Prix Attention Talent Fnac; International Short Film Festival in
Drama – 2007 - Jury Mention; International Youth Film Festival of Gijon –
2007 - Prix du jury jeune; Lutin Short Film Awards - 2007 - Lutin Award for
Best Fiction Film - Lutin Award for Best Screenplay; Philippe Pollet-Villard Lutin Award for Best Editing : Cyril Nakache; Oh, ce court ! - Brussels Short
film festival – 2007 - Audience Award
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TANGHI ARGENTINI
Belgium –13 Minutes, French with English subtitles
Oscar Nominees: Guido Thys & Anja Daelemans
A man who must learn to dance the tango in two weeks asks an office colleague for help.
Filmmaker bio:
Born in 1957, Guido Thys has gathered a lot of experience in various media. In 2001, his
short “Mon” won Best Film, the ‘Prix de la jeunesse’, at the Vendome International Film
Festival (France). His latest short already won several national and international awards
at key international film fests. For television, he was involved in the making of many
successful soaps and TV series in Belgium such as the medics drama “Spoed,” the cops
series “Zone Stad” and the daily soaps “Familie” and “Wittekerke,” “Boerenkrijg,” and
“Affaires de famille,” the French-lingo version of “Familie.” In Germany, he worked on
“Westerdeich,” and in The Netherlands he was involved in the making of the kids soap
“Topstars.” He is also regularly asked as a director of live television broadcasts, from
news programs to major sports events. One of these live shows was “De
droomfabriek”(translated: Dream Factory) in which dreams and wishes of ordinary
viewers came true.
Anja Daelemans graduated from Brussels-based RITS film academy in 1993 as a director
for radio and television. However, it wouldn’t take that long before she got bitten by the
producer’s virus. First as a line-producer, being involved in the production of several
local features (such as both Jan Verheyen’s Everything Must Go! and Team Spirit) and
shorts (The Sugar Bowl by Hilde Van Mieghem), and later as a producer. In 1996, she
created her own production company, Another Dimension of an Idea. In 2000, she started
producing short films with Another Dimension of an Idea: Fait d’Hiver (Gridlock,
directed by Dirk Beliën), for which she earned an Academy Award® nomination, Oh my
God?! (dir. by Christophe Van Rompaey) which received the Golden Mèlies Award
Europe, and EX#N°1870-04 (dir. by Christophe Van Rompaey). Her first feature film
production, Alias (dir: by Jan Verheyen) was an instant box office champ: it also won the
Joseph Plateau Audience Award for Belgian Film. Daelemans further also co-produced
Off Screen (dir. by Pieter Kuijpers), starring two of the Benelux’s most celebrated actors:
Jan Decleir and Jeroen Krabbé. In 2006 she co-produced Dennis P. (dir. by Pieter
Kuijpers) and produced this gem, Guido Thys’ Tanghi Argentini, a contemporary fairy
tale that in the meantime as toured around the world and has now been nominated for the
Academy Award® for Best Live-Action Short. Following Tanghi Argentini will be
another short, FiFi, as well as the documentary project Can Art Change the World?
This is the first Academy Award nomination for Guido Thys.
This is the second Academy Award nomination for Anja Daelemans. She was previously
nominated for:
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FAIT D'HIVER (2002) -- Nominee, Short Film (Live Action)
TANGHI ARGENTINI International Film Festivals Awards:
2008: Audience Award International Film and Television Festival Cinema
Tout Ecran / 2007: Audience Award Almería en Corto, International Short
Film Festival / 2007: Audience Favorite Award, The Ellen Award Certificate of
Distinctive Achievement, a Special Jury Recognition, and the BAFTA Award for
Excellence Aspen Shortsfest / 2007: Special Mention, Young People's Award
Capalbio Cinema International Short Film Festival / 2007: Grand-Prize of
Ciné-Jeune de l'Aisne / 2007: Audience Award for Best Short Film Cinema
Tout Ecran / 2007: * Audience Prize * Mediatheques Award* Best Comedy
"Fernand Raynaud" Award Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival / 2007:
Audience Award Festival de Cine de Alcala de Henares / 2007: * Best Actor
Award for Dirk van Dijck * Best Cinematography Award for Frank vanden Eeden
Festival Du Court Metrage De Bruxelles - Oh, ce Court / 2007: Gran Trofeo
tralsi di Trevignano, best film of the festival La Cittadella Del Corto International Short Film Festival / 2007: Best Foreign Language Film LA
Shorts Fest / 2007: Audience Award Middle East International Film Festival /
2007: Audience Award for Best in Show Short Film Milwaukee International
Film Festival / 2007: Best Foreign Short Film award Moondance International
Film Festival / 2007: Best Comedy NYC Shorts / 2007: Grand Prize : Best Short
Rhode Island International Film Festival / 2007: Best Narrative Short Film
Seattle International Film Festival / 2007: Best International Short St. Louis
International Film Festival / 2007: *Audience Award TABOR FILM
FESTIVAL / 2006: Award for Best Belgian Short Flanders International Film
Festival Ghent
THE TONTO WOMAN
United Kingdom – 36 Minutes, English
Oscar Nominee: Daniel Barber & Matthew Brown
A cattle rustler meets a woman who is living in isolation after being held prisoner for
eleven years by the Mojave Indians.
Filmmaker bio:
Daniel Barber
Born 1964. Learned to ride the bicycle age 2 ½. First solo trumpet performance age 9.
First kiss, with Susan Hollingsworth, age 10. Captain of the school football team age 12.
Barmitzvah age 13. Best friend at school Gary Peters. First curry age 16. Eurorail trip age
17. Fell in love with Swedish girls. Fell in love with Norwegian girls. Fell in love with
German girls. Etc……..Went to Saint Martins School of Art age 20. Met Sandra age 24.
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First job Lambie Nairn & Co. Designed and directed title sequences and identities for
television stations. Won D&AD silvers. Won a Bafta, Married Sandra. Second job
directing television commercials at Rose Hackney Productions Ltd. Directed lots of
television commercials. Moses born 1996. Made partner at the now Rose Hackney Barber
Ltd. Directed more television commercials. Won more awards. Traveled the world.
Discovered sushi. Learned to scuba dive. Fell in love with Italian wine age 38. Traveled
some more. And then some more. Decided to make a short film age 39. Finished short
film age 42. Nominated for an Oscar age 43.
Matthew Brown
Born 1968. Learned to ride the bicycle age 4. Awarded gold standard life saving badge
age 10. Played Joseph in school Nativity play age 11. Started big school age 12. Won
some running races. Left big school age 18. Started job as tea boy age 19. Made lots of
tea. Worked hard. Began producing Television commercials age 23. Worked very hard.
Married Amanda age 29. Millie born 1999. Fred born 2001. Worked very very hard.
Became managing director of Rose Hackney Barber age 33. Toby born 2004. Decided to
make short film aged 35. Started to lose hair. Opened Knucklehead Films. Produced lots
more television commercials. Finished short film aged 38. Nominated for an Oscar aged
39.
These are the first Academy Award nominations for Daniel Barber and Matthew Brown.
THE TONTO WOMAN International Film Festival Awards:
First Place – Best Live Action Over 15 Minutes – 2007 Palm Springs
International Film Festiva
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ANIMATED SHORT FILMS
I MET THE WALRUS
Canada – 5 Minutes, English, 2D Animation
Oscar Nominee: Josh Raskin
In 1969, fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room with his
tape recorder and persuaded him to do an interview.
Filmmaker bio:
Josh Raskin has been making sounds and pictures for as long as he can remember. After a
four year romance with the new media program at Ryerson University in Toronto, Josh
appears unwavering in his tendency to keep doing so. With a small number of short films
and a growing arsenal of misguided musical forays under his belt, his affinity for
appropriating old things, mucking with them, and reupholstering them in terrifying new
ways remains persistent throughout his work. When he’s not making sounds or pictures,
Josh spends his time sharpening his dangerous ping pong skills, taking alarmingly long
baths, and avoiding getting a proper job. He also enjoys Indian food, The Beatles, sleep,
girls, bicycles, girls on bicycles, wine, cats, three-part harmonies, Super Nintendo,
protein, accidents, curse words, tea, Biggie Smalls, and lists of things he enjoys.
This is the first Academy Award nomination for Josh Raskin.
I MET THE WALRUS International Film Festival Awards and Screenings:
AFI Fest - Best Animated Short; Middle East International Film Festival Best Animation; Manhattan Short Film Festival - Best Animation; Ottawa
International Animation Festival - Best Canadian Animation: Honorary
Mention; Hawaii International Film Festival - Best Animation; 10 Or Less
Film Festival - Best Animation; Odense Film Festival - International Special
Mention; San Francisco Shorts - Directors' Special Recognition; Platform
International Animation Festival - Best Sound Design; Brooklyn
International Film Festival - Spirit Award; Winnipeg International Film
Festival - Outstanding Animation
MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI
Canada – 17 Minutes, Silent, Claymation / CGI
Oscar Nominee: Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
A timid woman boards a mysterious night train and has a series of frightening
experiences.
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Filmmaker bio:
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski have recently completed their first professional
film, Madame Tutli-Putli, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. In addition
to their role as filmmakers, Chris and Maciek wear many hats—as animators, sculptors,
collage artists, screenplay writers, and art directors. In 1997 they founded Clyde Henry
Productions, a Montreal-based film and production company specializing in multimedia,
stop-motion animation and visual effects. They have received acclaim for their awardwinning illustrations, music videos and broadcast design, and provoked a cult following
for The Untold Tales of Yuri Gagarin, a serial comic strip published in Vice magazine.
These are the first Academy Award nominations for Chris Lavis and Maciek
Szczerbowski.
MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI International Film Festival Awards:
Yoram Gross Award for Best Animation - Flickerfest International Short Film
Festival;
Special Jury Prize - Int’l Festival of Animated Films / I Castelli Animati;
Jury Prize for Best Design - Black Nights Film Festival;
Special Mention - International Shortfilm Festival – Interfilm;
Grand Prize ex-aequo with "The Pearce Sisters" directed by Luis Cook International Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA;
Prize RTP2 - Onda Curta - International Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA;
Alves Costa Prize - International Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA;
First Prize- Best Short Film - Animacor - International Animation Festival;
Best Animation - New York City Short Film Festival;
NFB Prize for Best Short Film (ex aequo with Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! by
Sébastien Pilote)
- The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal;
Movieola Best Short Award - Calgary International Film Festival;
Best Narrative Short Animation under 35 minutes - International Animation
Festival;
Best Canadian Short - Atlantic Film Festival;
Best Animation Award - First Place - International Festival of Short Films;
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures Award for Best Animated Short - Worldwide Short
Film Festival;
Petit Rail d'Or for Best Short Film - (Semaine de la Critique) International
Film Festival;
Canal+ Award for Best Short Film - (Semaine de la critique) - International
Film Festival;
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MEME LES PIGEONS VONT AU PARADIS (EVEN
PIGEONS GO TO HEAVEN)
France – 9 Minutes, French with English subtitles, CGI
Oscar Nominees: Samuel Tourneux & Simon Vanesse
A priest tries to sell an old man a machine that he promises will transport him to heaven.
Filmmaker bio:
Nominated several times for his 1998 animated short film Vache Folle (Crazy Cow),
Samuel Tourneux joined BUF Compagnie and became a visual effects supervisor. On
the side, he directed several music videos and commercials. In 2003, he turned to the
camera to co-direct a satirical short film project on office life called Idiotheque
(Idiotech). He has just finished his third short film Même les pigeons vont au paradis
(Even Pigeons go to Heaven), a fictional account of a clergyman who rolls into the small
country Normandy village of his childhood.
Simon Vanesse is a French VFX Producer working at BUF. He has been in charge of the
VFX production of several film visual effects which includes The Prestige (Christopher
Nolan), Spiderman 3 (Sam Raimi) and Asterix Aux Jeux Olympiques
(Langman/Forestier).
These are the first Academy Award nominations for Samuel Tourneux and Simon
Vanesse.
MEME LES PIGEONS VONT AU PARADIS (EVEN PIGEONS GO TO
HEAVEN) International Film Festival:
Arcipelago - International Festival of Short Film & new images of Rome –
2007 - Competition new images E-Movie; Bruxelles - Anima - Festival du
dessin animé et du film d'animation - 2007 - The Night of the animation - Out
of Competition; Cannes - the Cannes Film Festival – 2007 - Price Gras Savoye
- Coup de heart Short Film ; City of Lights, City of Angels (COL COA) - Los
Angeles - 2007 - Selected Shorts; Film Festival horror and fantasy of San
Sebastian – 2007 - Official Selection – Shorts; Film Festival french Richmond
- 2007- Short films, International Festival of Short Film Istanbul – 2007 Official Selection; International Festival of short films from ClermontFerrand - 2007: - National Competition; International Festival Short Film
Drama – 2007 - International Competition; International Festival of Animated
Film of Krok – 2007 - International Competition - Short Cuts Program 6; Lutins
short film (Les) - Appointments animated films; Samuel Tourneux -- Best
Animated Short; Sacramento - French Film Festival - 2007- First part of
program; Short Cuts Cologne - International Festival of Short Films – 2007 Compétition internationale -- International Competition
Awards:
Film Festival horror and fantasy of San Sebastian – 2007 - Public Prize;
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prize jury
MY LOVE (MOYA LYUBOV)
Russia – 27 Minutes, Russian with English subtitles
Oscar Nominee: Alexander Petrov
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very
different women.
Filmmaker Bio:
Born in Prehistoye, Yaroslavl, USSR (now Russia). He completed his art studies at
Jaroslawl Art Institute, where, as a young student, he realized his first animated film. In
1976 he entered Vsesoyouzny Gosoudarstvenni Institut Kinematographiy (VGIK) in
Moscow and, after obtaining a diploma, he started working at Sverdlovsk film studio. In
1989 he made THE COW, a ten-minute long ecological and satiric film that used oil
painting on a cell. It gained many international festival awards, including an Oscar®
nomination.
For THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1999), Petrov took four years to hand-paint more
than 29,000 images on sheets of glass directly under the IMAX® camera on an animation
stand. OLD MAN... became the first large format film to receive an Award for Animated
Short.
Other credits include as production designer: POTERYALSYA SION (1984) and I
VOZVRASHCHAETSYA VETER... / AND THE WIND RETURNETH (1991); as set
designer: TSAREUBIYTSA / THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR (1991); as art director:
DOBRO POSHALOVAT / WELCOME (1986); as writer: "Khalif-aist" (1981, TV); as
animator: FUYU NO HI / WINTER DAYS (2003); as director: SON SMESHNOGO
CHELOVEKA / THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN (1992, also writer & art
director) and MOYA LYUBOV / MY LOVE (2006).
His son, Dmitri Petrov (b. 1979), worked as an animator on THE OLD MAN AND THE
SEA.
This is the fourth Academy Award nomination for Alexander Petrov. He was previously
nominated for:
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THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1999) -- Winner, Short Film (Animated)
THE MERMAID (1997) -- Nominee, Short Film (Animated)
THE COW (1989) -- Nominee, Short Film (Animated)
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MY LOVE (MOYA LYUBOV) International Film Festival Awards:
Audience Prize, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, 2006; Special
International Jury Prize, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, 2006;
FIPRESCI Prize for Best Animation, International Leipzig Festival for
Documentary and Animated Film, 2006;
Excellence Prize, Japan Media Arts Festival, 2006; Grand Prix, Open Russian
Festival of Animated Film, 2007; Best Direction, Open Russian Festival of
Animated Film, 2007; Best Visuals, Open Russian Festival of Animated Film,
2007; Best Animated Film, Lotoy Vityaz, 2007; Grand Jury Prize for Best Film,
Melbourne International Animation Festival, 2007; Hand Painted Panorama,
Melbourne International Animation Festival, 2007; Professional Jury Award
for "Best Animation," Anima Mundi, 2007.
PETER & THE WOLF
United Kingdom & Poland – 27 Minutes, Silent
Oscar Nominees: Suzie Templeton & Hugh Welchman
A young boy and his animal friends face a hungry wolf in Prokofiev's classic musical
piece.
Filmmaker bio:
BAFTA-winning director Suzie Templeton burst onto the international animation scene
with her multi-award winning film Stanley, a surreal and darkly comic story of a man
who falls in love with a cabbage. She followed this with the phenomenally successful
Dog, a heart-breaking and chilling film about a boy coming to terms with the death of his
mother. This film has won many of the animation world’s top prizes, including a British
Animation Award and a BAFTA. In collaboration with BreakThru films, Suzie is now
developing on a new half-hour adaptation of Prokofiev’s classic Peter and the Wolf, for
cinemas and television.
Founder and manager of BreakThru Films, with four years professional experience as a
producer and manager. A graduate from the National Film & Television School, his
graduation film won the Cinefoundation Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Hugh then
received the Sam Mendes Shakespeare scholarship to study script writing in Berlin. He
produced a feature length documentary and has credits on 13 short films, 5 of which have
been distributed internationally, including 2 starring the Monty Python crew (distributed
in cinemas with the re-released “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”).
Hugh was an Associate Producer on “Free Jimmy” (Closing film, Critics’ fortnight at this
year’s Cannes Film Festival)
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Hugh is in pre-production on BreakThru Films’ low budget horror feature “Sh”, which
will shoot this spring.
In addition, Hugh has recently established Small Screen Entertainment Ltd., which is
producing animation series for distribution on mobile phones.
Before film school, Hugh studied at Oxford University gaining an MA Oxon in Politics,
Philosophy and Economics.
These are the first Academy Award nominations for Suzie Templeton and Hugh
Welchman.
PETER & THE WOLF International Film Festival Awards:
Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2007 - Winner - Annecy Cristal,
Winner - Annecy Audience Award
47th Rose D’Or Festival for Television Programming - WINNER – BEST
PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMME
Pulcinella Italian Television Animation Awards – Cartoon on the Bay
Festival 2007 - Winner – Best European Programme of the Year
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