A tiny man living inside a cat gets into a sticky love-triangle.

Awards & Achievements: Best Short Film Finalist – British Animation Awards (2012) Public Choice Short Film Finalist – Britsh Animation Awards (2012) Independent Talent Award – Animated Exeter (2012) LoCo Discovery Award (Short) 2012 – London Comedy Film Festival (2012) Best Comedy Short – London Short Film Festival (2012) Best 1st Professional Film – IAFF Krok (2012) Best Animation – Limelight Awards (2012) Best Story – Multivision (2011) Vimeo Staff Pick Shooting People Short of the Month Finalist Official Selections Annapolis Film Festival – Annapolis, MD, USA – 21-24/3/2013 Tehran International Animation Festival – Tehran, Iran – 3-7/3/2013 Animacam – A Coruña, Spain- 4-9/2/2013 Filmets Badalona Film Festival – Barcalona, Spain – 16-25/11/2012 Granada Short Film Festival – Granada, Spain – 20-27/10/2012 3D Wire Animation Festival – Segovia, Spain – 10-14/10/2012 Animage Festival – Recife and Olinda, Brazil – 17-30/9/2012 IAFF KROK – Russia – 9-18/9/2012 TriMedia Film Festival – Fort Collins, CO, USA – 7-9/9/2012 DC Shorts Film Festival – Washington, DC, USA – 6-16/9/2012 Hollyshorts – Hollywood, LA, USA – 8-16/8/2012 British Animation Film Festival – London, UK – 29/7/2012 Anima Mundi – Rio De Janeiro & São Paulo, Brazil – 13-29/7/2012 Corto In Bra – Bra, Italy – 28/6-1/7/2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival – Edinburgh, UK – 24/06/2012 Staffordshire Film Festival – Stoke, UK – 6/5/2012 Cellu l’Art Festival – Jena, Germany – 24-29/4/2012 CPH PIX – Copenhagen, Denmark – 18 & 29/4/2012 Future Film Festival – Bologna, Italy – 1/4/2012 Ciné court animé de Roanne – Roanne, France – 20-25/3/2012 Go Short – Nijmegen, Netherlands – 14-18/3/2012 British Animation Awards (Public Choice) – UK Wide – 3-25/2/2012 Athens AnimFest – Athens, Greece – 1-7/3/2012 Animated Exeter – Exeter, UK – 18/2/2012 London Comedy Film Festival – London, UK – 28/1/2012 London Short Film Festival – London, UK – 6-15/1/2012 Foyle Film Festival – Derry, N. Ireland – 23-27/11/2011 (BAFTA accr.) Bristol Encounters – Bristol, UK – 16-20/11/2011 (BAFTA, EFA, Oscar accr.) Interfilm Berlin – Berlin, Germany – 15-20/11/2011 Alcine – Alcalá, Spain – 12-18/11/2011 Multivision – St. Petersburg, Russia – 4-6/11/2011 Kerry Film Festival – Tralee, Ireland – 29/10-5/11/2011 Curta Cinema – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 28/10-6/11/2011 Flip Festival – Wolverhampton, UK – 29/10/2011 IFF Molodist – Kyiv, Ukraine – 22-30/10/2011 La Boca Del Lobo – Madrid, Spain – 19-30/10/2011 Vilnius Film Shorts – Vilnius, Lithuania – 13-16/10/2011 Louisville’s International Festival of Film – KY, USA – 5-9/10/2011 Milano Film Festival – Milan, Italy – 10 & 13/9/2011 NY Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival – NY, USA – 2/9/2011 Animation Block Party – Brooklyn, NY, USA – 29/07/2011 Motovun Film Festival – Motovun, Croatia – 25-29/07/2011 Rushes Soho Shorts – London, UK – 23 & 26 /07/2011 (BAFTA accr.) Non-Competition Screenings Big Irv’s Art Gallery – Brooklyn, NY, USA – 7/3/2013 Dailymotion Cinema Selects – SxSW, Austin, TX, USA – 9/2/2013 KloosterKino – Nijmegen, Netherlands – 12 & 13/10/2012 Born Shorts Film Festival – Bornholm, Denmark – 15/9/2012 Brunsdog Cartoon Connection – Melbourne, Australia – 5/9/2012 Looking In, Looking Out: A Festival of Philosophy & Fim – London, UK, 4/7/2012 Cine-East, East End Film Festival – London, UK – 1/7/2012 Stratford Fringe Festival – Stratford-Upon-Avon – 4/6/2012 Herning Int. Short Film Festival – Herning, Denmark – 27/04/2012 Show Me The Animation – Bristol, UK – 10/1/2012 Animation Breakdown (Best of ABP 2011) – Los Angeles, USA – 1-6/12/2011 7 Inch Cinema – Birmingham, UK – 17/11/2011 Flensburger Kurzfilmtag – Hamburg, Germany – 12/11/2011 (Special Programme) Belo Horizonte Int. Short Film Festival – Belo Horizonte, Brazil – 14-23/10/2011 Banjaluka – Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina – 23-28/10/2011 ArtsFest – Birmingham, UK – 10/9/2011 Flatpack Festival – Birmingham, UK – 24/3/2011 (Plus Q&A) Press Links Cartoon Brew Feature British Comedy Guide Feature Sight & Sound – 9th London Short Film Festival: Nine of the best Director’s Notes Feature Mouth London interview Louis interviewed by Skwigly.co.uk Original tester trailer featured on Lineboil.com

Best of BAAs Compilation: A bit pricey but the BAAs now rely solely on private funding and the generosity of its supporters. So if you want to support the Arts AND own a snazzy DVD, this is your ideal situation. Screening & Distribution Enquiries: For UK distribution enquiries contact: tomv@futureshorts.com For worldwide distribution enquiries contact: georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de For screening enquiries contact: louis@diceproductions.co.uk Links:                      (Download high quality images from Flickr or from here as a .ZIP file.) Info: March 2011   |   9:00min   |   Colour   |   Stereo   |   2D Drawn   |   Comedy Credits: Screen WM & UK Film Council present a Dice Productions film Director – Louis Hudson Writers – Louis Hudson & Ian Ravenscroft Producers – Louis Hudson & Jon Petrie Sound & Music – Ben Walker Animation – Louis Hudson, Jo Hepworth, Rachel Thorn, Loukia Kyriakidou,Matthew Waruszynski, Robert Brown, Barbara Benas, Jenny Lewis, Ron Warmington, Adam Watts, Dwayne Harris Animation Clean Up – Denise Dean, Simon Cartwright, Nuria Gonzalez Blanco,Daniel Underdown, Chris Colman, Tegan Jephcott Digital Colouring – Denise Dean, Ben Lynch, Matt Sandbrook, Samantha Boggild, Mark Skinner, Andy Macpherson, Chris Stokes, Tim Lozinski, Lauren Newman, Patrick Mallon, Lianne Allen, David Thomas, Paul Berner, Natasha Williams Rotoscope Actress –  Amy Commander CAST: Kevin Eldon – Yorkie Josie Long – Susan Isabel Fay – Michelle Jon Petrie – Cat

Synopsis

A tiny man who lives inside a cat becomes obsessed with the cat’s new owner. When the man finds out a woman his own size has been watching everything from afar he realises he doesn’t need to be alone anymore.

LONG SYNOPSIS

Yorkie is a tiny man who lives a hermit like existence inside a cat with only his knitting to occupy him. When he sees his cat’s new owner, Michelle, he quickly becomes obsessed and decides to brave the outside world and introduce himself. All the while, Susan, a small woman has been watching on dejectedly from her mouse hole.

After making his disastrous introduction Yorkie makes a run for it. On returning back inside the cat, he finds Susan huddled in the corner. Assuming she’s not welcome she quickly makes her exit, leaving the Yorkie rejected by two female encounters. On her way back to her mouse hole, the Susan finds herself being attacked by the now broom wielding Michelle.

After the most undignified rescue attempt possible by Yorkie, Michelle is overcome by the experience and faints. The little couple now are alone to start a new home together, but where will they go? Well, the Michelle’s bigger than the cat.

About:

Starting out as a half-complete student film, the tester trailer for All Consuming Love (Man In A Cat) was featured worldwide on YouTube, accumulating over 1,000,000 views, and generated a lot of support from other known animators, producers, as well being featured on Lineboil.com, run by Mondo Media’s Aaron Simpson.

A couple of years down the line, UK Film Council and Screen WM commissioned the film as part of the Digishorts scheme, where the story blossomed under the influence of the legendary script editor, Kate Leys.

The film stars the voices of respected comedians Kevin Eldon (Big Train, Brass Eye, Hot Fuzz, Four Lions), Josie Long (2006 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer) and Isabel Fay (How Not To Live Your Life).

Director’s Statement:

The film’s story started from a little drawing I did of a frustrated man punching the inside of a hollow cat. I loved the idea because the logic was so disturbed and at the same time I felt sorry for the little man.

I wanted to make a film that was funny and strange, but also had sincere emotion to it. It’s as much about misunderstood loners as it is about poo jokes and falling over. The love story in this film brings the potentially creepy protagonist into a situation where normal people can actually sympathise with him.

The 2D frame by frame pencil drawn animation is geared toward creating nuanced character performances which were key to the personality of the film. Also, nearly everything in the design has a purpose, which brings a strange delicacy to the visual gags.

Biographies

Kevin Eldon

Kevin Eldon is a comic actor and stand up who has appeared in some of the most critically-acclaimed British comedy television shows in the last two decades. Kevin’s credits include Fist of Fun, I’m Alan Partridge, Big Train, Brass Eye, Black Books and Jam, as well as roles in films including Hot Fuzz and Four Lions.

He also made in Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in 2010 with his critically-acclaimed hit show Titting About.

Josie Long

Josie Long is a one off. Often described as a unique voice in comedy, she is one of the best respected comedians of her generation. She started stand-up at 16, winning the BBC New Comedy Award and coming 2nd in So You Think You’re Funny at 17. After leaving University Josie supported Stewart Lee on his national tour and won Chortle’s newcomer (2005) and breakthrough act (2007) awards.

In 2006 her show Kindness and Exuberance won Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and since then Josie has been a one woman touring machine.

Isabel Fay

Comedian Isabel Fay appeared in the first series of BBC2?s How Not To Live Your Life, BBC Three’s Comedy Shuffle, wrote and performed on all three series of ITV2?s flagship show Comedy Cuts, and wrote and performed in Monkey TV’s online show Newslog.

She is part of internet comedy production company Clever Pie who make hit online comedy sketches.