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Shortlisted for Best Comedy Short at London Short Film Festival
In more awards news All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) has been shortlisted for the LoCo Award for Best Comedy Short at the 9th London Short Film Festival. We’re in the top three alongside Tequila (dir Jon Drever) and Tumult (dir Johnny Barrington). The winning film will screen as LoCo’s Discovery Short, highlighting the best new talent at the London Comedy Film Festival, at the BFI…
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Shortlisted for the British Animation Awards
All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) has been shortlisted in the Best Short Film category at the British Animation Awards. Woo! The British Animation Awards is a totally unique event: the only one that brings together all the key players, and emerging and established talent, from the many and varied sectors of the UK animation scene,…
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Best of ABP 2011 L.A. Screening
Man In A Cat has its first Los Angeles showing at around 1.30pm, Sunday 4th December at The Silent Movie Theatre. It’ll be screening just before ABP’s L.A. Draw: Los Angeles Animators Panel and Brunch which is at 2pm. The event is part of Cinefamily’s Animation Breakdown 2011 Festival which is being co-hosted by Animation Block Party and Cartoon Brew. Man In A Cat…
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Man In A Cat’s First Award
Hoorah! Man In A Cat won ‘Best Story’ at Multivision. It’s encouraging to see a festival recognising the importance of story and listing it directly below the Grand Prix winner, particularly in light of this article by James Moran pointing out how writers are sidelined in awards such as the BAFTAs. It was especially pleasing as I found…
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Things in a Thing
Here’s some of my points of reference when thinking about little people inside things for Man In A Cat. People always seem thrown by the premise but we had to avoid loads of cliches. Maybe we actually succeeded and that’s why people still think it’s weird. Here’s the music video for Baddest Ruffest by Backyard…
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Man In A Cat – Story & Characters
Warning – Long Blog Post Ahead (Don’t worry, it’s mostly pictures) Here’s an attempt to revive some behind-the-scenes nuggets of Man In A Cat. I was too close to the film to be able to talk in any depth while making it. Afterwards, I spent my time trying to forget about it. So it’s nice…
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Festival Circuit Update
Man In A Cat is keeping itself busy over the next couple of months. It’s also had early confirmation that it’ll be competing in the British Animation Awards! I was also informed that we would have got into BFI’s London Film Festival if it had been a London premiere. OH WELL. Here’s the upcoming festival…
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Man In A Cat Trailer
Here’s the long awaited trailer for Man In A Cat! Watch, like, share, leave comments… go nuts. I’ve neglected a lot of the Man In A Cat‘s behind the scenes, but enough time’s past now for me to be able to deal with the post-traumatic flashbacks. So more behind the scenes to come.
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Motovun Film Festival
It’s going to be a busy next week for Man In A Cat with screenings at Rushes Soho Shorts, Animation Block Party and Motovun. Motovun Film Festival is set in the small medieval town of Motovun in Croatia. It’s a pretty beefy festival with 10,000s of people attending and some big prizes up for grabs. The shorts…
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Animation Block Party
Man In A Cat has got its way into Animation Block Party in Brooklyn! It sounds like a lot of fun, with all the screenings taking place outside and on rooftops. Here’s the full program:http://animationblock.com/summerfest2011/ We’ll be showing at the opening night on Friday, July 29th at the Automotive High School. Barbara Benas, who did a bit of animation…
