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16 January 2010 _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ CinéGlobe 2010 - Festival Interational du Court- Métrage et du Documentaire Scientifique "The Rooster, the Crocodile and the Night Sky" is nominated for an Annie award Barley Films has been nominated for an ASIFA-Hollywood Annie award for Best Short Animation by the International Animated Film Society for “The Rooster, the Crocodile and the Night Sky”. The film was made with the support of The Irish Film Board, The Arts Council and RTÉ under the Film Board’s FRAMEWORKS scheme for short animation. Directed by Pádraig Fagan, narrated by the legendary Frank Kelly and with animation by Eimhin McNamara and Orla McHardy the film is a tale of passion, loss, surreal comedy and explosive violence. It is animated in a cut-out style using cardboard, tinfoil, paint on glass animation and super-8 film footage to create a dreamy hand-made aesthetic. It was produced by Barry O’Donoghue. This is the third time the studio has been nominated in the Best Short Animation category at the Annies. Previous nominations include the multi-award winning Irish Film Board funded Short Short “Agricultural Report” in 2005 and “Boys Night Out” in 2004. The awards will take place in Los Angeles on February 6th 2010.
From the Director Pádraig Fagan: “The Rooster, the Crocodile and the Night Sky' is the first professional short film I wrote and directed. It was a new experience to be paid money to make a short film, and as a result I became quite intoxicated by the extravagance and decadence of it all. Parts of it seemed very ridiculous. We discovered at one point that the cardboard from boxes of a particular brand of granola bar worked really well with watercolours. Of course we ended up buying boxes and boxes of them to make characters and backgrounds. The bars became a staple of our diet during the production. We mixed super-8 film footage, paint on glass animation, and cardboard cut out animation (scanning the cardboard cut outs into the computer for animation). It was exciting not knowing exactly how the film would look in the end. I think that visually the film fits together quite well despite the media being so mixed. The look is partly inspired by great Russian cut out animation, like the work of Yuri Norstein and partly inspired by wandering, voice-over driven Monty Python sketches. It's held together and condensed by the narration and much of the strange logic of the world is built on puns and wordplay.” Technical Director/Animator Eimhin McNamara: “To create an organic atmosphere in the film, we utilised tinfoil, cotton wool, pressed flowers, corrugated cardboard and any other scraps we had lying around. The characters were created mostly using thin packaging cardboard, each part painted and individually cut out with a scalpel (for the Rooster alone there were over 980 separate parts). The animation was a mixture of cut-out on computer with hand drawn details, along with a painted-on-glass sea and sunrise. The character designs and styling of the animation was kept bold and dynamic. These elements were then digitally composited together, lighting and layering the scenes so they felt like a real set under an actual camera. One notable shot, when the mouse is waking up, involved animating the character interacting with his pressed-leaf bedding; to accomplish this I first worked out the character’s poses, noting what shifts in form the leaf would need to make. I then scanned the pressed-leaf, bent the it a little and scanned it again, bent it a bit more and scanned it again, etc, until a thorough breakdown in its transition was attained. This back and forth between the analogue and the digital was a constant part of the animation process and the film production in general, and helped us too achieve a more effective integration of the components on screen.” _________________________________________________________________ 6 November 2009 "Donkey" & "Pirogues" screening in China The films have been selected for the International “Gold Panda” Awards for Animation of 2009 (10th) Sichuan TV Festival. The festival runs from 6-8 November. _________________________________________________________________ 20 October 2009 "Pirogues" to screen in Kerry as part of Human Rights Day event To celebrate Humna Rights Day the film will be shown as part of the screening of the ICCL selection which KADE (Kerry Action for Development Education) is planning for December 10th. 11 Denny Street, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland _________________________________________________________________ 14 October 2009 _________________________________________________________________ 13 October 2009 "Pirogues" to screen as part of ICCL programme at Cork Film Festival ICCL screening Sat. 7 Nov. at the Gate in Cork, as part of the Corona Cork Film Festival. It starts at 1pm and will be followed by a reception, where we’ll be launching the competition for 2010. _________________________________________________________________ 12 October 2009 "Donkey" wins Best Short Animation at the Darklight Film Festival in Dublin. _________________________________________________________________ 7 October 2009 23rd Braunschweig International Film Festival, Germany, 10-15 November 2009 _________________________________________________________________ 5 October 2009 Darklight Festival 2009, Smithfield, Dublin, Ireland, October 8-11 2009 _________________________________________________________________ 2 October 2009 Young Irish animator Patrick Semple has been selected by the Irish Film Board to write and direct the new animated short film “Headspace” under the Short Shorts scheme. Production on the project which explores the topic of abuse will commence in early October at the studio. _________________________________________________________________ 22 September 2009 The Rooster has been selected for the 10th Edition of britspotting - the British and Irish Film Festival in Berlin, 13-15 November 2009. The short animated film was produced under the Frameworks scheme with the support of The Irish Film Board, RTÉ and The Arts Council. _________________________________________________________________ 17 September 2009 _________________________________________________________________ 14 September 2009 11 September 2009 _________________________________________________________________ 4th September 2009 14th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience "Schlingel" _________________________________________________________________ 3rd September 2009 Official selection “Monde comme il va”, 29th Amiens International Film Festival, November 13-22, Amiens, France. _________________________________________________________________ 1st September 2009 "Agricultural Report" will be shown as part of a selection of shorts being screened by The Irish Film Board at the Electric Picnic Arts and Music Festival in Stradbally, Co Laois, Ireland, 5-6 September 2009 __________________________________________________________________ 15th August 2009 Dingle Film Festival, 10 -13 September 2009,
Award winning comedy shorts, The Phoenix Cinema - Sunday 13th - 11am ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10th August 2009 The films have been selected to screen at the Capital Irish Film Festival in Washington DC, USA, 10 - 20 December 2009. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12th July 2009 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11th July 2009 12th June 2009 ”The ICCL Human Rights Film School competition is a project of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) in which the best of Irish filmmakers, directors, producers, scriptwriters (amateur and professional) have turned their hands to a making a short film on a human rights issue, helping us to raise awareness about human rights. Through the project and by looking at the inequalities which exist in Ireland - and around the world - we hope to inspire people to want to make a difference in the world around them. 10th June 2009 6th June 2009 29th May 2009
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