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BEHIND THE PICTURES: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ANIMATORS David and Matthew Adeboye chat with us about their experience animating for Sit-In, how children are the future, and what they hope this short film becomes. STORY BY
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Ashley Elliott
Adeboye Brothers
How did you first get connected to the Alliance’s animation project for Sit-In? We connected with the Alliance Theatre through a collaboration we did with the High Museum on a documentary called Picture the Dream. Picture the Dream was an exhibit about educating kids on civil rights through the lens of children books. One of the books in the exhibit was titled Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Pinkney, which later was adapted into a play written by Pearl Cleage. The Alliance tapped us to film a mini doc/behind the scenes of the process leading up to the opening day of the play, then COVID happened, which made it impossible to have actors and crew members together on stage. So we had to re-imagine how we tell this story in a digital space. How is working on an animated play different from (or similar to) another video project? There are a lot of similarities to producing a film vs. producing an animation, like the collaboration
