animation
CANNES / ANNECY 2014 #talentmatters
PITCH / A unique collection of 12 ultra-short animated films created by 16 animation artists from Flanders to commemorate the Centenary of The Great War.
12 MINUTES ABOUT PEACE
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / various artists (see each film)
PRODUCTION COMPANY / various producers (see each film) LANGUAGE / various, from no dialogues to English or Dutch DURATION / 12 x 1’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 STATUS / available CONTACT / Flanders Image, flandersimage@vaf.be
12 MINUTES ABOUT PEACE Visual-12 minutes peace.indd 1
06/05/14 11:06
ORIGINAL TITLE / 12 MINUTES ABOUT PEACE
PITCH / The moving friendship between a drunken homeless man and an extraterrestrial beast.
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Pieter Coudyzer PRODUCTION COMPANY / S.O.I.L LANGUAGE / Dutch DURATION / 13’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 STATUS / in production
CONTACT / S.O.I.L, Geert Van Goethem, geert@soilart.be / Linda Sterckx, linda@soilart.be
BEAST !
ORIGINAL TITLE / BEEST !
PITCH / August 1914. While Jean Lemarin is away in Buenos Aires, his daughter Mimi is raped by German soldiers in Ostend. He swears vengeance and embarks on a journey that will take him around the world.
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Jan Bultheel PRODUCTION COMPANY / Tondo Films LANGUAGE / Dutch DURATION / 90’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2015
STATUS / in production, ETA 2015
CONTACT / Tondo Films, Arielle Sleutel, arielle@tondofilms.be
CAFARD
ORIGINAL TITLE / CAFARD
PITCH / Admiral Crupus moves into dangerous waters when his tyrant Queen realizes that her sneaky servant is not only obsessed with her beauty but also believes that she would marry him. But why would she, the Goddess Queen of the Island, ever marry the bastard son of an impoverished noble madman and his house pig.
CRUPUS
ORIGINAL TITLE / CRUPUS
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Ives Agemans LANGUAGE / English DURATION / 12’
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Cyborn
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2012-2014 STATUS / in post-production
CONTACT / Cyborn, Ives Agemans, ives@cyborn.be
PITCH / Dimitri, a little bird from northern Europe, lands on the plains of Ubuyu in Africa and discovers a world full of surprises.
CREATED BY / Agnès Lecreux and Jean-François Le Corre
DIRECTED BY / Agnès Lecreux, Fabien Drouet, Steven De Beul and Ben Tesseur CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Beast Animation LANGUAGE / French, Dutch DURATION / 26’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION STATUS / available
/ 2013-2014
CONTACT / Beast Animation, Ben Tesseur, ben@beastanimation.be INT’L SALES / France TV Distribution, Laura Laas, Laura.Laas@francetv.fr
DIMITRI IN UBUYU
ORIGINAL TITLE / DIMITRI IN UBUYU PITCH / A family is going through an existential crisis: the girl, the sister, the father, the mother... Nobody will escape this spiral of self-destruction.
DIRECTED BY / Klaartje Schrijvers
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Lunanime LANGUAGE / English DURATION / 14’56’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014
PRODUCTION STATUS / available
CONTACT / Lunanime, Annemie Degryse, mail@lunanime.be INT’L SALES / Lumière, sales@lumiere.be
THE EDUCATION
ORIGINAL TITLE / THE EDUCATION PITCH / In this film Wendy Morris confronts her contradictory reactions to her inherited evangelical background.
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Wendy Morris LANGUAGE / English DURATION / 6’57”
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Vertigo Productions YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013
PRODUCTION STATUS / available
CONTACT / Wendy Morris, bullybeef07@gmail.com
HEIR TO THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL ORIGINAL TITLE / HEIR TO THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL
PITCH / A 19th Century drama about a boy whose heart was replaced with a clock when he was born. The situation dictates that he should avoid feeling strong emotions -- love, most of all -- but he just can’t keep his feelings under wraps.
JACK AND THE CUCKOO-CLOCK HEART
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Mathias Malzieu,
Stéphane Berla
CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Walking the Dog LANGUAGE / French, English, Dutch DURATION / 94’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013 STATUS / available
CONTACT / Walking the Dog, Eric Goossens, eric.goossens@walkingthedog.be INT’L SALES / Europacorp, contact@europacorp.com
ORIGINAL TITLE / JACK ET LA MÉCANIQUE DU COEUR
PITCH / How little Harry becomes the Great Houdini. We follow this young emigrant’s journey from Hungary entering the prestigious world of Magic and the Art of Illusion in New York in 1886… from behind the scenes.
LITTLE HOUDINI
ORIGINAL TITLE / LITTLE HOUDINI
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Cédric Babouche
CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Walking the Dog LANGUAGE / French, English DURATION / 52’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013-2014
STATUS / in production, ETA end 2014
CONTACT / Walking the Dog, Eric Goossens, eric.goossens@walkingthedog.be INT’L SALES / Dandelooo, contact@dandelooo.com
PITCH / A book of English landscapes was awarded to a boy who grew up on mission stations in southern Africa in the 19th Century. This book is the starting point of a reflection on literary memories of places known but never visited, and on places experienced but never seen illustrated in books.
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Wendy Morris
PITCH / A personal reflection on the transience of family, on the fleetingness of childhood, and on the inevitable separations as children grow up and move away.
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Wendy Morris
LANGUAGE / English DURATION / 3’52”
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Vertigo Productions YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013
PRODUCTION STATUS / available
CONTACT / Wendy Morris, bullybeef07@gmail.com
ORLANDO’S BOOK
ORIGINAL TITLE / ORLANDO’S BOOK
LANGUAGE / no dialogue DURATION / 2’49”
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Vertigo Productions YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013
PRODUCTION STATUS / available
CONTACT / Wendy Morris, bullybeef07@gmail.com
PERTH+6HRS
ORIGINAL TITLE / PERTH+6HRS PITCH / A short film about peace, using the horrors of the First World War as a starting point and focusing on the experiences of the soldiers in the trenches.
DIRECTED BY / Raoul Servais
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Santeboetiek, Lunanime LANGUAGE / French, English DURATION / 5’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014
PRODUCTION STATUS / in production
CONTACT / Santeboetiek, Tania Berkovitch, tania.berkovitch@wpg.be INT’L SALES / Lumière, sales@lumiere.be
TANK
ORIGINAL TITLE / TANK PITCH / A small and a tall giraffe have a chance encounter. Despite their obvious difference in stature, they discover a kinship. When an accident causes them to part, trapping the tall giraffe in a malicious metal cloud, it is up to the small one to re-establish contact…
THE TIE
DIRECTED BY / An Vrombaut
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Lunanime, Creative Conspiracy LANGUAGE / no dialogue DURATION / 8’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 PRODUCTION STATUS / in production CONTACT / Lunanime, Annemie Degryse, mail@lunanime.be INT’L SALES / Lumière, sales@lumiere.be
ORIGINAL TITLE / THE TIE
PITCH / Christmas is coming. Overexcited, Indian and Cowboy destroy Horse’s Yule Log. Horse cancels their gifts from Santa Claus. How will they win back the favours of Horse and Santa? How will they retrieve their gifts? For Indian and Cowboy, a long, very long Christmas Eve begins…
A TOWN CALLED PANIC: THE YULE LOG ORIGINAL TITLE / PANIQUE AU VILLAGE: LA BÛCHE DE NOËL
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Vincent Patar and
Stéphane Aubier
CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Beast Animation LANGUAGE / French DURATION / 26’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013 STATUS / available
CONTACT / Beast Animation, Ben Tesseur, ben@beastanimation.be INT’L SALES / Autour de Minuit, Nicolas Schmerkin, nicolas@autourdeminuit.com
PITCH / A team of three pets, a playful ferret, a sweet canary bird and a know-it-all stick insect, head out to ask Saint Nicolas presents for their animal friends and themselves. The journey is filled with adventures and their friendship is severely tested.
TRIPLE TROUBLE
DIRECTED BY / Albert ‘t Hooft and Paco Vink CO-PRODUCTION (FLANDERS) / Vivi Film LANGUAGE / Dutch, French, English DURATION / 65’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014
STATUS / in production, ETA October 2014
CONTACT / Vivi Film, Viviane Vanfleteren, viviane@vivifilm.be INT’L SALES / Attraction Distribution, info@attractiondistribution.ca
ORIGINAL TITLE / TRIPPEL TRAPPEL PITCH / Lucien, a retired cycling champion, still loves to go out cycling on Sundays. When his wife passes away, he sticks to this routine as a surviving strategy. He always takes the same route. One particular Sunday however, a concurrence of circumstances makes Lucien deviate from this familiar path.
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Glenn D’Hondt and
Birger Platteeuw
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Eugene and Louise Studio LANGUAGE / no dialogue DURATION / 11’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2014 STATUS / in production
CONTACT / Eugene and Louise Studio, Glenn D’Hondt, glenn@eugene-and-louise.com
VELO
ORIGINAL TITLE / VELO PITCH / Somewhere in an autumn park, a boy throws a paper plane up into the air. The wind swiftly carries it along. But the wind drops and the plane lands in the hair of a knitting old lady.
DIRECTED BY / Isabel Bouttens
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Lunanime LANGUAGE / no dialogue DURATION / 7’1’’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013
PRODUCTION STATUS / available
CONTACT / Lunanime, Annemie Degryse, mail@lunanime.be INT’L SALES / Lumière, sales@lumiere.be
VOL AU VENT
ORIGINAL TITLE / VOL AU VENT PITCH / A rusty, insignificant weathercock on a chapel in the countryside takes his chance to move to the city’s cathedral. There he witnesses a brutal murder and is forced to overcome his fears and become more assertive.
CREATED / DIRECTED BY / Jan Snoeckx
PRODUCTION COMPANY / Walking the Dog LANGUAGE / no dialogue DURATION / 10’
YEAR OF PRODUCTION / 2013-2014 STATUS / In production, ETA 2014
CONTACT / Walking the Dog, Eric Goossens, eric.goossens@walkingthedog.be
VOLTAIRE
ORIGINAL TITLE / VOLTAIRE
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CANNES 2014 I RIVIERA A2 ANNECY 2014 I BOOTH 4.A07
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CONTACT
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