Film Festival 09 - Animation for Kids
Animation for Kids
69m
Freed from the narrow commercial focus of Saturday morning TV and
returned to the hands of artists and storytellers, animation can be
an outstanding way to craft tales, spark imaginations and build
worlds of wonder for our Kids. This year's programme is best suited
to the three-seven age range. Diversity is the key to this
programme. Some are made with state of the art computer animation,
others with painstakingly crafted hand puppets. Some are simple and
entertaining little stories, others are much more complex, designed
to engage their audience in more challenging imaginative games. And
the films range from short snappy songs all the way to epic sagas
of daring. There will be favourites, there will be questions and
there will be surprises. - MT
The 7 Days of the Week (Sean McBride, David Cowles, USA 2008, 2
mins) Work is a really great thing - especially if you can avoid
it! And extraspecially if what you really want to do is just play
your trumpet every day. Bertram (Lara Gardarsdottir, Karen Rohde
Johansson, Michael Hall Mauritzen, Denmark 2008, 3 mins) The world
is full of the most fantabulous possibilities. I can be anything I
want when I grow up. The Crumblegiant (John McCloskey, Ireland
2008, 5 mins) Some pure Irish magic. The gentle Crumblegiant has
always helped Emily shooosh away the evil crows. One day he is
nowhere to be found. Miriam's Colours (Jelena Girlin, Mari-Liis
Bassovskaja, Estonia 2008, 5 mins) What do you do when your whole
world suddenly turns black and white? You send out your chicken
with a bucket to scrape the colours off the rainbow, that's what!
SUSIE ASADO: Hello Antenna (Veronika Samartseva, Anna Samoylovich,
France 2008, 5 mins) A little girl finds herself a special spot
perched on a TV antenna, looking down over the roof tops and
sharing the sky with birds and the odd stray paper aeroplane. Cello
(Tatiana Kurnaeva, Russia 2008, 7 mins) A boring cello lesson
quickly turns into a dancing, soaring insect cavalcade with the
addition of just a little inspiration from a ladybug with a violin.
Roberto the Insect Architect (Nina Laden, USA 2007, 11 mins) Every
young termite loves wood - but Roberto doesn't want to eat it&
no no no! Roberto dreams of becoming the world's greatest
architect. Carrot on the Beach (Partel Tall, Estonia 2008, 6 mins)
A snowman who dreams of being able to relax on a hot, sandy beach
has to first avoid the bunny with the snow machine. But can't these
two help each other out? Or maybe the bunny just wants the
snowman's carrot nose. Lost and Found (Phil Hunt, UK 2009, 25 mins)
A wondrous, epic journey that proves there's nothing much a boy and
a penguin can't do when they really, really put their minds to
it.
