New Strand of Frameworks Shorts Presents New Irish Animation Talent at the Galway Film Fleadh
A great selection of diverse animated shorts will again premiere at this years Galway Film Fleadh highlighting the wealth of animation talent in Ireland.The Frameworks scheme aims to combine this creative exploration with an ability to appeal to a wide audience. Successful films from this scheme include Nicky Phelan's Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty which has picked up numerous awards on the international festival circuit including Audience Awards at Cinegael Montreal in Canada and Omaha Film Festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival in the US.
This years short animations include Louise Bagnall's DONKEY which tells the tale of Donkey who is sick of his minimum wage job. This is Louise's first Framework film after writing and directing the Short Short Colour Contamination last year. Donkey is produced by Niamh O'Donoghue and Barley Films. Barley Films has produced many successful shorts including The Red Ball, The Rooster, The Crocodile and the Night Sky and is currently working on their first feature film Little Caribou.
In OLD FANGS, written and directed by Adrien Merigeau, a young wolf decides to confront his father who he's not seen since he was a child. The short was produced by Ross Murray and Cartoon Saloon, European Production Company of the Year whose feature film The Secret of Kells has just picked up awards at the Edinburgh and Annecy Film Festivals.
Written and directed by John McCloskey and produced by Pearse Moore for Raw Nerve Productions GUNS, BEES AND TADPOLES is an animated tale set in seventies Northern Ireland, where a summer's day takes a turn to the extraordinary for a normal family in not so normal times. The same team behind this short was behind the BAFTA nominated animated short The Crumblegiant.
TROLLEY BOY is written and directed by Teemu Auersalo who previously worked on the animated feature film Niko and the Way to the Stars. It tells the tale of Trolley Boy whose frustration with work builds up into a giant monster made of shopping trolleys. After which he realizes there's more to life than pushing trolleys into stacks. It was produced by Nicky Gogan for Glimpse Digital.
Finally David Quin's T'WAS A TERRIBLE HARD WORK documents Tipperary miners from the Slieveardagh coal fields as they describe their live and work underground. This short animation was produced by Steve Woods for Cel'Division who also produced THE POLISH LANGUAGE, a film-poem about the subversive power of art and the renewal of poetry in the whispery language of Polish. Written by Alice Lyons, it was co-directed by Alice and Orla McHardy.
Frameworks is co-funded by the Irish Film Board, the Arts Council and RTE.
These shorts will premiere on Saturday 11th July at 3pm in the Town Hall Theatre.