‘A Coat Made Dark’ is Officially Selected for the Prestigious Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Congratulations to the team behind animated short film A Coat Made Dark, which has been officially selected to screen at the prestigious Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival in February.
Written and directed by Jack O’Shea, a graduate of the National Film School at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), A Coat Made Dark is an animation in which a man follows the orders of a dog to wear a coat with impossible pockets. It was produced by Damien Byrne for STILL Films LTD and features the voices of Hugh O'Connor, Declan Conlon and Antonia Campbell Hughes.
Clermont Ferrand is considered to be the world's leading film festival dedicated to short films. It is France's second-largest film festival in terms of attendance, coming only after Cannes.
Previous IFB-funded shorts to have screened at the festival include Ghost Train, Foxes (both 2013) and Somewhere Down the Line in 2015, which won the Best Animation award in the International Competition.
A Coat Made Dark will screen as part of the Lab Competition, described by the festival as "the place where people rush in to experience jarring films. Electrifying combinations, arresting viewpoints, accomplished risk-taking; Clermont-Ferrand's Lab is the right prescription for visual addicts. Come get your fix, brought to you by artists dangerously in love with images and sounds."
The 38th Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival takes place from February 5th to 13th 2016.
Watch the trailer for A Coat Made Dark here.