Certificate of Achievement

 Today I received email from the Director of 4th Dimension International Film Festival. This film festival was special, because I have submitted our animation film "Elixir of Life" right on my birthday and... this event was held in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, where once I and my wife Ira spent two happy months. As I mentioned before, our film "Elixir of Life" became the Winner in "Best Animated Film" at this festival in August - September season and now the Director granted me with this beautiful Certificate. It was so nice of them - thank you - I hope to come back to Bali one day =)

  

EdiPplay Festival awarded our animation film

Yesterday I received email from Anna, Coordinator of EdiPlay Film Festival, with the remarkable news that our animation film "A Wooden Cat's Secret" has been awarded in category "The Best Animation Film". The certificate and the Laurel were enclosed. OMG! I'm so happy, friends. Since the very time when we finished our work on this film we started receiving kind words from those who have seen the cartoon, but this award means professional recognition and warms our hearts.  

4th Dimension Indie Film Festival has selected our animation film

 Yes, we received the news yesterday. This event has its own story. The point is that I've submitted our animation film "Elixir of Life" for the festival right on my birthday. It was a kind of my birthday present with such an unexpected and thrilling continuation.

The festival will be held in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, what is also a special place for me and my wife Ira. We've had a great time once staying in this town of artists for two months. Bali had a special international atmosphere at that time. I understand that many things changed since then, but anyway just a thought that our film will be watched there warms my heart.

Great news from France

Yesterday we received a piece of exciting news from EdiPlay International Film Festival about selecting our animation short film “A Wooden Cat’s Secret”. We hope it’s the first serious step towards our audience. And I’m so glad that all dialogues in this film were conveyed through visual images – not a word is said there, the only language is Love…

In spite of the fact that this animation film was created recently, this summer, this story began almost 12 years ago. The screenplay was rewritten 3-4 times. Some producers expressed their interest to this work, but something stopped them from taking it into production. Only now when we get full control over the whole creative process, I can say how grateful I am for preventing those producers from buying rights for this screenplay =) Yup, whatever God does, He does for our good – I believe in this simple truth.

When the world’s getting too wordy…

Yesterday I finished drawing the last location for our animation pilot “Sunny and the meowing tree”. It will be our third short film where the story will be told without words. I’d wish to find a way how to fill every tiny part of an expressed idea with power to touch the audience's souls. Ideally, it might be just a single glance or a gesture giving some interesting experience.

Surely, I’m aware of me standing somewhere in the beginning of this way and being so distant from those masters who have inspired me – Charlie Chaplin, Slava Polunin, Rowan Atkinson…. But I believe it’s worth trying =)

Speaking of new project, it actually started almost 12 years ago as a short story, a comedy – “Miss Beam – the great artist”. Certainly, it was written after watching series about Mr. Bean. I was so impressed how skillfully Rowan Atkinson creates funny situations with minimum tools. But at the same time, being a positive person, I’d wish to have someone… sunnier 😊 Yup, that’s how miss Beam was born, but later I’ve found that miss Beam is taken by someone else.

First stories about miss Beam were welcomed by readers what gave me inspiration to write a sitcom series, but producers didn’t like the idea. Now I’m happy to have all necessary tools to produce my own films with my characters. Well, let’s see how the audience meet them…