Yesterday our animation film "Sunny's Park - A Meowing Tree" received something special - "Exceptional Achievements" award and... "Winner" in "Best Animated FIlm" category! This time the news came from the UK, Selection Committee of Multi Dimension Independent Film Festival granted us with this honor. Screening is on the way - on 25th November. We're happy =)
On this Sunday I received two letters from two respectful Film Festivals - Delta International Film Festival and Multi Dimensional Film Festival. Yes, as you guessed, our pilot episode "Sunny's Park - A Meowing Tree" was selected as a Finalist and also got an "Official Selection" award at the both festivals. It's really exciting news and a honor for me and Ira. What a wonderful start for our web-series! It's so important to know that we have a good base to continue our work on this project.
One of messages of our new animation project is to find and show ways of solving conflicts in a peaceful, non-violent way. With this idea in mind, I and my wife Ira created a pilot of a web-series, as we hope - "Sunny's Park - A Meowing Tree".
Our first story tells about a boy who climbs a tall tree to save his cat, but got scared to climb down. Sunny, the female lead of our series, helps the boy and the cat to overcome their fear and get down to the ground. It's a very short story, just 1 minute 14 seconds, but it contains a grain of how people can solve problems. We hope to explore this topic in our next episodes.
By the way, recently, we got news that our pilot episode became a Finalist at Delta International Film Festival in India and got "Official Selection" award at Multidimensional Film Festival in the UK. Well, that sounds like a good start =)
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…
