Is it possible to solve conflicts without violence?

 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 =)

Our animation film has been selected as Award Winner

 Well, today is a special day, friends. Our first great victory in film making =) Yes, our animation film "Elixir of Life" won the award of the 4th Dimension Film Festival in "Best Animation Film" category. The film will be screened in Paradiso, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia on 29-31 October. We're so happy! 

 

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…