** SUNDANCE SCREENINGS **

Wood Child & Hidden Forest Mother is playing in the Animation Spotlight program at the following times:

- Friday, January 24th 7:00 PM Redstone Cinema 2 Park City Theaters
- Saturday, January 25th 12:45 PM Broadway Centre Cinema 3 Salt Lake City
- Monday, January 27th 11:45 PM Park Avenue Theatre Park City Theaters
- Friday, January 31st 5:30 PM Egyptian Theatre Park City Theaters

NEW FILM AT SUNDANCE 2020!

My new film Wood Child & Hidden Forest Mother will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, 23 Jan - 2 Feb 2020.

Full list of times and venues coming soon. In the meantime here's the trailer...




74 short films will screen at the Festival from 27 countries and chosen from 10,397 submissions – 4,992 from the U.S. and 5,405 international.
Visit sundance.org for details of all the selected films.

HONG KONG SUNDANCE SCREENINGS

more info here

new york times sundance review

The New York Times online version

sundance tour poster

the sundance short film tour continues for the next few months...

up-to-date information here: sundance.org/programs/short-film-tour/

The Obvious Child is going on tour with a bunch of other fantastic Sundance shorts.

Hollywood Reporter article:
hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-animated-shorts-program-coming-727537

It premieres at the Sundance Sunset Cinemas in L.A, 26th September, and then tours 2014/2015. Dates and cities and venues coming soon!

Full list of the films in the program:

+UPDATE+FESTIVALS+AWARDS+REVIEWS+THEOBVIOUSCHILD+

The Obvious Child is now well into its festival run. Recently it was awarded the Silver Dragon for Best Animated Film at the 54th Krakow Film Festival

Silver Dragon by Bronislaw Chromy

It also received the NTR Award for Best European Short Animation at Go Short.

The jury said:
"We loved the way this animated film takes the ingredients of dark children's' fairytales and storybooks and takes them to new perverted extremes. The maker shows great control over his medium by making unconventional but successful choices in voice-over and music to complete his stunning visual style."

Go Short Award and the film on the big screen

And at the Holland Animation Film Festival it got a Special Mention.
Jury report:
"The film has an imaginative, stunning and mysterious design for depicting a world full of cruelty and tenderness."

*****

Not everyone likes it though. Here's a review from the Annecy Animation Festival:

"Stupid" and "incredibly stupid"

And at Sundance London not everyone enjoyed the film...

Fans share their thoughts on Twitter


Swings and roundabouts lol :)

THE OBVIOUS CHILD - UPCOMING SCREEEENINGS

SUNDANCE LONDON   25-27 April
STUTTGART  22-27 April
PICTOPLASMA  1-3 May
VIENNA INDEPENDENT SHORTS  23-29 May
KRAKOW FILM FESTIVAL  25 May - 1 June
HAMBURG INT'L SHORT FILM FESTIVAL  3-9 June
ANNECY  9-14 June

< < full list over there on the left < <

THE OBVIOUS CHILD POSTER

The Obvious Child posters are now available in the bigcartel SHOP

This was a limited run made for the Sundance screenings next month and there's a few left. Plus get a free moxie poster while stocks last!!!!! :)

THE OBVIOUS CHILD - SUNDANCE 2014

My new film "The Obvious Child" will premiere at Sundance next month.
Here's a wee trailer:



If you're in Park City, UT in January why not pop along!
Exact times/dates/venues coming soon...

SUNDANCE SCREENING TIMES

If you're at Sundance this week / next week Moxie is playing in the Shorts Competition (Program V)

Friday 20th January, 9.30pm
Redstone Cinema, Park City

Saturday 21st January, 9.00pm
Broadway Centre Cinema, Salt Lake City

Tuesday 24th January, 2.30pm
Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Friday 27th January, 1.00pm
Holliday Village Cinema, Park City

More details > here <

MOXIE NEWS & WHATNOT

Moxie will screen at Sundance in January (19 - 29) in the International Narrative Shorts programme.
Full list at the Hollywood Reporter (full screening dates will follow soon...)

It's also playing at IFF Rotterdam and the London Short Film Festival in January.

And it received an Honourable Mention at Etiuda&Anima in Krakow in November.

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Some nice words from Dan Sarto in his Ottawa roundup...

"Moxie, by Stephen Irwin – I actually picked this film to win the Grand Prix, which it did. Unlike so many films ruined by pointless absurdities inserted by filmmakers trying too hard to be cute, hip, odd or suicidal, Moxie displayed both the heft and the quirkiness a truly funky, offbeat film must have in order to ring genuine. I didn’t always know what was going on, but it made sense somehow in a completely enjoyable way."
http://www.awn.com/blogs/animated-travels/final-thoughts-ottawa-2011

and more nice words from The Animation Pimp...

"...I will take messy, flawed films (e.g. Phil Mulloy's work, the late Helen Hill's Mouseholes, J.J. Villard's Son of Satan, Stephen Irwin's Moxie and Black Dog) that bear souls, that show proof of a human touch trying to make some sense of the world, trying to articulate a deeply personal experience, not allowing technology, preacher teachers, Preston Blair or "proper" aesthetics to dictate and direct their voice. I will always take the sloppy joes over those achingly crafted and polished works that show no evidence of human touch."
http://www.awn.com/blogs/animation-pimp/sensual-healings