Animated Shorts from Wales

Sgrin has worked with S4C to produce the Animated Shorts scheme, which is also financed with support from the Arts Council of Wales. It is a collection of 7 three minute films and 4 six minute films.

The Separation (15)

An award winning tale about the separation of conjoined twins and its extraordinary consequences.

Director & Writer: Rob Morgan
Producer: Sylvie Bringas
Length: 9'30"

Festival Screenings
Annecy International Animation Festival 2003 - Annecy, France
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003 - Edinburgh, U.K.
SWAMP 2003 - Texas, U.S.A
SICAF 2003 - Seoul, Korea
L'Etrange Festival 2003 - Paris, France
Fantoche Festival 2003 - Baden, Switzerland
Off Court 2003 - Trouville-Sur-Mer, France
KROK 2003 - Kiev, Russia*
Cork Film Festival 2003 - Cork, Ireland
Leipzig Dok Fest 2003 - Leipzig, Germany
Wiesbaden International Weekend Of Animation 2003 - Germany
San Sebastian Horror & Fantasy Festival 2003 - Spain*
Berlin International Film Festival 2003 - Berlin, Germany
Cinanima 2003 - Espinho, Portugal*
Sitges Film Festival 2003 - Sitges, Spain
Golden Horse Film Festival 2003 - Taipei, Taiwan
Black Nights Film Festival 2003 - Tallinn, Estonia*
Animac International Animation Festival 2003 - Lleida, Spain
Halloween (ICA) 2004 - London, U.K.
Bafta Cymru 2004 - Cardiff, Wales*
London Sci-fi Film Fesitval 2004 - London, U.K.
Anima 2004 - Brussels, Belgium
Tampere Film Festival 2004 - Tampere, Finland
Benalmadena International Film Festival 2004 - Malaga, Spain
Skopje International Film Festival 2004 - Skopje, Macedonia
Audiovisual Encounters 2004 - London, U.K.
Turkey Touring Short 2004 - Turkey
Tick Film Festival 2004 - Stuttgart, Germany
Prends ca court 2004 - Montreal, Canada
Filmfest Dresden 2004 - Dresden, Germany*
Dead by Dawn 2004 - Edinburgh, U.K.
Britspotting 2004 - Berlin, Germany
Cracow Film Festival 2004 - Cracow, Poland
Cartoon d'Or 2004 - EU
Hamburg Short Film Festival 2004 - Hamburg, Germany
Norwegian International Film Festival 2004 - Haugesund, Norway
Zagreb Film Festival 2004 - Zagreb, Croatia
Message to Man 2004 - St Petersburg, Russia
Montreal Fantasia 2004 - Montreal, Canada
Anima Mundi 2004 - Rio De Janierio, Brazil
Melbourne International Animation Festival 2004 - Melbourne, Australia
Tampere Film Festival 2004 - Tampere, Finland
Cinema Jove 2004 - Valencia, Spain
Umea International Film Festival 2004 - Umea, Sweden
Badalona International Film Festival - Badalona, Spain
Ottawa International Animation Festival 2004 - Ottawa, Canada
Brief Encounters 2004 - Bristol, U.K.
Bradford Animation Festival 2004 - Bradford, U.K.
S.A.N.D 2004 - Swansea, U.K.
KinoFilm 2004 - Manchester, U.K.
Worldwide Short Film Festival 2005 - Toronto, Canada
Stuttgart Welsh Cultural Week 2005 - Stuttgart, Germany
Drifting Clouds IFF 2005 - Wellington, New Zealand

* Krok 2003 Best in Category
* San Sebastian 2003 Winner of The International Jury Prize
* Cinanima 2003 Winner of The Journalists Prize
* Black Nights 2003 Winner of Grand Prix Wooden Wolf
* Best Short Film - BAFTA Cymru 2004
* Filmfest Dresden 2004 Winner of the Best Animation Award

Aros/Waiting (U)

About a girl and woman remembering a man who has gone. The girl invents a fantasy that against the odds he comes back to them. So she sits and waits for him.

Director, Writer & Producer: Lucy Lee
Length: 3'43"

Violet and Turquoise (U)

"...but as I said, that was two months, two weeks and three days ago and,up until that time, I had no fashion sense whatsoever. I believe I was lost, truly in the dark. My name is Violet and Turquoise is my colour.."

Director & Writer: Joff Winterhart
Producer: Les Mills
Length: 12'56"

Festival Selections
Melbourne International Animation Festival 2004 - Melbourne, Australia
Atlantic Film Festival 2004 - Nova Scotia, Canada
NewFest 2005 - New York, USA
Drifting Clouds IFF 2005 - Wellington, New Zealand

Iota Hor B (U)

Two Separate worlds are suddenly plunged into the other's environment, forcing the inhabitants to confront a world they cannot comprehend.

Director & Writer: Paul Coombs
Producer: Ed Talfan
Length: 3'35"

Festival Screenings
Umea International Film Festival 2004 - Umea, Sweden
Short Shorts Tour 2005 - Japan

Entrance (U)

The beauty of the common tool is inspiration for this abstract film. Imagery, generated by direct to film techniques and digital photography is set in motion to an electronic score.

Director, Writer & Producer: Rosie Pedlow
Length: 3'35"

Festival Screenings
Bradford Animation Festival 2004 -Bradford, U.K.
KinoFilm 2004 - Manchester, U.K.

The Allotment

The Allotment tells the simple tale of friendship, the environment and regeneration. Initially the idea for a children's book, it now represents the first animation by Dan Williams. The look of the film aims to emulate the fluid, inky style of the illustrator's work.

Director & Writer: Dan Williams
Producer: Jayne Bevitt
Length: 3'35"

Festival Screenings
KinoFilm 2004 - Manchester, U.K.
Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival 2005 - Greece Short Shorts Tour 2005 - Japan

Love is Strange (U)

The title says it all, really.

Director, Writer & Producer: Phil Mulloy
Length: 6'48"

Festival Screenings
Melbourne International Animation Festival 2004 - Melbourne, Australia
Umea International Film Festival 2004 - Umea, Sweden
Bradford Animation Festival 2004 - Bradford, U.K.
Sheffield ICO Screening Days 2004- Sheffield, England
Uttrecht Film Festival 2004 - Uttrecht, Netherlands

Secret Love (12A)

A carefree dance, but the music beats passions to a fever and war erupts between the generations. A study of intolerance which we are all familiar with in our daily lives.

Director, Writer & Producer: Paul Bush
Length: 3'30"

Festival Screenings
Bradford Animation Festival 2004 - Bradford, U.K.
Umea International Film Festival 2004 - Umea, Sweden

Adagio (U)

Paint and Landscape combined in startling new ways.

Director, Writer & Producer: Clive Walley
Length: 4'00"

Peek

Peek traces the emotional journey of a woman as she walks up and down a terraced street. The windows obscured by nets, she finds an anomaly - one that is bare. This access opens up her imagination, which acts as a catalyst. The world transforms into a world animated with colour.

Director & Writer: Zoe and Christabel Gingell
Producer: Zoe Gingell
Length: 3'34"

Fragment (U)

A farmer builds a barricade around his farm. While the fence gets higher, the forest is felled, the logs fed to furnaces and a huge tower constructed.

Director: Michael Coles
Writer: Michael Coles & Jonathan Edwards
Producer: Les Mills
Length: 6'35"

Festival Screenings
Umea International Film Festival 2004 - Umea, Sweden
Short Shorts Tour 2005 - Japan.

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