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Hm banged the son and the mom in the same night

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i went to the manchester animation festival with my animation course today and yeah i got to watch a short by cartoon saloon that had like half the people in the room near tears and listen to a talk by an animation director from aardman and even see the first screening of 2 scenes from their new movie ‘early man’

but there was also a short called manivald about a gay anthro fox and a sexy wolf man who i thought was just a buff horse bc of the weird art style and honestly thats all i wanna talk about for the next 10 years

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Manivald, a film by Chintis Lundgren

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MANIVALD

Estonia/Croatia, 13 min short directed by Chintis Lundgreen

Manivald, a fox, is turning 33.  Overeducated, unemployed and generally uninspired, he lives with his overbearing, retired mother and spends his days learning piano while she makes his coffee and washes his socks. It is an easy life, but not a good one. Their unhealthy co-dependence is about to change when the washing machine breaks down and in comes Toomas, a sexy and adventurous wolf repairman, to fix it, and them.

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Manivald, a 33 Year Old Heartbroken Fox, Realizes He Needs to Grow Up and Move Out of His Mother's House

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(via Manivald, a 33 Year Old Heartbroken Fox, Realizes He Needs to Grow Up and Move Out of His Mother's House)

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Watch: Chintis Lundgren's "Manivald" Trailer

Watch: Chintis Lundgren’s “Manivald” Trailer

And more could be on the way for the Sundance selection. (more…)

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Manivald - Directed by Chintis Lundgren - 2017 | 13 min

Came across this on the National Film Board of Canada page. 

Manivald, a fox, is turning 33. Overeducated, unemployed and generally uninspired, he lives with his overbearing, retired mother and spends his days learning piano while she makes his coffee and washes his socks. It is an easy life, but not a good one. Their unhealthy co-dependence is about to collapse when the washing machine breaks down and Toomas, a sexy and adventurous wolf repairman, arrives to fix it, and them.

Some unexpected twists. The soundtrack is great. 

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Manivald Manivald, a fox, is turning 33. Overeducated, unemployed and generally uninspired, he lives with his overbearing, retired mother and spends his days learning piano while she makes his coffee and washes his socks.

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Manivald http://bit.ly/2W3u3wy

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Manifest: Friday, April 30th with Chintis Lundgren!

LINK TO LIVE EVENT: https://vimeo.com/event/353758

Very happy to be joined by Zagreb-based animator/filmmaker Chintis Lundgren for our next animation discussion! Chintis makes poignant, funny short films, so I’m super curious what she will bring to talk about. Watch her award-winning (and furry-positive) short film Manivald below:

Chintis Lundgren is an Estonian-born animator currently living in Croatia. Self-taught, Lundgren’s body of work includes an assortment of quirky music videos, PSAs and short films featuring a light, absurdist tone along with distinct anthropomorphic characters. In 2011, Lundgren created her own animation studio called Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio and later co-founded Adriatic Animation, an animation studio based in Croatia.

Her films (including the award-winning shorts, Manivald (2017) and Life with Herman H. Rott (2015)) have screened at numerous international festivals including Sundance, Annecy, Animafest Zagreb, Hiroshima and Ottawa.

Join us here on April 30th! If you tune in live, then you can contribute to the conversation via the chat box.

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And thank you as always to Oana Clitan for our graphic design!

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Prix Écrans Canadiens : LES AFFAMÉS de Robin Aubert décroche cinq nominations

Les nominations des Prix Écrans canadiens viennent d’être annoncées et Les Affamés se retrouve dans cinq catégories : meilleur film, réalisation (Robin Aubert), maquillages (Érik Gosselin, Marie-France Guy), musique originale (Pierre-Philippe Côté) et interprétation féminine dans un rôle de soutien (Brigitte Poupart).

Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes mène la course avec ses huit nominations, dans les catégories de la direction artistique (François Séguin), des images (Nicolas Bolduc), des costumes (Mario Davignon), des maquillages (Kathryn Casault), de la musique originale (Terry Riley, Gyan Riley), du son d'ensemble (Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl), du montage sonore (Claude Beaugrand), et des effets visuels (Alain Lachance, Yann Jouannic, Hugo Léveillé, Nadège Bozetti, Antonin Messier-Turcotte, Thibault Deloof, Francis Bernard). 

Sept nominations pour La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes : meilleur film ainsi qu’en direction artistique (Marjorie Rhéaume), en images (Nicolas Canniccioni), en effets visuels (Marc Hall, Jonathan Cyr, Emmanuel Bazin, Clément Natiez, Emmanuelle Gill), en adaptation (Simon Lavoie) et en interprétation masculine et féminine dans un premier rôle (Antoine L'Écuyer, Marine Johnson).

Avec six nominations, C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier se retrouve dans les catégories du meilleur film, de réalisation (Alexis Durand-Brault), de montage (Louis-Philippe Rathé), d'adaptation et d'interprétation masculine dans un premier rôle (Gabriel Sabourin), et d'interprétation féminine dans un premier rôle (Denise Filiatrault).

Les rois mongols obtient aussi six nominations, dans les catégories de direction artistique (Guillaume Couture), de costumes (Brigitte Desroches), de musique originale (Viviane Audet, Robin-Joël Cool, Alexis Martin), de son d'ensemble (Pierre Bertrand, Stéphane Bergeron, Shaun-Nicholas Gallagher, Maxime Potvin), d'adaptation (Nicole Bélanger) et d'interprétation féminine dans un rôle de soutien (Clare Coulter). 

All You Can Eat Buddha se retrouve dans les catégories de réalisation (Ian Lagarde), de costumes (Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette), de maquillages (Bruno Gatien), de son d'ensemble et de montage sonore (Sylvain Bellemare), et d'interprétation masculine dans un rôle de soutien (Sylvio Arriola).

Nous sommes les autres se démarque dans quatre catégories, soit en images (Mathieu Laverdière), en costumes (Julie Bécotte), en effets visuels (Jonathan Piché Delorme, Fabienne Mouillac, Alain Lachance, Caroline Guagliardo, Alexandre Tremblay, Thibault Deloof, Benoit Gagnon), et en interprétation masculine dans un premier rôle (Émile Proulx-Cloutier).

Meilleur film 

Ava - Kiarash Anvari, Sadaf Foroughi The Breadwinner - Andrew Rosen, Anthony Leo, Paul Young, Tomm Moore, Stéphan Roelants C’est le coeur qui meurt en dernier - Richard Lalonde La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes - Marcel Giroux Maudie - Bob Cooper, Mary Young Leckie, Mary Sexton, Susan Mullen Never Steady, Never Still - James Brown, Tyler Hagan Les Affamés - Stéphanie Morissette

Meilleure réalisation

Ian Lagarde - All You Can Eat Buddha Sadaf Foroughi - Ava Alexis Durand Brault - C’est le coeur qui meurt en dernier  Aisling Walsh - Maudie Robin Aubert - Les Affamés  Meilleure adaptation Anita Doron - The Breadwinner Nicole Bélanger - Les rois mongols Gabriel Sabourin - C’est le coeur qui meurt en dernier Simon Lavoie - La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes Susan Coyne - The Man Who Invented Christmas Meilleur scénario Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout - Adventures in Public School Sadaf Foroughi - Ava Sarah Kolasky, Adam Garnet Jones - Great Great Great Sherry White - Maudie Kathleen Hepburn - Never Steady, Never Still

Interprétation masculine dans un premier rôle Nabil Rajo - Boost Gabriel Sabourin - C’est le coeur qui meurt en dernier  Antoine L'Écuyer - La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes Tzi Ma - Meditation Park Émile Proulx-Cloutier - Nous sommes les autres 

Interprétation masculine dans un rôle de soutien Sylvio Arriola - All You Can Eat Buddha Jahmil French - Boost Sladen Peltier - Indian Horse Natar Ungalaq - Iqaluit Ethan Hawke - Maudie

Interprétation féminine dans un premier rôle Mahour Jabbari - Ava Denise Filiatrault - C’est le coeur qui meurt en dernier Marine Johnson - La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes  Sally Hawkins - Maudie Shirley Henderson - Never Steady, Never Still

Interprétation féminine dans un rôle de soutien Bahar Nouhian - Ava Oluniké Adeliyi - Boost Clare Coulter - Les rois mongols Lucinda Armstrong Hall - Porcupine Lake Brigitte Poupart - Les Affamés

Meilleure direction artistique Siamak Karinejad - Ava Guillaume Couture - Les rois mongols  François Séguin - Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes Marjorie Rhéaume - La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes Sophie Jarvis, Elizabeth Cairns - Never Steady, Never Still

Meilleures images Sina Kermanizadeh - Ava Nicolas Bolduc - Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes Nicolas Canniccioni - La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes  Norm Li - Never Steady, Never Still Mathieu Laverdière - Nous sommes les autres

Meilleurs costumes Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette - All You Can Eat Buddha Brigitte Desroches - Les rois mongols  Mario Davignon - Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes Trysha Bakker - Maudie Julie Bécotte - Nous sommes les autres

Meilleur montage Kiarash Anvari - Ava Darragh Byrne - The Breadwinner Louis-Philippe Rathé - C’est le coeur qui meurt en dernier Stephen O'Connell - Maudie Simone Smith - Never Steady, Never Still

Meilleurs maquillages Bruno Gatien - All You Can Eat Buddha Marlène Rouleau - Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 Kathryn Casault - Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes  Sonia Dolan - The Man Who Invented Christmas Érik Gosselin, Marie-France Guy - Les Affamés 

Meilleure musique originale Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna - The Breadwinner Viviane Audet, Robin-Joël Cool, Alexis Martin - Les rois mongols Terry Riley, Gyan Riley - Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes  Ben Fox - Never Steady, Never Still Pierre-Philippe Côté - Les Affamés 

Meilleure chanson originale Joey Sherrett, Chris Gordon, Nathaniel Huskinson - Boost - "CTS Thief" Qais Essar, Joshua Hill - The Breadwinner - "The Crown Sleeps" Dani Bailey - Hunting Pignut – "Rid The Dark"

Meilleur son d'ensemble Sylvain Bellemare - All You Can Eat Buddha Philippe Attié - Boost Pierre Bertrand, Stéphane Bergeron, Shaun-Nicholas Gallagher, Maxime Potvin - Les rois mongols  Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl - Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes Matt Drake, Nate Evans, Christopher O'Brien - Never Steady, Never Still

Meilleur montage sonore Sylvain Bellemare - All You Can Eat Buddha Marie-Claude Gagné - Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 Nelson Ferreira, John Elliot, J.R. Fountain, Dashen Naidoo, Tyler Whitham - The Breadwinner Christian Rivest, Antoine Morin, Thibaud Quinchon, Guy Pelletier, Guy Francoeur - Goon: Last of the Enforcers Claude Beaugrand - Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes 

Meilleurs effets visuels Marc Hall - Le Cyclotron Alain Lachance, Yann Jouannic, Hugo Léveillé, Nadège Bozetti, Antonin Messier-Turcotte, Thibault Deloof, Francis Bernard - Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes  Marc Hall, Jonathan Cyr, Emmanuel Bazin, Clément Natiez, Emmanuelle Gill - La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes  Greg Behrens, Brendan Taylor, Jasmine Scott, Martin O'Brien - The Man Who Invented Christmas Jonathan Piché Delorme, Fabienne Mouillac, Alain Lachance, Caroline Guagliardo, Alexandre Tremblay, Thibault Deloof, Benoit Gagnon - Nous sommes les autres 

Meilleur long métrage documentaire Manic - Kalina Bertin, Marina Serrao, Bob Moore, Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross Sur la lune de nickel  - Christine Falco, François Jacob, Vuk Stojanovic Resurrecting Hassan - Carlo Guillermo Proto, Roxanne Sayegh, Pablo Villegas, Maria Paz Gonzalez Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World - Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, Lisa Roth, Stevie Salas, Tim Johnson, Diana Holtzberg, Jan Rofekamp, Ernest Webb Unarmed Verses - Charles Officer, Lea Marin

Meilleures images dans un long métrage documentaire Vuk Stojanovic, François Jacob, Ilya Zima - Sur la lune de nickel  Duraid Munajim - My Enemy, My Brother Carlo Guillermo Proto - Resurrecting Hassan Alfonso Maiorana - Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Mike McLaughlin - Unarmed Verses

Meilleur montage dans un long métrage documentaire Roland Schlimme - Long Time Running Anouk Deschênes - Manic François Jacob, Jéricho Jeudy - Sur la lune de nickel  Benjamin Duffield, Jeremiah Hayes - Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Frank Cassano - Sled Dogs

Meilleur court métrage documentaire Babe, I Hate To Go - Andrew Moir Take a Walk on The Wildside - Lisa Rideout, Lauren Grant, Sasha Fisher Three Thousand - Asinnajaq, Kat Baulu

Meilleur court métrage dramatique La course navette  - Maxime Aubert, Audrey D. Laroche Fluffy - Lee Filipovski Garage de soir  - Daniel Daigle, Aurélie Breton Tout simplement - Raphaël Ouellet, Annick Blanc Pre-Drink - Marc-Antoine Lemire, Maria Gracia Turgeon

Meilleur court métrage d’animation DAM! The Story of Kit the Beaver - Kjell Boersma, Josh Clavir Fox And The Whale - Robin Joseph Hedgehog’s Home - Eva Cvijanović, Vanja Andrijević, Jelena Popović Manivald - Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić, Jelena Popović The Tesla World Light - Matthew Rankin, Julie Roy

Prix Découverte John-Dunning Black Cop - Cory Bowles, Aaron Horton The Devout - Connor Gaston, Amanda Verhagen Wexford Plaza - Joyce Wong, Matt Greyson, Harry Cherniak

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Manchester Animation Festival 2017: A Visit

Further accompanying the compilation was ‘I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again’ by Marie Amachoukeli and Vladimir Mavounia, a futuristic romance with heavily stylised black-and-white animation, ‘In a Nutshell’ by Fabio Friedli, a fast-paced and hyper-edited attempt to capture all of the objects that define this world and the people that live in it, and of course ‘Scrambled’, a very cute little piece where a teen girl takes some time away from the game on her phone to try and solve the puzzle of a living Rubik’s Cube (which helps to pass the time until her next train arrives). A very good display of work overall, with too many highlights to adequately describe.

As part of a UCLAN trip on 14th November 2014, me and my classmates visited the HOME centre in Manchester for their annual Animation Festival. This was the second time that I attended the event, though writing up about it this time was more of a necessity. A fairly recent construction in the city, HOME is a fairly large and appealing complex, that houses various cinema screens, cafes and display rooms across several floors. You would never believe that the place would be so sizable from the outside alone, but the first entry is a pleasant surprise.

The festival consisted of various screenings of animation-based material over various time slots. The first one I (or we for that matter) attended was a series of student films, many of which had been produced by members of universities and over educational facilities. I had sadly missed the first several minutes, but upon entering I was immediately drawn in by the short film ‘Garden Party’. It was a narratively simple piece, which depicted a series of frogs exploring the remains of what seemed to be a large-scale house party in a mansion, all topped of with an unexpectedly graphic reveal (of what became of the house owner) towards the end. The CG visuals were outstanding for a student-based short, with a sufficient level of detail and realism in the environments and frogs (in both the way they look and move).

Further shorts that followed included ‘Cops & Robbers’, a story of a boy who develops a crush on a girl while playing Cops & Robbers with friends. What I found interesting in this short was the use of a first-person perspective while employing a 2D animation style (”squigglevision” to be exact). Another was ‘The Green Bird’, a nicely-done CG piece about a strange looking bird that tries to get it’s egg to hatch while avoiding the bad weather (and the annoying fly that buzzes around). As much as I’d like to go into detail about the other shorts in the compilation (such as the trippy ‘Good Night, Everyone’, the visually-appealing ‘Contact’, and ‘Hueva Vida’), I’ll leave it at that.

The next screening was another batch of short films, instead done by already renowned people in the industry. The opener was ‘Manivald' by Chintis Lundgren, about a piano-playing male fox who still lives with his mother and develops a same-sex attraction to a wolf mechanic, resulting in a love triangle between the three. This was followed by ‘Johnno’s Dead’, Chris Shepherd’s anticipated follow-up to his original short ’Dad’s Dead’. Here, the main protagonist (upon being granted parole) plans revenge on his former best-friend who framed him for a murderous crime he didn’t commit, which ultimately results in him going after the wrong people. It succeeds the original in terms of it’s impactful violence, downbeat narrative, foul-mouthed narration and kinetic combination of both live-action and animation.

Further accompanying the compilation was ‘I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again’ by Marie Amachoukeli and Vladimir Mavounia, a futuristic romance with heavily stylised black-and-white animation, ‘In a Nutshell’ by Fabio Friedli, a fast-paced and hyper-edited attempt to capture all of the objects that define this world and the people that live in it, and of course ‘Scrambled’, a very cute little piece where a teen girl takes some time away from the game on her phone to try and solve the puzzle of a living Rubik’s Cube (which helps to pass the time until her next train arrives). A very good display of work overall, with too many highlights to adequately describe.

The next showing was a presentation where in person, we got to see Aardman’s Director of Animation Will Becher in person. It was a satisfying presentation overall, as Aardman have always been a studio who I have had great admiration for. Nick went into detail about how the company builds the worlds in their films, which involves a lot of painstaking accuracy, from getting the size of them right (so as the claymation characters will be up to scale with them) to hand-crafting and placing the tiniest of objects and other details around (such as in their 2012 film ‘The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!’).

In addition to this, Will (with apparent permission from Studiocanal) showed everyone exclusive footage of their upcoming feature film ‘Early Man’, about a Stone Age tribe that finds themselves at war with a Bronze Age lord and the threat he possesses to their homeland. Directed by Nick Park, it’s a very slick looking film overall, with a lot of work put into the environments and scale. Will even allowed the crowd to ask questions about the project, one of which was asked by me (regarding an impressive rotating shot in a stadium that included a cheering crowd). After that, we were also offered the chance to look at some actual puppets on display, both of which were being used in the actual production of the film.

The final screening was of a double bill of short films called ‘World of Tomorrow’. Both produced by Don Hertzfeldt, the first was the Oscar-nominated original from 2015, followed by en exclusive showing of it’s highly-anticipated sequel. Done in a basic squigglevision style against a series of hypnotic visuals, both shorts are about a very young girl (’Emily’) who finds herself greeted by her supposed cloned future-self. Her clone describes to Emily about the future and the various advances that have taken place over the years and the soon-to-be end of the world as we know it, while Emily (in a true child-like fashion) remains somewhat curious but oblivious to everything that her clone is saying. Intelligently written and visually surreal, it’s a brilliant duo of shorts that sums up the human condition and our inability to appreciate the present until it inevidently becomes the past.

And that’s that. I had a great time overall, and the work shown here has heavily inspired and motivated me to step up my game in the near future. While I was hoping to attend even more screenings, I nevertheless left feeling satisfied, and would be more than happy to return for next year’s festival. Props to everyone who set up the festival, and those whose work was shown.

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Manivald

EE, HR, CA / 2017. / 13’ R: Chintis Lundgren / S: Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić