The Academy Awards, AKA Oscars, are drawing nearer, and I have found another interesting article about a “Best Animated Feature”.
“This film is really small compared to American features, so even just being nominated means a huge amount.”
“The Secret of Kells” is a movie directed by an Irish Filmmaker, Tomm Moore. The small film recently got an Oscar nod, and the even the movie maker is stunned.
“They’re all going, ‘What the hell is this film that got nominated?’” the director joked via telephone from Ireland, where he was en route to tape an interview for a local television station.”
The movie has been out for almost a year now in Ireland, just to give you an idea of the obscurity of this film. It was given a screening at the New York International Children’s Film Festival and the crowd was impressed. In particular, Director and Founder of the festival, Eric Beckman.
“Eric Beckman, founder and director of the children’s film festival, said he fell in love with the movie when it premiered at his event. The company the film was licensed to at the time went out of business, presenting an opportunity for the festival’s distribution arm, GKIDS, to pick it up.”
He ended up submitting the film for an Oscar Nomination three days before the deadline, realizing the urgency of the situation, he started a grass-roots campaign for the movie via e-mail and facebook and the work payed off.
I personally have not seen it yet, but I plan on doing so soon. The animated feature is completely hand-drawn and having seen some screenshots of the movie, the backgrounds and characters are beautifully drawn and colored. The quality of this movie is spectacular as well as stunning.
Trailer Below.
(image via: Blendernation)
(video via: You Tube)
(article via: Miami Herald)
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