Winner of the Audience Award at the 2008 Vivo arte.mov New Media Arts Festival!

'As vezes, num dia de chuva', the experimental video I created with Juliana Andrade e Rodrigo Moreira in 2007 has just won the Audience Award at the 2008 Vivo arte.mov New Media Arts Festival.

The short film mixes live action footage with excerpts from poems of celebrated Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, and was initially one of the 39 shorts selected out of a total of 625 submitted works.

Statement about my film in Imagine magazine

The September/October issue of Imagine magazine had an article on the short films we did at Central Saint Martins for the National Gallery as our final projects.

There is an introduction on the project and statements from three animators, Rachel Thorn, Peter Kasim and myself. We are already in November, but I hope you can still find that issue of the magazine in book stores. If not, here is the first page with the introduction and my statement:

Semifinalist in the Yobi Film Contest!

My animation 'Ceci n'est pas une mouche' won the 6th weekly round of the Yobi Film Contest and is now one of the semifinalists in the competition. The final round will happen in April 2009. The link to my entry is: http://yobi.tv/yobifilm/contestants/view/853

Experimental video selected for the 2008 Vivo arte.mov New Media Arts Festival

Not exactly on the animation side of things but still great news, I have recently been informed that an experimental video I did in 2007 with two friends, Juliana Andrade and Rodrigo Moreira, is part of the official selection of the 2008 Vivo arte.mov New Media Arts Festival in Brazil.

The short 'As vezes, num dia de chuva', mixing live action footage with excerpts from poems of celebrated Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, was one of the 39 shorts selected out of a total of 625 submitted works. The video can be seen on the festival website: http://www.artemov.net

Discovering Latin America Film Festival

The DLA Film Festival invited me to show my short film 'Ceci n'est pas une mouche' at 4 of their screenings in the beginning of December as part of their Local Talent selection! The screenings will happen at the Odeon Panton Street and at the Ritzy Picturehouse in London, preceding live action features. You can find all the details on: http://www.discoveringlatinamerica.com/dlaff/schedule/event.php?id=235


Last night there was a warm up party for the festival, and they showed 4 Brazilian short films, 3 of them animated. I noticed mine was the only project animated single-handedly, while the other ones had crews of 5 to 10 people, so I was really proud to be among that group. Another thing that made me smile was that they had an image from my short film on the invite for the event: