SYNOPSIS
Love is always sudden. No one surprises if love springs up at work even though the place of the work is unexpected.
SELECT FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
• Nominated, Best Animated Short Film, 2009 Oscars®
• Winner, 1st Prize, 2007 International Animation Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro
• Winner, Audience Award, 2007 International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
• Winner, Best Animation, 2008 Aspen ShortsFest
• Winner, Grand Prix, 2008 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Konstantin Bronzit: Born 12 of April 1965 in St.-Petersburg. In 1983 graduated from Art school. In 1992 graduated from High institute of Art and Design where he learnt at the evening department from 1986. Simultaneously with that study from 1985 up to 1990 he worked as an animator at studio of popular science films. At that studio in 1988 made the first film The Round-About. In 1994 he graduated from High Courses of scriptwriters and directors in Moscow (class by Fjodor Khitruk). His most famous film At the Ends of the Earth (1999) was made at the French animation studio Folimage. In total, his films won about 100 awards at different film festivals around the world. (Some of them: Grand-prix Annecy'95; Grand-prix Annecy'97 in TV category; Special prize of jury, public prize and Prize for the funniest film at Annecy'99; Golden Spike in Valladolid'99; Best animation in Tampere, Aspen, St-Petersburg, Lisbon, Krakow, Potsdam; Public prize, Press prize and Fnac prize in Clermont-Ferrand'2000; Grand Prix in Rome, New-York, Moscow; First prizes in Zagreb, Chicago, Hiroshima; Nominations for French film Academy award "Cesar" and Russian film Academy Award "Nika"). Member of the French and Russian Film Academies.
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SHOWTIMES
PLAYS IN THE ANIMANIA SHORT FILMS PROGRAMME #1 (VIEW DETAILS)
FRI. 5/15 at 6:00PM
Matinée Movie Lounge
FRI. 5/22 at 4:00PM
Matinée Movie Lounge
CAST AND CREW
Production: Melnitsa Animation Studio
Screenwriter: Konstantin Bronzit
Based on an idea by Dmitry Visotsky
Producer: Alexander Boyarsky, Sergey Selyanov
Animators: Konstantin Bronzit, Alexandra Shocha, Alexey Pichugin
Music: Valentin Vasenkov
Sound: Vladimir Golounin
SOURCES
Print Source: Melnitsa Animation Studio
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