SPECIAL SCREENING FINNISH ANIMATIONS

Finland, restrained and serene, has got a not too much antique history in the animation world, but since it started, in the lately 40’s, it has been able to keep an enviable production. Beyond the regular production of authorship films, Finland also produces a wide number of excellent films for children. Both the quantity and the quality of the feature animation films produced in the country are surprising, most of them being awarded at festivals all over the world.

This program has the support of the prestigious Tampere Film Festival, which will celebrate 40 years of existence in 2010, and is considered the oldest film festival of the north of Europe.

TANGO FINLANDIA // TANGO FINLANDIA // 2006 // 6 min
Diretores // Directors: Hannu Lajunen, Tomi Riionheimo
A testosterone- lled animated musical about Finnish men. Ugh.


POLLE //HORSIE // 2006 // 2 min
Diretor, Roteiro, Animação, Música , Edição , Som, Director, Script, Animation, Music
How to survive as a horsie?


JATKOAIKA // OVERTIME // 2007 // 10 min
Diretor/ /Director: Tatu Pohjavirta, Mark Ståhle
A girl dies in a skating accident. Her parents make a deal


YÖVUORO // NIGHTSHIFT //2004 // 7 min
Diretores //Directors: Sara Wahl, Samppa Kukkonen, Simo Koivunen
A bird and a bat are living in the same tree as neighbours. Their different ways of living create tension and anger.


SYNTYMÄPÄIVÄ // THE BIRTHDAY // 2004 // 16 min
Diretor //Director: Kari Juusonen
Father and Son are living in a small cottage having no contact with each other and repeating everyday chores mechanically. A stubborn cow mixes up Son’s work routine at the slaughterhouse and eventually forces Father and Son to reveal new side of themselves.


ANIMAL // ELUKKA // 2005 // 29 min
Diretor // Director: Tatu Pohjavirta
A single-dad is transforming into a werewolf. Meanwhile, his young son ends up in an accident, and his brain is interchanged with a sheep’s.


KUOLEMA KELTAISESSA TALOSSA // DEATH IN THE YELLOW HOUSE
// 2008 //5 min
Diretor // Director: Anna Virtanen
Sometimes you have to leave, even if you don’t know what lies ahead. Death in the Yellow House is a film about taking chances, facing issues, listening to your instincts and questioning them


VIIMEINEN ELEFANTTI // THE LAST ELEPHANT // 2008 // 9 min
Diretor // Director: Antti Laakso
Elephant boy is living a happy childhood in a skyscraper with his crocodile dad, but something is horribly amiss.

7 MUMIA SPECIAL SCREENING IAN MACKINNON - UK

Born in Bristol, Ian MacKinnon graduated in animation at The Royal College of Art with his film Adjustment. He is now working in an animation studio in London.

FILMOGRAFIA
Adjustment – 6’- 2006

A writer searches for sparks of hope, in a drama of emotional and technical obsession.

Melhor Curta, Anima, Bruxelas, Bélgica 2007, Melhor Animação Sleepwalkers Festival, Talinn, Estônia, 2006, Premio UIP Angers, Premiers Plans, França, 2007, Melhor Experimental, Animex, Teeside, Inglaterra, 2007 e Grande Premio, Almeria in Corto, Espanha, 2007, Melhor Animação, Karafilm Festival, Paquistão, 2006, Melhor Experimental, Bimini, Letônia, 2007, Melhor Experimental, Ismailia Int'l Fest, Egito, 2007

Art – 32” - 2004
Um amour mobile – 1’20” - 2002
Canaries – 45”- 2005
Michel – 30” - 2005
V. Sedesatých – 15” - 2005
Charon’s delivery – 2’40”- 2002
Thao – 30” - 2005
Catflap – 40”- 2005
Emma – 30”- 2005
Klak – 2’- 2004
Copy – 2’20” - 2005

http://www.ianmacknnon.co.uk/

7th MUMIA - SPECIAL SCREENING ABI FEIJO AND REGINA PESSOA - PORTUGAL

Abi Feijó was born in Braga, Portugal in 1956 and graduates from the Oporto School of Fine Arts. In 1984 he came to the National Film Board of Canada for an animation internship, which resulted in the short film Oh que Calma. Soon After, he founded Filmógrafo, an animation studio based on the NFB model of handcrafted auteur animation. The studio has built an international reputation that extends far beyond Portugal.

As a Director, Feijó explores a variety of animation techniques, always with a carefully written story. In 1993, he made Os Salteadores / The Outlaws, an animated short using drawings on paper; this political drama recalling a painful incident from recent Portuguese history won numerous international awards.

It was followed by Fado Lusitano (1995), a sort of self-portrait of Portugal, his history, art and culture, using paper cut-out animation. In 2000, in co-production with RTP and the French Program's Animation / Youth Studio, he completed Clandestino / Stowaway, a sand animation film whose richly textured images evoke the difficult struggle for freedom.

At Filmógrafo, Feijó serves as producer and artistic advisor. He also gives workshops and training around the world. He is currently involved in establishing The Animation House, a

cultural centre devoted to the art of animation in Oport.

REGINA PESSOA

Born in Coimbra in 1969
Graduates at the Oporto University of Fine Arts.
In 1992 begins working in Filmógrafo, where she collaborates as an animator.
In 1999 animates and directs her first author film “A Noite” (The Night), engraving in plaster plates and won 9 awards.

2005 animates and directs her second short animation film “Tragic Story with Happy Ending”, whose project received 3 prizes in Annecy “Espace Projects” 2001. and recently won 26 awards including: Spécial Jury Award Cinanima’05, the CNC’06 Quality Award, the Best Animation award at Granada’06, the Special Jury Award at Anifest Trebon’06, the Grand Prix at SICAF’06, the Grand Prix at Annecy’06, the Prize Best of Section at Melbourne ’06, Nominee for the Cartoon d’Or 2006 – Europe, The Special International Jury Prize Hiroshima’06, the Grand Prix at Mecal’06 and a prize at AniMadrid’06.

I lived in the countryside in a small village near Coimbra until I was 17 years old. My entire universe was rural. We didn’t have television, which was very boring…but in retrospect, thinking things over, maybe it saved me. We read and listen to our elders telling stories.
My uncle used to draw on the walls and on the doors of my grandmother’s home, with pieces of coal.

Seeing my uncle drawing on the walls gave us a sense of freedom because we didn’t have paper and pencils but we always had walls and doors – maybe this stayed with me unconsciously because know, much later, it’s already the second film that I’m making in engraving technique…

filmography

OH QUE CALMA - Abi Feijó - 16mm, cor, 3’ 08’’-1985

Baseado na música tradicional portuguesa Oh que calma vai caindo, este filme foi realizado durante um estágio no Estúdio Francês de Animação do Office National du Film du Canadá. A areia, o ecrã de alfinetes, a plasticina, o pastel, os recortes, a gravura sobre película, o desenho e as fotocópias são as oito técnicas utilizadas na realização deste filme de animação.



A NOITE QUE SAIU NA RUA - Abi Feijó - 16mm, cor, som óptico, 4’ 50” - 1987
Nights are hidden days beyond our minds. But some remain like flying shadows reshaping the naive images of our lives. Faces hurt with emptiness, characters petrified in silence, lands inked with blood....And we become sleepy, carelessly dying, until morning happens.

OS SALTEADORES - Abi Feijó - Cor, 35mm, 14' 14'’ (desenho a grafite) – 1993.
Awards: ANNECY’89 (França), Espace Projeto, Prêmio SACD pelo projeto de filme, CINANIMA’93, Prêmio Especial do Júri, VILA DO CONDE’94, Menção Honrosa, BAHÍA’94 (Brasil), Tatu de Ouro e Prêmio Glauber Rocha, CARTOON D’OR’94 (CEE/MEDIA), Prêmio Especial do Júri, VALLADOLID’94 (Espanha), Espiga de Ouro, FESTIVAL TOUS COURTS’94 (França), 1º Prêmio, BADAJOZ’95 (Espanha), 2º Prêmio, ALGARVE’95, Prêmio Melhor Animação, ANNECY’95 (França), Menção Honrosa, MONTECATINI’95 (Itália), Ânfora Memória d’Áqua, SAN ROQUE’96 (Espanha), Menção Honrosa, COVILHÃ’96, Prêmio do Público.

A NOITE – Regina Pessoa - 4´50” – Cor, 16mm - 1999

CLANDESTINO - Abi Feijó e Regina Pessoa - 7’ 32’’ - 35mm, cor; animação - 2000
In the morning of December the 24th, an old and rusty cargo enters the harbour. On board it caries a stowaway, who tries, during the night, to reach firm land. Along the rope, the journey towards freedom is long and painful. Catastrophic images fill his head. Desperate and at the limits of his strengths he is saved by an officer, who touched by his situation, let him go free.

OS PODERES DO SR. PRESIDENTE – Abi Feijó – 5´30” - 2004

CICLO VICIOSO – Abi Feijó, Regina Pessoa e Pedro Serrazina – 23” - 1996

ANA – Abi Feijó - 1´1996

ODISSEIA NAS IMAGENS – Abi Feijó e Regina Pessoa – 25” – 2001

FANTASMAPORTO – Abi Feijó – 33” – 1998

HISTÓRICA TRÁGICA COM FINAL FELIZ TRAGIC STORY WITH HAPPY ENDING - Regina Pessoa - 2005 . Duração: 7 MIN.46seg .
Some people are different. All what they whish is to be like to the others, deliciously mixing among the crowd. There are people spending the rest of their lives fighting to achieve this, denying or hiding their differences. Some other assume it and raise up themselves, getting their place close to the others… in their hearts…

Awards: Prémio SACD , Prémio CSTe Prémio ARTE – Espace projets, Annecy’2001, França, Prémio Especial do Juri , Melhor Filme Português, Prémio da Crítica e Prémio RTP/Onda Curta (Radio e Televisão Portuguesa) – Cinanima 2005, Portugal, Prémio Melhor Animação – Granada 2006, Espanha, Prémio Melhor Animação – Cinema – Caminhos do Cinema Português 2006, Portugal, Prémio Especial do Júri – Anifest 2006 Trebon, República Checa, 1º Prémio à Qualidade – CNC’ 2006, França, Grande Prémio – SICAF 2006 – Coreia do Sul, 1º Prémio - Festival de Curtas-Metragens do Hostital Júlio de Matos’06 – Portugal, Grande Prémio e Prémio TPS Cinéculte pour un Court Métrage - Annecy’06 – França, Prémio Best Session – Melbourne’06 – Austrália, Nomeação para o Cartoon d’Or’06 – Forum Cartoon Pau – Europa, Menção Especial– Montecatini’06 – Itália, 2º Prémio Especial do Júri: Design e 2º Prémio Especial do Júri: Banda Sonora – Animamundi’06 – Brasil , Prémio do Público, Mention du Jury e Mention du Jury Junior – Silhouettes’06 – França, Special International Jury Prize – Hiroshima’06 – Japão, Tatu de Prata – Jornada da Bahia’06 – Brasil, Prémio do Público – Ovarvídeo’06 – Portugal, Grande Prémio (exaequo) – Mecal’06 – Espanha, 3º Prémio – AniMadrid’06 – Espanha, Prémio Especial – CICDAF’06 – China, Menção Honrosa : Artes – Columbus’06 – USA, Melhor Animação – Interfilm Berlin’06 – Alemanha, Menção Especial – L’Alternativa’06 – Espanha, Prémio Especial para a Animação - Siena'2006 – Itália, Menção Especial do Júri – Animated Dreams’06 – Estónia, Menção Especial - Curta Cinema'06 – Brasil, Menção Honrosa do Júri - 10º Festival Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira'06 – Portugal, Coup de Coeur du Jury - Festival du Film Court Francophone Vaulx en Velin 2007 – França, Nomeação para os 27º Genie Awards – Canadá, Tricky Women Award 2007 (exaequo) - Tricky Women Festival - Viena – Áustria, Grande Prémio do Júri - South by Southwest'2007 – USA, Menção Honrosa - Nashville’07 – EUA, Melhor Realização – Covilhã´07 – Portugal, Lutin para o Melhor Filme de Animação – Les Lutins du Court Métrage’07 – França, Melhor Curta Metragem - Toronto International Portuguese Film Festival'07 – Canadá, Prémio do Público - Platform International Animation Festival 2007 - Oregon – USA, Diploma FIPRESCI - 4th European Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA 2007 – Sérvia, Melhor Banda Sonora Silver Elephant - The Golden Elephant Film Festival 2007 – India, Mensão Honrosa - Etudia&Anima 2007 - International Film festival Krakow 2007 – Polônia, Prémio Inovação 2007 - no âmbito do Prémio Nacional Manuel Pinto de Azevedo Jr – Portugal, Prémio Animação - FIKE 2007 - Festival Internacional Curtas Metragens de Évora - Portugal

HISTORIA DE PORTUGAL - FADO LUSITANO – Abi Feijó – 5´35” - 1995

SEU DESTINO PODE SER MUDADO – Abi Feijó – 23” - 1996

www.ciclopefilmes.com

SPECIAL SCREENING URUBUTRIX - Brazil

“Urubutrix” was born from the idea of joining Matrix and Uruburetama (a small city of Ceará). It began as a parody “zine” (alternative and independent magazine) full of Pop Culture citations and crazy dialogues which were not politically correct at all. Urubutrix was pushed forward, after the encounter between its creator Fernando Santos and the Cannibal World guys, Ricardo and Rodrigo Piologo, that showed him the path to make web animations. With the support of the Movie Animation Unit and the Federal Technological Education Center (CEFET) of the State of Ceará, Urubutrix has been published on the internet for the last two years, showing its uncommon characters. Leaving behind the parody and creating its own stories, Urubutrix has been well accepted by the public, which is waiting for the coming TV Series of this “Anime-Tupiniquim”. Tupiniquim is the name of an indigenous Brazilian group, but it is also used in Brazil as a synonym for national.
Every month new animations can be seen at http://www.urubutrix.com/


FILMOGRAPHY

OPENING - 1´37"
Opening was made by many animators, atracted by the idea of an “Anime-Cartoon-Neo-Tupiniquim”. As soon as Urubutrix substituted the parody for its original stories, it was decided that a Japanese style opening should be made, introducing all the characters.

THE COCONUT GUY - 2´20"
The drunk mascot of the web site meets the Coconut Breaker Guy, the Lord of Breaking Coconuts with the Head. Is it really such an interesting show to the mascot ‘mizifrim’?

ELECTIONS - 2008 – 5´
All kind of politicians were introduced to people, but there is nothing to be compared with these “uruburetamenses” guys and the tiny time of 15 seconds they have to show the changes they are supposed to make in “Uruburetama”, an indolent city in Ceará, even if they don’t figure out what indolent means.

MY BALLS ARE RED - 1´50”
Christmas Day. Everyone is waiting for Santa at home, the one who will bring gifts and joy on this beautiful day, but not everybody is waiting for him. Apolinario, the most ignorant and grouchy old man in the entire universe, is definitely not on the mood to get to know Santa Claus.

PLEASURE ON THE HEIGHTS - 1´34”
The TV Anchorman, Beto Guerra, had a sexual fantasy: to make love under a turned on ceiling fan. Who else could fulfill this fantasy but “Blow-job-ina”. Even in a motel with such a fantasy, something worse could happen.

7 MUMIA - 18 - 25 - Octubre - Betim and 26 octubre - 01 noviembre - Belo Horizonte -
Free entrance - 16 years

Tradution: Cláudia Nunes

SPECIAL SCREENING TELMO CARVALHO BRAZIL

In 1985, Telmo Carvalho graduated on Animation Movie at Embrafilme and National Film Board of Canada through the Technical Cooperation Agreement established between Brazil and Canada.


In 1986, moved out to Fortaleza (State of Cearà) and became one of the founders of the Movie Animation Unit of the “Casa Amarela Eusélio Oliveira” / Ceará’s Federal University.

From 2002 to 2008, as the director of “Tusche” Production House, he developed the “Animarte” Project on “SESC Rio de Janeiro”, where he used to teach animation’s techniques and he also produced 17 short animated films with his students.

This year, back to Fortaleza, Telmo is coordinating once more the Animation Movie Unit, which goal is to support this art in Ceará.


Films:
THE MUSICIAN AND THE HORSE - 6´20” – 16mm - 1985
Through the walkabout of one accordion street player and a circus’ horse, both of them victims of adversities, friendship and solidarity are found.

WHITE FIELD - 15´- 35mm - 1997
The relationship of love between a peasant and the rain.

SEARCHING THE COLOR - 13´- 35mm - 2002
Searching for the perfect technique and perfect colors, an artist ends up facing decadence and angst.

IGUIBERTO – 5´- DV – 2005
Iguiberto discuss the waste of water.

THE LAST PICTURE - 3´20” – DV – 2009
A man struggles to reach his destiny but, as he gets to the last picture of his existence, he finds something unexpected.


Contact: http://www.tusche.com.br/ e telmo_carvalho@yahoo.com.br

Tradution: Cláudia Nunes

SPECIAL SCREENING ARNALDO GALVÃO - Brazil

“Souls in Flames”, the hot hardcore love story between a fireman and a dancer let people knew about Arnaldo Galvão, making him popular in Brasil and also noted in other countries. But as he was already a veteran the prestigious Anima Mundi Festival organized a retrospective of his works in 2003. There we could see Dr. Galvão’s self-help classes, a funny author’s alter ego, and also the comic opera rally of “A Political Way Out”.

Regarding, of course, the TV pilot “Rotten & UFO”, the incredible epic story of two nihilists dogs that hardly bark and move themselves even less, the first characters created by Arnaldo Galvão did not move at all: they were at the cartoons and illustrations he made for famous Brazilian newspapers and magazines such as “O Pasquim”, “Movimento”, “Versus” and “Folha de São Paulo”. The Animation Movie caught him in 1980 at the university. Five years later, Galvão started working with Mauricio de Souza, an animation industry pioneer in Brazil, the creator of the celebrated “Turma da Monica” (Monica’s Gang). On television, he was part of “Castelo Ratimbum’s” crew (Ratimbum Castle) and many other successful kids’ programs.

Being very versatile about techniques, genres, artistic languages, Galvão accomplished over 200 publicity films, and also 10 independent shorfilms that showed his satiric personality. The variety of TV pilots on his curriculum shows a strong determination to explore the Animation potential among the television public in Brazil. In 2003, he co-founded ABCA – Brazilian Association of Animation Movie – where he is, at present, member of the director’s board.


FILMS
A POLITICAL WAY OUT (UMA SAÍDA POLÍTICA) – 6´- 1990
Just like in a comic opera, a tenor politician gives a speech singing so as to gain votes. Aplauses.


DIAL N FOR BIRTH (DISQUE N PARA NASCER) – 8´- 1992
A film made for mammals about birth, life and death. Who could tell!?

SOULS IN FLAMES (ALMAS EM CHAMAS) – 11´- 2000
A fireman got involved in a hot love affair when he saved the life of a very sexy woman from a burning building. The smoke and the heat cover both of them on an overwhelming moment of passion and sex with terrible consequences; after all one should not play with fire …

Best Screenplay and Special Jury Prize at Gramado Festival 2000 (Brasil)


EDUCATIONAL FILMS RATIMBUM – 8´
Full Empty (Cheio Vazio)
Three Sad Tigers (Três Tigres Tristes)
Cat (Gato)
Horse (Cavalo)
Far Close (Longe Perto)
Birth (Nascimento)
Soccer (Futebol)


TV SERIES PILOTS
Let´s play (Vamos brincar) –30”
Geometrical shapes (Formas geométricas) - 30”
The F Concert (Concerto em 5 Maior) - 30”

ROTTEN & UFO
Presentation (Apresentação) – 30”
Zen (Zen) - 30”
See you (Asta la vista) - 30”

DR. GALVÃO – HOW TO GET A BANK LOAN?
The Bondsman (O Fiador) – 30”
Yes, it´s possible (Sim, é possível) – 30”
The Warranty (A Garantia) – 30”

Tradution: Cláudia Nunes

7th MUMIA - OVERTURE

It's a pleasure and a proud to announce that the opening film will be IDIOTS AND ANGELS by Bill Plympton - 78’ - Estados Unidos - 2008

Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out at his local bar, berating the other patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back. The wings make him do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries to rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune.

The idea behind " idiots and angels" came in 2005, when Plympton, after being asked what would be "about na angel who does not wants his wings", developing this concept in the following years and exploring the story potential of a reluctant angel.

By then, Bill had finished making "Hair High", which was a tremendous sucecess. Even though it was a great film and made him quite wealthy, the production was particulary bumpy and troublesome; Bill was exhausted and need something different, deciding on a radical change of style for his next feature. While "Hair Light" was glossy, colorful and dynamic, "Idiots and Angels" ended up being na animated exercise on wordless stoytelling, sustained by the strenght of the score and sound effects, in a more comtemplative and poetic register. For all those reasons, plympton finds many paralels in the feature with Eastern Europe cinematography, in the vein of Jan Svankmajer, very darkand surreal – "Like David Lynch, if her ever did animation", says Plympton.

A VERY PECULIAR KIND OF HUMOR

"Idiots and angels" had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, in the april 2008, and won the Special Disctition Awards in the festure-length category at the Annecy International Animated Film festival in june 2008.

Onde again, like in his previous films, Bill Plympton wants to break the stereotype that animation is aimed solely at children. Quite on the comtrary, Plympton´s films are filled with dark and sarcastic themes, with a delirious style blends surrealism with unrelenting humor and non-sense. " Idiots and angels" is a dark and mysterious comedy that sands apart in Plympton´s oeuvre.

Noteworthy is the score by Tom Waits, Moby and Pink Martini. The music takes on a particulary relevant role, since this is a movie totally deprived of dialogue, leaning solely on yhe caravters´action and the dreamlike universe of their fantasies, in order to tell the tale of someone who one day wakes up with a set of wings on his back.

A VERY FERTILE IMAGINATION

Bill Plympton I a world renowned Amercan director and cartoonist, who does not cease to surprise and be surprised with successive nominations, awards and distinctions for his work, by frame, but most of all for his deranged animated works of art.

Born en 1946 in the city of Portland (state of Oregon, USA), found his vocation early on and never looked back ever since. After graduating at the Portland State University and, later on, at the Visual Arts School in New York City, he published his first illustrations on newspaper such as The New York Times and The Village Voice. His popularity was increasing and soon enough his drawings were featured on the pages of such high profile magazines as Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse and National Lampoon. Over the course of his career, Bill has made two to three short features, Plympton has been renowned for drawing himself every single frame of his animated films. Bill Plympton has created a unique and easily recognizable personal style. He took a 5 year hiatus from animated films to release his live action projects: J.Lyle (1993), Guns on the Clackamas (1995) and Walt Curtis, the Peckerneck Poet (1997). In 1998, Bill returns to animation with the extravagant I Married a Strange Person. In 2001, he is awarded the Annecy Grand Prize with Mutant Aliens, which tells us the story of an astronaut who returns to earth after 20 years in space. His short feature Guard Dog was a hit in several movie festivals and ensured him his second Oscar nomination, in January 2005.

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