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.

Test from: The 32nd International Animated Film Festival Cinanima background, contents and curiosites - Espinho - Portugal

7 MUMIA - International Programs

61 films from 27 countries compete for Best International Animation Award on 7th MUMIA Edition - International Worldwide Animation Festival

INTERNACIONAL 01
- SAGAN OM DEN LILLE DOCKPOJKEN – THE TALE OF LITLLE PUPPETBOY – HISTÓRIAS DO GAROTÃO - Johannes Nyholm – 19´- Suécia - 2008
- SCTRUTURES – ESTRUTURAS – Jasper Kuipers - 4´46” – Holanda – 2008.
- KARU TULEB! (LÃCIS NÃK!) – A CHEGADA DO URSO – Janis Cimermanis - 16´- Letônia - 2008
- JUBILADOS – APOSENTADOS – Juan Sáenz Valiente – 3´- Argentina - 2002
- COAL SPELL – O FEITIÇO DO CARVÃO – Sun Xun – 8´- China – 2008
- HOT DOG – Bill Pylmpton – 5´50” - USA - 2008
- 1,2,3 ESCAPE!!! – 1, 2, 3 FUJA!!! – Vittorio Farfan – 3´- Chile – 2007.
Total: 60´

INTERNACIONAL 2
- ARCHIPEL, DIALOOG VAN EEN STAD – ARCHIPEL, O DIALOGO DE UMA CIDADE – Jasper Kuipers – 6´-Holanda - 2008
- DZIVAIS UDENS – ÁGUA MÁGICA – Maris Brinkmanis – 10´- Letônia - 2009
- PLANET A – PLANETA A – Momoko Seto – 7´40”– França - 2008
- VETERINÃRÃRSTS – VETERINARIAN - VETERINÁRIO – Signe Baumane - 17´- Estônia - 2007
- HEROES NO LONGER – HERÓIS NUNCA MAIS – Sun Xun – 9´- China - 2008
- LA PERIFERIA – A PERIFERIA – Fabrizzio Bartolini – 10´- Chile – 2008
Total: 60´

INTERNACIONAL 3
- SENDERO – CAMINHO - Andrés Bustamante, Théo Court e Manuel Muñoz – 26´- Chile - 2007
- JAUNA SUGA – A NOVA ESPÉCIE – Evalds Lacis – 10´- Letônia - 2008
- THE NEW CHINA – A NOVA CHINA – Sun Xun – 5´20” – China - 2008
- CECI N´EST PAS UNE MOUCHE – THIS IS A NOT A FLY – ISTO NÃO É UMA MOSCA - Carlos Fraiha – 2´- Inglaterra - 2008
- PIROGUES – PIROGA – Alice Bohl – 7´- Irlanda - 2008
- STUDNIA – THE WELL – O POÇO - Andrzej Gosieniecki – 9´- Polônia – 2008.
Total: 59´

INTERNACIONAL 4
- THE ECSTASY OF GARY GREEN - O EXTASE DE GARY GREEN – Jack Feldstein – 15’- Austrália – 2006
- AGENDA – Diek Grobler – 7’20”- África do Sul - 2007
- AGRICULTURAL REPORT – RELATÓRIO AGRÍCOLA - Melina Sidney Paula – 2’32”- Irlanda – 2008
- DER STORCH – A CEGONHA – Klaus Morschheuser – 8’- Alemanha – 2002
- MUTT – VIRA-LATA – Glen Hunwick – 7’- Austrália – 2008
- DEEDERVILLE – O MUNDO DE DEERDE 1- Richard Del Rosso – 4’- USA – 2009
- KOLIBELNYA – LULLABY – CANÇÃO DE NINAR – Andrey Zolotukhin – 14´- Rússia – 2007
- FINO – Blu – 2’30”- Itália – 2006
Total: 60´

INTERNACIONAL 5
- THE ROOSTER, THE CROCODILE AND THE NIGHT SKY - O GALO, O CROCODILO E O CÉU DA NOITE - Padraig Fagan - 6’34’’ - Irlanda - 2008
- MALCHICK - BOY – GAROTO - Dmitry Geller – 16´- Rússia – 2008
- IL GIOCO DEL SILENZIO – THE PLAY OF SILENCE - O JOGO DO SILÊNCIO – Virginia Mori – 5’- 2009 – Itália
- VIOLETA, LA PESCADORA DEL MAR NEGRO – VIOLETA, A PESCADORA DO MAR NEGRO - Marc Ribas e Anna Solanas - 9’- Espanha – 2006
- MATAPOS – Stéphanie Machuret – 11’35”- França – 2006
- MUTO – Blu – 7’- 2008 – Italia
- LEBENSADER – LINHA DA VIDA - Angela Steffen – 6’ – 2009 – Alemanha
Total: 60´

INTERNACIONAL 6
- L’HOMME EST LE SEUL OISEAU QUI PORTE AS CAGE – MAN IS THE ONLY BIRD THAT CARRIES HIS OWN CAGE - O HOMEM É O ÚNICO PÁSSARO QUE CARREGA SUA PRÓPRIA GAIOLA - Claude Weiss – 12’- França – 2008.
- DVORNIK NA LUNE - THE STREET CLEANER ON THE MOON – O VARREDOR DE RUA NA LUA – Konstantin Golubkov - 7´- Rússia – 2007.
- KAUKOSAAREN KIROUS – CURSE OF THE REMOTE ISLAND – MALDIÇÃO DA ILHA DISTANTE - Chrzu – 16´15” – 2008 – Finlândia.
- PRIZNANIE V LUBVI - DECLARATION IN LOVE – DECLARAÇÃO DE AMOR – Dmitry Geller – 12’- Rússia – 2006
- PINTEMOS EL MUNDO DE COLORES – VAMOS PINTAR O MUNDO COM CORES - Alfredo Ovando - 13’ – Bolívia –
Total 61´


INTERNACIONAL 7
- DVE PRINZESSI - TWO PRINCESS – DUAS PRINCESAS - Maria Stepanova – 8´52” – 2009 – Rússia
- DEEP SONG - MÚSICA PROFUNDA – Zennor Alexander – 3’- 2008 – Nova Zelândia
- FREQUENZE ANIMATE #1 – ANIMATED FREQUENCIES #1 – FREQUENCIAS ANIMADAS Nº1 - Michela Donini, Roberto Paganelli e Andrea Martignoni – 9’30”- Itália
- LE SABLIER – A AMPULHETA – Pierre Schwarz – 1’23”- 2009 – França 2009.
- LA COMPETITIVA – A COMPETIÇÃO – Hernan Cieza (Mono) & Adriana Delfino – 20´- Espanha – 2009
- STYRI – QUATRO – Ivana Sebestova – 15’44” – 2007 – Eslováquia
- THE COLLAGIST – COLAGEM – Amy Lockhart – 2’- 2009 – Canadá
Total: 61´
INTERNACIONAL 8
- LA MEMORIA DEI CANI – THE MEMORIES OF DOG’S - As memórias dos cães – Simone Massi – 8’- França – 2006.
- MEET ME WHERE THE RAINBOWN ENDS - ENCONTRE-ME ONDE TERMINA O ARCO-ÍRIS - Zennor Alexander – 4’18”- 2008 – Nova Zelândia
- LITTLE BANG - A PEQUENA EXPLOSÃO - Diek Grobler - 10’40’’ - África do Sul - 2006
- J – Virgilio Villoresi – 4’- Itália –
- O PINTOR DE CEOS – THE PAINTER OF SKIES – O PINTOR DE CÉUS – Jorge Morais Valle – 20´ - Espanha – 2008
- ARC – FACE – Ferenc Cakó – 8’- 2008 – Hungria
- MY LITTLE BROTHER FROM THE MOON – MEU IRMÃO QUE VEIO DA LUA – Fréderic Philibert – 6’- 2008 – França
Total: 62´

INTERNACIONAL 9
- THAYN TYHA HAI - Zennor Alexander – 2’51”- 2008 – Nova Zelândia
- UNA GIORNATA PERFETTA – A PERFECT DAY – UM DIA PERFEITO - Virgilio Villoresi – 3’40”- Itália – 2009.
- DÉSANIMÉE – Anne Laclerq – 8’- 2008 – Bélgica
- IL PROVINO - O TESTE – Niba & Matteo Giacchella – 8’30”- Itália
- OEDIPE – ÉDIPO – Capucine – 7´- Japão – 2008
- LE LOUP BLANC – THE WHITE WOLF – O LOBO BRANCO – Pierre-Luc Granjon – 8’30”- 2006 – França
- KAK ZAICHIK NI V KOGO NE PREVRATILSIA - HOW THE BUNNY DIDN´T TURN TO BESOMEONE ELSE – Ekaterina Bim - 7´- Rússia – 2008
THE INITIATION OF A CITY DUELLER – A INICIAÇÃO DE UM DUELISTA DA CIDADE – Lenka Ivancikova – 16’- 2009 – Reino Unido
Total: 61´

7 MUMIA - National Programs

55 brazilian films, from 7 states (13 from São paulo, 10 from Minas Gerais, 9 from Rio de Janeiro and Ceará, 7 from Paraná, 4 from Pernambuco and 3 from Bahia) compete for MUMIA Best Animation Award on 7th MUMIA Edition - International Worldwide Animation Festival.

NACIONAL 01
- VOLTAGE – William Paiva e Fillipe Lyra – 4’14” – PE - 2008
- A ERA DO DEGELO – Romeu Domingues – 4’ – RJ - 2009
- A BRUXINHA LILI – Leonardo Copello – 5’43” – BA – 2009
- VÊNUS SEM MISTÉRIO – A QUÍMICA DO AMOR – Alessandro Corrêa – 3’15” – SP - 2008
- RATO JORGE EM: JUCA É UMA PESTE! - J. Anderson 2’24”- PR – 2009
- ZOYA A ZEBRA – Alexander Geifman – 2’40” – RJ - 2004
- SHUPLUH – Cesar Cabral – 6’ – SP - 1998
- OS BRUTOS TAMBÉM AMAM – Cristiano Alves de Oliveira – 2’57” – SP - 2009
- BANDEIRA – Antonio Fialho – 11’12”- MG –
- O PIT BULL – Alan Nóbrega – 1’20” – RJ – 2008
- A PASSAGEIRA – Rogério Nunes – 12’30” – SP – 2008
- FARÓIS – Diego Akel – 1’21” – CE – 2008
- AJUSTE SUA TV – Neil Armstrong – 1’- CE – 2007
- JORGE´S – Igor Amim – 1´- MG – 2009
Total: 61’

NACIONAL 02
- O ANÃO QUE VIROU GIGANTE – 10’ – RJ - 2008
- P&B –Alessandro Corrêa – 13’ – SP – 2008
- COLONIZE – Jonatan Brito Sousa – 9’20’’ – BA – 2009
- LIBERTAS – Jackson Abacatu – 9’40” – MG – 2009
- BRINCADEIRA DE CRIANÇA – Cristiano Alves de Oliveira – 1’57” – SP - 2008
- URUCA – Erick Grigorovski – 8’ – RJ – 2008
- A TERRA A GASTAR – Cassia Mary Itamoto e Celina Kurihara – 5’44” – SP - 2008
- MONGO E DRONGO E O ASSALTO FURADO - J. Anderson 1’56”- PR – 2008
- ALUCINA 15 - Diego Akel – 15” – CE – 2007
- PRIMAVERA UNDERGROUND – Igor Amim – 1´21” – MG – 2008
Total: 60’

NACIONAL 03
- OSMAR - A PRIMEIRA FATIA DO PÃO – DE – FORMA – Ale McHaddo – 11’ – SP – 2008
- CALANGO LENGO – MORTE E VIDA SEM VER AGUA – Fernando Miller – 10’- SP
- ROMPENDO O CICLO DA VIOLÊNCIA - J. Anderson 1’56”- PR – 2008
- DE JANELA PRO CINEMA – Quiá Rodrigues – 13’- RJ – 2000
- A DESCOBERTA DE LUKE – Alan Nóbrega – 2’ – RJ – 2007
- REFLETINDO – Thiago Herbet – 2’20” – MG – 2009
- SILENCIO E SOMBRAS – Murilo Hauser – 8’33”- PR - 2008
- GOLPE POSTAL - Diego Akel – 2’– CE – 2009
- HISTÓRIA DE UMBIGO – Michelle Gabriel – 10’ – SP - 2009
Total: 61’

NACIONAL 04
- NO CAMINHO – Francimone Campos e Júnior Recife – 4’31” – CE – 2007
- ANIMAJAZZ – Jackson Abacatu – 4’21” – MG - 2009
- MACARONI – Carolina Cardoso – 5’14”- SP – 2008
- A ARANHA E O LOUVA-A-DEUS - J. Anderson 3’28”- PR – 2009
- PAX – Paulo Munhoz – 14’- PR – 2005
- LINHAS E ESPIRAIS - Diego Akel – 2’ – CE – 2009
- COMO COMER UM ELEFANTE – Jansen Raviera – 5’52” – RJ – 2008
- UM OUTRO – Chico Liberato – 17’23”- BA – 2008
- A HERANÇA DO VAQUEIRO APAIXONADO - Wildes Sampaio – 4´- PE – 2008
Total: 61’

NACIONAL 5
- HOMEM-COBERTA E A CONTA DE LUZ - J. Anderson 3’- PR – 2008
- O GABINETE DO DR. AKEL – Diego Akel – 3’45” – CE – 2006
- DAYANE E ZÉ FRIO – Marta Kawamura – 11’- SP – 2009.
- GUERRA DOS BÁRBAROS – Júlia Manta – 11´- CE – 2001
- TERRA – Sávio Leite – 5´- MG - 2009
- UMA ODISSÉIA NO SERTÃO – Josimário Façanha – 11´- CE – 2006
- AS ESTRELAS DO CÉU - Wildes Sampaio – 6´- PE – 2005
- SALGUEIRO TEM HISTÓRIA - Wildes Sampaio – 6´- PE – 2006
- PRAXEDES, UM ESPERMATOZÓIDE - Bruno Rocha Maron – 1´52” – RJ – 2007
- UM LUGAR COMUM – Jonas Brandão – 9´53” – SP – 2009.
- TELETOMMY – Igor Amim – 3’- MG – 2008.
- MELANCIA NO BUSÃO – Dir. Coletiva – 4´30” – MG – 2008
- A CÉSAR O QUE É DE CÉSAR – Denis Leroy – 4’30”- MG – 2008.
Total: 80´

7th MUMIA - International Worldwide Animation Festival

A MAGIC YEAR OF ANIMATIONS

7 are the Deadly Sins, 7 are the Divinities, 7 were the White Snow’s Dwarfs, 7 days were needed for the creation of the World, 7 are the Days of the Week, 7 Musical Notes, 7 Sacred Planets, 7 shall be the Apocalypse’s Trumpets, 7 are the “Umbanda’s Orixás” (Spirits of an Afro-Brazilian Religion), 7 were the Wonders of the Ancient World and the Wonders of the Modern World, 7 Arts, 7 Sacred Stars, the Constellations of 7 Stars, 7 colors refracted by the Prism, 7 Evolution Levels, 7 are the Etheric Chakras, 7 are the Plexus on Matter, 7 are world’s regions of Desire and the 7 world’s regions of Thought and so 7 are Seas, 7 Human Virtues, 7 Sacraments, 7 Books of the Old Testament. Number 7 is cabalistic in “Umbanda”.

According to Mahatma Gandhi, the 7 Social Sins are: 1. politics without principles;
2. wealth without work; 3. pleasure without consciousness; 4. knowledge without character; 5. commerce without morality; 6. science without humanity; 7. devotion without sacrifice.

And finally, because of the resistance of this filmmaker, MUMIA makes the words of the Russian revolutionary Dziga Vertov as his own, taking as a watchword a part of his manifest written in 1923: “A friendly warning: Don’t hide your heads like ostriches. Raise your eyes. Look around you – There! It’s as obvious to me as to any child. The innards, the guts of strong sensations, are tumbling out of cinema’s belly”.

Seven thousand times we swore that Vertov pointed to the clandestine freedom within the animation films presented this year. Seven thousand and one times, we enshrined the master and referred his films to our humble followers. Watch Vertov, be Vertov, kill Vertov. This is the only way to avoid the mummification of our cinema – these are the words of the MUMIA, who screens everything, discloses everything, but shouts that few are the chosen.

This year, MUMIA will show 207 films from 27 countries besides Brazil: United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, United States, China, Argentine, Latvia, Holland, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Mexico, South Africa, Ireland, Portugal, France, Poland, Chile, Italy, Slovak, Spain, Japan, Belgium, New Zealand, Canada and Bolivia.

The so acclaimed crisis is financial and not of thoughts. Because the Underground exists, persists and resists. Already Dziga Vertov.

SUBMISSIONS 7 MUMIA ARE CLOSED

The submissions to the 7 – MUMIA – UNDERGROUND WORLD ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2009 are closed.

The program will be released early september. More than 130 films in exibition from twenty countries: Brazil, United Kingdon, Australia, Germany, USA, China, Argentina, Latvia, Holland, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Mexico, South Africa, Ireland, France, Poland, Chile and Bolivia

7º MUMIA – UNDERGROUND WORLD ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2009 - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS IS OPEN.

7º MUMIA – UNDERGROUND WORLD ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2009

October 18th to the 25th – Betim / Brasil
Gloria Cine Theather, local schools and suburb open air sessions
October 26th to the November 1st – Belo Horizonte / Brasil
Humberto Mauro Cinema – Art Palace and local schools.

FREE PASS
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS IS OPEN.
NO ENTRY FEE

WATCHWORD/SAYING:
“A friendly warning; Don’t hide your heads like ostriches. Raise your eyes, Look around you – There! It’s obvious to me as to any child. The innards, the guts of strong sensations, are tumbling out of cinema’s belly, ripped open on the reef of revolution”.
Kinoks: A Revolution (1923) Vertov

OBJECTIVES:
Mumia aims the enlargement of imagination and of the possibilities of a new speech, of a new feeling and also of a new way of expression. Furthermore, it is also an incentive for the Brazilian cinematographic culture as long as it creates opportunities for new audiences, producers and directors.
Films and videos produced without any kind of support, no money at all or even those which caused loss to its producers and other ones made with very low budgets are welcome too.

ORGANIZERS:
MUMIA – Underground World Animation Festival – a competitive festival, is an initiative of Brazilian animators in cooperation with Betim City Hall, CRAV (Belo Horizonte’s Audiovisual Reference Center), Abílio Barreto Historical Museum, Integrated Schools from the Educational Net of Belo Horizonte, ABCA, ABCA-MG, SESC/Laces/JK, Leite Films and Pimenta Films.

PURPOSE:
Mumia’s purpose is to promote the cultural production of animation films and videos, contributing to its development as an artistic language, specific format and production method. The Festival also aims to offer the local audience the access to the national and international animation production beyond what is currently available through commercial outlets, traditional production houses or film institutions.

REGULATIONS

CHAPTER 1: PURPOSE
MUMIA – Underground World Animation Festival – is focused in promoting recent animation productions, creating artistic links between different nations and cinema professionals around the world and encouraging innovation and creativity.

CHAPTER 2: CONDITIONS
2.1 – Only the following may take part in the Festival:
National animation films or videos of any format and of any lenght, completed after 2000.
Foreign animation films or videos of any format and of any lenght, completed after 2000.
2.2 – Foreign animation films or videos submitted for competition must be subtitled in portuguese.

CHAPTER 3: ENTRIES
3.1 – Entries should include a filled entry form in english or portuguese and any publicity material if available (posters, photos, releases, etc).
3.2 - Copies for selection only will be accepted on DVD (NTSC – region 0).
3.3 - Foreign productions should include credit and dialogue list.
3.4 - Each participant can submit more than one film or video, but must submit each of them with separate entry forms, although the films or videos should be sent all together in the same DVD.
3.5 – Entry forms, DVDs and all the additional information must be sent by July 31st 2009 (postmark) to the Festival adress:
CRAV / MUMIA
Av. Álvares Cabral, 560, Centro, Belo Horizonte – MG, 30170-001,
Brasil
Tel: (031) 3277- 4699
Photos can be sent by mail to leitefilmes@gmail.com

CHAPTER 4: SELECTION
4.1 – Selected films and the Festival programming will be online by October 1st 2009 on the Festival website www.mostramumia.blogspot.com/

CHAPTER 5: GENERAL INFORMATION
5.1 – DVDs will not be returned. MUMIA will retain all the copies of films and videos sent for archival purposes.
5.2 – Producers must agree that their films or videos will be part of the Festival’s Archive and maybe screened on MUMIA’s special cultural programmes in Brasil or other countries that invites MUMIA, including television, without commercial purposes.
5.3 - If a work is accepted into the festival, producers must agree to allow MUMIA to use the film (including images, photos, sound and clips – maximum of 30”) within its promotions and screenings; and also agree to allow MUMIA to provide the film and publicity materials to press in promotion of it and the festival in every media supports.
5.3 – Submissions will be confirmed by mail after the arrival of all required materials and information.
5.4 – The entry of a film or a video implies acceptance of the terms of these regulations.
5.5 – Other issues will be decided by the MUMIA’s organization committee.

ENTRY FORM
7º UNDERGROUND WORLD ANIMATION FESTIVAL - 2009
Original Title:
Duration:
Country of production:
Year of production:
Director:
Adress:
City:
ZIP:
Country:
Tel/fax:
E-mail:
Producer:
Sinopsis:
Awards (If any):
Original film format:
Do you agree in participating of MUMIA’s showcases in brazilian cities and other countries?
Yes
No

(English translation: Claudia Nunes and Luciana Almeida and Art by Adriane Puresa)

7 MUMIA - Call to entries

Deadline: July 31

OBJECTIVES:The festival aims at amplifying the imaginative spaces and the possibilities of new utterances, new feelings, as well as a new way of expressing oneself. It is also an impulse to cinematographic culture that believes the formation of new audiences, as well as filmmakers. Films and videos that were produced with no support are welcome, including those which caused loss for their producers and were fully carried out with low or no budget at all.

ORGANIZERS:

MUMIA – Mostra Udigrudi Mundial de Animação – is a non-competitive initiative by animation professionals supported by CRAV (Centro de Referência Audiovisual de Belo Horizonte), the Historical Museum Abílio Barreto, Integrated Schools of the City of Belo Horizonte, ABCA, ABCA-MG, SESC/Laces/JK, Leite Filmes, Pimenta Filmes and Miguilim Cultural.

FINALITY:

O MUMIA – Mostra Udigrudi Mundial de Animação has as its finality the propagation of audiovisual animation production and aims at contributing for the development of videography as a language system, with specific format and production method.Moreover, it aims at providing the public with a significant share of the national and international video-graphic production, which remains excluded from commercial film circuit.

Adress: CRAV - MUMIA
Av. Álvares Cabral, 560
Centro - Belo Horizonte - MG
30170-001
Brasil
Tel: (+5531) 3277- 4699

Photos send to email: leitefilmes@gmail.com

Devotion to Animation

This year, Tampere Film Festival plunges deep into the world of animation. The animation marathon starts with a Ngo Mahn Lan retrospective, the oldest film dating back to 1965. The retrospective touches upon a variety of themes from ancient warrior myths strengthening national unity to everyday phenomena in domestic environments. The gem of the screening is the epic The Legend of Giong Hero (1971) that was awarded the Golden Dove in Leipzig in 1971 and the Golden Lotus in Vietnam in 1973.

Finland's neighbouring country Sweden is contributing to the festival programme with a worldwide rarity: a collection of Captain Grogg animations from 1916–1922 by Victor Bergdahl. The screening includes Captain Grogg and Kalle at the Darkies Ball (1917), a film banned in Finland in 1917, and Bergdahl's first film The Demon Drink (1915) that serves as a prelude to the medley of Grogg animations.

More recent animation is served in the Finnish premiere of Idiots and Angels (2008) by the American Bill Plympton. In this film tinged with black humour, the protagonist Angel wakes up one day with a mysterious pair of wings on his back and has to perform good deeds contrary to his nature. The screening opens with a short film Hot Dog (2008) featuring a tragicomical hero familiar from Plympton's earlier dog animations.

Pavel Koutský retrospective offers skillful metamorphoses from one form into another as well as storytelling on different levels and using different techniques. Koutskýs fiery dozen includes, for example, the film Curriculum vitae (1986) that won the Golden Bear in Berlin and the best animation award in the international competition at Tampere Film Festival in 1987. The maestro of Czech animation combines enthusiastic intelligence and cutting humour in his works which also reflect the social criticism typical of Eastern European animation.

The Festival programme also boasts a wide range of Brazilian contemporary animation. Brazilian UG offers a cross section of Brazilian animation representing a variety of themes and techniques. The latter screening also features Tyger (2002) by Guilherme Marcondes, a film that took home the Tampere Film Festival's Kiss for the best animation in 2007. The Brazilian UG screenings have been composed by the coordinator of Múmia Festival, Sávio Leite, whose new animation Earth (2008) participates in the international competition this year.

Competition screenings feature numerous other animations, too. Nick Park's latest film to star the characters Wallace and Gromit, The Matter of Loaf and Death (2008), takes part in the international competition, and the Finnish competition in the category of films under 30 minutes is flooded with animations from Turku.

Discussions

Vietnam. Now!With the director Ngo Manh Lan with Ngo Phuong Lan, Lai Van Sinh, Bui Kim Quy and Luu Van Thao.Werstas auditorium, Thursday 5 March, 12:00

Anarchy in animationWith Pavel Koutský (Checzh Republic), Sávio Leite (Brazil), CHRZU (Finland), and Simo Ruotsalainen and Niina Suominen from Turun Anikistit. Chairman Tatu Pohjavirta.Werstas auditorium, Friday 6 March, 16:00

MORE INFORMATION
Riina Mikkonen, Press Coordinatortel. +358 3 213 0034 or +358 40 532 2912riina.mikkonen@tamperefilmfestival.fi
Sanna Kyllönen, Press Coordinatortel. +358 3 213 0034 or +358 40 067 7667sanna.kyllonen@tamperefilmfestival.fi

MUMIA in Tampere

Múmia - Underground Worldwide Animation Festival – Brazil or MUMIA – International Underground of Short Animation.

As it is widely known, in ancient Egypt, mummification was used to preserve the corpse of important personalities, such as priests and wise men, by using balsamic substances – a way of sanctifying death as well as life, since what has been preserved in the pyramids and sarcophaguses – mummies, papyruses, decorative objects – constitute a true interface with not only some people’s lives but with a whole civilization.

The Múmia, by analogy, aims at preserving and making public the international production of animated movies,through open shows and panels which present facts and knowledge in the area,often produced by anonymous artists who rarely get paid for their work.Many of the movies which reach us through various ways, from different states in Brazil as well as from different countries in the world, would remain embalmed on the shelves of inefficient festival curators were it not for the cooperative spirit of Múmia, which is open to everyone without restriction.

The festival aims at amplifying the imaginative spaces and the possibilities of new utterances, new feelings, as well as a new way of expressing oneself. It is also an impulse to cinematographic culture that believes the formation of new audiences, as well as filmmakers. Films and videos that were produced with no support are welcome, including those which caused loss for their producers and were fully carried out with low or no budget at all.

MUMIA is a non-competitive initiative by animation professionals supported by CRAV (Centro de Referência Audiovisual de Belo Horizonte), the Historical Museum Abílio Barreto, Integrated Schools of the City of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, ABCA, ABCA-MG, SESC/Laces/JK, Leite Filmes, Pimenta Filmes and Miguilim Cultural. In 2009, its 7th edition will happen in Brazil.

MUMIA has as its finality the propagation of audiovisual animation production and aims at contributing for the development of videography as a language system, with specific format and production method.
Moreover, it aims at providing the public with a significant share of the national and international video-graphic production, which remains excluded from commercial film circuit.

MUMIA aprreciates taking part on one of the biggest short-films festivals of the world that is Tampere. For that, it has been chosen the most expressives brazilian animations and whose films has been awarded, that demonstrates the good moment of brazilian audiovisual. All the films have been already screnning on the six editions in Brazil.

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Competition Selections Released - Tampere 2009

Finnish Competition
This year, about 350 films were offered for the Finnish Competition. The amount of fiction increased, but documentaries remained strong.

The Finnish Competition is divided into two categories; Films over 30 minutes and films under 30 minutes. Over-30-minutes category in 2009 consists of nine documentaries and two fiction films. Documentary directors include Peter von Bagh, John Webster, Jukka Kärkkäinen, and Satu Väätäinen. The two fictional films are Monte Rosso (2008) by Tuomas Milonoff and Jon Sundell and Where Is Where? (2009), the newest film by Eija-Liisa Ahtila.

There are 25 films competing in the under-30-minutes category. There are nine animations, seven fictional films and eight documentaries. Only Kari Yli-Annala's film A Life of One's Own (a long tomorrow) (2008) has been reported experimental. These shorter films take four screenings and the longer films seven screenings, making the total number of screenings in the Finnish Competition altogether eleven.

Jury for the Finnish Competition 2009 are actress Anni-Kristiina Juuso, artist Teemu Mäki, and producer Shane Smith from Canada.

The Finnish Competition is also viewed by the "Risto Jarva jury" set by the Finnish Film Foundation. Members are: director Kiti Luostarinen, Matti Paunio of channel MTV3, and Otto Suuronen, Assistant / International Promotion - Short and Documentary Films at the Finnish Film Foundation.

International Competition
A fair 3000 films from 73 countries were offered to the International Competition. A clear majority were fiction (about 1800) and animations came in second (about 600). Approximately 340 documentaries were offered, and almost 330 experimental films.

Sixty-nine films were selected. Most, 31 of them, are fiction. There are 15 animations and 19 documentaries, and four experimental films. The already familiar names this year are Nick Park (UK) with his new Wallace & Gromit animation, Hazim Bitar (Jordan), director collective BIF (France), and Mikhail Zheleznikov (Russia). Zimbabwe enters the Festival as a new country with Christina Anderson's Inflation (2008).

Finnish films are represented in the International Competition by three documentaries: Between Dreams (2008) by Iiris Olsson, Ghosts (2008) by Jan Ijäs, and Hanasaari A (2009) by Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen.

Jury for the International Competition are Ngo Phuong Lan (Vietnam), Mia Maike Höhne (Germany), Kristiina Pervilä (Finland), William Sloan (USA), and Montserrat Guiu Valls (Spain).

LAB1O Competition
LAB1O Competition, characterized by films that stretch the limits of cinematic expression, launched in 2008. This year 19 films were selected, and they will be divided into three screenings. Two films by Johannes Nyholm from Sweden are particularly titillating: animation Sagan om den lille dockpojken (2008) and a documentary Dockpojken (2008) on the animation. Kimi Takasue from the USA, familiar from previous years' films in the International Competition, now takes part in the LAB1O with Suspended (2008). This year Finland is represented by Hit the Road - A Regular Love Story (2009) by Tero Jartti.

Jury for the LAB1O Competition are director of the Mumiá Underground Worldwide Animation Festival Sávio Leite (Brazil), executive manager at Espoo Ciné Jenni Ukkonen (Finland), and program manager at Finnkino Toni Lähteinen (Finland).

Prizes
International Competition:Grand Prix €5000, Best Animation €1500, Best Fiction €1500, Best Documentary €1500, as well as nomination for European Short Film Awards.

The winners of the International Competition Grand Prix and the main prize for under-30-minutes in the Finnish Competition get to compete for the nomination for Best Live Action / Animated Short Film Oscar®.

Finnish Competition:Under-30-minutes category main prize €5000 (Finnkino Oy) and special prize €1500.Over-30-minutes category main prize €5000 (Oy Yleisradio Ab) and special prize €1500.
The films in both categories also compete for the Risto Jarva Award (€10.000, the Finnish Film Foundation), and for a resourse award (€3400, Digital Film Finland & Finnlab).
LAB1O Competition:Main prize €2000.
In addition, all competitions have honorary awards and audience awards. The Finnish Competition also has a youth jury award and a student award.
ENQUIRIES
Jukka-Pekka Laakso, Festival Directortel. +358 3 214 1143 or +358 40 703 8599festdirector@tamperefilmfestival.fi
Riina Mikkonen, Press Coordinatortel. +358 3 213 0034 or +358 40 532 2912riina.mikkonen@tamperefilmfestival.fi

Feminism, Vietnam, the Swinging Sixties in Tampere International Film Festival

Female filmmakers are strongly represented in the Tampere Film Festival program.
The Terra Femina display shows 21st century films that are feministic, humoristic, light, and hurtful statements about life as a woman. In addition to retrospects of Eija-Liisa Ahtila and dancer/choreographer/film director Miranda Pennell, we are offered the new film by Agnès Varda. One of the few female new wave directors in France, Varda has made a long documentary of her life and films, called Les plages d'Agnès (2008). This is the film´s Finland premier.

Vietnam. Now. focuses on the awakening tiger of Asia as a film-producing country. We will see a wide spectrum of rarely seen Vietnamese animations, short films, and documentaries from the 1960s to date. Vietnam War is also strongly present in the newer productions. Naturally it is not the only subject; for example, there is an entire screening of animations by Ngo Manh Lan, the oldest of which is from 1965.

The MoMA screenings are a continuation to the sixties theme. They include Andy Warhol films and rare American short films from 1905 to 1986. The displays have been assembled by William Sloan of The Museum of Modern Art. All three screenings are accompanied by musician Jimi Tenor. The Canon of Short Film screening keeps up the swinging sixties and Vietnam War themes, as does the Rake Special display with Emile de Antonio's In The Year of the Pig (1968).
Whatta Helvetia? screening hails from Switzerland with three screenings of short films and a long documentary La forteresse (2007). The short films show the dark side of Swiss life but there is cheeriness afoot to boot. The winners in their country have been assembled in the screening number 1; among them is also an Oscar nominee Auf der strecke (2007) by Reto Caff. La forteresse familiarizes us with the reception centre of refugees, and with its tenants and employees.

A Piece of India screening bores into the everyday life of Indian children in two documentary screenings by Rajesh S. Jala. The first screening shows films located in Kashmir; Floating Lamp in the Shadow Valley (2006), and short films Chinar (1996) and Aazadi (1996). The second screening shows Children of the Pyre (2008), located in Manikarika cremation cemetery in Varanas. The film won the prize for best documentary in both Montreal and São Paulo, and has toured numerous festivals including Pusan, Leipzig, and Amsterdam.

This year offers a wide and ranging spectrum of animations. Bill Plympton´s newest long animation Idiots and Angels (2008) premiers in Finland at this festival. Short film Hot Dog (2008) begins the screening. There are two screenings of Brazilian independent animation, curated by Sávio Leite, director of the Múmia Festival. European animation has its stand through two retrospectives; Swedish and Czech. The first one is an extremely rare collection of animation pioneer Victor Bergdahl´s Kapten Grogg adventures from 1915 till 1922. The same screening offers his first animation The Demon Drink (1915), as well as Kapten Grogg och Kalle på negerbal which was prohibited in Finland in 1917. Traditional Czech animation is represented by the Pavel Koutský retrospective, showing for example the 1987 winner of Best Animation in the International Competition in Tampere Curriculum vitae (1986). The animation also won the Golden Bear in Berlin.

This year the traditional Finnish Film Archive screening is located in the Hällä theatre with four screenings. Two of them include short films by Veikko Itkonen and a feature film order-made for newspaper Helsingin Sanomat called Thus Was the Present Day Born (1951). The two other screenings show short films by Valentin Vaala and Eino Mäkinen.

In addition to the traditional student screenings, this year offers two screenings of absolute gems; old films by those who have in their time studied in the fifty-year-old University of Art and Design, in the school of Motion Picture and Production Design. We see early student films by Pirjo Honkasalo, Anu Kuivalainen, and Lauri Törhönen. The idea of the Runaways screening is, on the other hand, to show what Finnish students have worked on in foreign academies.
This year Tullikamari is even more of a playground of both music and film than before. On Wednesday there is the Art of Fusion screening, with a 16-mm projector performance MetalkinG from France by Gaëlle Rouard and Etienne Claire. The same screening sees Magyar Posse accompanying a Petri Hagner film Aldebaran Rising. On Friday, there is a documentary on the birth of dubstep, Bassweight, as well as music videos from London. On Saturday, there is a second project by Rouard and Claire, and afterwards Tullikamari is taken over by Tags´n´Beats, a night party of street art and hip hop culture.

Traditionalists on the other hand may enjoy the documentary Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (2008) which addresses the musician´s career through rare archive material and interviews. The new Finnish music videos of the year are naturally shown as usual.

MORE INFORMATION
Jukka-Pekka Laakso, Festival Directortel. +358 3 214 1143 or +358 40 703 8599festdirector@tamperefilmfestival.fi

Riina Mikkonen, Press Coordinatortel. +358 3 213 0034 or +358 40 532 2912riina.mikkonen@tamperefilmfestival.fi