Short Animation Award in 2008

10 February 08

The Short Animation winner and nominees for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2008.

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The Pearce Sisters was declared the winner of the Short Animation Award at the Orange British Academy Film Awards on Sunday 10 February.

The Academy recognises that it is essential to reward and nurture the immense diversity and talent demonstrated by filmmakers producing short film and animation. Shorts offer both new and established talent alike the chance to create experimental and innovative films and, by rewarding excellence within these fields, BAFTA aims to raise the profile of these talented individuals and of shorts in general.

THE PEARCE SISTERS (9 MINS) - WINNER
Producer: Jo Allen | Director/Writer: Luis Cook

The Pearce Sisters 3 An amusingly bleak tale of two weather-lashed old spinsters, who live on a remote and austere strip of coast. Taking shelter in a beaten driftwood shack, they scrape out a miserable existence from the sea. When it offers up a handsome but half-drowned man, they do their best to resuscitate him. When he fails to show the proper gratitude, things start to go awry.

THE CRUMBLEGIANT (5 MINS)
Producer: Pearse Moore | Director/Writer: John McCloskey

An old woman remembers a childhood episode and the past becomes mingled with the present. Bernard Hill (Lord of the Ring ,Titanic) narrates a story in which demons are recalled and banished in an elegantly-animated world of imagination and memories. Writer/director John McCloskey is currently developing a number of feature films and drama serials for BBC Drama.

HEAD OVER HEELS (8 MINS)
Producer: Osbert Parker/Fiona Pitkin | Director: Osbert Parker | Writer: Osbert Parker/Ian Gouldstone

The conflicting story of Charlie and Frank is told as a gripping romance via Osbert Parker's signature animation style. Live action and cut-out animation collide as the plot unexpectedly twists and turns, and the protagonists end up sacrificing more than what they bargained for. Co-writer Ian Gouldstone won a BAFTA for his short animation Guy 101' in 2007.