animate!

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animate! synopsis

A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s 52nd Street Project and London’s Scene & Heard theatre groups, the film is voiced by professional adult actors and directed to render the children’s dramatic intentions as sincerely as possible.

Three short films within one film:

Revenge Is Cold – Woody the box of matches dreams of becoming a lighter. In the Mexican desert he encounters Antus, an untrustworthy cactus, who claims he can help him fufil his ambitions. Together they journey to ‘The Land of the Freeze’ – the North Pole – where a surprise is in store for both of them.

Love Then First Fight – Bob Brakinlot the crowbar is a reformed criminal, determined to give himself a second chance. Into his world bursts Blossom Shritz, a shirt whose life has been torn apart. Desperate for acceptance and affection, they seem to offer each other “a chance to be average in a nasty world“. But can they both put the past behind them?

Keep Going – A young egg, Stuart, escapes from his fridge in Scotland on a mission to meet his hero, Michael Jackson. On the streets of Aberfeldy he bumps into Andrew, a lonely gorilla, who is searching for his family. Together they begin an epic quest, which will lead them to both joyful and tragic ends (via Inverness).

key credits

director: Tim Hope
writer: Kevin Pinto; Thomas Gwyther; Acai Duang Arop
music: Antony Brown; Oliver Davis
producer: Kai Simmons

Tim Hope

short biography

Tim took a degree in theology and worked as a stand-up comedian before making his multi-prizewinning manic short The Wolfman (British Animation Awards 2000: Public Choice and Best Animation at the Cutting Edge).

Since then he has directed & animated commercials plus notable music videos for bands like Beta Band, One Giant Leap and Coldplay. He lives in London.

30 November 2003

a film by Tim Hope

direction

director: Tim Hope

script

writer: Kevin Pinto; Thomas Gwyther; Acai Duang Arop

based upon

actual credit: based upon
title of original material: workshops devised at Scene & Heard with
author: Kate Coleman and Sophie Boyack

voice-over

Oliver Senton

Roger May

Jessica Radcliffe

Dan Copeland

live-action personnel

live-action: Sue Green

image personnel

animator: Tim Hope; Tim Sanpher; Tom Stanton; Matt Everitt; Naz Khajenouri
graphics: Peter Richardson
editor: Chris Barwell

sound personnel

music: Adelphoi Music; Antony Brown; Oliver Davis
sound designer: Tom Russell
audio facility: We Write Music

production personnel

executive producer: Russell Maclean
producer: Kai Simmons
production company: Cloth Productions / Passion Pictures

support

thanks: Andrew Bone, Selina Boyack, Jason Cheater, Gaelle Denis, Don Gillet, Matt Herbert, Chris Hemming, Clive Hayward, David Lea, Nick Rowe, Vissey Safavi, Hugo Sands, Susie Trayling, and all at Passion Pictures
primary funding: an animate! commission funded through Finetake by Arts Council England and Channel 4