Melbourne Animator Making His Mark

April 27, 2010 13:22

Melbourne-based writer, director and animator, Michael Hill, is putting local animation talent on the world map with his sweet yet dark short animated film ‘The Not So Great Eugene Green’, which has been selected to screen in official International Competition at the prestigious Stuttgart International Festival of the Animated Film, in Germany from May 4th-9th 2010. Stuttgart is a major event on the international animation festival circuit – it is the second biggest animation festival in the world with 480 films screening to approximately 40,000 people over one week.

With financial support from Screen Australia, Michael will be traveling to Stuttgart in May to support the film’s screening and to network with some of the world’s biggest names in animation.

The multi-award winning director and animator stated that although he had high hopes for the reception of his film, the news of his Stuttgart selection came “as an amazing, and simply wonderful surprise.”

Funded by Screen Australia and produced by Melanie Brunt at Feather Films, ‘The Not So Great Eugene Green’ is a 13-minute hand drawn 2D animation. It has enjoyed international and Australian film festival success since it was
premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in June 2009. Most notably, ‘The Not So Great Eugene Green’ was nominated as a finalist for the 2009 Best Short Animation Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award.

For more information on Michael, visit his production website, www.mrillogical.com

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Contact: Feather Films

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