This is one of our favorite works from the recently Oscar nominated duo, Tiny Inventions.
It’s an animated dark comedy about a vacationing couple’s encounter with a man they believe to be the Zodiac Killer.
Based on a true story.
Techniques and tools:
After Effects, Stop-Motion, Pixilation, Drawn on Paper, Flash, & Live Action puppets.
A resident of Boston and a senior medical writer at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Diane Hanks makes the 2017 Hit List. She broke onto the scene last year when her pilot CHANGELINGS won the 2016 Page International Screenwriting Awards Grand Prize. Continuing her success, PARAGRAPH 175 was recently featured on the Black List website and was a 2017 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship semifinalist.
“SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM HIT LIST 2017:
In 2016 we saw Netflix making its first appearance on the list (behind only Fox) with 3 projects on the list, and this year they not only returned, but they tied Paramount and Sony for the top studio spot with 4 projects apiece. Still sitting atop the eight year overall list however is Warner Bros. who added 2 more projects this year to watch their total projects accounted for at time of release jump up to 31. Beyond just individual studios, the 2017 list would also set records for the most projects set up at both studios (29) and production companies (60).
After becoming the first annual ‘best of’ list to have a female writer land the top spot in 2014 (Catherine The Great – Kristina Lauren Anderson), we’d seen the number of female writers breaking a new record year-over-year since, and 2017 is no different, as one up last years record of 22 with this years record of 24 female writers. Additionally, the number of returning writers on this years list would tie last year’s record, with 22 projects being written by 26 Hit List alums.”
Helmer André Chocron recently released this clip for Paul McCartney’s “Appreciate.”
We particularly like the sci-fi angle… that is the robot called “Newman.”
Speaking about Newman the former Beatle said: “I woke up one morning with an image in my head of me standing with a large robot. I thought it might be something that could be used for the cover of my album NEW, but instead the idea turned out to be for my music video ‘Appreciate’. Together with the people who had done the puppetry for the worldwide hit War Horse, we developed the robot who became Newman.”
André did this through Friend.
This is Iggy Azalea’s Bounce (Vision Film) that the directing duo BRTHR helmed about a year ago.
It very much captures the BRTHR savoir-faire not to mention Iggy Azalea’s strong Tupac inspired persona. The Bollywood theme is perfect for the song as well as for Iggy who earlier in May released her album The New Classic, becoming the highest-charting debut.
Needless to say that Woolf + Lapin is quite excited to be working with the young directing duo, who dropped out of film school just a couple of years ago to make videos such as this.
We love their style which, along with the eclectic editing, is always a good mix of honest grit and rich texture.
This is MNEK’s “Every Little Word.”
The up and coming directing duo behind the cool video goes by the moniker Lamar + Nik. Despite living in separate states (Oklahoma + Seattle), the directors who make up this exciting and highly creative pair have also helmed music videos for the Pixies, Samantha Crain and Lushlife (for “Magnolia,” which got considerable notice).
In this interview given to NewsOK, Lamar + Nik talk about “the humdrum horrors of what they’ve dubbed the “three-band half-story,” thusly explaining how they are saving us from boring narrative formula one music video at a time.
“Prospect is the coming-of-age story of a teenage girl on a toxic alien planet. She and her father hunt for precious materials, aiming to strike it rich. When the father is attacked by a roving bandit, the daughter must take control.”
Above the wonderful father/daughter relationship and the great angle on the coming-of-age tale, the rich sound scape of alien animals shrieking in the forest is what lends this short all its credibility.
Prospect, by Seattle-based Shep Films, premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival.
Stop-mo, thumbtacks and string. That’s what Guillaume Blanchet’s award-winning short needed to bring Elastika to life. And how! Elastika is not your typical grrrl.
She’s young, dreamy and fearless, she drives cars way too fast, she’s also a yamakasi. She likes adventure, fireworks and unrelenting seas.
“From the day I conceived her, I’ve been a worried father,” says Guillaume. “And a proud one too.”
We thought we’d kick off 2014 with this recently released clip showing William Winram’s world record 145 meter (50 stories) underwater dive on a single breath.
The music video was directed by Brent Bonacorso.
Hints of Russian aristocracy give it a Tolstoi feel.
Nice car crash of a vintage Citroën… wicked underwater car photography.
The video was produced by Thom Fennessey of Collaboration Factory.
On the Job is a new short by Patrick Boivin.
It is also scripted by writing partner Randall Lobb who also happens to do voices, namely that of Roméo Bulté Boivin who plays “Tom.”
It will crack you up with its slapstick, potty humor fun.
