Paul & The Dragon wins Brazil

Paul & The Dragon did well at the Anima Mundi festival in Brazil
We won 1st prize for Best Short for Children in Rio de Janeiro.
Click HERE to see a list of all the winners:

We also came in 2nd at the festival in Sao Paulo.
A big shout out and thank you to all the local Brazilian people who voted for the film.
Hope to be there in Rio next year!

'Paul & the Dragon' wins Divercine!

Last week Paul & the Dragon won the price for 'Best Animated Film' in Montevideo, Uruguay, at the the 18th International Uruguayan Film Festival for Children and Teen-agers, DIVERCINE. The film also got a Special Mention on the festival. Excellent!

This is what the jury had to say about it:

"Por el excelente guión que, sin diálogos, logra transmitir lúdicamente la visión y las emociones de un niño ante el diagnóstico de cáncer en su cuerpo. Logra encontrar humor donde habitualmente sólo hay drama y logra encontrar vida donde se cree que solo hay muerte"

Roughly translated by Google:

"Its excellent script, without any dialogue, manages to convey the vision and playful emotions of a child before the diagnosis of cancer in his body. It finds humor where there is usually only tragedy and finds life where it is believed that there is only death"

Interview Digital Movie Magazine

A couple of weeks ago we got interviewed by Digital Movie Magazine. Here's the result with a whoppin' four pages interview (in dutch) full of 'Paul and the Dragon' goodness:

'Floyd'...falling soon!

This week we got the most excellent news that the National Film Fund has granted us financial support for the pre-production of our new animated shortfilm
'Fallin' Floyd'.
This means after wrapping up 'Little Quentin' this summer, we can start the pre-production of two new film projects: a short and a feature film. Excellent.

The End is Nigh

As we are slowly approaching the final scenes, here are a couple of stills from our upcoming new animated short film noir 'Little Quentin'.

Paul travels to South America

Even more festival news: Paul and the Dragon will be playing at the 18th International Uruguayan Film Festival for Children and Teen-agers, DIVERCINE 2009, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, between the 29th June and the 12th July 2009.
'Paul y el dragón' will be playing there on Saturday the 4th and Friday the 10th of July in the Sala Zitarrosa theatre. After Divercine, the film will be playing at different festivals in South America.
Below you can see the shiny Hermína Týrlová Award, we won at the Zlin festival in Czech Republic. It's sorta looks like a magic crystal ball, except you can't predict the future with it, but when you place it in the bowl, you can spin it around and it keeps spinning for a real long time, which is awesome.

Paul & the Dragon wins Zlin!

This Saturday our film, Paul & the Dragon, has won another prize; the excellent Hermina Tyrlov Award (Award for Young Artists aged fewer than 35) at the 49th Zlin international Film Festival for Children and Youth!

For Dutch visitors, read all about it on Dutch news sites: NU.nl and Telegraaf.nl

*UPDATE*: Click HERE for another nice Dutch review of the film by filmsite Movie2Movie. Four out of five stars.

P&D screening @ Warner Bros.

Bob Beresh was kind enough to organize a screening of 'Paul and the Dragon' at the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank on Friday, the 12th of June at 7:00pm.
If you're in the neighborhood, we hope you'll be able to make it to the screening.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to paulscreening@gmail.com with the names of all guests. Bob made this nice official invitation for the screening:

P&D mini international website

Better late than never: here's the international website for 'Paul and the Dragon'. It's basically a mini version of the Dutch version with all the basic information about the film, plus the trailer available in glorious HD!

In other news, the film got selected for the Anima Mundi Festival 2009 in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, Brazil! Excellent!

Stuttgart Animation festival

Here's a small impression of the 16^th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.
We had a couple of very successful screenings of 'Paul & the Dragon', had too many bratwurst and got into a couple of nasty fights with some Dreamworks characters:

Fallin' Floyd, part II

More early designs for Floyd! Still trying to find a nice mix in cut-out shapes and hand drawn animation.

P&D wins @ Ranimatie!

Yesterday Paul & the Dragon won the Animation for Kids price
at the Ranimatie festival in Rotterdam!
Special thanks to the jury and organization of Ranimatie!
We are now the proud owners of this most excellent lamp:

Festival news!

Last weekend 'Paul & the Dragon' won the first prize in the competition for professionals at the Zwolle Animation festival 2009. We won an Adobe CS4 software package. Excellent! Special thanks to the jury of the festival and to Adobe! The film will also be shown this weekend and Monday at the Ranimatie festival in Rotterdam. The film has also been selected for this year's International Film Festival Zlin for Children and Youth in the Chech Republik!

Fallin' Floyd

Some very early concept art for a project, where we want to try to mix cut-out animation with hand drawn animation.

P&D reviews, interviews, fanart and...oh my!

First off, a big thanks to the crew of Animated Views. They put up a review of our film Paul & The Dragon, plus they interviewed us on the making of the film.
Click *here* for the interview and *here* for the excellent review.

Then, here are two more (Dutch) reviews in two magazines, BSM magazine and Nederlands dagblad:

Last month, in connection with the International Childhood Cancer Day, the kids of primary school Johan Friso held a fundraiser for the The Dutch Childhood Cancer Parent Organisation (VOKK). Those crazy kids raised 1170,93 euros! And in class they also made these wonderful Paul & the Dragon drawings and paintings. Sweet! Check out all the other art pieces by clicking --->HERE.