Mary & Max News
Mary and Max - DVD and BluRay - OCTOBER 21 - Australian release
Posted by Melanie on 28/08/2009
Available to buy on Blu-ray & DVD October 21, 2009
SOMETIMES COMPLETE STRANGERS MAKE THE BEST FRIENDS
Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44-year-old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York, strike up an extraordinary bond.
Spanning twenty years and two continents, Mary and Max’s friendship survives much more than the average diet of life’s ups and downs.
Starring
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt, The Boat That Rocked)
Toni …
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Mary and Max - USA release
Posted by Melanie on 18/08/2009
19 August 2009 - For immediate release:
Melodrama Pictures is delighted to announce that Mary and Max, the animated feature film from Adam Elliot, the Academy Award ® winning writer/director of Harvie Krumpet, is being released in the USA.
The attached Press Release from the new Sundance Selects on-demand platform of the highly prestigious Sundance Channel announces the release alongside Sundance favourites including Spike Lee’s “Passing Strange, the Movie”. Sundance Selects titles will be available on the on-demand platform of major US cable operators, including Comcast, Cox and Cablevision.
Mary and Max will be …
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Mary and Max - more INTERNATIONAL festival successes!
Posted by Melanie on 10/08/2009
Mary and Max: won… Best Fiction Film Foreign, Jury Award at Traverse City Film Festival (founded by Michael “Bowling for Columbine” Moore) http://www.traversecityfilmfest.org/news/?page=press-release-8-3-09
AND....
Mary and Max is one of only 11 films in the Milano Feature Film Competition: http://www.milanofilmfestival.it/2009/programmapersezioni/lunghi/mary&max.php
And more festivals
17th - 27th 22nd Helsinki Intl Film Festival Helsinki,
September FINLAND
18th - 27th BUSTER - Copenhagen Intl Film Copenhagen,
September Festival For Children and Youth DENMARK
17th - 26th 15th Lund Intl Fantastic Film …
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Mary and Max screening at festivals all over the world!
Posted by Melanie on 15/07/2009
Here’s a list of upcoming festivals which will be screening Mary and Max - this list is not comprehensive and will be updated regularly! This doesn’t include general national cinema releases. They’ll be announced separately!
29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival USA
5th Traverse City Film Festival USA
ANIMA ISRAEL
The Norwegian International Film Festival - Haugesund NORWAY
Monterrey Intl Film Festival MEXICO
The London Intl Animation Film Festival UK
LUCAS - Intl Children’s Film Festival …
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Mary and Max shares The Grand Crystal Best Feature Award at Annecy!
Posted by Melanie on 15/06/2009
Breaking news - Mary and Max has just won The Grand Crystal Best Feature award at the prestigeous Annecy Animation Festival. The Award is jointly shared with Coraline (d: Henry Sellick - Laika Entertainment/Universal Pictures).
Annecy is the ‘Cannes of Animation’ and is where Harvie Krumpet (the Oscar winning short film also written and directed by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs) began its journey winning three Annecy awards back in 2003.
This award comes hot on the heels of Mary and Max’s success at Stuttgart Animation Festival (Grand Jury Prize) and Zagreb Film Festival …
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