Mary & Max News
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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Statement from the Jury awarding Mary and Max the ANIMOVIE PRIZE!
Posted by Melanie on 13/05/2009
from : http://www.itfs.de/en/press/jury-statements.html
Award winner AniMovie: “Mary&Max” by Adam Elliot from Australia
“The jury was very impressed with the quality of all the films we viewed, and it was very difficult to choose only one film to be the best of the festival. There were many animation styles and stories to consider and the deliberations were very intense. At the end the jury felt that “Mary and Max” had the most original and impressive non-traditional story, style and format of all the films. The director’s vision and the realization of that vision is stunning on …
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MARY AND MAX has won the ANIMOVIE feature film award at Stuttgart!
Posted by Melanie on 11/05/2009
11th May 2009: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
MARY AND MAX has won the ANIMOVIE feature film award at Stuttgart!
Overnight MARY AND MAX has won the ANIMOVIE feature film award at the prestigious 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.
Other films in competition included mainstream US fair like Coraline and Igor as well as the indie favourites such as the new film from Animation Legend, Bill Plympton film Idiots & Angels.
The festival website is http://www.itfs.de/en/ but there press release isn’t up yet as they are still at the party right now! …
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Mary and Max will screen in Edinburgh after screening at the animation festival in Annecy
Posted by Melanie on 08/05/2009
Edinburgh accepts three Aussie films
[Thu 07/05/2009 06:04:40] from if.com.au
By Simon de Bruyn
Three Australian features have been accepted into the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June.
Jonathan Auf Der Heide’s feature debut Van Diemen’s Land will have its international premiere at the festival, fresh off its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in February (not to mention screenings of the truncated version at the Melbourne International Film Festival).
Set in 1822, Van Diemen’s Land tells the story of the convicts that escaped Sarah Island, fled …
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