Monthly Archives: July 2008
Delgo news and updates…
Well we have finally done it – Delgo was awarded Best Feature film at the Anima Mundi festival this month. We have been fortunate enough to have it screened at SICAF in Korea, Annecy in France, Red Stick in USA (article on the screening)and Anima Mundi in Brazil.While we only picked up an award at Anima Mundi, I am very grateful and proud that we were able to screen our film at all these prestigious festivals. Our cast and crew worked tirelessly for many years to bring our vision to life and it could not have been done without their dedication, passion and patience. It was an honor to work with all of them, and I hope that someday we will be able to collaborate again.
Way to go guys! Congrats to you all!!!
Jason
Writer/Co-Director for Delgo
DELGO wins Best Feature Film at Anima Mundi 2008
Festival’s audience of 100,000 selected the winner
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 21, 2008 — Anima Mundi, one of the largest and most prominent animation festivals in the world, has awarded the American film, Delgo, the Best Animated Feature of the year.
The Anima Mundi award for Best Feature Film is determined by an audience of approximately 100,000 people. Anima Mundi director, Cesar Coelho, stated, “We believe it’s important for film enthusiasts to decide on the winner rather than a panel of jurors or film critics. Everyone who watches the selected films has an opportunity to voice their opinion.”
The final cut of Delgo premiered at the Brazilian animation festival. Winning films at Anima Mundi were selected from thousands of submissions from over 70 countries.
Delgo is a fantasy action-adventure of a world’s struggle for unity. The all-star voice cast includes Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anne Bancroft, Val Kilmer, Chris Kattan, Malcolm McDowell, Lou Gossett, Jr., Kelly Ripa, Michael Clarke Duncan, Eric Idle, Sally Kellerman and Burt Reynolds.
“After many years of development and production, it’s exhilarating to have such a positive reception from audiences,” said Producer Marc F. Adler, who, with Jason Maurer directed the feature film. “Seeing the reactions from festival attendees as they watched our film made all our hard work worthwhile.”
Delgo was also an official selection of Annecy (France) and SICAF (Korea) film festivals, two of the world’s most prominent animation festivals.
Ken Kamins of Key Creatives, representing Fathom Studios, notes a wide domestic theatrical release for Delgo will be announced shortly.
About Anima Mundi
Anima Mundi (http://www.animamundi.com.br) was established in 1993 and is currently the second largest animation festival in the world. Accredited by ASIFA (The International Animated Film Association), Anima Mundi brings to the Brazilian audience the best in world animation, presenting competition screenings, special programs, retrospectives, international guests and professional workshops.
About Fathom Studios
Atlanta-based Fathom Studios (http://www.fathomstudios.com) has been creating award-winning computer animation since 1991. A division of the interactive agency Macquarium Intelligent Communications, the studio focuses on developing original content for television, film and the Internet through passion and creativity.
A poem –
Summer -
Heat, sticky, hot,
wet misty jazz
the smell of old beer
wafting from the
twilight dumpster.
Her shoe’s sparkle
dimmed by the
drunken sick from
a friend.
The homeless man
clutches his half full
beer – sipping it as if
tomorrow will never
come.
The new couple
lost in themselves
giggle
as the warm rain starts –
dreaming of the freedom
of nakedness.
A lone horn calls
out echoing down the
alley inviting, hoping
to find its mate…
A cheer erupts from the
nearby bar as someone
wins one more drinking contest -
one more headache in the morning
forgotten in the moment of
camaraderie.
Gaggles of girls clustered
together drunk on
the night nectar,
roam the streets in search
of their nightly nesting
spot.
A girl and her dog play
in the fountain drunk
on life escaping the heat
of the day,
while the guitar player
breaks a string playing
for spare change.
The blindman smiles
from across the square
his candy bar box
almost empty from
the days sale.
The tip tap of his cane
drifts off into the
nights breeze,
captured by the outstretched
arms of the ancient oaks.
Silent sentinels ever watching,
ever listening to the
stories of
summer.
July 3rd, 2008 Circa pub
Photo of the Day
Pinky masters bathroom
Sent from Jason maurer’s iPhone
Daily drawing update!!!
Well here is a big update – its like almost 50 drawings! Hope you like!
Note -15 The journey continues
Well so far so good. Its been several months since starting this insanity of recording my life in various ways. Thought I’d drop an update on how it was going. Things that have been working and things that haven’t.
1. The daily snapshot of self – Well this is pretty much a no brainer when I’m home. Its when I am traveling that it became problematic. There will be gaps to be sure I think as I know I did miss a few days here and there. I’ve been not just standing still but posing each day. I need to look at the current mass of them and do some experiments with them to help me think of new things to do.
2. The daily drawing – This overall I think has been the most successful of all the endeavors. It is the most labor intensive, but it really gets me thinking about my day, what happened and how I felt. My chief problem so far is that I’m not able to keep up with the work load and actually finish a drawing a day. Life has a funny way of getting in my way. However to combat this I have been jotting down in my sketchbook notes and drawings so that I can develop them. This has gotten me into a situation where I am about a week or so behind… arg. This week I plan on buckling down a bit and knocking them all out to catch up. I also plan on posting the next selection of them probably next sunday.
3. The photos from my iPhone – this has been the most interesting I think. It is super easy to do and kinda fun. I’ve been doing experiments with the phone seeing what it can do -the tossing the camera thing is wicked! Looking for unusual and more bizzare things each day. I’m surprised how much truly wack stuff there is all around us each day that I think we just glance over or pass by without comment.
4. Lastly the daily word – this is a super no brainer -cuz it just get’s emailed to me. They are stacked up in my mailbox so I will have a list of the words by day at the end of the year. Its easy and will give me text to play with. What will be interesting to see is how the word plays off the mood of the day in the end. I’m and deliberately not comparing the two now so in the end any links will be purely random.
All in all so far it has been a fun experiment that is helping me get back in touch with myself and the world around me. I’m looking forward to turning all of this into some form of film or experience at the end, but what an interesting story it will be – one without a beginning or an end but just a moment out of time with its own ups and downs.
j
Photo of the Day
Incense bowl
Sent from Jason maurer’s iPhone
