Future Film Festival 2006 will dedicate a tribute to English production companies dealing with animation and digital effects applied to images. Since some years these production companies have become very important for the international survey thanks to imaginative videoclips, provocative tv series, clever heading titles for feature films and funny tv interludes.
The best selection (adverts, videoclip, movies heading titles) from Nexus Production, Passion Picture, SlinkyPictures, Studio Aka and Tandem Film will be screened.
The retrospective is edited by Susanna Corchia.
Info about the production companies:
Nexus Productions
Independent company specialized in animation. On 1996 it realized visual contents for U2’s Pop Mart Tour. It had realized many famous videoclip such as Strict Machine by Goldfrapp e Take Me by Franz Ferdinand.
www.nexusproductions.com
Passion Pictures
Production company that puts together famous international directors and designers such as Tim Hope, Russel Brooke, Pete Candeland and Pierre Coffin. It had realized the last Gorillaz’s videoclip directed by Pete Candeland.
www.passion-pictures.com
Slinky Pictures
This company had reinvented the use of animation on all media. It had realized visual contests fot U2’s Elevation Tour.
www.slinkypics.com
Studio Aka
Well-know company based on London, It is the one of the most creative and imaginative companies of the world. It had realized the short Jo Jo in the Stars that won many awards.
www.studioaka.co.uk
Tandem Films
Independent company born on 1986. On 1992, its movie Manipulation by Daniel Greaves won the Academy Award as best animated short and the Cartoon D’or.
www.tandemfilms.com
