Information for film's submission
Birdz
Animation • 11 min. 20 • 2016 (February) • Switzerland
First film
SYNOPSIS
People that look and behave like birds, try to survive the cruelness of nature.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Animation technique: 3D computer • Sound: 5.1 • Process: colour • Screened on: DCP (1.85, 24 fps), ProRes 422 (16/9, 24 ips), Blu-ray, Quicktime • Original version: no dialogues
CREDITS
Director, Editing, Script, Graphic design: Emilien Davaud • Animation : Valerie Juillard, Michael Cotton-Russell • Sound editing: Jerome Vittoz • Music : David de Salle • Mix: Denis Sechaud
DIRECTOR
Emilien Davaud • Born on May 8th,1984 in Geneva, Switzerland
Biography : Emilien Davaud graduadted from the French 3D animation school Supinfocom Arles, in 2010, with the film “D’une rare crudité”. He worked on different productions as digital animation designer and supervisor, before turning to directing his own short films.
Address : c/o Hélium Films, Chemin de Montelly 46, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland
Ph. : (+41) 21 544 86 02 • E-mail :
PRODUCTION
Production company: Hélium Films • Producer: Claude Barras • Production manager : Geraldine Rod • Address: Chemin de Montelly 46, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland • Ph. : (+41) 21 544 86 02 • E-mail : • Website: www.heliumfilms.ch
PARTICIPATION IN FESTIVALS
2016: Forum for Animation Films, Cairo (Egypt) - Reus European Short Film Festival (Spain) - Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong) - Tampere Film Festival (Finland) - Festival EcoZine, Zaragoza (Spain) - Mediawave International Film and Music Festival, Komarom (Hungary) - Animfest, Athens (Greece) - Future Film Festival, Bologna (Italy) - Golden Kuker, Sofia (Bulgaria) - Seoul international Cartoon and Animation Festival (South Korea) - Cartoon Club, Rimini (Italy) - Fest Anca, Zilina (Slovakia) - Fantoche, Baden (Switzerland) - Animatou, Geneva (Switzerland) - First Short Film Festival, Pontault-Combault (France) - Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, Bristol (United-Kingdom) - Bucheon International Animation Festival (South Korea) - Bourg-en-Bresse Animation Film Festival for Youth (France) - 2ANNAS, Riga (Latvia) - Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo (Brazil) - Banjaluka International Animation Film Festival (Bosnia Herzegovina) > Best 2D Animation - Multivision Festival, Saint-Petersburg (Russia) - Kinoproba, Ekaterinburg (Russia) - Animateka, Ljubljana (Slovenia) - Cinema-Nature Encounters, Dompierre-sur-Besbre (France) > Best Sound design - Cortoons Festival, Gandia (Spain) - Animocje, Bydgoszcz (Poland) - Verdens Beste, Tromsø (Norway) - Filmfest Eberswalde (Germany) - Festival du Film Court en Armagnac, Condom (France)
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IMPORTANT
Contact concerning the film's submission and expedition for screening:
Mikhal Bak, festivals agent • Ph.: (+33) 979 34 99 02 • E-mail:
Return DCPs to: 60 rue du 19 Mars 1962, 94500 Champigny-sur-Marne, France
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