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Sock Skewer Street 8
Director:
Elli Vuorinen
Country:
Finland
year: 2013
Running Time:
6'30"
Technique:
Drawing on paper
Genre:
Adventure
Category:
Student film
Producer:
Eija Saarinen
Distributor:
Eija Saarinen
The program:
Synopsis
She keeps finding tiny socks. Now, whose feet are feeling cold?
A strange autobiographical story, where little factors of life help to let go of the past.
Director's BIO
Elli Vuorinen has graduated from Animation department in Turku Arts Academy. Her first two school films Benigni (co-directed with Pinja Partanen and Jasmiini Ottelin in 2009) and The Tongueling (2010) have been widely noticed in the animation industry before she even graduated.
For example Kielitiettyni has won this year the main prize in Tricky Women festival, Best Student Animation award at Anifest in Czech Republic and the Special Prize in Tampere Film Festival. Benigni has been nominated to numerous awards and was chosen by Animatricks Animation Festival to represent Finland in the ANOBA (Award of Nordic and Baltic Animation Festival) competition in 2010.
Her third and latest film Sock Skewer Street 8 (2013) started off as a graduation film, but was finished in “Animation Artist in Residence Tokyo
2012-2013”, part of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs "International Invitation Program for Animation Artists 2013".
More information about her films and other works can be found in Elli's websites http://ellivuorinen.com.
Contacts
elli@ellivuorinen.com
http://ellivuorinen.com
