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Butterflies
Director:
Isabel Peppard
Country:
Australia
year: 2013
Running Time:
12.07
Technique:
Stop-motion (animated objects, puppets, clay animation, etc.)
Genre:
Adventure
Category:
Short film [10 to 45 min]
Producer:
Warwick Burton
Distributor:
Simon Young
The program:
Synopsis
A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She sells drawings to passersby. A businessman recognises her talents and offers her a paying job.
The prospect seems inviting but the reality threatens to kill her imagination…
Director's BIO
Isabel is a multi-talented filmmaker who has co-written, directed and designed 2 short animated films. Butterflies, her most recent collaboration with producer / co-writer Warwick Burton won Best Short Animation at Cinequest, San Jose, 2013, making the film eligible for Academy Award nomination.
Peppard began her career as a prosthetics makeup artist, drawn to the industry by her love of horror and movie monsters. Over the years Isabel used the skills associated with SPFX makeup to explore a wide range of creative practices from sculpture to performance art to stop-motion animation.
Contacts
contact@butterfliesanimation.com
