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Featuring a wide assortment of animation films: from classical and computer animation, to stop-motion. From million dollar budgets to no budget. From OSCAR winners to lost classics!
WILDsound MATINEE Film Festivals are held every month at Toronto's National Film Board Cinema (150 John Street in the Entertainment District in downtown Toronto).
CLICK HERE and submit your Short or Feature Film to our future Monthly events.
A Monthly Toronto Film Festival! The Fastest Growing Short Film Festival in the World!
Be a part of the only festival in the world where the AUDIENCE is the main character of the night. A full Q&A session after the films are screened is the highlight of this event. This is the viewers' chance to state their opinions on what they felt about the movie and for the filmmaker to get feedback on their work.
The event will be Hosted by WES BERGER
CLICK HERE for details of the Screenplay Event on Sunday June 22nd at 7pm
CLICK HERE for details of the FEEDBACK Short Film Festival event on Saturday June 21st at 7pm.
Here's the line-up for Sunday, 22 June 2008. Doors open at 1:30 p.m.
MADAME TUTLI-PUTLICAN, 15min Stop-Motion Animation
directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
2008 OSCAR Nominated Short Film!
The National Film Board of Canada presents a stunning, stop-motion animated film that takes the viewer on an exhilarating existential journey. The film introduces groundbreaking visual techniques and is supported by a haunting and original score.
WATCH THE MOVIE TRAILER OF THIS FILM
PUPPETUS, 8min Stop-Motion Animation
directed by Patrick Smith
WINNER Best Film July 2007 WILDsound Festival!
A young man fabricates a simple sock puppet, not knowing the abuse the entity will soon inflict. Through an escalating series of torture, the possessed puppet takes on the embodiment of fear, chaos, and willful self-destruction.
ROBOTACAN, 10min Lego Animation
directed by Marc Beurteaux
A film that took three years to complete and used over 40 000 pieces of Lego.
ROBOTA is a stop-motion animated film done entirely in Lego and Mega-blok bricks. Set in a decayed Lego underworld, ROBOTA tells the bittersweet story of a homeless robot searching for a quick fix.
THE BITEUS, 2min Animation Parody
directed by Jeff Harms
One of the most watched films on www.wildsound.ca!
A man clumsily tries to defend the woman he loves. If he were spanish and it was 1600 it would have been windmills.
FAULTUS, 4min Animation Comedy
directed by Stewart Shaw
Also one of the funniest films you'll ever see too!
He's out of his element, driving his little red ego, strait into hell. What would be fun to watch, and fun to make? The story of a guy we all love to hate.
COFFEEEEUS, 4min Animation Comedy
directed by Stewart Shaw
Multiple award winning festival short!
A day in the life of a coffee fanatic who can't quite function normally without a few pots. In this classically animated short, things go from bad to worse as something as simple as getting a cup of coffee unexpectedly becomes a test of self control.
INHERITANCECAN, 5min Stop-Motion Animation
directed by Mike Weiss
All from a kids perspective!
A bedazzled young boy learns a valuable lesson about patience and gains a further understanding of the machinations of life - via one mysterious cheeselog.
LOS ABC'SUS, 5min Musical Animation
directed by John Jota Leanos
Considered the best animation musical ever!
Do you remember your ABCs? We think you do!Sing along with this animated group of Muerto Mariachi Social Documentarians.
BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE:
Unlike other film festivals, the central idea of WILDsound Feedback Film Festivals is to give audience members a chance to share their comments and criticisms with the filmmakers in a moderated forum right after the screening, and to let filmmakers respond. BUT IT'S YOU THE AUDIENCE WHO ARE THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF THIS EVENT.Buy your 3-Day Festival Pass for $15 in advance by using the green button below. Individual film festival tickets are available at the door for $10 on the day of the event.
THE DANISH POETCAN, 15min Animation
directed by Torill Kove
WINNER of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Short Animation Film
Narrated by Liv Ullmann. Can we trace the chain of events that lead to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter?
TALES OF MERE EXISTENCEUS, 7min Stop-Motion Animation
directed by Liv Yilmaz
Legendary YouTube film!
A collection of kinky/quirky animations about social confusion, sex, and alienation. Narrated and illustrated as they go along, this is the comedy of demented self-obsession… the stuff people think about but never talk about.
THE PIT AND THE PENDULUMCAN, 7min Stop-Motion Computer Animation
directed by Marc Lougee
CLICK HERE and read Marc's journey on making this film
The protagonist, a victim of the Spanish Inquisition, is brought before a tribunal where he is condemned and sentenced to the dungeons. Awaiting his death, he struggles with hope and faith, while his captors employ fiendish machinations in their efforts to unhinge him.
LITTLE GUYSUS, 2min Lego Animation
directed by David Pagano
A parody of the commercials you loved/hated as a kid!
A parody/homage to the toy commercials many remember watching growing up during the late 80's/early 90's.
SIOBHANCAN, 5min Action Animation
directed by Mike Dobson
Originally a TV PILOT!
Love vs. Evil. The tale of the immortal warrior woman Siobhan. Siobhan’s lover, One with Gods, is brutally abducted during a vicious battle with the Slag, a demon of supreme evil. Siobhan must rescue her lover by carving her way through horrid monsters that lurk in the surreal lands she must travel.
THE MAGIC PROJECTORCAN, 15min Stop-Motion Animation
directed by Christopher Walsh
A film within a film!
It’s 1935, and not much happens in young Quinn’s tiny Canadian village. But that all changes one fine spring day, when the movies come to town.
BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE:
Unlike other film festivals, the central idea of WILDsound Feedback Film Festivals is to give audience members a chance to share their comments and criticisms with the filmmakers in a moderated forum right after the screening, and to let filmmakers respond. BUT IT'S YOU THE AUDIENCE WHO ARE THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF THIS EVENT.Buy your 3-Day Festival Pass for $15 in advance by using the green button below. Individual film festival tickets are available at the door for $10 on the day of the event.
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