Public Choice offers UK audiences a chance to participate in the bi-annual British Animation Awards. Vote for your favourites from this diverse selection of short-listed work, ranging from student films to offerings from former Oscar and BAFTA winners, hit vids by Franz Ferdinand and Gorillaz and mind-blowing adverts. Below is a brief outline for Programme Three, for full details please see www.britishanimationawards.com
Films featured in Programme 3 are listed below:
Duration of Programme 3: 78 mins
Play: A father and son pass the time.
Little Angel: Fearing another trip through hell’s fiery gates, the stork drops off a baby demon in heaven instead, with disastrous consequences.
Summer Sunday 1960: 8-year-old Derek is playing when his dad turns up speaking gibberish and in need of help. Young as he is, Derek finds the answer is in his hands.
I Turn My Face to the Forest Floor: About a dark and twisted filmmaking community.
Heavy Pockets: About a girl who loses her gravity.
For Your Blossom: A boy finds his own path.
The Eel: As an eel rapidly outgrows its environment its angry mutations reach monstrous proportions.
The Charlatans: Try Again Today: Witty update on the ‘bouncing ball’ tradition.
080: A single oscillating point becomes an abstract self-playing music machine then spins itself to destruction.
Audio Bullies: Shot Me Down: A reworking of the classic Nancy Sinatra song.
Watermelon Love: Inspired by a true story that cube-shaped watermelons were grown in Asia.
Minema Cinema: Keep Going: A young egg escapes from his fridge in Scotland on a mission to meet his hero Michael Jackson, and bumps into a lonely gorilla in search of his family.
Hairy Driving:A director and his stunt driver attempt to film a spectacular car chase.
Astronauts: Two astronauts in space. One discovers a big red button marked ‘Do Not Press’, so he presses it. The result is probably death.
Quantum: Sketch
VW: Summer Morning
United Airlines: Legs
Apple Jacks: Costumes
Vesicare: Pipe People
Red Cross: Seed of Hate
Thornton’s: Save My Bacon