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Film Club's David Anderson's 'Tongue of the Hidden' exhibition screening!

Tongue of the Hidden the short film by Film Club director David Anderson will be screened at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania at the travelling exhibition “Typemotion: Type as Image in Motion”, from the 10th of October running through till the 9th of November, 2014.

The film will be screened at the exhibition display, in loop, 6 days per week.

Check out a preview of the short film here.

Film Club's Will Anderson wins top award at the 2014 Edinburugh International Film Festival!

Photo Copyright: Edinburugh International Film Festival

Film Club's Will Anderson has won a top prize at the 2014 Edinburugh International Film Festival (EIFF) for his Film, Monkey Love Experiments. Will won the award for Outstanding Individual Contribution to a Short Film alongside Co-director and Screenwriter, Ainslie Henderson.

Monkey Love Experiments is a beautiful story inspired by love and follows a monkey who believes he is destined for the moon. The festival jurors had this to say of this film: "With fireworks of poetic ideas we have been shown within the deepest loneliness a heart-breaking love story... Being as stylish as it is simple, this animation and an animated hero with wind in his fluffy hair enters straight into the heart and to tears."

Film Club's Sue Loughlin was also at the festival to take part in an animation panel discussion and to present the 25th McLaren Award for Best New British Animation!

All in all it was a fantastic event! Congratulations Will!

BAFTA Award Winner, Will Anderson Joins Film Club's Talented Roster of Directors!

Stills from Will Anderson's The Making of Longbird and TV Licensing 'Lethal Injection'

The multi-talented, award-winning director, Will Anderson has joined Film Club!

Will Anderson, born in the Scottish Highlands is best known for his intelligent and heartfelt, short film The Making of Longbird. The talented filmmaker, created the 15-minute film for his final-year project during his studies at the prestigious Edinburgh College of Art.

Will has spent the past year touring the festival scene, where The Making of Longbird received a slew of illustrious awards along the way, including the BAFTA for Best Short Animation and Best Animation at the British Academy Scotland Awards.

Will's specialties include, design and character animation for both film and television, working across anything from feature-length documentary films to short animation series for all ages. Will has big plans for his future with Film Club and we're all very excited to be a part of his journey!

Check out the trailer for Making of Longbird below, Will’s impressive portfolio of work can also be viewed here.

Film of the week: Draw the Line by WWF UK - CivilSociety.co.uk

WWF UK has produced a film that puts the spotlight on Virunga, Africa's oldest national park that is being exploited for its oil.

WWF UK has created a musical and artistic film about Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park. Containing rainforests, volcanoes and rare wildlife, the park is a World Heritage Site but oil companies are beginning to take an interest in the oil reserves below it.

The video starts with a collage of the different animals and environments inside the park. The video is soon darkened by black fingerprints, signalling humankind’s search for oil in the area which will endanger the animals. However, there is light again, as the video illustrates how the public and WWF UK have helped ‘draw the line’, abolishing the dark fingerprints. Signatures cover the screen of those who've put their names to the campaign. The video's melody, however, continues until the end, showing that the park is still in danger of being exploited.

Click here for the original article.

MarketingMagazine.co.uk Article: WWF Animates Dangers Of Oil Exploration In African National Park

Matthew Chapman at MarketingMagazine.co.uk recently wrote the following article on Belle Mellor's WWF Virunga animation:

A stylised animation draws the viewer into the natural and beautiful ecosystem of Virunga National Park to build support against the area potentially becoming an oil field.

Africa’s oldest national park has more species of mammals, reptiles and birds than any other protected African area, but is currently being explored for oil.

Signatures breaking through the impending threat at the end of the film imply signing a petition could kill off the threat of further oil exploration.

Brand: WWF

Client: Greg Armfield, content production manager at WWF UK

Agency: Film Club

Creative: Belle Mellor

Click here for the original article.

TRAM makes OSCAR shortlist

Short animated film, Tram by Film Club director Michaela Pavlatova has made it into the OSCARs shortlist. Out of 56 qualifying films Tram is one of the 10 short listed films from which 3 to 5 will make it through to be nominated in the final round.