Short Film Competition Announced as Festival Stop Motion Montreal Returns to the Big Screen for 14th Edition
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Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics (Terril Calder), Salvation Has No Name (Joseph Wallace), Bestia (Hugo Covarrubias)
Festival Stop Motion Montreal, an annual event dedicated to the art of stop motion animation, released the short film screening calendar for their 14th edition, which will be held live and in person this year from September 16-18, 2022 at Concordia University’s J.A. De Sève Theatre. A selection of 75 films made using stop motion techniques will grace the big screen in 10 different curated short film competition screening programs. Fifty-eight animated works will premiere in Montreal for the first time. The Festival is delighted to have a number of local productions coming out of the pandemic pause, which includes a dozen Canadian shorts directed mostly by female filmmakers and emerging filmmakers. The upcoming event will make sure to celebrate this production boom.
Among the highly anticipated selections is Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics, a recent film from multidisciplinary Métis artist Terril Calder based in Toronto and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, which looks at the contrast between the Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Sacred Teachings along the challenging journey of a young Métis girl. Terril Calder participated in the Indigenous Stop Motion Productions Roundtable at Festival Stop Motion Montreal in 2021 and returns this year with her stop-motion animated short that was screened at TIFF 2021, at the Annecy Film Festival in June, and was nominated for the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards this past spring.
Salvation Has No Name, from British filmmaker Joseph Wallace, joins the competition lineup this year following the 2021 behind-the-scenes presentation on the making-of the film, which deals with the themes of refugees and xenophobia. This animated short screens in a thematic program called ‘Behind the Curtain’ (a selection of politically inspired films), alongside the 2022 Academy-Award nominated film Bestia by Chilean director Hugo Covarrubias.
Visit the Festival website to see the full lineup: www.StopMotionMontreal.com
VIP PASS SALE
Festival VIP Passes presented by TONIC DNA offer priority access to the best in stop motion cinema with more than 10 hours of film screenings spread over seven regular short film competition programs, two family-friendly youth film programs, and one TNT program -Terrifying, Naked, and Twisted, for mature audiences.
Festival-goers can secure their VIP Passes at the Festival’s online box office for $65+tx.
Individual activities tickets also available: bit.ly/stopmobxo
14th ÉDITION – FESTIVAL STOP MOTION MONTREAL
September 16 – 18, 2022