Mynarski Death Plummet by Matthew Rankin

A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, silhouettes, bleaching, scratching, hand-painting and rubbing letratone patterns directly on the celluloid) Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.

WINNER

Best Animation Film at Off-Courts Trouville - France 2015
Best Animation Film at Curtas Vila do Conde - Portugal, 2015
Off-Limits" Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2015
Best short film - 33rd Rendez-Vous du cinéma Québécois, 2015
Creativity Award - 19th Regard sur le Court, Saguenay, Canada, 2015

FESTIVALS

Busan Short Film Festival - South Korea, 2016
Erata Motion Pictures short Film Festival - St-Peterburgh, Russia, 2016
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg - Germany, 2016
Glas animation fetsival - Berkeley, USA, 2016
Minimalen Short Film Festival - Norway, 2016
Animatika International Animated Film Fetsival - Slovenia, 2015
Tenerife Short Film Festival - Spain, 2015
Aguilar de Campo - Spain, 2015
Leuven International Short Film Festival - Belgium, 2015
Bratislava International Film Festival - Slovakia, 2015
Interfilm Berlin - Germany, 2015
Internationale Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur – Switzerland, 2015
Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi Temiscamingue – Canada 2015
AFI Film Festival – L/A., USA 2015
St-Louis International Film Festival, USA 2015
Animatic Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain, 2015
8th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival - New York, USA, 2015
30th FIFF Namur - Namur, Belgium, 2015
5th Festival du cinéma de la Ville de Québec - Québec, Canada, 2015
6th Ottawa International Film Fetsival - Ottawa, Canada, 2015
13th Pacific Meridian International Film Festival - Vladivostock, Russia, 2015
Atlantic Film Fetsival - Halifax, Canada, 2015
16th OFF-Courts Trouville - Trouville, France, 2015
38th Cambridge Film Festival - Cambridge, UK, 2015
7th Les Percéides, Festival International de Cinéma et d'Art - Percé, Canada, 2015
Long Week of Short Films - Hong Kong, China, 2015
23rd Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival - Portugal, 2015
Annecy International Animation Film Festival - Annecy, France 2015
31st Hamburg International Short Film Fetsival - Hamburg, Germany, 2015
25th filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Schwerin, Germany 2015
2nd Montreal International Animation Film Festival - Montreal, Canada 2015
19e Regard sur le court - Saguenay, Canada, 2105
33e Rendez-Vous du cinéma Québécois - Montréal, Canada, 2015
Sundance Film Festival - Utah, U.S., 2015 (International Premiere)
28e Festival International du cinéma francophone en Acadie - Moncton, N-B, Canada, 2014
43e Festival du nouveau cinéma - Montréal, Canada, 2014
32nd Vancouver International Film Festival - Vancouver, Canada, 2014
38th Toronto International Film Festival - Toronto, Canada, 2014

Directed by : Matthew Rankin
Script and animation : Matthew Rankin
Cast : Alek Rzeszowski, Robert Vilar, Annie St-Pierre, Eve Majzels, Louis Negin
Director of Photography : Julien Fontaine
Art Direction : Louisa Schabas
Editing : Matthew Rankin, Elisabeth Olga Tremblay
Sound : Patrice LeBlanc
Original score : Patrick Keenan
Producers : Matthew Rankin, Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette

Distribution: La Distributrice de Films
Contact: serge@ladistributrice.ca

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