Wednesday with Goddard (2016)

A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.

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Animated Shorts Jury Award — SXSW, Austin, USA, 2017
Public Award — Les Sommets du Cinéma d'Animation, Montreal, Canada, 2016
Special Jury Award — Les Sommets du Cinéma d'Animation, Montreal, Canada, 2016

Official Selection — Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Annecy, France (12 Jun — 17 Jun 2017)
Official Selection — Pictoplasma, Berlin, Germany (10 May — 14 May 2017)
Official Selection — Anima, Brussels, Belgium (24 Feb — 5 Mar 2017)
Official Selection — IndieLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (3 May — 14 May 2017)
Official Selection — Encounters, Bristol, UK (20 Sept — 25 Sept 2016)

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Commissioned by Channel 4's Random Acts, and part of the second anthology of Late Night Work Club, "Strangers".

Written, Designed & Directed by: Nicolas Ménard
Pencil Drawings: Manshen Lo
Sound & music: David Kamp
Producer: Claire Cook
Executive Producers at Nexus: Charlotte Bavasso, Chris O'Reilly
Assistant Producer: Rebecca Archer

2D Animation: Anne Lou Erambert, Claudio Salas, Sean Weston, Iris Abols, Nicolas Ménard
3D Animation: Michal Firkowski
Additional Compositing: Andy Hague
Additional Artworking: Alasdair Brotherston, Jean-Baptiste Aziere
Voices: Denis Foley, Aneta Piotrowska
Produced at Nexus Production

Special Thanks to Joe Bichard & Greet Kallikorm

Copyright Nicolas Menard & Nexus, 2016

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nicolasmenard.com
nexusstudios.com

Cast: Nicolas Ménard, Manshen Lo, studiokamp, Nexus and claire cook

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