Animalia author to direct first animated short film
Australian children’s author and illustrator Graeme Base, whose work includes Animalia and The Eleventh Hour, is to make his film directorial debut.
Base will co-direct with Katrina Mathers the film The Gallant Captain, an adaptation of his book The Legend of the Golden Snail.
Mathers with Daryl Munton of The Lampshade Collective was behind last year’s The Nullabor which won Sydney Film Festival’s Best Animated Short Film Award at both the Sydney Film Festival 2011 and the AACTA Awards 2012.
The short film has received funding from Screen Australia through the agency’s short animation production program.
Best of luck to Graeme and Daryl, worked with Graeme and Daryl at Animalia and Weta respectively – good people really giving it a go. Between them I think they will produce something special. – marke