Ryan (Film)

Ryan is a Canadian computer animation movie from the year 2004. The fourteen- minute, documentary drama, which led Chris Landreth Director, talks about the social decline of the trick filmmaker Ryan Larkin. Was produced the multi-award winning film by Copper Heart Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada.

Action

The animator Chris Landreth, about forty, resulting in a world in which people's weaknesses revealed by colorful features or the bizarre disappearance of body parts, an interview with Ryan Larkin. This aroused in the 1960s and 1970s through his unusual animated short films attention and was for one of his works, En marchant, even nominated for an Oscar. Larkin was time drug and alcohol dependent, until he lost his artistic inspiration, finally begging on the streets to earn a living.

Reception

The film premiered on 17 May 2004 in the short film competition at the International Film Festival in Cannes, and then at several other festivals, including at the Valladolid International Film Festival.

Almost without exception, all the critics took the film to positive. The renowned American film critic Roger Ebert wrote, for example, on 25 February 2005 in the Chicago Sun - Times, the film would cut deeply into the truth of human life. The animation technique is dramatic, impressive and original. The director Landreth said about the 3D animated world that he shows in the film, it reflects a kind of psychological realism resist.

Awards

Ryan won the Kodak Short Film Award, the Canal Prize and the Prize of the Young Critics at the Film Festival of Cannes. At the AFI Fest 2004, the film received a special mention at the Atlantic Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short the movie. He was also on the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, the Leipzig DOK Festival, the Melbourne International Animation Festival, the Newport International Film Festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Tampere International Short film Festival, the Toronto Worldwide Short film Festival, the Uppsala International Short film Festival, awarded the Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival and the Valladolid International Film Festival.

At the Academy Awards in 2005, the film won in the category Best Animated Short Film, and could thus prevail against, among others, Bill Plympton Guard Dog. The Annie Awards 2005 the film was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 2005 Genie Awards, he won in the same category. A major award in the field of electronic art and culture - - As part of the annual Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, the short film in 2004 with the Golden Nica was awarded Animation / Visual Effects in the category Computer.

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