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