THE INKSECT by MaliArts


In a distopian world where books are banned and fossil fuels completely consumed, the ruling corporations confiscated all the books to burn them and generate energy. However, in New York City there is an underground group of ex scientists, writers and artists who remember the books and risk their lives to find and save them from being destroyed. They are are known as The Inksect, and this is the story of how Pikes, one of them, ends up finding something even more important than the books: paper and a pen.

Written & Directed by: Pablo Calvillo

Line Producer: Rachael Byrne

Executive Producer: Miguel Anaya

Pikes´ Voice: Fabrina Melon

Modeling:
Magnus Skagerlund, Ulises Virgen, Clay Osmus, Gabriel Calvillo, Hugo Vázquez, Alfonso Mancera

Rigging:
Jaewan Park, Carlos Mendieta, Christopher Hill

Texturing:
Javier Méndez Lafón, Guillermo Alvarez Ruiz, Leonardo Calvillo

Animation:
David Camiro, Juan Carlos Navarro

Lighting & Comp:
David Rodíguez, Javier Méndez Lafón, Alberto Martínez

2D VFX:
Juan Lazzarini, MEMOMA Estudio

3D Generalists:
César Mandujano, Alejandro Velázquez

Original Music:
Demian Cantilo

Sound Design:
Jaime Juárez

Sound Editing:
Enrique Fernández Tanco

Sound Engineer:
Pablo Ahmad

Sound Mix:
Alejandro de Icaza

Final Sound Mix:
Astro LX

General Manager:
Juan García

Assistant:
Marco Peña

Coordinator:
Norma Chávez

Director of Photography:
Serguei Saldivar AMC

Editing:
Jorge R. Gutiérrez

Production Team:
Ray Sinatra, Anders Ehrnberg, Raúl Ruiz, Laura Samudio

Graphic Design:
Leonardo Calvillo

Postproduction:
Entera Postproducción S.A. de C.V., Ulises Jiménez, Pedro de la Garza, Lilia Cuevas Viche, Gustavo Torres, Ilse Fernanda Serdán

Color Correction:
Alejandro del Pilar

Administration:
Orlando Peña, Estela Reyes Juárez

Thanks:
Rob Coleman, María González de Leoón, Romain Côte, Helena Masand, Mike Lyndon, Edwin Erdmanis, Moisés Crespo, Ricardo Gutiérrez, Mauricio Soto, Dante Pimentel, Dan Mazor

Special Thanks:
Jorge Calvillo Unna & Lorena Méndez Défossé
Byoung ho Kang

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www.imcine.gob.mx
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First Meeting of the National Space Council

First Meeting of the National Space Council Members of the National Space Council are seen during the council’s first meeting on Oct. 5 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The council, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence heard testimony from representatives from civil space, commercial space, and national security space industry representatives. via NASA http://ift.tt/2yrxjWh

Ferryman at the Wall by MEL Films


A visitor’s guide to America’s great big border wall.

Originally proposed as an international peace park with Mexico, Big Bend, Texas has a unique relationship with its southern neighbor. For the past 40 years, Mike Davidson has been ferrying tourists across the Rio Grande for a little taste of Mexican life — but now a great big border wall might divide the park.

Captions available in English and Spanish. Let us know if you’ve got a language you’d like to see.

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The Duck (full length) by Uli Meyer

‘The Duck’ is a “proof of concept” film which I produced and directed in 1998, almost twenty years ago. Our work on ‘Space Jam’ was just finished and I came up with an idea for a feature film about a real duck that turns into a cartoon and decides to become a super hero, rivalling and competing with existing super heroes. We projected this film at all the major studios to pitch the idea and came very close to making it. But alas, it all collapsed in the end and the film was never made.
A few weeks ago, I found a low contrast 35mm negative and a screening print buried in my cupboard. They were scanned at Cinelabs, UK, by their wonderful team of lab technicians. Looking it at it now, it is way too long and if I had the sound elements separate, I’d cut it down. I guess at the time it was too difficult to cut out footage since we put so much effort into the sets and the animation. Every frame felt precious, a mistake many young film makers make. But it is what it is. The animated woman is a blatant “homage” to Jessica Rabbit but I hope that twenty years on, I am forgiven.
The team that worked with me on this was amazing, a great bunch of people, both the Live Action and the Animation crew. Now, for the first time, ‘The Duck’ is online, uncut. I will post the end credits separately since they are almost as long again.
Enjoy!