Festival de Cine de Huesca 09

This Way Up laid its mitts on the 'Special Award of the Jury' at Festival de Cine de Huesca 09 last weekend.

Prix Ars Electronica

This Way Up received an honorary mention in the Computer Animation / Film / VFX category at Priox Ars Electronica 2009.

Apologies for the late update

Since the Oscar nomination festival requests have been coming in thick and fast, with everyone wanting a piece of This Way Up. It recently received a jury award for 'Best Animated Short' at Riverrun Int'l Film Festival!

Here's where the film has been nominated since my last update.

Athens (Ohio) Int'l Film Festival (April 09)
Aspen Shortsfest (1st-5th April 2009)
Nashville Independent Film Festival (17-24th April 09)
Cartoons on the Bay (April 09)
East End Film Festival (23 - 30th April 2009)
International Animated Film Festival ReAnimacja, Poland (24-26th April 2009)
Indie Lisboa Int'l Independent Film Festival (23 Apr - 3rd May 09)
BeFilm New York (Apr 28 – May 2, 09)
Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival (1-6th May 09)
AniFest, Trebon & Teplice (1st-14th May 09)

Future screenings:

UK Film Centre at Cannes Int'l Film Festival (13-24th May 09)
ANIFEST 09 Almaty, Kazakhstan (30 May – 5 June 2009)
Brooklyn Academy of Music "Next Wave" Festival (June 17 - July 2 09)
Brooklyn International Film Festival (5-14th June 09)
Festival de Cine de Huesca (8-12th June 09)
International Competition of Short Films at Art Film Fest, Slovakia (June 20th - 27th, 2009)
Animator Festival (Poland) (6th – 11th July 2009)
Just for Laughs Film Festival, Montreal (July 16 to the 26th)
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's Festival 'Toon Town Troublemakers' Festival (August 09)

A.M.P.A.S...

On Thursday we were delighted to find out that our 3D animated caper ‘This Way Up’, directed by Smith and Foulkes and created entirely at the Nexus studio, has been officially nominated for an Academy Award® in the ‘Best Animated Short Film’ category. The film will be available to download on Itunes in its entirety very soon – so watch this space..!

Festival frenzy

Here's the latest news on festivals you can catch This Way Up at:

 - New York Int'l Children's Film Festival (27th Feb to 7th March 09)

 - Tehran Int'l Animation Festival (1-5th March 09)

 - Sofia International Short Film Festival in Bulgaria (5-15th March 09)

Sundance is shining on This Way Up

'This Way Up' is packing up it's coffin and jetting off to Sundance for the city's annual film festival! For those of you who can't make it to Sundance, 'This Way Up' will be screening a little closer to home at the London Short Film Festival next month too.

This Way Up tickles funny bones in Estonia!

This Way Up won a Jury's Special Mention for Best Humour at Animation Dreams Animation Festival, part of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, November 2008.

Win at 27th Uppsala International Short Film Festival!

For 'Best Children's Film'. The jury was comprised by 11 pupils at a school in Uppsala. This is what they had to say about it:

"The film was well made with good-looking effects and details. The humour was totally unexpected and fits all ages. The music was good and fits well into the movie all the time . The whole idea behind the movie is carefully thought out and awesome."

Encounters and Bolzano

18-23rd Nov 08, TWU is coming to Bristol to be part of the Encounters Int'l Short Film Festival. 

The film also makes it's mark on Sweden in November at Bolzano Short Film Fest.

A-Woo-Hoo!!

Another win for TWU at Ottawa Animation Festival - Audience Public Prize for Best Short Film!

Festival update

It doesn't seem to matter where you are in the World, there's probably a festival heading your way to catch This Way Up at...

The Times BFI London Film Festival - this will be the film's UK premiere as we were hoping for!

Siggraph Asia Computer Animation Festival

Cork International Film Festival

Holland Animation Film Festival

Uppsala Int'l Short Film Festival (Sweden)

Anim'est (Romania)

Cinanima Int'l Film Festival (Portugal)

São Paulo International Film Festival 

Palm Springs International Short Film Festival

Drum roll please...'This Way Up' won the Audience Favourite Animated Short Award.

All over Ottawa

This Way Up is up for nomination at Ottawa in the Narrative Short category!

Smith & Foulkes' opening titles sequence for Platform Int'l Animation Festival 'Box' has also been selected in the Promotional section.

Special Public Prize at Mundos Digitales

This Way Up not only had it's European Premiere but also received it's first award at Mundos Digitales Festival in Spain, last Saturday! It won the Special Public Prize in the International Animation Short film competition. Co-Producer on This Way Up, Christine Ponzevera was at the ceremony to collect the award and said the screening of the film got a fantastic response.

Another festival nomination

Expresion en Corto 2008 in Mexico - 18th - 27th July 08

Festival selection

Everyone get your fingers and toes crossed as This Way Up is already up for nomination at the following festivals;

Mundos Digitales Int'l Animation Festival in A Coruna, Spain - 5th July 2008

Melboune Int'l Film Festival - 25th Jul - 14th Aug 08

Rhode Island International Film Festival - 5th-10th Aug 08

Hiroshima Animation Festival - 7th - 11th Aug 08

A message from your Directors...

So we finally got around to making a film. If we were to pitch it to Hollywood we would have said it was 'Indiana Jones' meets 'The Plank'. And then they would ask us to leave. So instead we went to The Animation Show. "A short film!" they said, "Great!" they said, "Just make sure its not about death!" they said, "So there's these two undertakers..." we said. And now, 9 months later, its time for our simple tale to be told. We hope you enjoy...

Welcome.

Welcome to the official blog for This Way Up, created and written by the directors and producers themselves.

The official This Way Up website was launched today at www.thiswayupmovie.com.

Current information regarding screenings is listed on the left-hand side. We hope you enjoy it.