Mumbai International Film Festival 2006 – Animation Winners

The Mumbai International Film Festival in India focuses on documentary, short and animated films and is ranked the largest festival for these film categories. Animation is booming in all of Asia and one would expect this festival to be a showcase for new talent. Curiously, the judges declined to award a first place prize for animation deciding that no film at the festival merited that award. The “Second Best” animation film or video award was shared jointly by “Home Delivery” directed by Elio Quiroga from Spain and adapted from the Stephen King short story of the same name and “Boond” directed by Kavita Singh from India.

“Home Delivery” has been to numerous festivals winning many awards over the last few years. Naturally, as a Stephen King piece it’s an ideal story for film. Here is a summary:

Jenny, on the island of Deer, Maine, is a sleepy provincial and miserable town. Life in this coastal town will be savagely affected by the arrival of a plague that infects the whole planet: the dead are rising from their tombs and devouring the living. That which seemed impossible is happening. Zombies have invaded earth. Maddie, a young woman incapable of making her own decisions, lives a placid and grey existence alongside her husband Jack, an illiterate and brutal lobster fisherman. Due to a terrible accident at sea, the mariner will die, swallowed by the waves. But the plague which runs rampant throughout Earth will also affect Jack, who will return from the dead and rise from his watery grave to visit his beloved wife.

Here are two stills from the 2D animated short, “Home Delivery”:

Kavita Singh’s animated short, “Boond”, is a tribute to a friend who died from lung cancer and, like “Home Delivery”, this film has won multiple awards at other festivals. Like other award winning animators profiled on Darling Dimples from India, Ms. Singh does not appear to have his own homepage and Dimples couldn’t find a single image from his movie to display here and that’s just plain crazy.

In summary, “Home Delivery” is great and you can see it at the link provided above. “Boond” is probably great, too, but we don’t know where to find it on-line. If you do, please let us know.[tags]MIFF, Mumbai Film Festival, 2D animation, Home Delivery, Boond, Elio Quiroga, Kavita Singh[/tags]

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