The Cryptozoologist
Short Film / Animation / 2015 / Spain
_SYNOPSIS
Bernard, a veteran cryptozoologist who has spent all his life searching for cryptids creatures, has the chance to hunt one of his greatest challenges, the Mosquifant. After travelling to a distant island in the North Sea, he will live an adventure full of difficulties and surprises trying to capture that strange creature.
Produced by TV ON Producciones with the collaboration of the ICAA-Spanish Ministry of Culture, IVAC-The Valencian Film Institute, MEDIA_EUROPA CREATIVA and the participation of CANAL PLUS / MOVISTART PLUS.
_TECHNICAL CREW
Producer: Paloma Mora
Director: Vicente Mallols
Length: 8´
Format: Stop motion Animation
Cinematographer: Celia Benavent
Sonido: José Serrador
Music: Vincent Barrière
Editor: Vicente Ibáñez
Character and set design: Miguel Delicado
Art Director: Pascual Julián
Costumes designer: Flora Cuevas
Animated by: David Caballer, Iván Sarrión, Carla Pereira, Ana Esteve and Vicente Mallols
Script: Fernando Cortizo
_CAST
English version:
Toby Harper
Joe Lewis
_TRAILER
_FESTIVALS
_Preselected in the Goya Awards 2016
_Fantastic Cinema International Festival of SITGES 2016
_3D Wire (Segovia) 2016
_ANIMAC (Mostra Internacional de Cinema d´Animació de Catalunya)
_CATACUMBA Film Festival- Awards: Best Animations and Best Doll
_Filmets Badalona Film Festival
_Gijón Film Festival 2016
_SAnimazine Official Section (Málaga Festival) 2016
_56th Zlín Film Festival – International Film Festival for Children and Youth (International Competition of Short Animated Films, Czech Republic) 2016
_Official Section 11 Athens Animafest (Greece) 2016
_Alicante Cinema Festival – Spain Animation Short films Section
_NY Short Film Festival (New York, USA)
_KINOLUB Film Festival (Poland)
_Stop Motion Barcelona Short Film Festival.
_Animaze 2016
_Montreal International Animation Film Festival (Canada) 2016
_Zabut International Animated Short-Film Festival (Italy) 2016
_Mar de Plata - Mar de Chicos Section, (Argentina) 2016
_Independent Festival of Elche (Spain) 2016
_ Madrid Cinema Festival (Spain) - Section “Cine Molón””
_24ª Festival Internacional de Animaçao do Brasil - Animamundi (Brasil) 2016
_Uppsala Jackdaw for Best Children's Film at the 35th Uppsala International Short Film Festival (USA) 2016
_Baixada Animada 2016.
_Iberoamerican Show of Animation Cinema Brasil 2016
_VI International Festival Brasil stopmotion 2017
_Animayo Spain 2017
_XII Summit, International Film Festival of Animation, Visual Effects and Video Games Animato 2017 (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
