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Acholiland Animal Instincts
20 minutes a73 2008 a73 USA/Germany a73 In Competition 5 minutes a73 2007 a73 Australia
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Friday 10:00a
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Sunday 12:40p
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Monday 6:30p
Plays in: Family Shorts (p13)
Plays with: The English Surgeon (p24)
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Directors/Producers/Screenwriters/Cinematographers/Animators/Editors: Cameron
Director: Dean Israelite
Edser, Michael Richards a73 Music/Composers: Bjorn Lynne, Kevin MacLeod a73a73
Producer: Daniel Harrich a73 Executive Producers: Dr. Claudia
Gladziejewski, Oliver Steinberg
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Screenwriters: Daniel Harrich, Dean Istraelite a73
Cinematographer: Amanda Mary Treyz a73 Editor: Martin Bernfeld a73 Music/Composers: Klaus
Badelt, Ian Honeyman a73 Narrator: Michael Teh a73 Principal Cast: Jon Collin Barclay, Owiso An action packed claymation of epic proportions. A fight breaks
Odera, Christian Oliver, Roman Wyden a73
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out between a cow and a sheep after the sheep steals some
flowers. The cow doesn’t take too kindly to the devious sheep,
When a food delivery into a war-torn village in Northern but the sheep isn’t one to back down from a fight no matter how
Uganda goes horribly wrong, the leader of a small U.N. far it takes them. [family-friendly]
contingent is faced with a terrible decision: play by the rules
and watch children die, or risk the lives of an entire refugee
Sponsor: Ashland Home Net
camp in order to save them. [adult content, language, subtitles]
Cameron Edser, Michael Richards
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Dean Israelite
Students: Bond University
Graduate Student: American Film Institute
In 2006, we were a major prize
Director’s Statement
winner of the Nescafe Big Break awards, and were given
In my research for Acholiland, I confronted
$15,000. We have always made it a priority to make our films as
many children who only months before
cheaply and efficiently as possible, and Animal Instincts was no
had been living in the very refugee camps
different. Even though we now had some money at our disposal,
that appear in the film. I asked them to
we adopted the approach to try and make everything in the film
draw pictures of their experiences. I look at
by hand rather than buying ready made set and prop materials.
all of these pictures, all of these painful stories, and wonder
We found that this approach creates a much more organic style,
how it all ends? I wonder when it ends, and if we can make it
and compliments the charm of stop-motion animation.
end? I believe these are complex questions, with often difficult
answers. My only hope is that this film gets people to ask them.
Filmography: The Bushman of Bunyip Billabong, Cows With Guns, Crazy, Never Gonna
be a Star
Filmography: The Department of Nothing, Magician, Spell Me Freedom
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