Mynarski Death Plummet by Matthew Rankin

Mynarski Death Plummet by Matthew Rankin

A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero, Andrew Mynarski (1916-1944). Combining wartime aviation melodrama with classical and avant-garde animation techniques (including stop-motion, silhouettes, bleaching, scratching, hand-painting and rubbing letratone patterns directly on the celluloid) Mynarski Death Plummet is a psychedelic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish. WINNER Best Animation Film at Off-Courts Trouville - France 2015 Best Animation Film at Curtas Vila do Conde - Portugal, 2015 Off-Limits" Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2015 Best short film - 33rd Rendez-Vous du cinéma Québécois, 2015 Creativity Award - 19th Regard sur le Court, Saguenay, Canada, 2015 FESTIVALS Busan Short Film Festival - South Korea, 2016 Erata Motion Pictures short Film Festival - St-Peterburgh, Russia, 2016 Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg - Germany, 2016 Glas animation fetsival - Berkeley, USA, 2016 Minimalen Short Film Festival - Norway, 2016 Animatika International Animated Film Fetsival - Slovenia, 2015 Tenerife Short Film Festival - Spain, 2015 Aguilar de Campo - Spain, 2015 Leuven International Short Film Festival - Belgium, 2015 Bratislava International Film Festival - Slovakia, 2015 Interfilm Berlin - Germany, 2015 Internationale Kurtzfilmtage Winterthur – Switzerland, 2015 Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi Temiscamingue – Canada 2015 AFI Film Festival – L/A., USA 2015 St-Louis International Film Festival, USA 2015 Animatic Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain, 2015 8th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival - New York, USA, 2015 30th FIFF Namur - Namur, Belgium, 2015 5th Festival du cinéma de la Ville de Québec - Québec, Canada, 2015 6th Ottawa International Film Fetsival - Ottawa, Canada, 2015 13th Pacific Meridian International Film Festival - Vladivostock, Russia, 2015 Atlantic Film Fetsival - Halifax, Canada, 2015 16th OFF-Courts Trouville - Trouville, France, 2015 38th Cambridge Film Festival - Cambridge, UK, 2015 7th Les Percéides, Festival International de Cinéma et d'Art - Percé, Canada, 2015 Long Week of Short Films - Hong Kong, China, 2015 23rd Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival - Portugal, 2015 Annecy International Animation Film Festival - Annecy, France 2015 31st Hamburg International Short Film Fetsival - Hamburg, Germany, 2015 25th filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Schwerin, Germany 2015 2nd Montreal International Animation Film Festival - Montreal, Canada 2015 19e Regard sur le court - Saguenay, Canada, 2105 33e Rendez-Vous du cinéma Québécois - Montréal, Canada, 2015 Sundance Film Festival - Utah, U.S., 2015 (International Premiere) 28e Festival International du cinéma francophone en Acadie - Moncton, N-B, Canada, 2014 43e Festival du nouveau cinéma - Montréal, Canada, 2014 32nd Vancouver International Film Festival - Vancouver, Canada, 2014 38th Toronto International Film Festival - Toronto, Canada, 2014 Directed by : Matthew Rankin Script and animation : Matthew Rankin Cast : Alek Rzeszowski, Robert Vilar, Annie St-Pierre, Eve Majzels, Louis Negin Director of Photography : Julien Fontaine Art Direction : Louisa Schabas Editing : Matthew Rankin, Elisabeth Olga Tremblay Sound : Patrice LeBlanc Original score : Patrick Keenan Producers : Matthew Rankin, Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette Distribution: La Distributrice de Films Contact: serge@ladistributrice.ca