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ROCKET NEWS IN BRIEF
The Angelic Organ screened recently at The 15th Leeds International Film Festival 2001 and has been selected for screening at The 13th International Welsh Film Festival 2001 and The Foyle Budweiser Northern Ireland International Film Festival 2001 (November 9th to 18th 2001).
The Angelic Organ came third in the audience vote at Sovata uebernachtungThe Galway Film Fleadh 2001 Animation (New Irish Animation and Frameworks screenings). More about this film below!
We are delighted that The Nest has been selected for screening at the International Panorama at The 11 Mostra Curta Cinema 7 Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival. The festival had a record 655 international entries and selected a total of 117 short films (representing 41 countries) for the International Panorama.
The Nest screened in front of Mike Nichols latest feature film, 'Wit', starring Emma Thompson at The 46th Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, Spain (October 26th to November 3rd 2001).
THE NEST FESTIVAL SCREENINGS (This may take a moment or two to download as the page contains many festival links).
More about these films below!
(We have added many festival and company web site and e-mail links to this site as a resource for all. Please e-mail us if you find that any of these links are unusable)
Our latest showreel will be available soon.
Rocket Animation is an Irish-based animation production company specialising in original, high quality productions for Cinema, Television and the Internet.
Since Rocket Animation Ltd. was set up in 1998 by Caroline Dunn, Stuart Switzer and Owen Fitzpatrick, it has produced and co-produced a wide range of animation series and short films including Backyard Tales, Mikey's Sporting Madness, RTÉ/Den TV's The Lab (live-action) and Joke Box, From An Evil Cradling, The Nest and The Angelic Organ.
Rocket Animation has also produced high quality title sequences, inserts, and graphics for many televison productions including RTÉ's hit series Our House and Treasure Island.
Please spend some time browsing through our website. Check out our Feedback page If you would like to contact us for further information. This site is regularly updated with news of new projects and progress on current ones so visit us again!
Check through some of the latest Rocket Animation shows below.
Mikeys Sporting Madness! (35 x 45 second episodes of sporting fun and pop culture lunacy). Several episodes screened in late October 2000 at The 5th Manchester Short Film and Video Festival proved to be big hit.
Check out the following link: Mikeys Sporting Madness!
Rocket Animation has completed a 2 x minute pilot for Scraggers which was shown for the first time at MIPTV in early April, 2001. We will show some of the exceptional artwork from this production in the coming weeks.
More information on the following link: Scraggers
The Scraggers pilot was screened at The Animation Show at The 13th Galway Film Fleadh, July 2001. Check out the festival link below.
T H E! N E S T
'Quite disturbing' Optimum Releasing
Strapped into its buggy and abandoned along a vast, deserted beach, a baby journeys into the realm of the primordial...
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The Nest has screened at many domestic and internatonal film festivals. Please click on the following link for details of past and future screenings : THE NEST FESTIVAL SCREENINGS (This may take a moment or two to download as the page contains many festival links).
For more about this film please click on the following link : THE NEST
For a full list of credits please click: NEST CREDITS
Click on this link for: REVIEWS OF THE NEST
For details on the pre-production history of The Nest please click on the following link: NEST PRE-PRODUCTION
Prints by Colour Film Services
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THE ANGELIC ORGAN
Richard Pokrich crackpot, inventor and eccentric. It is to this pleasant and jocular fellow that we are indebted for one of the most enchanting instruments ever made The Angelic Organ.
Based on a true story, The Angelic Organluxury hotels in Wroclaw follows the adventures of Eighteenth Century eccentric and inventor, Richard Pokrich, as he attempts to bring an entirely new and novel sound to the world.
We are delighted that The Angelic Organ, directed by Caroline Dunn and Ray O'Dwyer, was screened at the Festival De Cine Huesca, Spain, which took place during the second week of June 2001. For details on festival screenings, both domestic and international, please click on the following link: The Angelic Organ
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The Angelic Organ has been selected for screening at The 15th Leeds International Film Festival.
The film will be screened in The Louis le Prince Animation Competition. The Festival will run from the 27th September to the 12th October.
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Prints by Colour Film Services
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'From An Evil Cradling' gets theatrical release with MGM Feature Film
FROM AN EVIL CRADLING
A KAVALEER PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROCKET ANIMATION
FUNDED BY THE IRISH FILM BOARD/RTE/THE ARTS COUNCIL
BASED ON THE BOOK 'AN EVIL CRADLING' BY BRIAN KEENAN
A scene from From An Evil Cradling which has been released in several UK cinemas in front of MGM's Flawless.
From An Evil Cradling (Kavaleer Productions in association with Rocket Animation (distributed by London based Optimum Releasing) was released in UK cinemas (from November 24th November 2000 at UGC Haymarket London, UGC Brighton and UGC Edinburgh) in front of MGM's Flawless directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Robert De Niro.
From An Evil Cradling is soon to be screened in front of a feature on Sky Movies. Optimum releasing and Sky are organising the sale of some of the film's artwork, the proceeds of which will be going to charity.
From An Evil Cradling has been screened at Annecy 2000 and Expo 2000 (Hannover) as well as many national and international film festivals. Our congratulations to From An Evil Cradling co-directors Andrew Kavanagh and Keith Foran and all of the crew.Check out the film's Amnesty International site at:
Pre-production sketches and production artwork for From An Evil Cradling can be viewed on the following link:
From An Evil Cradling pre-production/production
Rocket Animation Ltd. 19 Creighton Street, Dublin 2, IrelandTel: 00 353 1 6170486 Fax: 00 353 1 6170481
www.rocketanimation.com
