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Flutter
20066 min 52 secFilm: Animation, Experimental, Fiction
Direction: Howie Shia
Production: David VerrallMichael Fukushima (National Film Board of Canada)Howie Shia (PPF House)
Script: Howie Shia
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-production with PPF House with a Bravo! FACT grant, supported by Bravo! NewStyleArtsChannel, a division of CHUM Limited.
How big is the world? Searching for an answer, a young boy waves goodbye to his classmates, hops the schoolyard fence and disappears into the city, swallowed by the din and decadence of its machines and masses and automobiles. Back at school, amidst a crowd of confused onlookers, the runaway's best friend, a young artist, smiles and waves goodbye with equal parts understanding and expectation: she is biding her time, preparing for her own adventure to begin.
In Flutter, award-winning artist and illustrator Howie Shia marries traditional and digital media with a mish-mash score of jazz, electronics and sampling to create an urban fairy tale that sets to reclaim the contemporary world as fertile ground for epic adventure and romance. This is not a story about humble beginnings, but about two school kids with ambition and love so potent that they reinvent the landscape as endless canvases; infinite mazes. A film without words.
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Subject categories
- Children and Youth > Adolescent Social BehaviourComing of Age Stories
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Adolescent Development
- Media Education > Film Animation
Credits
- director
- Howie Shia
- writer
- Howie Shia
- animator
- Howie Shia
- background
- Kelly Sommerfeld
- Howie Shia
- flutter burner
- Mitch Speed
- music composer
- Howie Shia
- music producer
- Sizzly Poppa
- music performer
- Drew Birston
- Dafydd Hughes
- Tim Shia
- Leo37
- Howie Shia
- music recording
- Ryan Patterson
- sound editing
- Ryan Patterson
- foley
- Karla Baumgardner
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- final sound mix
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- on-line
- Denis Pilon
- technical coordination
- Julie Laperrière
- administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Rosalina Di Sario
- marketing
- Hélène Tanguay
- Melissa Wheeler
- executive director
- Judy Gladstone
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- producer
- Michael Fukushima
- Howie Shia
Awards
- Grand Prize - Category: Open - with a cash award of 1,000,000YEN (Approx: $10,000CDN)International Anime Fair
- Jury AwardYorkton Film Festival
- Award for Best short Film - with a cash prize of 2,500$Fantasia International Film Festival