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Stowaway
20007 min 41 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Abi Feijo
Production: Abi FeijoDavide FreitasPierre HébertMarcel Jean
A co-production of Filmografò, National Film Board of Canada, Radiotelevisao Portuguesa with the financial participation of the Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia and Câmara Municipal do Porto.
On a cold and dreary Christmas Eve, in a gloomy fogbound seaport, docks a tired old freighter. Deep in its hold, a stowaway is hiding. The crew members leave the ship and go their separate ways. After nightfall, the stowaway tries to make it to dry land by sliding down a rope, but he is paralysed with fear. Using sand animation on underlit glass plates, Stowaway is adapted from a story by the Portuguese writer José Rodrigues Miguéis. Profoundly melancholy in its expressive and richly textured imagery, the film is about one man's agonizing struggle for freedom.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary WorksAnimation based on LiteratureChristmas StoriesLegends, Myths, and TalesWorld Literature
- Social Issues > Cultural Communities and ImmigrationIndividual in Society
Credits
- direction
- Abi Feijo
- animation
- Abi Feijo
- Regina Pessoa
- editing
- Saguenail
- Regina Guimaraes
- music
- Tentugal
- sound design
- Tentugal
- voice
- Manuel Tadros
- Joao Pedro Vaz
- Joao Cardoso
- Mark Camacho
- foley assistant
- Bruno Sousa
- voice recording
- Emiliano Toste
- Richard-Olivier Jenson
- voice editing
- Leopoldo Gutierrez
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- Jean Paul Vialard
- negative cutting
- Ana De Lurdes
- Claudine Blain
- technical coordination
- Andrée Delagrave
- technical advisor
- Claude Chevalier
- administration
- Ana Vila Real
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- associate producer, postproduction
- Marc Bertrand
- assistant to the producer
- Francine Langdeau
- associate producer
- Joao Garçao Borges
- Ricardo Nogueira
- Luis Avelar
- producer
- Abi Feijo
- Davide Freitas
- Pierre Hébert
- Marcel Jean
Awards
- Prix Onda CurtaFantasporto
- Public AwardRencontres de Cinéma Portugais
- Award for Best Animation filmRencontres de Cinéma Portugais
- FNAC Award - Category: Best Script of a Portuguese Film - with a cash prize of 200,00PTE ($1,360Cdn)International Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA
- Cartoon Portugal Award - Category: Best Portuguese Film in International Competition - with a cash prize of 200,000PTE ($1,360Cdn)International Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA
- Fabrizio Bellocchio Award - Prize for the Best Social ContentInt’l Festival of Animated Films / I Castelli Animati
- Special MentionMatita Film Festival
- Grand Prix of the festivalANIFILM