A TOWN CALLED PANIC: THE CHRISTMAS LOG
2014 Films
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27m
The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overexcited by the organization of the celebration, they fight and destroy the Yule log on which Horse was putting the last touch. Horse is livid and cancels the gifts from Santa Claus. How will they win back the favors of Horse and The Old Bearded Man? How will they retrieve their gifts ? For Indian and Cowboy begins a long, very long Christmas Eve…
Direction: Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier
Script: Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Tavier
Production: Vincent Tavier, Nicolas Schmerkin
Cinematography: Jan Vandenbussche
Editing: Anne-Laure Guégan
Production Design: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Animation: Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier, Ben Tesseur, Steven de Beul
Original Score: French Cowboy
Cast: Bruce Ellison, Benoit Poelvoorde
Original Title: PANIQUE AU VILLAGE: LA BÛCHE DE NOËL
Original Language: French
Subtitles: English
Film Production Countries: Belgium, France
Biography of the Director/s
Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar are writers and animation filmmakers hailing from Belgium. They studied and met at La Cambre, the Belgian School of Visual Arts and have become inseparable ever since, continuously creating funny and outrageous worlds by using a variety of animation techniques. Their animated shorts include the PIC PIC ANDRE SHOOW trilogy (1995–99), LES BALTUS AU CIRQUE (1998), UFO BOVEN GEEL (1999), LA RUPTURE (2000) and episodes of the award-winning series A TOWN CALLED PANIC (PANIQUE AU VILLAGE) (2000–03), which inspired their 2009 feature debut of the same name which was part of the official selection of the 2009 edition of Cannes Film Festival. They lately released the short sequel A TOWN CALLED PANIC: THE CHRISTMAS LOG, which went on to win the Grand Prize for Short Film at New York Int'l Children's Film Festival and saw their feature film ERNEST & CELESTINE recently nominated at the 2014 edition of the Oscars and awarded internationally.
Awards Won
New-York International Children's Film Festival - Grand prix
Festival Anima Bruxelles /prix de la Sabam
Future Film Festival
Curtas Vila Do Conde
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