GENIUS LOCI
2020 Films
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16m
One night, Reine, a young loner, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.
Direction: Adrien Mérigeau
Script: Adrien Mérigeau, Nicolas Pleskof
Production: Amaury Ovise
Co-Production: Jean-Christophe Reymond
Cinematography: Adrien Mérigeau
Editing: Adrien Mérigeau
Animation: Camille Chao, Lisa Matuszak, Camille Monnier, Hefang Wei, Chenghua Yang, Hippolyte Cupillard, Vaïana Gauthier, Rui Chang, Alan Holly, Céline Devaux
Sound: Julien Rabin, Laurent Sassi
Original Score: Théo Mérigeau, Lê Quan Ninh
Cast: Nadia Moussa, Georgia Cusack, Jina Djemba
Original Title: GENIUS LOCI
Original Language: French
Film Production Country: France
Website: https://www.unifrance.org/film/49705/genius-loci?logged=1600964703953
Biography of the Director/s
After studying Animation in the French animation school EMCA from 2001 to 2004, Adrien Mérigeau first worked in Cartoon Saloon in Ireland as background supervisor on the EFA and Oscar-nominated feature film THE SECRET OF KELLS by Tomm Moore (2009). Then he directed his first short film OLD FANGS (2010), and worked as art director on Cartoon Saloon’s second Oscar-nominated and first EFA-winning film SONG OF THE SEA by Tomm Moore (2014).
Adrien moved back to France in 2015 and started to work with Kazak Productions on his second short film GENIUS LOCI, completed in October 2019.
Awards Won
Selected at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
Audi Award - Berlinale
Special mention - Annecy
Best Animated Film - Go Short
Production Company:
Kazak Productions
Amaury Ovise
21 Boulevard Voltaire
Paris, 75011, France
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +33 1 48 24 30 57
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