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Two stop-motion features in Manchester Animation Festival's first Animation Featured lab
Manchester Animation Festival has picked seven projects for Animation Featured, a new development lab backed by the BFI that aims to strengthen the UK's feature animation pipeline. Screen Daily published the list on 5 October, and two of the seven are stop-motion features.
The Bear And The Piano is directed and produced by Chris Bowden. It adapts David Litchfield's 2015 picture book about a young bear who finds an old piano in the forest; its music delights the whole forest until a 12-year-old girl and her father find him on a woodland hike. Outlook India describes it as a stop-motion adaptation.
Made Of Sticks, which Outlook India calls a stop-motion fantasy, is directed by Baz Sells, director and co-writer of the stop-motion short Two Black Boys in Paradise, and produced by Ben Jackson. Neither report names a production company for either project. Aardman's Richard Beek is among the lab's mentors. The festival runs 8-12 November at HOME in Manchester.
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