Mary & Max News
Mary and Max - USA release
Posted by Melanie on 18/08/2009
19 August 2009 - For immediate release:
Melodrama Pictures is delighted to announce that Mary and Max, the animated feature film from Adam Elliot, the Academy Award ® winning writer/director of Harvie Krumpet, is being released in the USA.
The attached Press Release from the new Sundance Selects on-demand platform of the highly prestigious Sundance Channel announces the release alongside Sundance favourites including Spike Lee’s “Passing Strange, the Movie”. Sundance Selects titles will be available on the on-demand platform of major US cable operators, including Comcast, Cox and Cablevision.
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Mary and Max - more INTERNATIONAL festival successes!
Posted by Melanie on 10/08/2009
Mary and Max: won… Best Fiction Film Foreign, Jury Award at Traverse City Film Festival (founded by Michael “Bowling for Columbine” Moore) http://www.traversecityfilmfest.org/news/?page=press-release-8-3-09
AND....
Mary and Max is one of only 11 films in the Milano Feature Film Competition: http://www.milanofilmfestival.it/2009/programmapersezioni/lunghi/mary&max.php
And more festivals
17th - 27th 22nd Helsinki Intl Film Festival Helsinki,
September FINLAND
18th - 27th BUSTER - Copenhagen Intl Film Copenhagen,
September Festival For Children and Youth DENMARK
17th - 26th 15th Lund Intl Fantastic Film …
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Mary and Max screening at festivals all over the world!
Posted by Melanie on 15/07/2009
Here’s a list of upcoming festivals which will be screening Mary and Max - this list is not comprehensive and will be updated regularly! This doesn’t include general national cinema releases. They’ll be announced separately!
29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival USA
5th Traverse City Film Festival USA
ANIMA ISRAEL
The Norwegian International Film Festival - Haugesund NORWAY
Monterrey Intl Film Festival MEXICO
The London Intl Animation Film Festival UK
LUCAS - Intl Children’s Film Festival …
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Mary and Max shares The Grand Crystal Best Feature Award at Annecy!
Posted by Melanie on 15/06/2009
Breaking news - Mary and Max has just won The Grand Crystal Best Feature award at the prestigeous Annecy Animation Festival. The Award is jointly shared with Coraline (d: Henry Sellick - Laika Entertainment/Universal Pictures).
Annecy is the ‘Cannes of Animation’ and is where Harvie Krumpet (the Oscar winning short film also written and directed by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs) began its journey winning three Annecy awards back in 2003.
This award comes hot on the heels of Mary and Max’s success at Stuttgart Animation Festival (Grand Jury Prize) and Zagreb Film Festival …
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Statement from the Jury awarding Mary and Max the ANIMOVIE PRIZE!
Posted by Melanie on 13/05/2009
from : http://www.itfs.de/en/press/jury-statements.html
Award winner AniMovie: “Mary&Max” by Adam Elliot from Australia
“The jury was very impressed with the quality of all the films we viewed, and it was very difficult to choose only one film to be the best of the festival. There were many animation styles and stories to consider and the deliberations were very intense. At the end the jury felt that “Mary and Max” had the most original and impressive non-traditional story, style and format of all the films. The director’s vision and the realization of that vision is stunning on …
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