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MACROPOLIS has won its 14th award! The AFISA (International association of animated films) award for Best animated film at the International Film Festival for children in Argentina. Woo-hoo!

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MACROPOLIS has just been selected for LA's prestigious Shortlist Film Festival, presented by The Wrap, Hollywood's premiere entertainment website, Youtube, Epix and MTV. The ShortList Film Festival selects only 12 of the best award-winning short films that have premiered at a major festival in the past year, making this the most highly competitive film festival of its kind! The 12 films will be presented from August 13-27 on EPIX and TheWrap.com, which gets over 7 million unique views per month. There's an audience award, for which you can vote here: http://shortlistfilmfestival.com/film/macropolis

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MACROPOLIS has just won its 12th and 13th awards to date- the Best of Festival and the Spirit of the Festival awards at FOCUS Film Festival’s 2014 Short Film Competition in Chico, California. Congrats to the Macro-team!

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We are delighted to announce that MACROPOLIS has been selected for another four festivals: Glasgow Short Film Festival, the International Film Festival 'Nueva Mirada', Argentia, 'La Septieme Salle' in Biarritz, France and Andancas Film Festival, Portugal!

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MACROPOLIS beat competition from over 30 international selected shorts and over 1,000 submissions to receive the Family Choice Award at at this years’ Ashland International Film Festival in Oregon, US of A. Congrats to the M team!

We’re happy to announce that Macropolis was voted the Best Short Film by the school audience at the 23th International animated film festival "Les Nuits Magiques” in France. This is the second win at this event which takes place in December and January.

We’re happy to announce that MACROPOLIS has just been awarded Best Short Film in the Youth category at the 23rd International Film Festival ‘Les Nuits Magiques’ in Bordeaux and Bègles in South West France. Well done to all the talented hands who took part in the film!

Hey folks! Macropolis is now available on iTunes. You can download it in the iTunes Store, in HD and SD resolutions Or by following the link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/macropolis/id643785372

Joel hosted a storyboarding workshop at Carr's Glen Primary School, North Belfast, for the school's FILMCLUB, giving pupils an insight to the processes involved in creating an animation. FILMCLUB in Northern Ireland is a Northern Ireland Screen after-schools initiative designed to reduce disadvantage and is funded by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. The scheme is managed by Cinemagic and the Nerve Centre. Photo by Harrison Photography

Well done team MACROPOLIS for winning the Best Irish Animation Award at the Blackrock Animation Festival the week end. MACROPOLIS, a stop motion film shot entirely outdoors in the streets of Belfast, was chosen as Best Irish Animation by a panel of industry experts.

MACROPOLIS has been selected to be screened at the headquarters of the Unesco organisation in Paris, as it opens its doors to the Cesar Academy, hosting the third edition of the Panaroma : a unique program who collects all the short films awarded in 2013 by the most important Academies of Cinema. MACROPOLIS represented Ireland at this prestigious event. These 3 days of screenings, organized with the partnership of UNESCO, give the opportunity to discover a very diverse selection of films, that includes different genres (documentary, fiction and animation) and European nationalities (more than 20 countries are represented).

Re-enacting a scene from our film

‘On the road again’ By Joel Simon Oil on Canvas 20X 30 cm.

Flickerpix enters the movie business

Flickerpix has won a prestigious BFI Vision Award, a National Lottery funded initiative intended to enable production companies to build their feature film development slates with creative and financial autonomy. Twenty awards have been made across the UK with Flickerpix the only successful applicant from Northern Ireland. With match funding from Northern Ireland Screen the award is worth around £200,000 over two years.

The awards committee at the BFI seemed to taken with Flickerpix’s low-fi stop motion style of animation exemplified by its hit BBC NI TV series On The Air, featuring strange-but-true extracts from Gerry Anderson’s Radio Ulster show. The committee noted that Flickerpix “has successfully blended stop motion characters with 2D backgrounds to great effect, in an innovative and cost-effective way. The panel was delighted by their ambition to become the Roger Corman Productions of comedy stop-motion animation movie making, creating a thriving and creative powerhouse in their Holywood studios.”

BFI first launched the Vision Awards in 2008 enabling a number of companies to scale up their business and firmly establish their international reputation through the production of critically-acclaimed and commercially successful films including The King’s Speech (produced by See-Saw Films) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Blueprint Pictures), in turn helping to bolster the profile of UK film on the world stage.

Buoyed by the news of their Vision Award, coupled with the recent launch of tax-relief for animation companies, and the burgeoning talent base within Northern Ireland, Flickerpix plan to make the natural progression into the production of feature length animations, in their Holywood, County Down studio. That’s Holywood with one ‘L’ - for now at least.

We are proud to announce that MACROPOLIS has won the Award of the Best Short Animated Film at Cinejeune 2013

We are delighted to announce that MACROPOLIS has received another official festival selection, adding to its already impressive list of accolades. This time the film has been selected by the 2013 Northwest Animation Festival in the US of A.

This year the festival received a total of 628 films from artists in 54 countries. The festival jurors chose MACROPOLIS as one of the films that they felt represented the very best of contemporary animation.

If you would like to find out some information on the film, then visit the MACROPOLIS website, where you will find all sorts of MACROPOLIS related goodies, like our iPad App, eBook and downloadable Cat and Dog!

We are very proud to announce that MACROPOLIS has just won 1st Place Festival Award at Chicago Irish Film Festival!

The Chicago Irish Film Festival is a cinematic celebration of new Irish films, insightful documentaries and award winning shorts that capture and reflect the ever changing landscape of contemporary Ireland. Founded in 1999, the CIFF has celebrated the legacy of Irish culture through filmmaking showcasing Irish, and for the first time this year Irish-American, filmmakers, screenwriters, animators and cinematographers.

Visit www.chicagoirishfilmfestival.com for more information.

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