Signatures In Motion
A Boat in the Garden / Slocum et Moi
Screening Schedule
Screening 1
- 16th December
- 6.15 pm
- new 3
Screening 2
- 17th December
- 9.30 am
- audi 6
Screening 3
- 18th December
- 8.45 pm
- kalabhavan
Jean-François Laguionie
Director's bio
Jean-François Laguionie
Born in 1939 in Besançon, France, Jean-François Laguionie developed a passion for drawing from an early age. After studying at the Arts Appliqués, he met Paul Grimault, who introduced him to animation and whose studio he shared for almost ten years. It was there that he conceived his first short films. Each time, they met with success at festivals, including the Palme d’Or for Short Films at the Cannes Film Festival for ‘‘La Traversée de l’Atlantique à la rame’’ (Rowing Across the Atlantic). In 1979, he embarked on the great adventure of feature films with Gwen, le livre de sable, ac- companied by a small team housed in a former spinning mill, La Fabrique. The studio then turned to the production of TV film collections and short films. In association with other European stu- dios, it worked on several series while keeping production in Europe. In 1999, he directed The Castle of the Apes, a much more ambitious and mainstream film than the previous one. He went on to collaborate with Blue Spirit Productions and JPL films on his subsequent feature films.
Synopsis
François, a daydreaming child of boundless imagination, has his life changed when his father decides to start building a boat in the garden. Thus begins the family’s grand odyssey, a collective venture to construct a boat that would carry them away - somewhere between reality and reverie.
Details of Cast
Will be updated
Details of Crew
Animation Gilles Rudziak Editor Aurélien Antezac Music Pascal Le Pennec, interpreted by L’Orchestre National de Bretagne
Producer Details
Stephan Roelants, Camille Raulo, Jean François Bigot
Writer Details
Anik Leray, Jean-François Laguionie
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