{"id":6179,"date":"2018-02-20T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2018-02-20T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:56:24","slug":"oscar-nominated-hand-painted-animated-film-loving-vincent-releases-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2018\/02\/20\/oscar-nominated-hand-painted-animated-film-loving-vincent-releases-this-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Nominated, Hand-Painted Animated Film Loving Vincent Releases This Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Loving Vincent\u2019, the world\u2019s first fully hand-painted feature film, nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Animated Feature, releases in South Africa on Friday 23 February.<\/p>\n

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The ambitious film, an account of a young man\u2019s journey to Vincent van Gogh\u2019s hometown, is told entirely through intricately crafted oil paintings in the artist\u2019s unique style. It will be distributed in South Africa by Indigenous Film Distribution.<\/p>\n

\u201cOscar voters had 26 new features to consider for a best animated feature nomination.\u201d says Mayenzeke Baza of AAA Entertainment, sales agent for \u2018Loving Vincent\u2019 in Africa. \u201cAs remarkable as Vincent\u2019s brilliant paintings, is his passionate and ill-fated life, and mysterious death. The feature brings his brilliance to life through a truly fascinating and visually beautiful experience.\u201d added Pascal Schmitz, head of acquisitions for AAA Entertainment.<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, \u2018Loving Vincent\u2019 was produced by Poland\u2019s BreakThru Films and UK\u2019s Trademark Films. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional artists who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. Vincent himself said in his last letter: \u2018We cannot speak other than by our paintings\u2019. The film takes him at his word and lets the paintings tell the real story of his life and art.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Loving Vincent\u2019 was first shot as a live action film with actors, and then hand-painted over frame-by-frame in oils. The final effect is an interaction of the performance of the actors playing Vincent\u2019s famous portraits, and the performance of the painting animators, bringing these characters alive through the medium of paint.<\/p>\n

The 90th Academy Awards ceremony will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, 4 March, when the winners will be announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to be bring a ground-breaking film of this calibre to South African audiences.\u201d added says Helen Kuun, of Indigenous Film Distribution whom will be releasing the film in South Africa.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Loving Vincent\u2019, the world\u2019s first fully hand-painted feature film, nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Animated Feature, releases in South Africa on Friday 23 February. The ambitious film, an account of a young man\u2019s journey to Vincent van Gogh\u2019s hometown, is told entirely through intricately crafted oil paintings in the artist\u2019s unique… Continue reading Oscar Nominated, Hand-Painted Animated Film Loving Vincent Releases This Friday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}