LOVING VINCENT | Twój Vincent | dir. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman| PL, GB, US | 2017 | 94 min

prod|pro Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart scen|wr Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Jacek Dehnel zdj|ph Tristan Oliver, Łukasz Żal muz|mus Clint Mansell mon|ed Justyna Wierszyńska, Dorota Kobiela ob|cast Douglas Booth, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jerome Flynn, Saoirse Ronan, Chris O’Dowd, John Sessions, Aidan Turner, Helen McCrory, Robert Gulaczyk dys|dis Next Film

“Loving Vincent” is unique because Vincent Van Gogh was exceptional. The film is an experimental animated biographical drama about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, especially about the circumstances of his death. The painter wrote in one of his last letters: “Only our images can speak for us”. Van Gogh’s art told his story. This is the first fully animated feature film to be made. The film, written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, is a Polish production financed by the Polish Film Institute, and partly by the Kickstarter campaign. Each of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique as Van Gogh, created by a team of 125 painters.

DOROTA KOBIELA (1978)
Polish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. A graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Through friends Dorota discovered animation and film, and immediately threw herself into learning these new artistic disciplines, attending The Warsaw Film School, Direction Faculty. She has directed one live action short film and five animated shorts. For her sixth animated short “Loving Vincent” Dorota aimed to combine her passion for painting and film. “Loving Vincent” is her feature film debut.

HUGH WELCHMAN (1975)
He graduated with a degree from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. In 2002, Welchman founded the film company BreakThru Films. This led to him becoming the joint winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2007 for the film “Peter and the Wolf” (2006) which he produced.

AWARDS
2018 FAF TWO RIVERSIDES Kazimierz Dolny, Janowiec – Audience Award
2018 Academy Awards Oscar – Best Animated Feature Film nomination
2018 Golden Globes – Best Motion Picture Animated nomination
2018 BAFTA Film Award – Best Animated Feature Film nomination
2018 David di Donatello Awards – Best European Film nomination
2017 Gdynia PFF Golden Lion for Best Film nomination
2017 Shanghai IFF – Golden Goblet for Best Animation Film

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