So the story so far. The three movies we will be screening during the
film festival' DRIVE IN SERIES (Oct. 8th - 15th) are 'Rocky' ("Yo
Adrian" - wonderful dialogue!!), 'The Pink Panther' (of course the
orginal and the best with Peter Sellers) & 'Silence of the Lambs'
(which may put you off eating your popcorn).

Venue & times to be announced (But it's not the show grounds).
Tickets won't be available on the night, so pre-book using the booking office and online booking. www.corkfilmfest.org

Aardman was founded as a small backyard project by an ambitious pair
named Peter Lord and David Sproxton in the mid-1970s. Lord and
Sproxton wanted to realize their dream of an animated motion picture.
Their first big break was providing animated sequences for the
children's art series Vision On; during this time they created Morph,
a simple clay character. Around the same time Lord and Sproxton made
their first foray into adult animation with the shorts Down and Out
and Confessions of a Foyer Girl, entries in the BBC's Animated
Conversations series, which used real-life conversations as
soundtracks. However, these two shorts were not actual Aardman
productions.
Later, Aardman produced a number of shorts for Channel 4; these
included the Conversation Pieces series. These five shorts worked in
the same area as the two shorts Lord and Sproxton made for Animated
Conversations, but were more sophisticated. Lord and Sproxton began
hiring more animators at this point; three of the newcomers made their
directorial debut at Aardman with the Lip Synch series. Of the five
Lip Synch shorts two were directed by Peter Lord, one by Barry Purves,
one by Richard Goleszowski and one by Nick Park.
Park's short, Creature Comforts, was the first Aardman production to
win an Oscar. Park also developed the world-famous clay modelled
shorts featuring the adventures of Wallace & Gromit, a comical yet
buddyful "dreamteam": Wallace the arch-British, naive,
green-knitted-tank-top-wearing inventor and his best pal, the
intelligent but silent dog, Gromit. The "cheeselovers" withstand many
adventures such as A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993)
and A Close Shave (1995), the latter two winning more Oscars. In the
year 2000 Aardman Studios "let the birds" fly with Chicken Run, an
awarded worldwide box-office hit. This movie was Aardman's first
feature film. 2005 and after ten years being on holiday Wallace and
Gromit returned very rested and relaxed on the silver screen in
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and caught the next
Academy award for full-length animated film.
While Aardman is best known for stop motion, the studio has also
dabbled in CGI with productions such as Al Dante, Planet Sketch and
Flushed Away.
Aardman Features is a feature film division of Aardman Animations.

JAMESON AWARD FOR BEST IRISH SHORT FILM:
Killing the Afternoon, Margaret Corkery.

BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM:
Museum Piece, John Smith, England.

AWARD OF THE FESTIVAL:
Away From the Sun, Pablo Aguero, Argentina.

YOUTH JURY FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT:
With All My Might, katell Quillevere, France.

CLAIRE LYNCH AWARD FOR BEST IRISH DIRECTED SHORT:
Director: Hitch, Mik Duffy.

GRADHAM GAEL LINN FOR BEST IRISH LANGUAGE SHORT:
An Teanga Runda, Brian Durnin.

IRISH EXAMINER "MADE IN CORK" AWARD:
Mullet, Ed Godsell.

"OUTLOOK" AWARD FOR BEST GAY & LESBIAN FILM:
Nights in Love, Hakon Liu, Sweden.

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT:
Ryan, Chris Landreth, Canada.

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST IRISH SHORT:
An Teanga Runda, Brian Durnin.