Tonight - it’s OFFICIAL – THE APE STAR is in the main competition of ANNECY INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL 2021! A dream came through!
Thanks to the most wonderful creative team from Sweden, Norway and Denmark!
Nordic rules!
Thanks to Frida Nilsson who wrote an amazing book – Janne Vierth that created a magic script and Petter Lindblad a worldclass producer, together with the dreamteam co-producers from Mikrofilm, Lise Fearnley, Tonje Skar Reiersen, and Nørlum, Claus Toksvig Kjaer, Frederik Villumsen. And also with the greatest animation studio Dockhus Animation, Mikael Lindbom.
Listen to the amazing music by Minna Weurlander and Tania Naranjo-Golborne. Look at the awesome work by My Eklund’s storyboard and Gabriel Mkrttchian’s camera, d.o.p! Then the 290 fantastic backgrounds created by a bunch of super artists in the lead of Ola Larsson and Morten Lund Thulstrup! Then the fantastic animation team lead by supervisor Elinor Bergman, and in Norway by Tuva Synnevåg and in Denmark by Søren Hornshøj Krøjgaard and Tore Poulsen. Composition lead of Martin Nyberg – lovely! Listen to every step made by sounddesigner Mats Blomberg. Super character designwork by Maria Nilsson Thore!!!
All of the animation crew, animators, layout artists, clean-up artists, in-betweeners, coloring artists, compositing artists, lipsync artists - you are so many and did such a fantastic work!
Thanks to all actors, Stellan Skarsgård, Pernilla August, Rebecca Gerstmann, Melinda Kinnaman and many more, all financiers, project managers, coordinators, book keeping team, character designer, editors, postproduction team, distributors and many many more – our work came to an end but this is our treat – our film will finally go international!
THANKS – I miss you all and I hope we will work soon again! Please share this note on those I have missed out!
XXXLove
Linda