Oz Animation to Open Sundance

Oscar winner Adam Elliot's first stop motion feature film Mary and Max (which I mentioned here back in September) is to open the 25th Sundance film festival on January 15 2009. The film stars the voices of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette and is narrated by Barry Humphries. This is huge news for Adam and his producer Melanie Coombs and for the Oz animation scene. I predict that Adam and Melanie will be working on their next feaure within a couple of years for sure (unless he takes on a series first). Oz's indusrty is looking up finally. Animal Logic has two features in the works (the current project being the Guardians of Ga'Hoole directed by Zack Snyder of 300 and Watchmen fame), a new studio being put together called Dr. D will be taking on Happy Feet 2 and now Adam Elliot's feature is about to rock Sundance and undoubtedly open the door for more work. WOO! Keep it up Oz!!