This year's Encounters Festival payed a number of tributes to Bristol heroes Aardman Animations. This is a short film made for the festival looking at the enormous impact the company have had both in Britain and internationally.

Tiring of her parents' boring dinner parties, a young girl
 comes up with a surprising scheme to make this one work for her.

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There are quite a few people or organisations who we couldn't have made this film without. The Roundhouse for providing funding and assistance, Esme Solnick for letting us use her house and sharing her worldly wisdom, Guy Gotto for arriving on the day and being thrust into the DOP seat, Sami for finding most of the cast and busting a gut on the sound design and music, Mia for letting us use her house to spend countless hours in a dark room with tiny horses, and then Jony and the Levins for helping out in all kinds of ways. And then there's the rest of the cast and crew who all did a sterling job. So thanks a lot everyone.

Film by Faye Planer and Tristan Martin

DOP - Guy Gotto
Composer and Sound Designer - Sami El-Enany
Sound Mastering - Joseph Munday
Piano - Sami El-Enany
Violin - Caragh Campbell
Cello - Rosalind Asprey
Executive Producer - Marta Sala Font
Animation Assistants - Patrick Burley and Daniel Levin
Production Assistant - Jonathan Levin

Winning Girl - Eve Reekie
Losing Boy - Joshua Matengu
Losing Girl - 
Leila Biggs

Host - Duncan Reekie
Hostess - 
Colette Reekie

Guest 1 - Nina Planer

Guest 2 - Adrian Matengu 

Guest 3 - Andy Parks

Guest 4 - Anna Orford

Funded by the Ex-Animo Online Film Fund Scheme as part of the Roundhouse’s Creative Programme for 11-25’s.

Madrid 2011.

OUT NOW AT WWW.SIGNPAINTERSFILM.COM

This the official trailer for SIGN PAINTERS a documentary by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon. For information regarding screenings, and other news please visit signpaintersfilm.com

About the project...

There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our landscape. Fortunately, there is a growing trend to seek out traditional sign painters and a renaissance in the trade.

In 2010 Directors Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, with Cinematographer Travis Auclair, began documenting these dedicated practitioners, their time-honored methods, and their appreciation for quality and craftsmanship. Sign Painters, the first anecdotal history of the craft, features the stories of more than two dozen sign painters working in cities throughout the United States. The documentary and book profiles sign painters young and old, from the new vanguard working solo to collaborative shops such as San Francisco’s New Bohemia Signs and New York’s Colossal Media’s Sky High Murals.

The book published by Princeton Architectural Press in November 2012 features a foreword by legendary artist (and former sign painter) Ed Ruscha. We encourage you to pick up a copy at your local book shop, or directly from Princeton Architectural Press - http://goo.gl/aTZLq

Videoclip de "See the light", de Julien Elsie, single del nuevo disco "Deux". Realizado por Sinnermanfilms.