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AniFab Notes - The Bulletin Board Bloggy Thing

#AniFab Teases Out First Five Finalist Films For World Focused Festival Lineup

8/27/2021

 
Animalis Fabula Film Festival
THE ANIMAL STORY FILM FESTIVAL
A Festival Of The Best Filmed Stories About Or Including Animals
​By Filmmakers Of Every Skill Level From Around The World


If you have a hard time pronouncing Animalis Fabula, it's OK, just say AniFab!

The First Five Finalist Films For The 2021 Animalis Fabula Film Festival Hail From 5 Different Countries.  Many More Announcements Coming Soon. . .

Firefalls - Short Narrative - France
Escape Velocity - Short Animation - Hungary
The Last Vaquita - Short Documentary - United Kingdom
Coo-Coo - Short Narrative - Russian Federation
The Conservation Game - Feature Documentary - USA


Firefalls
Director Ariel Neo

Explores the reality of the world we live in today and depicts the devastation caused by humans on Earth.

Escape Velocity
Director Tamás Rebák

An astronaut awakens in an abandoned cave of a strange planet. An interstellar vagabond, so to say. A light path leads him to the surface, where he looks at his compass and heads for his spaceship. He keeps glancing back, treading nervously, looking afraid. He has been chased by a creature for a long time, and his only way to break free is to escape this curious planet.


The Last Vaquita
Director Ed Harrison

With the Vaquita Porpoise on the brink of extinction, two brothers who collaborate as wildlife artists leave their studio behind and head to a small fishing town in Mexico. They board the M/V Farley Mowat to experience the front-line fight between ocean conservationists Sea Shepherd and the poachers, backed by the Mexican cartel, who are devastating countless marine species.

Coo-Coo
Director Svetlana Belorussova
Dasha, a young biologist, prepares to defend her Ph.D. on the Baikal seal. 
Her Ph.D. advisor is skeptical about Dasha’s love for animals, and her mother only cares about the girl not missing night prayers. A story about a conflict between science and religion, love and suffering, between what Dasha wants and what others push her to do.


The Conservation Game
Director Michael Webber
Set against the backdrop of a heated national debate on captive big cats in America,
 we follow the story of Tim Harrison, an Ohio cop who stumbles upon a bombshell discovery while undercover at an exotic animal auction. He starts to suspect that America's top television celebrity conservationists may be secretly connected to the exotic pet trade.


Complete press kits with key art, production stills and filmmaker bios can be found at the links posted above or by selecting key art posters below:
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Hundreds of movies have been submitted to AniFab over the first 8 months of the current festival season with 2 months yet to go.  Filmmakers representing more than 30 countries have submitted films for consideration.  60% of films submitted have been short subject, and more than 25% are from first time filmmakers.

Animalis Fabula Film Festival   November 26 - 28, 2021

Dates/Times: 
    Friday, November 26, 2021 from 9:00am until 11:00pm
    Saturday, November 27, 2021 from 10:00am until 11:00pm
    Sunday, November 28, 2021 from 12:00pm until 8:00pm

Venues:
    Mueller Lakeside Amphitheater (Friday - Saturday)
    Galaxy Highland 10 Theater (Friday - Sunday)
    Motion Media Art Center - workshops (Saturday)


Producer / Host:
World Animal Awareness Society & WA2S Films


If you have a hard time pronouncing Animalis Fabula, it's OK, just say AniFab!
Tom McPhee, Festival Director
Animalis Fabula Film Festival #AniFab

A story-teller, Tom creates original filmed stories as they relate to human animal interaction.  As Executive Director of the World Animal Awareness Society and WA2S Films, Tom is an award winning producer & director of film, TV, and multi-language interactive media.  Tom is an independent film veteran, curating award-winning filmed content for film festivals and film tours.

Tom through WA2S Films is releasing the award-winning feature documentary, A Stray Dog's RUFF LIFE through 1091 Pictures for the fall 2021 TV Season. RUFF LIFE is currently making the film festival rounds with 5 wins and 9 total nominations.  Tom is 2 years into production on the feature documentary, Jayson's Superhero Training due out in the fall of 2022, and in pre-production on Rider's Rescues an animal rescue series for PBS with shooting beginning in January 2022 in St Johns, Florida.
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Tom created and produced FLIXTOUR, the premier, nationally sponsored, college targeted, indie film tour lauded by indiewire, MovieMaker, Filmmaker and MovieLine magazines as the next 'thing' with sponsors as diverse as Pelle Pelle & Discover Card. FLIXTOUR achieved memorable successes, including launching indie film icon Kevin Smith's ongoing & highly successful college speaking series, and more serendipitously, helping launch the comedy directing career of then almost broke Paul Feig (Freaks & Geeks. Bridesmaids, SPY, Ghostbusters). Paul wrote Freaks & Geeks  while presenting his film Life Sold Separately* on Tom's FLIXTOUR.  Ain't It Cool News Covered it back in the day
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Animalis Fabula Film Festival is a production of WA2S Films, World Animal Awareness Society and World Animal Rescue Network., an award-winning 501c3 United States based media non profit.
WA2S Family of Non Profit Organizations
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