Il Burattino e la Balena
TITLE
Il Burattino e la Balena
DIRECTOR
Roberto Catani
COUNTRY
France, Italy
YEAR
2024
DURATION
8′
GENRE
Animation
Il Burattino e la Balena
Story of a puppet who doesn't become a child.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Roberto Catani
He graduated in Animated Drawing in 1986 at the State Institute of Art "Scuola del libro" in Urbino and since 1988/89 he has been a laboratory teacher of "Art of Animated Drawing" at the same institute. He collaborates with the magazine The Stranger directed by Goffredo Fofi, and creates illustrations for FATATRAC editions and ZOOLibri. His animated films, “La sagra” (1998) and “La Funambola” (2002), have been awarded at the major national and international animation festivals, including Espinho, New York, Zagreb, Annecy '00, Hiroshima '02, “Nastro d'argento” in 2003, nomination in 2002 for the Cartoon d'Or. Participates in: 100 years of animation cinema (Pesaro), Art and Animation at the Museum of Modern Art in Turin, International meetings on animation cinema in France, Open roads: new Italian cinema at Lincoln Center in New York and ARTECINEMA Film on 'Contemporary Art (Naples). “La testa tra le nuvole” (2013), selected at the major international festivals, received the grand jury prize at Animateka (Ljubljana) and the Special Jury Mention in Annecy.
- DirectorRoberto Catani
- ScreenplayRoberto Catani
- Cinematography
- Cast
- EditingRoberto Catani, Mariangela Malvaso
- Producer/s Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Davide Ferazza, Alessandro Giorgio
- Production CompanyMiyu Productions & Withstand Film
- Distributor/sMiyu Distribution
- Project TitleIl Burattino e la Balena
- Project TypeAnimation
- Completion Date1 January 2024
- Country of originFrance, Italy
- Country of filmingFrance, Italy
- LanguageNo Dialogue
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Roberto Catani
He graduated in Animated Drawing in 1986 at the State Institute of Art "Scuola del libro" in Urbino and since 1988/89 he has been a laboratory teacher of "Art of Animated Drawing" at the same institute. He collaborates with the magazine The Stranger directed by Goffredo Fofi, and creates illustrations for FATATRAC editions and ZOOLibri. His animated films, “La sagra” (1998) and “La Funambola” (2002), have been awarded at the major national and international animation festivals, including Espinho, New York, Zagreb, Annecy '00, Hiroshima '02, “Nastro d'argento” in 2003, nomination in 2002 for the Cartoon d'Or. Participates in: 100 years of animation cinema (Pesaro), Art and Animation at the Museum of Modern Art in Turin, International meetings on animation cinema in France, Open roads: new Italian cinema at Lincoln Center in New York and ARTECINEMA Film on 'Contemporary Art (Naples). “La testa tra le nuvole” (2013), selected at the major international festivals, received the grand jury prize at Animateka (Ljubljana) and the Special Jury Mention in Annecy.
