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Artist's Talk ONF x Sommets | Daniel Gray

Location
4 pm | Cinémathèque québécoise's Facebook Page
Date
September 16th, 2021
Admission
Free admission
Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation présentent

We know the event, the festival organized by the Cinémathèque québécoise presenting the best of animation film. But the Sommets also host a series of animated events held at the Cinémathèque or elsewhere, and which showcase new releases as well as memorable films from the past, short and feature films, screenings at the indoors and outdoors, film lessons and other events.

To be kept up to date with its annual programming, visit the Sommets website.

The NFB, in partnership with les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, is pleased to invite you to an Artists’ Talk with internationally recognised UK-born filmmaker Daniel Gray (t.o.m., 2006; teeth, 2015).

Daniel will show and tell about his most recent film, HIDE, a dark and surreal story about two brothers playing hide and seek; one of them finds the perfect hiding spot… and never comes out. Using a sparse soundtrack and visual design that shifts from bright and spacious simplicity to opaque fragments, HIDE tells a prescient story about family, social anxiety and isolation in a world that is increasingly disjointed and unrecognizable.

HIDE is a co-production between La Cellule Productions, CUB Animation Studio, and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

Live on Sommets du cinéma d'animation's Facebook Page
Thursday, September 16 at 4 pm

Daniel Gray

Daniel Gray studied Fine Art at the University of Wales Cardiff. After a stint as a represented painter, Daniel started experimenting with animation. While studying animation at the University of Wales, Newport, he met Tom Brown. The duo started a creative partnership that began with their graduation short film, t.o.m. (2006). This short tale about a young boy’s rather peculiar and revealing journey to school was an instant success at international film festivals, collecting awards from Ottawa, Annecy, and Sundance, as well as at the British Animation Awards. Their next film, teeth (2015), which tells the life story of a man (voiced by Richard E. Grant) through the history of teeth, screened at more than 40 festivals and won numerous awards.

Daniel currently lives in Hungary with his wife and daughters. His most recent film, Hide, is a co-production between La Cellule Productions, CUB Animation Studio, and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). This is Daniel’s first collaboration with the NFB.