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The first day of a new term and the local school reopens with a flourish of ribbons and some swanky new equipment all paid for by three generous companies. Everything seems wonderful, swanky new equipment for the pupils, even the teachers can take it easy with their lesson plans all taken care of. But do these companies have the best interests of the schoolchildren deep within their hearts? One boy suspects this is not all philanthropic gesture.
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"The idea stemmed from the concept of bad education, how children tend to be vocationally trained rather than imbued with the wonder of learning. But it began to look like an attack on the poor sods who have to teach an over-inflated curriculum to over-inflated class sizes. So my producer and I searched around for other influences on the school system, and there ain't no one going to feel sorry for a poor, starving, multinational corporation hell bent on getting their claws into nice young impressionable minds.
I originally intended to make a 5 minute film. This went up to 27 minutes in the animatic stage. A brief panic and a rather large machete taken to the script managed to get it back down to a far more reasonable 10 minutes."
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production designer Lisa Hall
composer Angus Havers
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- voices Floella Benjamin
- Mariella Frostrup
- Mark Lawson
- Andrew Marr
- Prunella Scales
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Anima Mundi – 3rd Prize/Best First Animation
Edinburgh International Film Festival - The McLaren Animation Award for New British Animation (Joint winner)
Royal Television Society Student Television Awards – Best Animation
British Independent Film Awards – Nominated for Best British Short
Animex International Festival of Animation - Best 3d Animation runner up
European Festival of Film Schools, Bologna – Special Mention
Dinard British Film Festival - Best Student Film
International Student Festival of Film Art Bulgaria - Best Animation Award
Bradford Animation Festival - Best Film, Non Professional Category
NAHEMI, Brief Encounters UK 2004
Serious About Shorts : Best of 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, Curzon Cinema Soho, 2004
© 2004 National Film and Television School
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