NEWS: 03/08/07: Last night SILENCE IS GOLDEN won Best Short Film at the 9th Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. The prize was presented to MARIA MANTON by MIRANDA RICHARDSON and CHARLES DANCE at CafeDu Paris. For more info check out: www.sohoshorts.com
01/07/07: Chris has just directed a thirty second ident for Shots. It's called "Granny" and can be watched at the Shots website if you are a subscriber. For more details check out: http://www.shots.net/video_results.asp?sec=ident
.. width="425" height="350" .. DAD'S DEAD written and directed by Chris Shepherd. Produced by Maria Manton. voice by IAN HART. a slinky pictures production. an animate! commission for channel 4 and the arts council england. www.dadsdead.com Buy the film with making of as part of onedotzero_selectdvd2 at www.onedotzero.com .. width="425" height="350" .. WHO I AM AND WHAT I WANT (trailer), directed and written by CHRIS SHEPHERD and DAVID SHRIGLEY. Produced by MARIA MANTON. voice by KEVIN ELDON. a slinky pictures production. an animate! commission for channel 4 and the arts council england. www.whoiamandwhatiwant.com See the whole film by buying the DVD at www.onedotzero.com .. width="425" height="350" .. SILENCE IS GOLDEN (trailer)written and directed by Chris Shepherd. Produced by Maria Manton. A Slinky Pictures Production made in assoiciation with Autour de Minuit Productions with support from arte france/northwest vision and uk film council lottery fund/arcadi. This is a 45 second trailer from a 15 minute drama set in the 70's starring Conor Morris, Andrew Dunford and Kate McLoughlin. It mixes live action with many form of animation. This is only a teaser so it doesnt give much away. It's going to be released on DVD later in the year, for now you can see it complete at the BBC FILM NETWORK. More stuff at www.silenceisgolden.info
.. width="425" height="350" .. 43rd WORLD STAREOUT CHAMPIONSHIP from GRAHAM LINEHAN and ARTHUR MATTHEWS'S classic BIG TRAIN. Animation by CHRIS SHEPHERD based on the comic by PAUL HATCHER. a TALKBACK production for BBC. Buy the DVD at www.amazon.co.uk
.. width="425" height="350" .. Chris was asked by THE OBSERVER to nominate a film for thier 50 LOST MOVIE CLASSICS last month. He picked LA PETOMANE (1979) and the film made it in at number 24. A forgotten masterpiece starring Leonard Rossiter as Joseph Pujol in the true story of a man who had an elastic anus. What do you do with such an affliction? Well, Joseph performed impersonations for the pleasure of European royalty - like the Royal Variety Show, only classier. Directed by Ian MacNaughton (Python) and written by Galton and Simpson. There's a clip of the film above. To get hold of a copy is like trying to find the Holy Grail.To see the other movies that made the TOP 50 check out http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1973667, 00.html On August 27th DAD'S DEAD will appear as an extra on the UK DVD release of Danny Boyle's space epic SUNSHINE. To see a bit check out the trailer.