Category Archives: Animation

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Jason Steele of Filmcow is currently funding via Kickstarter to create the fifth and final episode of the web legend that is Charlie the Unicorn. Sez he:

When the original “Charlie the Unicorn” video got such an enthusiastic response after its release (way back in 2005!) I decided to write a roadmap for the series. In the time since then I’ve produced three additional episodes, all following that roadmap. I love the series, and I really didn’t want to mess up what made it special by pumping out a bunch of episodes without good reason. If I did that, it would be Garfield.  Every episode would involve Charlie throwing himself into a pan of lasagna and then assaulting a dog. What a world that would be.

With a month to go, he’s already achieved twice the 25,000 target.

So that’s a thing that’s happening then.

Here, in case you haven’t already watched it several times – is the series so far.

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Of this real-life account of a refugee child’s crossing from Syria to Lesbos, UNICEF sez:

7-year-old Malak fled with her family from war-torn Syria and braved a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. “I had a lot of friends, now there is no one left,” Malak says.

More on Malak’s story here.

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Aoife Noonan writes:

A Terrible Hullabaloo is our first short film.  It’s about Vinny Byrne who was a 15 year old volunteer during the Easter Rising.  Told with puppets…It was funded by the Irish Film Board under their After ’16 short film scheme. The first screening will be in the Audi Dublin International Film Festival later this month.