Writer: Samantha Moore Director: Samantha Moore Producer: Joshka Wessels for Sapiens Productions. Synopsis: An animated documentary taking as its source material audio recordings of families in Africa who have been the victims of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The original recordings were taken as part of a previous live action documentary project, but animator Sam Moore saw the opportunity to bring her unique and critically acclaimed visual style to this hard-hitting subject.
Festivals & Awards:
‘The Beloved Ones’ is still being screened at festivals and was notably selected for the Short Film Corner at Cannes 2007.
Received special mention received a special mention by the grand jury at the Zagreb international animation festival for "its message, told in a personal and accessible way ". For more information on the festival go to http://www.animafest.hr/en/.
Film-maker bio:
Samantha Moore Sam's previous films Success With Sweetpeas and Doubled Up have travelled the world at international film festivals, garnering critical and audience praise wherever they go. Despite taking a break to travel the world Samantha with her family is in the process of developing a new project with Joshka for the Wellcome Trust, called An Eyeful of Sound, which is an animation about synaesthesia. Sam and Joshka aim to have this project completed by 2009.
Joshka Wessels Joshka is a well travelled Dutch documentary filmmaker who produces films that go beyond the surface. After years of working in development aid in Haiti Sudan Yemen and Syria she established her own company Sapiens Productions n the UK Her first independent film called Little Waterfall won a Special recommendation in the category Archaeology and Material Culture at the RAI filmfestival in Durham UK. Since then her films have been broadcast on BBC. She is currently finishing her PhD for International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
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