Finally Released online!

3 years, 21 international awards and 100+ screenings and festivals later, we are happy to release
But Milk is Important online! And we got a Staff Pick from Vimeo!

But Milk Is Important from Eirik gb on Vimeo.

But Milk is Important sold to Japan!

Read more about it here!

Milk in Dragonfame

Dragonframe wrote twice about the film at their blog!

Read about it  HERE  and  HERE

New Award!

Milk won the special jury prize for 'Best Film from an Emerging Artist' at Giraf - Festival of Independent Animation. Thank you!!

20th Award!!

Good news! Milk won it's 20th award at London International Animation Festival!
The award was the Audience Award in the International Program: Inside the Mind.
Thank you to everyone who voted!
The London International Animation Festival (LIAF) is UK's largest independent animation festival.

Featured in new Stop Motion Book!

But Milk is Important is featured in a new Italian book about Stop Motion by Stefano Bessoni!

It's a book full of illustrations and photos. Starting with "What is Stop Motion?", analyzes of the history and techniques before moving on to the step by step description accompanied by detailed photographs of the manufacture of a puppet, the set, animation and postproduction. And a presentation of some Stop Motion films that, if you have not already done so, you should definitely see!

Thank you JG Quintel!

Kidscreen Magazine asked ten of the hottest animators in the biz what makes them tick?

Creator of The Regular Show, Cartoon Network, said this about his favourite animated series:

Jiho!! :)

New Awards!

Long time no blogging! We have been very busy making a very big commissioned project past months, and didn't have time to update the blog. So here comes some news about Milk! :

Milk won the Audience Award at In Short Film Festival! 

And a Special Mention at Anibar International Animation Festival!

Best Short at Cardiff Independent Film Festival!

Recently "But Milk Is Important" was screened at Cardiff Independent Film Festival and was lucky to win the award for Best Short!
Our music composer Phil Brookes was there to represent the film and went up to receive the award!
A big thanks to the festival jury! Huzza!

Featured at Dragonframe !

You can now read about our production at Dragonframes official website, where the project is now featured! :)

"Delightfully disturbing, this is a studly student piece indeed. The trailer for this short from joint directors Anna Mantzaris and Eirik Bjørnsen, hailing from Volda University College in Norway, proves to be as much a mystery as it is a masterpiece. What is this film about? Is it a warmer and fuzzier Donnie Darko? Is it a crazy cute Kafka story? Is it a psychological mind bender or an ominous nutritional service announcement? The only thing that is certain is that it is beautifully lit, shot and art directed and is a piece of engagingly suspenseful storytelling. We can't wait until this endearingly dark dust bunny comes fully out of the closet."

Read more on Dragonframes website HERE

Among the 10 best animated shorts this year!

15 Important people from the animation industry - programmers and critics - have been asked which are the 10 best animated shorts (all categories, and from the whole world) from 2013.
And two of the people, Chris Robinson and Daniel Suljic, put our film on their list !! Hurray and thank you !

If you know French, or know how to use google translate, read more about it HERE

Interview with Anna

Anna was interviewed by the Swedish national TV about the film, click on the image to watch it !

Interview with Eirik

Eirik was interviewed about the film in the local paper in Sandnes, his home town.
Sandnes had a short film festival where the film was participating and also got an award called Future Glance.
This interview was made before the festival, read it HERE !

Award + Special Mentions!

More good news! Last weekend the film won 'Best Student Film' at Animated Dreams in Tallin and got a Special Mention at Sommets du cinéma d'animation in Canada!
Thank you to both Jurys!!


And this weekend it got a Special mention at Animateka by Jury member Chris Robinson, with the motivation: But Milk is not just important, it's good for you too.  Thank you Chris!

We attended the festival and we are really happy for that - it was a super good festival, we had a lot of fun and met both new and old friends! Na zdravje!

New Award - KORT! at KinoKino

"But Milk Is Important" takes its 13th award this weekend. And where? In Eirik's hometown Sandnes!

The film took the "Future Glance" award and we are really happy for that. Big thanks to the jury! We also got a really cool statue, a golden ViewMaster, which you can see the award title when you look inside it.

Both directors attended and it was fun to attend a shortfilm festival, having a film in the programme while staying at Eirik's home.

Thanks to the festival director and voulenteers for a great festival!

Two Audience Awards and new festivals!

Great News! 
But Milk is Important won it's 11th and 12th award this weekend!!
The first one was at Sweaty Eyeballs in Baltimore, US! The film tied with "Futon" for the Audience Choice Award!

The second was at Aesthetica Short Film Festival in UK where the film won People's Choice Award! 

Thank you to both audiences!!!




The Film is also chosen for a couple of new festivals:

Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Montreal and Quebec City, Canada 21 Nov - 1 Dec

Animated Dreams, Tallin, Estonia 27 Nov - 1 Dec 

Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2 - 8 Dec

Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, UK 6 - 21 Nov

Expotoons, Buenos Aires, Argentina 13 - 15 Nov

International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Krakow, Poland 22 - 28 Dec

Kort, Sandnes, Norway 14 - 17 Nov


And it was also screened at Images en Vues, Montreal, and
Uppsala International Film Festival, Sweden.

But Milk Is Important TRAILER

Hellloz!
The trailer is done and out on Vimeo. If you have not seen it you should do it now!
We are also doing some changes on the blog here. Trying to organize stuff slightly more

Wiho!

10th Award! - Best Student Film - Semafor Stop Motion Festival

Huzza!

But Milk Is Important takes its 10th award at the 4th Semafor International Stop Motion Film Festival!

A lot of good films where screened and we are proud to come out top of the jury's decision. Thank you! Eirik was present at the festival and also got the chance to meet many nice people.

The festival is held in the city of Łódź, Poland. Here you find the Semafor studio which are responsible for the great Oscar winning short film "Peter and the Wolf"
They are currently working on a childrens series called "Flapper and Friends"

You can read about the rest of the winners here: http://www.festival.se-ma-for.com/

Two new awards in Ottawa!!

We are super happy to get two new awards at Ottawa International Animation Festival, North Americas largest Animation Festival! The awards are: Walt Disney Award for Best Graduate Film  and  Public Price for the festivals Best Short Film!
Thank you to the Jury and to the audience! It makes us very proud and also inspired :)
We also went to visit the festival and we enjoyed it a lot! It was a super good festival and we met so many great people! Thank you!
See the full list of winners HERE

Milano, Adelaide, Bradford and Animated Eden !

A small update about new festivals. We are very happy to have been selected for a couple of new festivals:

The film is selected for a showcase of animation shorts called Animation is my Drug including "some of the best international animated short films going around in a collection that will have you hooked for life" at Adelaide Film Festival 10-20 October in Australia.

It is also part of 'Focus of Animation' of the 18th edition of Milano Film Festival 5-15 September 2013. 'Focus of Animation' is a "screening featuring the most interesting animations produced last couple of years".

But Milk Is Important has also been chosen for the Bradford Animation Festival 2013 official selection, competing in the student category. The festival is from 12-16 November.

AND least but not last, it is selected for the festival Animated Eden 2013, 8th of September, the film is screening in the Artistic Potluck category!

Cheers!