Throughout this year “without cinema”, Purpleboy, first production of Alexandre Siqueira, will have caused a sensation and is in the race for the Oscar.
Purpleboy
The Oscars, handed over to Hollywood, are not for now. Usually celebrated at the beginning of February, the great mass of the cinema is scheduled this year on April 25, Covid obliges. But if the final list of nominees will be revealed a few weeks before the prom, indiscretions are not uncommon.
Cartoon Brew, the reference site for animated cinema and which has its ears everywhere, has just published the list of the 96 animated short films which constitute the first selection.
Among these, Purpleboy Portuguese director Alexandre Siqueira has already caused a sensation more than once, with his 140 festival selections and 25 awards. Grand Prix of the last Anima festival (which gave him access to the Oscar race), it was co-produced between Portugal, his country of origin; France and Belgium. This was done through the Belgian Cinema Center, the Tax Shelter and, alongside Luna Blue Film, the floraffoise production house Ambiances ASBL (which Thierry Zamparutti now manages from a Locko in Rhisnes).
–Cocorico, therefore, for a film that narrates the adventures of Oscar (predestined name?), A little girl who dreams of herself as a boy, who feels XY. But how to fully live your transsexuality in a gendered, discriminating world, in the grip of violent science fiction?
The good news continues, therefore, for Ambiances which has just received three reinvestment bonuses which put its bonus accounts where we crossed our fingers so as not to be in deficit. Enough to calmly contemplate the passing of torches to the people of Brussels.
By crossing our fingers so that this short film a little floraffois wins, it can be viewed free of charge on the Arte website: www.arte.tv/fr/videos/075710-000-A/purpleboy/
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