Film graduate school take on could Disney in the race for Oscar glory

Head over heels was financed and carried out by students at the National Film and Television School. Photography: ENF

Call the Wallace Gromit effect &. An eccentric British film called head over heels could be on the verge of upsetting the natural Hollywood order and Disney broke the coveted animation Oscar.

Like A Grand Day Out, Nick Park first, beloved animation from 1989, was made at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) Head Over Heels and poised to make a similar impact foreign. It is the student film alone in vying for an Oscar for the next week.

Describing the animation and directed by Timothy Reckart by Fotla Cronin O'Reilly, as 'one of those gems stand-out that does not often come around this', said Park: 'it is a cleverly designed but simple idea. A clear history and inventiveness said, very poignant and full of heart. I'm not surprised that they win you prizes with the head over heels. Well deserved".

The stakes are suddenly exorbitant for graduates of school of young directors who have established animation 11 minutes on a small budget. So far, it is now in black and white offers his own in the category short animated against the favorite - Disney Paperman. While Disney has allegedly violated strict rules of Oscar by releasing Paperman in its entirety online, head over heels manufacturers hit back by editing their film scenes in the form of an email from viral Valentine.

O'Reilly, who is already in California for the ceremony next Sunday, said: "people really seem to it because the story itself is fairly universal. This is why the film has had an equally strong reaction. "The plot revolves, literally, autour of a house where an emotionally remote married couple living together - but apart. Their tentative attempts to communicate are stymied on several occasions that they continue to live under different rules - one on the ground; one on the ceiling.

"I had at the height of the story so often now, I struggle to remember the effect it has," said. "The meaning is very subjective, as it should be, but for me it comes to realize what you already have. A couple can certainly start taking each other for granted and it is a story of love in this regard. » O'Reilly made the film with the animator and Director Reckart as their final project at the school of cinema. The two invited a group of classmates to pitch and bring Reckart vision to life.

"The concept for the film came from Tim and we worked together," said the 26 - year - old from Co Kerry. "We were in the same year and decided to make it the traditional way, as a stop-motion with models of clay animation."

RECKART described the idea behind the story as ' simple - spouses separated by fields of gravity. However, this does not prevent the history of having a depth "really rich and emotional. "Many married people have told me that rings film true with their own experiences of marriage, and I think that everyone, married or not, can identify with this story of love, built on the sacrifice," he said. " RECKART, who is also 26, grew up in Arizona and travelled to Great Britain to study at the NFTS in Buckinghamshire. "He came here because he saw it as the home of animation." "And it was nice to think that the first film of Wallace Gromit & has been too, Nick Park here graduation film", said O'Reilly.

Park, who joined eponymous Aardman Animations, also earned an Award nomination Academy with A Grand Day Out, his film studies, higher but in fact won the Oscar this year, in 1990, for comfort. Head over Heels, earlier this month in Los Angeles won an Annie Award international for the animation. "We are funding the film ourselves, of course and so we do not have the money to spend huge sums on the PR and advertising, but we are trying our best to spread the word," said O'Reilly.

Since his departure from film school, she worked with parallel to London Films and is involved in several projects, including several animations with Reckart.

Among those who pitched in to help make the head over heels was 32 years old editing James Taylor of Plymouth, which will also attend the Sunday ceremony. "Tim came up with a simple but beautifully designed metaphor that lies at the heart of the head over heels," Taylor said.

His family and friends raised the money to finance his hotel room and airfare for the night of the Oscars. "I'm so excited to go to Hollywood to mix with people who have made films that I've been looking all my life," he says.

Head over heels is also against Adam and dog, a solo project to host Disney Minkyu Lee, fresh Guacamole, a film take a dip on edible and spin-off from The Simpsons objects, The more long-term care, in which Maggie Simpson attends a nursery of Ayn Rand-inspired. Head over heels is an outsider, but given that its powerful ending has been described as 'one of the most romantic in the cinema', perhaps the night Oscar ends similarly uplifting.