Deadline
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Running Time 12 minutes
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Genre Animation, fantasy, short film
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Language No dialogue
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Completed March 10, 2023, Israel
Deadline is a black comedy Stop-motion short that explores the power balance between bureaucracy, death and feline devotion of the elderly. At its center is a story of a brave friendship and solidarity between two senior ladies sickened by society's disregard and disrespect.
Project Type: Animation
Runtime: 12 minutes
Completion Date: March 10, 2023
Production Budget: 106,000 USD
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Israel
Language:
Shooting Format: 2k flat
Aspect Ratio: 1:1.85
Film Color: Color
Producer and Director
Idan Gilboa
Writers
Idan Gilboa
Shahar Fux
Music
Ben Azar, Amit Harel
Sound design
Eran Barkani, Tom Kouris
Compositing and Coloring
Tamir Aharoni
Animators
Galia Osmo, Idan Gilboa
Renen Adar, Liron Naronsky
Direction And Puppets design/fabrication
Idan Gilboa
Storyboard and animatic
Amir Porat
Script Editors
Orel Bitan
Ido Mymon
Lights
Lee Klein
3d modeling
Ori Kagan
Yaron Tzarfati
About the director
Idan Gilboa is a graduate from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, specializing in Visual Communication. With a focus on stop motion animation and illustration, he furthered his skills at SVA New York during a student exchange. Balancing his passion for animation with a career in the creative industry, Idan serves as an Art Director and Creative Manager at leading advertising agencies and gaming companies. ‘Deadline’ is Idan’s debut Short film.
Director statement
Beyond the great fun of making a trashy puppet action movie about a bunch of armed grandmothers who run amok in the streets. The film is basically a social satire wrapped up with black humor that deals with
some heavy issues like: Elderly, Death, technophobia, society’s disregard and disrespect of the elders And bureaucracy. In the generation of the heroines of our story – A generation of people who continued to cling to life in unimaginable situations, even though it was much easier to give up and surrender to death. Those who once fought for their lives in the Holocaust and for the existence of the country in countless wars, today fight mainly in a Sisyphean and oppressive bureaucracy and endless queues. They are fighting in the constantly changing technological world around them, but mostly they are fighting society’s indifference towards them. Through the film Deadline, which expresses in a grave way the anger at the indifference to the phenomenon, we want to give them one more small victory and more time here with us and on the way to come to terms with society’s disregard and disrespect.
Festival and Awards
– Jerusalem Int Film Festival 2023 – Best Animation Award
– Moscow Int Film Festival 2023 – Officially Selected
– Cinanima 2023 – Officially Selected
– PuertoRico Int Film Festival 2023 – Best International Animation Award
– CryptShow 2023 (Spain)- Audience Award
– Funcinema 2023 (Argentina)- Audience Award
– Lusca 2023 (Puerto Rico)- Audience Award
– Hobonobben 2023 (USA)- Best Animated Short
– Black Cat Picture Show 2023 (USA)- Best Animated Short
– HorrorFest 2023 (USA)- Special Jury Prize
– Tbilisi Int Animation Festival 2023 – Best Animated horror film
– International Filmmakers Festival NewYork – Best Animation Short award
– Fantaspoa 2024 (Brazil) – Honorable Mención
– Sinistro 2023 (Brasil) – Honorable Mención
– Chelsea Film Festival NewYork – Official Selected
– CARDIFF 2024 (UK) – Officially Selected
– MAF(Manchester animation Festival) 2023 -– Officially Selected
– 35 Girona Film Festival – Honorable Mention
– Mediterrneo film festival 2024 (Italy)- Finalist
– FilmQuest 2023 (USA)– Finalist
– LAAF 2023 (USA) – Honorable Mention
– Ferratum 2023 (Mexico)– Honorable Mention.
– FICCUE 2024 (Spain)– Best animated comedy short
– FirstGlance Film Festival 2023 (USA) – Best Comedy.
– New Jersy Int Film Festival 2023 (USA) – Honorable Mention.
– Si-Fan 2023 (UK) – Best animation award
– FaNGOFEST 2023 (SPAIN)– Best Animation
– Animest 2023 (Romania)- Officially Selected
– MICMXIFF 2024 (Mexico) – Officially Selected
– Poppy Jasper Int Film Fest 2024 (USA) – Officially Selected
– San Jose Int Film Festival 2023 (USA)- Officially Selected
– MSPIFF 2024 (USA) – Officially Selected
– Brighton Int Film Festival 2024 (UK)- Officially Selected
– Ramsgate Int Film Festival 2024 (UK) – Officially Selected
– Chain Film Festival NewYork 2024 (NYC, USA)- Officially Selected
– Utah Int Film Festival 2024 (USA) – Officially Selected
– Animation Dingle 2024 (Ireland)- Officially Selected
– Film Maudit 2.0 2024 (L.A)- Officially Selected
– Oak Cliff Int Film Festival 2024(USA) – Officially Selected
– Ibiza Int Film Fest (IBICINE 2024) Spain- Officially Selected
– Edmonton Int Film Festival 2023 (Canada)- Officially Selected
– Strasbourg Fantasia Film Festival 2023 (France)- Officially Selected
– Fantasy FilmFest 2023 (Germany) – Get Shorty Officially Selected
– WFAFV 2023 (varna, Bulgaria ) – Officially Selected
– Slash Fantastic Film Fest 2023 (Austria )- Officially Selected
– Calgary Underground Film Festival 2023 (Canada) – Officially Selected
– CRAFT int Film Festival 2023 (Indonezia) – Officially Selected
– Santa Fe int Film Festival 2023(USA) – Officially Selected
– Animaticon 2023 (Cypruss)- Officially Selected
– Sedicorto 2023 (Italy) – Officially Selected
– TAF 2023 (Thessaloniki, Greece)- Officially Selected
– Kerry Int Film Festival(Ireland) – Officially Selected
– 45 Cinmed Montpellier 2023 – Officially Selected
– FICVI 2023 (Mexico) – Officially Selected
– Rama Skirk 2023 (Norway) – Officially Selected
– Knoxville Horror Film Fest 2023 (USA)- Officially Selected
– Atlanta Horror Film Festival(USA) – Officially Selected
– Eerie Horror Fest 2023 (USA) – Officially Selected
– Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival 2023 (USA)– Best Animated short
– MonsterFest 2023 (Australia)- Officially Selected
– BuenosAires Rojo Sangre 2023 (Argentina) – Officially Selected
– Sapporo short Fest 2023 (Japan) – Officially Selected
– Magma 2023 (Sicily) – Officially Selected
– MUFF 2023 (Mieres, Spain) – Officially Selected
– Macabro Fich 2023 (Mexico)- Officially Selected
– BUT 2023 (Breda, Netherlands) – Nominated best short
– ALMA int Film Festival (Spain) – Officially Selected
– Yofifest 2023 (NYC) – Officially Selected
– Blanes Costa Brava Int Film Festival 2024 (Spain) – Officially Selected
– FICC24 – Officially Selected
– Festival Int De Cortometrajes Conil De Cine 2024 – Officially Selected
– Palencia Int Film contest 33 2024 (Spain) – Officially Selected
– Bay of Blood Film Festival (Canada)– Honorable Mention
– Cabane a Sang Film Festival 2024 (Canada) – Best Animation award
– Horrocon UK 2024 – Officially Selected
– Leiria Film Fest 2024 (Portugal) – Officially Selected
– Chicago horror Film Fest 2024 – Officially Selected
– Short to the Point 2024 (Romania) – Best Stop Motion Short
– Defy int Film Festival 2023 (USA)- Officially Selected
– Animist Tallin 2023 – Officially Selected
– Festival Int du Film de Nancy 2023 (France) – Officially Selected
– Cerdanya Film Fest 2023 (Spain) – Officially Selected
– Love Your Shorts 2024 (Florida, USA) – Officially Selected
– 20MINMAX 2024 (Germany) – Officially Selected
– Seattle Jewish Film Festival 2024 (USA)- Officially Selected
– Neum Animated Film Festival 2023 – Officially Selected
– Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology 2023(USA) –
Nominee
– Arizona International Film Festival 2024 (USA) – Officially Selected
– Another Hole in The Head 2024 (San Francisco,USA) – Best action short
award.
Certamen El Pecado Int Film Festival 2024 (Spain) – Officially Selected
Almagro Int Film Festival 2024 (Spain) – Officially Selected
Shorts Mexico 2024 – Officially Selected
FICOT 2024 (Leon, Mexico) – Officially Selected.
24 FPS Int Film Fest 2024 (TX, USA) – Officially Selected
New York Animation Awards 2024 – Finalist.
Animate Festival 2024 (Australia) – Officially Selected
Charlotte Int Film Festival (NC, USA) – Officially Selected
Bare Bones Int Film Festival (Oklahoma, USA) – Nominee.
RAZOR REEL FLANDERS FILM FESTIVAL 2024 (Belgium)- Officially
Selected
The Valley Int Film Festival ( L.A, USA).- Officially Selected
Wasteland Film Festival 2024 (California, US) – Officially Selected
+STTP 2024 – Award winner.
TOHorror 2024 (Turin, Italy) – Officially Selected