The Sundance Institute announced today that they will be opening the 25th
Sundance Film Festival with the world premiere of the clay animation film,
Mary and Max.
Directed by Academy Award-winning short filmmakers
Adam Elliot and producer
Melanie Coombs (
Harvie Krumpet), actors
Philip Seymour Hoffman and
Toni Collette lend their voices to the film and is narrated by
Barry Humphries.
From the press release:
Mary and Max is the tale of two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. The story is based on the director's own pen-friendship that has also lasted over twenty years.
The entire festival program will be announced Dec. 3 and 4. The festival runs Jan. 15-25, 2009 in Park City, Utah.
# posted by Jason Guerrasio @ 11/19/2008 01:30:00 PM
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