Hello!
My name is Rob Marni and I’m a Writer/Director and Actor living in London UK.
I completed my latest short film ‘Die With Me’ in November 2018. I am planning to submit it to prestigious film festivals throughout 2019 - 2020, it was a collaboration and I am very pleased with the final film, I always felt there was something missing in the opening and last scene, hence why I am here looking for an exceptional animator to add that little something special.
As a new film maker I am aware of the length and time great animation can take, I value people’s work and their own artistic vision, this is a collaboration and I am always open to suggestion.
‘Die With Me’ is a touching short Drama about love and loss. The film tells the story of a 10 year old boy, Hamza, a refugee who was in a fatal car crash with his parents returning from a day out to the seaside. Both parents died and Hamza was left with severe concussion. Later he is diagnosed as being in a vegetative state. Dr. Michael Thompson decides to remove the life support as there is no possible sign of recovery, but something stops him. As Hamza has no relatives to comfort him, and as Michael feels he is unable to, a colleague suggests a man, Ian Harper, who’s wife and daughter died in the Manchester Arena attack in 2017. Ian visits the hospital to support any children without a family in their dying hours as he just missed the last hour of his daughters death because he was at home listening to Chopen and missed the emergency call.
I am interested in an animator telling the story at the start of the film in quick sequences of Hamza’s visit to the seaside in Brighton UK, then I wanted to blend the final animation drawing to the opening shot of the film. The animation should be gentle, not cartoon, not 3D but 2D Artistic B/W. There is also a story that Ian Harper tells Hamza as he is comforting him that I would like animated in the final scene.
If anyone feels they are happy to work on this short film, I am willing to pay a little money for their time, but this is more than making money to me and everyone involved, we made it and told it because it has a deeper meaning about the Universality of Love and Life, so we are looking for an artistic animator who values artistic work over monetary value.
we screened ‘Die with me’ in its current state in Feb 2019 and it was fair to say that tissues were needed...it’s very touching and gentle.
If you would like to get in touch to see the film to see what you could add, please contact me at rob.marni@yahoo.com
Thank you.
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