French Roast Articles

At Awards Daily, Sasha Stone posted links to several Oscar-nominated animated shorts available on YouTube. One of them, Logorama, is no longer there. But three still are: Nicky Phelan's Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, Fabrice Joubert's French Roast, and Javier Recio Gracia's The Lady and the Reaper (above). See links below. Short films, along with documentaries and foreign-language films, are difficult to predict — as in, [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 semi-finalists in the animated short film category of the 2010 Academy Awards. Thirty-seven entries had originally qualified in the category. They are: The Cat Piano, Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s Republic of Animation) French Roast, Fabrice O. Joubert, director (Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films) Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, Nicky Phelan, director, and [...]