Scale

Scale

By Joseph Pierce
Year of production : 2022
Running time : 13′

 

Produced by Melocoton (FR) • Bridge Way (UK) • Endorfilm (CZ) • OZÙ Productions (BE)
Co-produced by Arte • Shelter Prod with the support of Taxshelter.be and  ING and the tax shelter of the Belgian federal government

With the support of the Cinema and Audiovisual Center of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation

 

Synopsis: Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he’s lost forever.

Scale is adapted from Will Self ’s novella Scale, from the collection of stories Grey Area, published in 1994.

Sound Dominic Fitzgerald

Director of photography Vanessa Whyte

Music Composer Lung Dart

Special Effects Edd Stockton, Jérémie Mazurek

Narrator Sam Spruell

Author of original work Will Self

Screenwriters Joseph Pierce, Nicolas Pleskof

Editor Robbie Morrison

Lead Animation Natazsa Cetner

Lead Backgrounds Nadia Micault

Lead compositing Rémi Vandenitte 

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Prices:

• Press Award fot Best Short Film, Anima Festival  (Belgium)

• Best Animation, Curtas Vila Do Conde IFF (Portugal)

• Best Animation, HollyShorts Film Festival (USA)

• Special Jury Prize, Le Festival Silhouette (France)

• Best Animation, Paragon Film Festival (USA)
• Jury Prize, Bucheon International Animation Festival (South Korea)
• Audience Award, Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival (Italy)
• Special mention, Northern Wave International Film Festival (Iceland)
• Best animation, Eastern Nigeria Film Festival (Nigeria)
• Jury Prize, Mutoscope (France)
• Best Director, Usak Short Film Festival (Turkey)

• Best animated short, Academy of Death Racers Festival (USA)
• Prize of the Public, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France)