Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot’s latest stop-motion feature is now available free on the streaming platform worldwide for industry workers and students.
Memoir of a Snail, the first-ever animated feature to win the ‘Best Film Award’ at last month’s BFI London Film Festival, is now accessible for free for industry workers and students worldwide on The Animation Showcase streaming platform. Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot’s latest stop-motion feature, among other awards, took home the Cristal for Best Animated Feature this past June at the Annecy Animation Festival, the first time a filmmaker has won that award twice.
The film tells the story of Grace Pudel (Sarah Snook), a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails, who suffers a series of misfortunes after being separated from her twin brother Gilbert. Despite her hardships, inspiration and hope arise when Grace begins a friendship with an eccentric elderly woman named Pinky.
Distributor IFC Films recently released Memoir of a Snail in U.S. theaters; the film will see additional worldwide releases in the coming months.
The Animation Showcase streaming platform is a film industry-only hub, curating the best animated shorts and feature films from filmmakers around the world. The platform is also currently streaming Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s award-winning animated feature, Chicken for Linda, and has previously screened the 3-time Oscar nominated animated documentary Flee and A24’s Oscars nominated stop-motion feature Marcel The Shell With Shoes On.
The platform is accessible on any browser as well as on its new Home Cinema Native app on Apple TV devices, Roku and Amazon’s Fire Stick.
Industry members and students can easily join the platform by following the portal and providing a valid proof of work. Visit the sign-up portal here.
Source: Animation Showcase
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
