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Winter in the Rainforest

Original title: Talv vihmametsas
Director/author: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Sound editor: Olga BULYGO
Genre: Animation, experimental
Country: Estonia, Lithuania, Mexico
Run time: 8’35”
Producer: Moon Birds Studios OÜ (EST), Nukufilm Studio (EST), Estudio Carabás (Mexico), Art Shot (LT)
Premiere: 2019

Shot in the tropical rainforests of Mexico and Peru, this film captures the eternal dance of life and death as experienced by fragile and resilient magical creatures of porcelain. The combination of natural light, fast flowing time and subtle stop motion animation creates a unique poetic reality.

Representatives

Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Animation director and artist, specializing in puppet animation, Estonia

Anu-Laura has graduated Estonian Academy of Arts – MA in animation. Her first film after graduation, a short animated film, On the Other Side of the Woods (Teisel pool metsa), premiered in June 2014 at Annecy International Animation Festival the same as her latest film – co-production between Estonia, Lithuania and Mexico – Winter in the Rainforest.

Olga Bulygo
Sound editor, designer and re-recording mixer, Lithuania

Olga Bulygo is a sound editor, designer and re-recording mixer originally from Vilnius, Lithuania, now living in Geneva, Switzerland. She is working with music recording, radio broadcasting, TV commercials, and post production with filmmakers from all over Europe.