Elephants

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Synopsis:

Kay Grey is a young girl growing up in an entirely grey house in a totally grey world with very very grey parents. But then her house gets infested with ELEPHANTS. They can’t be seen against the grey walls, and crash around in the middle of the night, and leave massive piles of dung in the loo. Kay's unloving parents make her paint the house with brilliant colours, so that they can see these pests. But when Kay corners the Elephants, they become friends and she decides to help them...

 

Directed and Written by Sally Pierce

Produced by Johnny Lewsley
Cinematographer Jean Louis Schuller
2008 Country: UK

 

Sally Pearce was born in Bourne, Lincolnshire in 1958. She graduated from Cambridge University in 1981 with a BA(Hons) Philosophy. She then trained as a Nurse and worked in Hospitals for many years before starting her career as a film maker whilst taking a Part Time Fine Art Degree at Sheffield Hallam University, from which she graduated in 2004. She works with an eclectic mix of traditional and experimental approaches to the moving image, often collaborating with musicians and choreographers and mixing traditional and digital animation techniques with live action. Her films have shown in Festivals in the UK, Europe and the USA. In Wales her Dance Film collaboration ‘Star’ was nominated for an award in the Ffresh Student Film Festival, 2004. Her films have also been nominated for the DMDavies Award, Cardiff Screen Festival, 2002, 2003 & 2004 and she directed one of the 2004 Welsh ‘Screen Gems’.

In 2005 her animation ‘What do Stick People…?’ was nominated for the OLC/RE Japan(ltd) Award at the Animated Encounters Festival (Bristol) and for the Vauxhall ‘Auteur Theory’ Award. Sally Pearce has just finished her two year Animation Direction MA at the National Film and Television School. Her latest film is ‘Elephants’ (completed April, 2008.) This adventurous film is a children’s fiction mixing live action with traditional paint on glass animation and 2D digital compositing. Since graduating, she has been selected to direct one of the ‘Kaos’ screenwriting competition winning scripts.