Technical Archive

  • GLEN KEANE‘s career at Disney spans 35 years. During that time he’s created characters including Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Aladdin, Pocahontas, and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast). His latest role is as Animation Supervisor & Exec Producer on Disney’s 50th animated feature, TANGLED. A retelling of the classic fairystory of Rapunzel, the film combines gorgeous animation, humour, action, a great voice cast, and a wonderful score. Keane chats about animating silent characters, the draw...

    Glen Keane – Tangled

    GLEN KEANE‘s career at Disney spans 35 years. During that time he’s created characters including Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Aladdin, Pocahontas, and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast). His latest role is as Animation Supervisor & Exec Producer on Disney’s 50th animated feature, TANGLED. A retelling of the classic fairystory of Rapunzel, the film combines gorgeous animation, humour, action, a great voice cast, and a wonderful score. Keane chats about animating silent characters, the draw...

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  • Director ANDREW THOMPSON is used to filming in hostile environments, but that was no preparation for the risks involved in making his feature-length documentary MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN in Zimbabwe. The film follows Mike Campbell, a 74-year-old farmer who dares to take Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to an international court over the country’s ‘Land Reform’ policy. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 presidential elections, Mugabe and the White African is a powerful tale...

    Andrew Thompson – Mugabe and the White African

    Director ANDREW THOMPSON is used to filming in hostile environments, but that was no preparation for the risks involved in making his feature-length documentary MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN in Zimbabwe. The film follows Mike Campbell, a 74-year-old farmer who dares to take Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to an international court over the country’s ‘Land Reform’ policy. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 presidential elections, Mugabe and the White African is a powerful tale...

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  • When WARWICK THORNTON sat down to write his first feature film, Samson & Delilah, he wanted not only to make a beautiful film, but also to highlight the neglect of aboriginal teenagers like his characters who are viewed as nothing but trouble by their communities and government. With six Australian Inside Film Awards and the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or under his belt, it looks like he’s succeeded. My Movie Mundo caught up with Thornton...

    Warwick Thornton (writer-director-cinematographer) – Samson & Delilah

    When WARWICK THORNTON sat down to write his first feature film, Samson & Delilah, he wanted not only to make a beautiful film, but also to highlight the neglect of aboriginal teenagers like his characters who are viewed as nothing but trouble by their communities and government. With six Australian Inside Film Awards and the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or under his belt, it looks like he’s succeeded. My Movie Mundo caught up with Thornton...

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  • BEN BURTT, Oscar-winning sound and character voice designer for Star Wars and ET, chats about finding inspiration in sonograms, songs from Hello, Dolly!, and enjoying the luxury of time working on Pixar animation WALLE. MMM: Legend has it that you use almost everything that comes into your life eventually as part of the sounds that you create, even sounds you heard while your wife was pregnant… Burtt: [Laughs] I’ve always found when you’re trying to...

    Ben Burtt (sound & character voice designer) – WALLE

    BEN BURTT, Oscar-winning sound and character voice designer for Star Wars and ET, chats about finding inspiration in sonograms, songs from Hello, Dolly!, and enjoying the luxury of time working on Pixar animation WALLE. MMM: Legend has it that you use almost everything that comes into your life eventually as part of the sounds that you create, even sounds you heard while your wife was pregnant… Burtt: [Laughs] I’ve always found when you’re trying to...

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