Ice Ages
- Studio
- National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis
Seeking shelter from an ominous thunderstorm, a man sits in a dark pub watching the ice in his glass melt away. Director Howie Shia marries his striking graphic illustration style with subtle, enigmatic animation and a haunting, evocative soundtrack to conjure up anxiety and foreboding.
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Howie Shia
Producing
- Producer
- Michael Fukushima
- Executive Producers
- David Verrall
Writing
- Writer
- Howie Shia
Music
- Music
- Andrew Johnston
Animation
- Animator
- Howie Shia
Crew
- Production Collaborators
- Richard Lesage, Phyllis Lewis
- Digital Imaging Team
- Martin Ciastko, Randall Finnerty, Susan Gourley, Pierre Landry
- Post-Production
- Shelley Craig, Sylvain Desbiens, Geoffrey Mitchell, Sylvain Cajelais, Luc Léger
- Administration
- Gisèle Guilbault, Elsa Mouana-Bankouézi
- Mentoring Director
- Janet Perlman
- Sound
- Andrew Johnston
- Musicians
- Brian Bacon, Nicolas Caloia, Sheila Hannigan
Production notes
This film was made as part of the second edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
Take six promising animation filmmakers from across Canada, plant them in the NFB's English Animation Studio, give them 12 weeks to create extremely short animation from concept to release with the full support and assistance of NFB creative experts and, voilà, the NFB Animation Hothouse! This is the second session of the Animation Hothouse.
Take six promising animation filmmakers from across Canada, plant them in the NFB's English Animation Studio, give them 12 weeks to create extremely short animation from concept to release with the full support and assistance of NFB creative experts and, voilà, the NFB Animation Hothouse! This is the second session of the Animation Hothouse.