CODA
A lost soul stumbles drunken through the city.
In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.
9min - 2013
Made with the support of the Irish Film Board's Frameworks scheme.
Distribution and sales - New Europe Film Sales
Directed by Alan Holly
Written by Alan Holly and Rory Byrne
Art direction & backgrounds by Ronan McMeel
Background painting: Áine McGuinness
Animation by Alan Holly, Rory Byrne and Eoghan Dalton
Character design: Alan Holly and Rory Byrne.
Colouring and shadows: Eimhin McNamara
Music by Shane Holly
Musicians: Shane Holly, Aoife Dowdall, Katie O'Connor,
Larissa O'Grady, Jenny Dowdall
Music recording: Paul Finan
Starring: Brian Gleeson, Orla Fitzgerald, Donie Ryan and Joseph Dermody
Voice recording: Tony Kiernan
Sound design: Michelle Fingleton
Sound editing: Andy Kirwan
Sound mixing: Garret Farrell
Ciarán Deeny: Producer
Emma Scott: Production Executive for the Irish Film Board
Pauline McNamara: Executive Producer – RTE
Fionnuala Sweeney: Film Specialist – Arts Council
Jill McGregor: Schemes & Applications Co-ordinator for the Irish Film Board
Thanks to Sean McCarron, Jennifer Evans and Adrien Merigeau

Interviews
http://www.zippyframes.com/index.php/interviews/oscar-shortlisted-coda-interview-with-alan-holly
http://www.asff.co.uk/interview-director-alan-holly-hand-drawn-animation-short-film/
http://www.skwigly.co.uk/alan-holly-coda/
AWARDS & PAST SCREENINGS
Vimeo's Best Animation of 2015
Nominated for Cartoon d'Or September 2015
Shortlisted for the 87th Academy Awards Feb 2015
Nominated for the 42nd Annual Annie Awards Jan 2015
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Winner of:
Grand-Prix - Balkanima, Evropski festival animiranog 2015, Belgrade - Serbia
Best Animated Short Film - 9th Festival Interncional de Animation 2015, Montevideo - Uruguay
Best Animation Short - INTE Cinema Festival 2015, Rome - Italy
Great Animation Award - Mecal 17th Festival International of Short Film & Animation of Barcelona 2015 - Spain
Bronze Statue for the third animation - 9th Tehran International Animation Festival - Iran
Jury special mention - 6th Roanne animation film festival Ciné Court Animé, Mar 2015 - France
Best Animated Film - Fargo Film Festival 2015, Fargo - USA
International Special Jury Prize at Animpact Animation Festival 2014, Seoul - South Korea
Young Peoples Jury - Marcin Prize for best short film for young people, at Inernational Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! 2014, Poznań - Poland
KuanDog Prize: International Short Film Special Mention at KuanDu International Animation Festival 2014, Taipei - Taiwan
Jury's Special Award at Cinanima 2014, Espinho - Portugal
Best Animation & Best of Fest at Aesthetica Short Film Fest 2014, York - England
2nd Place for the Audience Choice Award at the 3rd Annual Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Invitational 2014, Baltimore - USA
Silver Hugo for Best Animated Short at the 50th Chicago International Film Festival 2014, Chicago - USA
Joint Best Irish Short Film prize with The Ledge End of Phil at the Dublin Animation Film Festival 2014, Dublin - Ireland
Best Animation at Kino Fest 2014, Bucharest - Romania
Audience Choice at SICAF 2014, Seoul - South Korea
Best in Show at Animation Block Party 2014, New York - USA
Joint Best Animated Film Award with 'Pandas' at Kratkofil Plus 2014, Banja Luka - Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Anča Award at Fest Anča 2014, Zilina - Slovakia
Most Creative Short Award at The Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2014, Edinburgh - Scotland
Best Animated Short at SXSW 2014, Austin - USA
The FICC Don Quijote Award and Special Mention for Best Short Irish Animation at Galway Film Fleadh 2013, Galway - Ireland
PAST SCREENING DATES
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3˚ MUMIA – UNDERGROUND WORLD ANIMATION FESTIVAL, Belo Horizonte - Nova Lima - Dec 2015
GRAFIXX, Antwerp - Belgium - Nov 20-22 - 2015
Beirut Animated, Beirut - Lebanon - Oct 17-22 2015
“Rolan”Eleventh International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Yerevan, Armenia - Oct 2015
Ars Electronica Animation Festival-POST CITY- Habitats for the 21st Century, Linz, Austria - Sept 3-7 2015
Sardinia Film Festival, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy - June 25 2015
Bit Bang Festival, Da Vinci School of Media Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina - Jun 13 2015
2nd European Union Short Film Festival, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - May 28-30 2015
TIFF Bell Lightbox Shorts Series Toronto, Canada - May 14 2015
Northwest Animation Festival, Portland, Oregon, USA - May 4-10
Newport Beach Film Festival, Newport Beach, California, USA - April 23-30 2015
Canlandıranlar, İstanbul, Turkey - April 23-27 2015
Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine - April 22-26 2015
2015 Dakota Digital Film Festival, Bismarck, North Dakota, Apr 10 2015
30th IMAGINE Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 9-18 2015
31éme Festival Du Cinéma European, Lille, France - April 10-17 2015
Mecal 17 Festival Internacional De Curtmetrages I Animació De Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain - Mar 11-19 April
Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2015, Tokyo, Japan - Mar 19-23 2015
16th Landshut Short Film Festival, Landshut, Deutschland - Mar 19-23 2015
MONSTRA Lisbon, Portugal - Mar 12-22 2015
Tehran Animation Festival, Tehran, Iran - Mar 8-12 2015
Boulder International Film Festival Boulder, Colorado, USA - Mar 5-8 2015
Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, North Dakota, USA - Mar 3-7 2015
New York Internatiional Children's Film Festival New York, USA - Feb 27-Mar 22 2015
Chicago Irish Film Festival Chicago, USA - Feb 28-7 Mar 2015
Spokane International Film Festival, Washington, USA - Feb 5-14 2015
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Les Arcs European Film Festival, Les Arcs ski resort, Savoie, France - Dec 13-20 2014
Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenija - Dec 8-12 2014
Siggraph Asia, Shenzen, China - Dec 4-6 2014
Bogotá Short Film Festival, Bogotá, Columbia - Dec 2-9 2014
International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino!, Poznan, Poland - Nov 30-7 Dec 2014
ETIUDA&ANIMA, Krakow, Poland - Noc 23-26 2014
Gijón, Gijón, Asturias, Spain - Nov 21-29 2014
ANIMPACT, Korea, China, Japan - Nov 21 2014
Anilogue International Animation Festival, Budapest, Hungary - Nov 18-23 2014
Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia - Nov 19-23 2014
Greenhorn Short Film Festival, London, England - Nov 16-18 2014
Cinanima, Espinho, Portugal - Nov 10-16 2014
International Film Festival Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia - Nov 8-14 2014
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, England - Nov 6-9 2014
Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, England - Nov 5-20 2014
KDIAF - KuanDu International Animation Festival, Taipei City, Taiwan - Novemer 2014
FANCINE Festival de Cine Fantástico, Málaga, Spain - Nov 2014
Multivision, St. Petersburg, Russia - Nov 1-30 2014
Leiden International Film Festival, Leiden, Holland - Nov 1-11 2014
Kaohsiung film festival, Kaohsiung, Taiwan - Oct 24-Nov 9
LIAF - London International Animation Festival, London, England - October 24-Nov 2 2014
Liverpool Irish Festival, Liverpool, England - Oct 23-Nov 2 2014
International Film Festival TOFIFEST, Toruń, Poland - Oct 18-26 2014
Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, Baltimore, USA - Oct 18 2014
VIEWFest, Turin, Italy - Oct 17-19 2014
Dublin Animation Festival, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland - October 17-18 2014
Be There! Corfu Animation Festival, Corfu, Greece - October 16-19 2014
Brno 16, Brno, Czech Republic - Oct 15-18 2014
Indie Cork Cork City, Co.Cork, Ireland - Oct12-19 2014
Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois - October 9-23 2014
Shnit International Shortmfilfestival, Bern, Switzerland - October 8-19 2014
Offline Film Festival, Birr, Co. Offaly, Ireland - Oct 8-12 2014
Mile High Horror Film Festival, Alamo Drafthous Cinema, Denver, Colorado - October 6-12 2014
Aberdeen International Film Festival, Aberdeen, Scotland - Oct 4-12 2014
IF IdeaFestival, Louisville, Kentucky - September 30-Oct 3 12.00 2014
Kino Fest, Bucharest, Romania - September 26-28 2014
Le long week-end du court, Trois-Rivieres, Canada - September 26-28 2014
Lund International Fantastisk Film Festival, Lund, Scania, Sweden - September 25-10 October 2014
Milwaukee Film Festival, Miwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - September 25-9 Oct 12.00 2014
Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - September 18-28 12.00 2014
K3 Film Festival, Villach, Carinthia, Austria - Sept 17-21 2014
Encounters Film Festival, Bristol, England - September 17th 12.00 2014
Jameson CineFest International Film Festival, Miskolc, Hungary - September 2014
World Festival of Animated Film - Varna, Varna, Bulgaria - September 2014
Fantoche, Baden, Switzerland - 7th September 2014
OIAF, Ottawa, Canada - September 2014
Milan Film Festval, Milan, Italy - September 4-14 2014
ScreenPlay, Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland - August/September 2014
JAM just about movies, Tullibody Castle, Clackmannanshire, Scotland - August 29-31 2014
Open Cinema Short and Animation Film Festival, St Petersburg, Russia - August 2014
Festival Silhouette Courts Metrages, Paris, France - August 2014
Anibar, Peja, Kosovo - August 2014
Odense International Film Festival, Odense, Denmark - August 2014
Letiště - Open air festival, Hranice, Czech Republic - August 15-16 2014
FERFILM International Film Festival, Ferizaj, Kosovo - August 5-10 2014
Traverse City Film Festival, Michigan, USA - July, August 2014
Animation Block Party, NYC, USA - July 2014
Kratkofil Plus, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina - July 2014
Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - July 2014
SICAF Internation Cartoon & Animation Festival, Seoul, Korea - July 2014
PSAROKOKALO Athens International Short Film Festival, Athens, Greece - July 2014
NIFFF Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, Neuchâtel, Switzerland 4 - 12 July 2014
Kaliber35, Munich, Germany - June 2014
Fest Anca, Zilina, Slovakia - June 2014
Edinburgh Short Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland - June 14th 2014
Maui Film Festival, Hawaii - June 6th 2014
Scratch International Animation Festival, Lecce, Italy - June 2014
River Film Festival, Padova, Italy - June 6th 2014
Rooftop Summer Series, New York City, USA - May 31st 2014
Film Leben Festival, Ilmenau, Germany - May 23rd 2014
Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull, Ireland - May 22nd 2014
Sarasota Film Festival, Florida, USA - April 13th 2014
Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK - March 30th 2014
Dingle International Film Festival, Dingle, Ireland - March 2014
SXSW, Austin, USA - March 2014
Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland - November 2013
Galway Film Fleadh, Galway, Ireland - July 2013
The FICC Don Quijote Award
and Special Mention for Best Short Irish Animation
The Galway Film Fleadh