CODA

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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 HollyRory 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

Coda poster

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

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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