“She was the air I breathed.” Emmy Award winning animator Joe Mateo takes that heartfelt concept and in “Blush,” his directorial debut, delivers what must rate as one of the most personal yet still resonant films at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival.
The inaugural short from Apple Original Films and David Ellison’s Skydance Animation, bowing a multi-year partnership between the studios, “Blush” world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 13 as part of its showcase of Animated Shorts Curated by Whoopi G. It begins with a fresh-faced astronaut whose spaceship is knocked off course by an asteroid. It crash-lands on a benighted dwarf planet, made of lonely hard grey rock. A horticulturist, the hapless astronaut hopes to create just a weany bit of oxygen with a plant he has. It withers.
Just as he is running out of oxygen, another ship careens onto the planet. Out of...
The inaugural short from Apple Original Films and David Ellison’s Skydance Animation, bowing a multi-year partnership between the studios, “Blush” world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 13 as part of its showcase of Animated Shorts Curated by Whoopi G. It begins with a fresh-faced astronaut whose spaceship is knocked off course by an asteroid. It crash-lands on a benighted dwarf planet, made of lonely hard grey rock. A horticulturist, the hapless astronaut hopes to create just a weany bit of oxygen with a plant he has. It withers.
Just as he is running out of oxygen, another ship careens onto the planet. Out of...
- 6/19/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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