The Legend of the Sky Kingdom

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The Legend of the Sky Kingdom
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Directed by	Roger Hawkins
Produced by	Phil Cunningham Jacqui Cunningham
Written by	Phil Cunningham
Starring	Jason Linforth Miriam Hamblin Gabriel Phillips Wina Msamati Rodney Newman
Music by	Andrew Baird
Release date(s)	October 2003 (South Africa)
Running time	73 min
Country	Zimbabwe
Language	English
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The Legend of the Sky Kingdom is a 2003 animated feature film from Zimbabwe - that country's and Africa's first. It was based on a children's book of the same name by Phil Cunningham, who was also the film's producer. It premiered at the Durban International Film Festival in October, 2003. [1]

1 Plot
2 Technique
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot

[edit] Technique

The film was animated using stop motion animation. The puppets and all of the sets were built from pieces of junk that the filmmakers found - a necessity of the low budget as well as an artistic choice inspired by Africa's folk artists, who often turn things that others have thrown away into works of art. The filmmakers call this animation style "junkmation".

The filmmakers also spent two years custom-building a motion camera out of bicycle parts because they did not have the money to buy a professional one from the West.