The People's Republic of Animation

The People's Republic of Animation
Private
Industry Animation
Founded 2003
Headquarters Adelaide, Australia
Key people

Eddie White (Creative Director)
Sam White (Managing Director)
Hugh Nguyen (Head of Development)
James Calvert (Head of Production)

Brodie McCrossin (Animation Director)
Website www.thepra.com.au

The People's Republic of Animation (PRA) is an animation studio based in Adelaide, Australia. It began as a creator of music videos for Australian bands in 2003, and has since created award-winning short films and TV commercials, and developed feature films.

Foundation

As 14-year-olds, in 1996, PRA founders Eddie White, James Calvert & Hugh Nguyen began experimenting with a Super 8 film camera under the name of ‘Dabble Animation’. Their first short film Natural Born Animators (1998) was made two years later and achieved some national and international festival success on the student film circuit, including a selection at the Student Animation Festival in Ottawa, Canada. In 2000 White renamed the team 'The People's Republic of Animation', a name coined after he flipped through an old Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedia looking for titles and saw the heading 'The People's Republic of China' and liked the empire-like and grand connotations it had. Animator and sculptor Brodie McCrossin joined in 2000, and producer Sam White in 2002, and the company was officially formed in 2003. The company received their first government grant for a stop motion TV pilot and computer animation for a music video in the same year.

Works

The PRA has produced two recent Australian Film Institute (AFI) nominated short films: Fritz gets Rich (2005) and Carnivore Reflux (2006). Carnivore Reflux was also voted best animated film by Australian audiences at the Inside Film Awards in 2006.[1] Other notable productions include the international short film co-production with the Shanghai Animation Film Studio of China, Sweet & Sour. PRA has also won awards at animation festivals in Annecy, Stuttgart and Zagreb.

Following the co-production of Sweet & Sour in 2007, the studio is currently co-developing a feature film project with the Shanghai Animation Film Studio.

White and Calvert directed the first of the Mitsubishi Lancer/Sony Tropfest 'supershort' films titled Safer in a wild world, a one-minute short that blends 2D animation and 3D animation in a pop-up storybook style. White and Ari Gibson of the PRA directed the short film The Cat Piano, with narration by Australian artist Nick Cave. The film was officially selected in competition at Annecy Animated Film Festival in 2009, and has gone on to be nominated for an AFI award for best short animation.

The PRA subsequently made two short films, I Was A Teenage Butterfly and The Ghastly Gourmet Cooking Show, which were broadcast on Nickelodeon's Sarvo program in 2008.

Collaborators

Filmography

Short films

TV specials and interstitials

Music videos

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Kenny Cleans Up At The 2006 Hisense Inside Film Awards". IFA. IFA. 2006. Retrieved 2007-09-27.

External links

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