Elvis-inspired animated short Good News, directed by Kris Mergan and Geert Vandenbroele, has been selected for the seventh edition of the Animabasque International Animated Film Festival in Spain (1-7 April). The short film will screen in the Karratu Short Film Section. Good News has also been selected for the 18th Internationales Trickfilm Festival in Stuttgart (3-8 May).
In Good News, Elvis impersonator Lion Angel changes his life drastically: he steals a fire engine, sets off to a chapel, and locks himself in with only the Virgin Mary to understand and save him. When the chapel catches fire, he leaves for the centre of the earth. Elvis/Lion and Mary escape the boundaries of their characters and are set free, only to find that they will have to leave much more behind. The spiritual film highlights the contrast between light and dark.
This makes it a total of eight festival selections for Good News, which picked up the Light of Asia award for best animated film at the Vesak Buddhist Film Festival 2010. At the Animabasque International Animated Film Festival the film is shown in the framework of the Karratu Short Film Section. In May the film will be shown at the Panorama International section of the Festival of Animated Film in Stuttgart. The section ‘presents a cross-section of the current developments in international animated films’.
Good News is directed by Kris Mergan and Geert Vandenbroele. The short is produced by Mergan’s Telewerk and is supported by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and Flagey, among others.