ANIMANOSTRA. Portuguese animated films and short TV series episodes.

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ANIMANOSTRA - Cinema Audiovisual e Multimédia Lda

01. EVERYONE'S GOT A NUTTY UNCLE, 6'
Toda a Gente Tem Um Tio Maluco
Portugal, 2006
Director: Afonso Cruz
Script: Humberto Santana
Animation: João Morais, Osvaldo Medina, Pedro Brito, Rui Gamito
Music: Paulo Curado
Producer: Humberto Santana – ANIMANOSTRA
Dialogue: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis: There are nuts for every season. Some good and some bad. Peida Gadocha has an aunt who’s nuts for dresses. Zuca has an uncle who’s always reading books and suffers from seizures that leave him slack-jawed and vacant-minded. Inspired in the literary work “O Que Diz Molero”, by Dinis Machado.



02. THE HUMAN VAMPIRE, 6'
O Vampiro Humano
Portugal, 2006
Director: Afonso Cruz
Script: Humberto Santana
Animation: João Morais, Osvaldo Medina, Pedro Brito, Rui Gamito
Music: Paulo Curado
Producer: Humberto Santana – ANIMANOSTRA
Dialogue: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis: Influenced by horror movies, the boys plan an action against a neighbourhood vampire! Inspired in the literary work “O Que Diz Molero”, by Dinis Machado.



03. DIES IRAE, 2' 03''
Portugal, 2003
Director: João Morais Ribeiro
Script: Humberto Santana
Music: João Morais Ribeiro
Sound: Paulo Curado
Animation: João Morais Ribeiro, Armando Coelho
Producer: Humberto Santana – ANIMANOSTRA
Dialogue: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis: A man, let us call him X, leads a dull, routine life: work, family, football. And then one day, his team loses… From the series “Ficções do Assombro”.



04. THE FANTASIST, 6'
A Fantasista
Portugal, 2003
Director: André Ruivo
Script: Humberto Santana
Music: Rollana Beat
Sound: Manuel C. Silva, Paulo Curado
Animation: Carla Guita, Irina Calado
Producer: Humberto Santana – ANIMANOSTRA
Dialogue: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis: A woman makes her living lending herself to depraved sexual fantasies in virtual space. Anything is preferable to the reality of her lonely, pain-filled days and M becomes the star operator of the planet's largest pornographic empire. From the series “Ficções do Assombro”.



05. THE PITS, 6'
Voragem
Portugal, 2003
Director: Rui Cardoso
Script: Humberto Santana
Music: Paulo Curado
Sound: Paulo Curado
Animation: Armando Coelho
Producer: Humberto Santana – ANIMANOSTRA
Dialogue: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis: The leader of the opposition to the government is murdered. Behind the headlines: a complex conspiracy, a corrupt power and three female assassins. From the series “Ficções do Assombro”.



06. NIGHT SHIFT: FAITH, 5'
Turno da Noite: Fé
Portugal, 2006
Director: Carlos Fernandes
Script: Nuno Duarte
Animation: Carla Guita, Fiona Nunes, João Ferreira, Osvaldo Medina, Rui Gamito
Sound: Nuno Gelpi
Music: João Penedo
Producer: Humberto Santana – ANIMANOSTRA
Dialogue: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis: What if the dead could speak? And what if they decided to describe their lives and deaths in a morgue somewhere to a seemingly autistic cleaner? At the end of the day, shadows come alive and create an alternative reality... "the night shift". FAITH The story of a thief that becomes victim of her own faith.



07. BREATHLES, 8'
Sem Respirar
Portugal, 2004
Director: Pedro Brito
Script: Filipe Homem Fonseca
Animation: Carlos Fernandes, Rui Gamito
Sound: Paulo Curado
Music: Maestro Nick Nicotine IV
Producer: Humberto Santana – ANIMANOSTRA
Dialogue: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis: The near future: Bruno is trying to win back his ex-wife. Under the pressure of her domineering mother and a new (arranged) boyfriend, Jorge, Isabel brings charges of harassment against Bruno. Bruno is trialed and sentenced. A device designed to suffocate him if he gets within 100 meters of Isabel is implanted in his throat. But that doesn't stop Bruno, he practices holding his breath.



08. I WANT TO BE..., 26 x 3'
Eu Quero Ser...
Portugal 2008
Director: Ricardo Blanco
Script: Hortênsia de Los Angeles, Ricardo Blanco (adapted from the original poems by José Jorge Letria)
Animation: Edgar Martins, Sérgio Martins
Sound: Paulo Curado
Original Music: José Eduardo Rocha
Producer: Humberto Santana – ANIMANOSTRA
Dialogue: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Synopsis: With pedagogical purpose, “I WANT TO BE” it’s a series of 26 episodes of 3 minutes that intends to amuse, teach and inform about the dignity of work in the world of the grown ones. A series of films destined to the children who, even tough without the age to properly choose a profession, will certainly have already the freedom to formulate their inclinations and express their natural vocations.


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