Iberoamerican Short Film Contest 51 ED. 2023
Portugal – France – United Kingdom 2022 14' Fiction – Animation
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Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, where they sell the ice they produce daily.

João Gonzalez

Portugal, 1996. Film director, animator, illustrator and musician with classical training in piano. He received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, he did a Masters at the Royal College Art (UK), after finishing his BA at ESMAD (PT). In these institutions he made 2 multi-award winning films, Nestor and The Voyager. In 2022 he became the first Portuguese animation filmmaker to be awarded at Festival de Cannes, winning the Jury Prize for Best Short Film with Ice Merchants.

TECHNICAL DATA
DIRECTION:

João Gonzalez

SCRIPT:

João Gonzalez

PRODUCTION:

COLA Animation - Bruno Caetano / Wildstream - Michaël Proença / Royal College of Art - João Gonzalez

EDITING:

João Gonzalez

PHOTOGRAPHY:

João Gonzalez

ORIGINAL MUSIC:

João Gonzalez

SOUND:

Ed Trousseau, Ricardo Real

Animation:

João Gonzalez, Ala Nunu