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  • We would like to thank all our viewers - especially from South America for the support and kind words. More to follow. 2010-04-26
  • Last Chance playing at the Lake Arrowhead Film Festival April 22nd, at 1pm. 2010-03-15
  • Internet premiere of Last Chance is today or tomorrow! Sun is shining :) 2010-03-03
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New Orleans Film Festival

Good Morning,
Just received word that Last Chance will be screened at the 2010 New Orleans film fest. Good news! That’s about all that’s happened this week.

The first review we got.

Here’s something the good Mario Celestino sent us:

Super imagery and poignant storytelling. The piano creates an ominous tone poem for the oft-distressing surreal animated portraits of life as we knew it and how our planet’s delicate ecosystem, clearly on a collision course with mankind since the machine-age, seems to be pleading with us, heralding a sad reality of the future while simultaneously challenging corrective measures to allow the earth a “last chance” for another tomorrow. We already sense the truth yet third-eye-blindness is all too convenient. One wonders whether the earth must become silent before man can hear its cry. Obviously, that would be too late. Last chance, for sure!

Another review from kabytes.com

Getting to do alot of translating today. Here’s a review from kabytes.com. Gracias.

Una maravilla del digital painting, llena de contrastes de color y espacios imaginarios. Llama a la reflexión como si la propia tierra estuviera pidiendo auxilio.

A marvel of a a digital painting. An flood of imagination and contrasting colors. A fiery reflection of a world requesting aid.

Review from guru63.com

Here’s a really nice review from Guru63.com. In true self centered artist fashion, negative reviews will be discarded :)

Last Chance un bellissimo video per salvare il pianeta:
Una meraviglia questo video, un filmato pieno di colori e contrasti a volte forti a volte soavi, dove la terra sembra chiedere aiuto e soccorso..

My foreign is a little rusty but loosely translated to:
Last Chance, a beautiful film about saving the planet.
A wonderful film, full of color and alternating gentle and strong contrasts. The earth seems to repeatedly ask for aid.

Reel Earth Film Festival May 22nd -


Last Chance at the Reel Earth Film Festival in New Zealand! See you there!

From Project_Last_Chance on Flickr.

Some background information

Last Chance started out as three pencil drawings. The Comet, the Trees leaving and the Dancing Lady. They were the key scenes and became the first storyboard panels.

The animation ended up with 27 paintings in the end. At least that’s what they’re supposed to be, moving paintings. The idea was to make something “impressionistic”, where the first glimpse of the painting contains all the information.

The story is intentionally on the darker side. We start of with a brief heavenly glimpse, Shipibo patterns of the Amazon, and then it’s all downhill from there. Only towards the end when all options have been exhausted are we allowed to fly again.

Anyway, here are the original three drawings that started the whole thing.




From Project_Last_Chance on Flickr.