{"id":12780,"date":"2024-12-25T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iaf-to-screen-adam-elliots-memoir-of-a-snail\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T15:59:39","slug":"iaf-to-screen-adam-elliots-memoir-of-a-snail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iaf-to-screen-adam-elliots-memoir-of-a-snail\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF to screen Adam Elliot\u2019s \u201cMemoir of a Snail\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5303556.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN-The 2024 animation \u201cMemoir of a Snail\u201d will be screened at the Naseri Hall of the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">An Australian adult stop-motion animated tragicomedy film, it is written, produced, and directed by Adam Elliot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">It stars the voices of Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Magda Szubanski, Dominique Pinon, Tony Armstrong, Paul Capsis, Nick Cave, and Jacki Weaver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The film&#8217;s plot, which is loosely inspired by Elliot&#8217;s own life, follows the trials and tribulations in the life of lonely misfit and melancholic Grace Pudel, a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea pigs, from childhood to adulthood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Grace Pudel is a book-loving, snail-collecting misfit who falls into a series of misfortunes after being separated from her twin brother Gilbert. Despite her hardships, inspiration and hope arise when Grace begins a friendship with an eccentric elderly woman named Pinky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">From Academy Award-winning writer and director Adam Elliot, \u201cMemoir of a Snail\u201d is a heartfelt and hilarious chronicle of the life of an outsider finding her confidence and silver linings amongst the clutter of everyday life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The film had its world premiere at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June, where it won the Cristal Award for a Feature Film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Adam Elliot, 52, is an Australian animator and filmmaker based in Melbourne. Established as an independent auteur of minimalistic narrative-driven films in animation, all of his films have generally use of tragicomedy genre with themes of bittersweet nature and psychological development to the characters; based loosely on his family and friends, each of his films considered a Clayography \u2013 a portmanteau genre of clay animation and biography, coined by himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Elliot is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and in 1999 was awarded The Young Achiever of the Year for Victoria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">His five films, both shorts and a feature have collectively participated in over seven hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Academy Award for \u201cHarvie Krumpet\u201d and five Annecy Cristals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">SS\/SAB<br \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/507920\/IAF-to-screen-Adam-Elliot-s-Memoir-of-a-Snail\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN-The 2024 animation \u201cMemoir of a Snail\u201d will be screened at the Naseri Hall of the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) in Tehran on Thursday. An Australian adult stop-motion animated tragicomedy film, it is written, produced, and directed by Adam Elliot. It stars the voices of Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Eric Bana, Magda Szubanski, Dominique Pinon, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3705,21,3704,722,3706],"class_list":["post-12780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adam-elliot","tag-culture","tag-iaf","tag-iranian-artists-forum","tag-memoir-of-a-snail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}