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Red Balloon is a 13 minutes thriller short film directed by Alexis Wajsbrot

Alexis Wajsbrot

Alexis Wajsbrot is the co-director of short film Red Balloon, a 13 minutes thriller shoot with Red Cam In 2010 he won the Directorial Discovery Award at the Rhode Island Film Festival and 25 selections in others .He also has a successful career in the film industry creating visual effects for a...

and Damien Mace.

The movie was nominated to numerous festivals (including Festival international de Clermont-Ferrand,Palm Springs International ShortFest, Festival International Du Film Fantastique de Gerardmer, Festival De Cannes Short Film Corner, it recently won the Directorial Discovery Award at Rhodes Island Horror film Festival, and was sold in a few TV channel (including Arte TV channel for France and Egoist TV channel for Russia).

Red Balloon has been released online on VIMEO and DAILYMOTION on 22nd of July 2011, and has been pushed in first page of both website, it reached more than 100 000 views in a week.

The directors, Alexis Wajsbrot

Alexis Wajsbrot

and Damien Mace are working in post-production visual effects and "Red Balloon" is their directorial debut.
"Red Balloon" was shot with RedCam 4K, it includes challenging CG shots present in the trailer, with a team of 30 professionals including Jean Clement Soret for the grading (Danny Boyle's Colorist). (Full Credits on Imdb)

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Festivals selections and awards

Sold to Arte TV channel
Sold to Egoist TV channel

Directors

Damien Mace and Alexis Wajsbrot

Alexis Wajsbrot

direct Red Balloon, a 13 minutes thriller, shoot with Red Cam (including visual effects) They recently won the Directorial Discovery Award at Rhodes Island Film Festival and 20 selections in others.

They both have careers in the film industry creating visual effects for a leading London facility and have worked on a long list of award winning blockbuster movies, including Prince of Persia, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Avatar, Sherlock Holmes
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, The Chronicles of Narnia and Your Highness
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Damien is currently working as Lead Environment on a HBO tv show named Game of Thrones
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, Alexis is currently working as Lead FX on Alfonso Cuarón's

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movie Gravity..

They are working in parallel on various feature film projects.

External links

Articles

http://www.blended.fr/8640/damien-alexis-la-revelation/
http://www.lightsfilmschool.com/blog/red-balloon-short-film-shot-on-the-red-cam/1616/
http://www.ecufilmfestival.com/en/2011/01/non-multiplex-cinema/
http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/02/14/2405687_festival-de-court-metrage-de-clermont-ferrand-les-heritiers-de-tim-burton.html
http://www.clermont.maville.com/sortir/courtmetrage2011_-6-Fevrier-Venus-des-5-continents-ils-envahissent-la-capitale-mondiale-du-court-_49520-1684385_actu.Htm
http://www.cinealliance.fr/movies/fiche/947-red-balloon.html
http://www.leblackpepper.fr/article-mag-nantes/red-balloon-court-metrage
http://www.abusdecine.com/fiche-news.php?numero=949
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfq8rc_bdcnews-2-bruitsdecourts_shortfilms
http://mcereplay.com/emissions/5/episodes/1961-mce-news-festival-de-court-metrage-de-clermont-ferrand

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