All Consuming Love (Man In A Cat)

A tiny man living inside a cat gets into a sticky love-triangle.

Starting out as a half-complete student film, the tester trailer for All Consuming Love (Man In A Cat) was featured worldwide on YouTube, accumulating over 1,000,000 views, and generated a lot of support from other known animators, producers and bloggers.

A couple of years down the line, UK Film Council and Screen WM commissioned the film as part of the Digishorts scheme, where the story blossomed under the influence of the legendary script editor, Kate Leys.

The film stars the voices of respected comedians Kevin Eldon (Big TrainBrass EyeHot FuzzFour Lions), Josie Long (2006 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer) and Isabel Fay (How Not To Live Your Life).

The film’s story started from a little drawing I did of a frustrated man punching the inside of a hollow cat. I loved the idea because the logic was so disturbed and at the same time I felt sorry for the little man.

I wanted to make a film that was funny and strange, but also had sincere emotion to it. It’s as much about misunderstood loners as it is about poo jokes and falling over. The love story in this film brings the potentially creepy protagonist into a situation where normal people can actually sympathise with him.

The 2D frame by frame pencil drawn animation is geared toward creating nuanced character performances which were key to the personality of the film. Also, nearly everything in the design has a purpose, which brings a strange delicateness to the visual gags.

Screening information

For screenings contact: louis@diceproductions.co.uk

For UK distribution enquiries contact: tomv@futureshorts.com

For worldwide distribution enquiries contact: georg.gruber@magnetfilm.de

March 2011   |   9:00min   |   Colour   |   Stereo   |   2D Drawn   |   Comedy

Credits

Screen WM & UK Film Council present a Dice Productions film

Director – Louis Hudson

Writers – Louis Hudson & Ian Ravenscroft

Producers – Louis Hudson & Jon Petrie

Sound & Music – Ben Walker

Animation – Louis Hudson, Jo HepworthRachel ThornLoukia Kyriakidou,Matthew WaruszynskiRobert BrownBarbara BenasJenny LewisRon WarmingtonAdam WattsDwayne Harris

Animation Clean Up – Denise DeanSimon CartwrightNuria Gonzalez Blanco,Daniel UnderdownChris ColmanTegan Jephcott

Digital Colouring – Denise DeanBen LynchMatt SandbrookSamantha Boggild, Mark Skinner, Andy MacphersonChris StokesTim LozinskiLauren Newman, Patrick Mallon, Lianne Allen, David Thomas, Paul Berner, Natasha Williams

Rotoscope Actress –  Amy Commander

CAST:
Kevin Eldon – Yorkie
Josie Long – Susan
Isabel Fay – Michelle
Jon Petrie – Cat

Awards & Achievements

Best Short Film Finalist – British Animation Awards (2012)
Public Choice Short Film Finalist – Britsh Animation Awards (2012)
Independent Talent Award – Animated Exeter (2012)
LoCo Discovery Award (Short) 2012 – London Comedy Film Festival (2012)
Best Comedy Short – London Short Film Festival (2012)
Best 1st Professional Film – IAFF Krok (2012)
Best Animation – Limelight Awards (2012)
Best Story – Multivision (2011)
Best International Film –  Moonrise Film Festival  (2015)
Best Animation (Audience) – Moonrise Film Festival (2015)

Vimeo Staff Pick
Shooting People Short of the Month Finalist

Festivals

Best Short Film Finalist – British Animation Awards (2012)
Public Choice Short Film Finalist – Britsh Animation Awards (2012)
Independent Talent Award – Animated Exeter (2012)
LoCo Discovery Award (Short) 2012 – London Comedy Film Festival (2012)
Best Comedy Short – London Short Film Festival (2012)
Best 1st Professional Film – IAFF Krok (2012)
Best Animation – Limelight Awards (2012)
Best Story – Multivision (2011)
Best International Film –  Moonrise Film Festival  (2015)
Best Animation (Audience) – Moonrise Film Festival (2015)Vimeo Staff Pick
Shooting People Short of the Month Finalist
Moonrise Film Festival – Wells BC, Canada – 21-23/8/2015
Annapolis Film Festival – Annapolis, MD, USA – 21-24/3/2013
Tehran International Animation Festival – Tehran, Iran – 3-7/3/2013
Animacam – A Coruña, Spain- 4-9/2/2013
Filmets Badalona Film Festival – Barcalona, Spain – 16-25/11/2012
Granada Short Film Festival – Granada, Spain – 20-27/10/2012
3D Wire Animation Festival – Segovia, Spain – 10-14/10/2012
Animage Festival – Recife and Olinda, Brazil – 17-30/9/2012
IAFF KROK – Russia – 9-18/9/2012
TriMedia Film Festival – Fort Collins, CO, USA – 7-9/9/2012
DC Shorts Film Festival – Washington, DC, USA – 6-16/9/2012
Hollyshorts – Hollywood, LA, USA – 8-16/8/2012
British Animation Film Festival – London, UK – 29/7/2012
Anima Mundi – Rio De Janeiro & São Paulo, Brazil – 13-29/7/2012
Corto In Bra – Bra, Italy – 28/6-1/7/2012
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Edinburgh, UK – 24/06/2012
Staffordshire Film Festival – Stoke, UK – 6/5/2012
Cellu l’Art Festival – Jena, Germany – 24-29/4/2012
CPH PIX – Copenhagen, Denmark – 18 & 29/4/2012
Future Film Festival – Bologna, Italy – 1/4/2012
Ciné court animé de Roanne – Roanne, France – 20-25/3/2012
Go Short – Nijmegen, Netherlands – 14-18/3/2012
British Animation Awards (Public Choice) – UK Wide – 3-25/2/2012
Athens AnimFest – Athens, Greece – 1-7/3/2012
Animated Exeter – Exeter, UK – 18/2/2012
London Comedy Film Festival – London, UK – 28/1/2012
London Short Film Festival – London, UK – 6-15/1/2012
Foyle Film Festival – Derry, N. Ireland – 23-27/11/2011 (BAFTA accr.)
Bristol Encounters – Bristol, UK – 16-20/11/2011 (BAFTA, EFA, Oscar accr.)Interfilm Berlin – Berlin, Germany – 15-20/11/2011
Alcine – Alcalá, Spain – 12-18/11/2011
Multivision – St. Petersburg, Russia – 4-6/11/2011
Kerry Film Festival – Tralee, Ireland – 29/10-5/11/2011
Curta Cinema – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 28/10-6/11/2011
Flip Festival – Wolverhampton, UK – 29/10/2011
IFF Molodist – Kyiv, Ukraine – 22-30/10/2011
La Boca Del Lobo – Madrid, Spain – 19-30/10/2011
Vilnius Film Shorts – Vilnius, Lithuania – 13-16/10/2011
Louisville’s International Festival of Film – KY, USA – 5-9/10/2011
Milano Film Festival – Milan, Italy – 10 & 13/9/2011
NY Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival – NY, USA – 2/9/2011
Animation Block Party – Brooklyn, NY, USA – 29/07/2011
Motovun Film Festival – Motovun, Croatia – 25-29/07/2011
Rushes Soho Shorts – London, UK – 23 & 26 /07/2011 (BAFTA accr.)

Press Links

Cartoon Brew Feature
British Comedy Guide Feature
Sight & Sound – 9th London Short Film Festival: Nine of the best
Director’s Notes Feature
Mouth London interview
Louis interviewed by Skwigly.co.uk
Original tester trailer featured on Lineboil.com