This was a storyboard for a pitch for a Campbell’s Soup Ad, back in the early days of Mo Films in 2010
Script/Direction/Animation: Ebele Okoye
Production: Shrinkfish Ltd.
Narration: Marcus Halver
A satirical experimental collage animation intended as a statement on strategic advertising
![Die Verrückte [The Lunatic]](https://ebeleokoye.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/OmenkaUlonka_TheLunatic1280x720-1080x675.jpg)
My first official animation, this piece premiered at the Filmfest Dresden in 2007. Later in 2008, it was entered as the FIRST AND ONLY animation at the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) thus got the honourable mention.
It was written and discarded by best friend and my then flatmate, the German Author Simone Kanter (who is still convinced it was a horrible piece whereas for me, it was the stepping stone into life as an indeie animator.)
I also had the priviledge of having Rita Ringheanu, the most sought after female VO artist in Germany to speak the original German version.
It later ran at the DOK Lepzig amongst other prestigious festivals
The search for “greener pastures” turns out to be the beginning of a new awareness.
BACKGROUND STORY
In 2006, I won the DEFA Research Prize for Animation. The prize was aimed towards facilitating the preproduction phase of an Animation co-production with Estonia titled “Feet Voters” As circumstantially “Feet Voters” met an extensive stall with minimal or absolutely no signs of getting realized, I interpreted my own ideas of the project into “Patterns”
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