WALKING THE DOG Presents

In collaboration with

BARON VON DING DONG

A film by Michael Palmaers

PERSKIT

LOGLINE

A mysterious experiment inspired by Magritte's painting “ The Empire of Light”.

SYNOPSIS

The story is set in an abandoned zoo. The zoo itself is inspired by the

Antwerp Zoo in the 19th century and is covered in a mysterious environment reminding of René Magritte’s painting: 'The Empire of Light'.

Under a radiating sunny sky, the landscape is covered in darkness.

The opportunistic director of the abandoned zoo instructs a doctor to do some medical experiments on a gorilla, one of the few animals left in the

zoo. If the experiment turns out well, the zoo could again become the great attraction it once was.

The gorilla has been artificially inseminated and is therefore carefully observed by a camera during the pregnancy. The cage is lit -day and night-

like a prison. The guardian of the gorilla is a devoted man. Just like the spectators, he doesn’t know this forced pregnancy with NURU is part of a

dark experiment.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Production:

Walking The Dog BVBA Eric Goossens

Anton Roebben

Deschampheleerstraat 26 1081 Brussels

T +32 (0)2 412 411 0 F +32 (0)2 412 411 9

www.walkingthedog.be eric.goossens@walkigthedog.be

toon@walkingthedog.be

Distribution/Vente :

Vertigo&co Nathalie Meyer

42 Rue Dethy 1060 Bruxelles

T +32(0)475 200 675 www.vertigoandco.com

Language: no dialogs Ratio: 16/9

Length: 14 min Genre: fiction

CREDITS

FEATURING GUARD

GEERT BURSSENS DOCTOR

MARK VAN STRYDONCK ZOO DIRECTOR

DANNY RIESTERER

DIRECTOR MICHAEL PALMAERS

DIRECTOR LIFE ACTION LARS DAMOISEAUX

ART DIRECTOR FREDERIK PALMAERS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ERIC GOOSSENS

CREATIVE PRODUCER TOON ROEBBEN

PRODUCTION MANAGER FREDERIC DIRICKX FREDERIK NICOLAI

ORIGINAL SCRIPT

FREDERIK PALMAERS ORIGINAL MUSIC BY

GUY VAN NUETEN DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

JAN MESTDAGH FOCUS PULLER

WOUTER DE WILDE GAFFER

DIETER DE BOCK KEY GRIP

TIJS HOORNAERT GRIP

GILLES COLLART

EDITED BY ALAIN DES SAUVAGE

COLOR GRADING BIRGER PLATTEEUW

SOUND MIX YVES DE MEY

SET DRESSER

MERIJ N SEPP ASSISTANT SET DRESSER

STIJN VAN AKKER RIK BOEYKENS STEFAN LEJON BART VAN LOO TOON MARIE,N

BART MENNE PIETER DE RIDDER

BART WOUTERS WEDRAN KOPLJAR

STYLING & MAKE-UP WINKE WALS CHAP

ANNICK WOUTERS COSTUMES

HUIS BAYENS VIOLIERENHUIS

CATERING ALIMENTANDO FERNANDO

INSURANCE BCOH

DIGI CAMERA OPERATOR

MIKE CONNOR DIGI CAMERA SPECIALIST

JASPER JANSEN 2ND CAMERA ASSISTANT

ARNE FOCKETYN DIGITAL LAB

JAMES & MARC DIGITAL LAB ASSISTANT

STIJN GRUPPING STUDIO & CAMERA FACILITIESPOST OFFICE

ALAIN COLLART POST PRODUCTION FACILITIES

THE FRIDGE.TV

SOUND POST PRODUCTION SONICVILLE

THANKS TO MARK APPELTANS

KRISTINE B0EY HERLINDE BORMS

DIRK PALMAERS MYRIAM STEURS

FRANK VAN LEEMPUT GREET VANWIJNSBERGHE

GERT STAS ALAIN COLLART INGE VERROKEN

KARLA PUTTEMANS HANS EVERAERT PIERRE DROUOT

WITH THE SUPORT OF THE

FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL FUND

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Michael Palmaers Date of Birth: 25/06/75 Graduated at Sint-Lukas Brussels as “Master of Audio-Visual arts” From 1995 to 2000 he worked as a CGI-animator at IIM where he worked on several commercials and video clips After that he started working as a freelancer. Working for Walking The Dog he contributed on several projects: Annecy 2005 trailer Radio 2 tuindag Kadenza (studio 1 generic) Sabouge (lotto, Bobbejaanland) Olilgy (Chiquita Smoothies) Together with Frederik Palmaers and Lars Damoiseaux they forms an directors collective known as “Baron von Ding Dong”. There first collaboration resulted in a 1 minute short called: ”Boulos Explosivos” website:www.rapideggmovement.be www.baronvondingdong.net

ABOUT THE PRODUCER Walking The Dog is an animation studio based in the centre of Brussels created by the two producers Anton Roebben and Eric Goossens in 1996. After their successful career in the companies Little Big One and Trix they decided to set up their own company to concentrate more on the international artistically interesting animated projects. The first project they worked on was the Oscar nominated animation film “The Triplets of Belleville” from the French director Sylvain Chomet. Walking The Dog was asked to supervise and produce a large part of the computer generated sequences in this film. From both Brussels and Montréal Walking The Dog organised with their team of animators the production of almost the entire CGI images in this movie. After this successful collaboration Walking The Dog continued their collaboration ship with the Belgian co producer on “The Triplets of Belleville” ,Vivi Film on a new classical animation film called “Brendan and the Secret of Kell’s” from the Irish director Tomm Moore. For this film, a co production between Les Armateurs (FR), Cartoon Saloon (IR) and Vivi Film (B), Walking The Dog was producing in their animation studio 20 min of animation (mix of classical animation and 3D effects). Walking The Dog was in 2007-2008 also co-producing the animated television serie “Kika & Bob”(26x13’) with the Low Sky Film (NL) and DFJ (B). This serie is directed by both Colette Bothof and Vincent Bal. For the moment WTD is, in coproduction with Submarine (NL) and Low Sky Film (NL), preparing the second serie of also (26x13’). Recently WTD delivered all the 3D animated hamster sequences on the feature movie “Firmin” from the Belgian director Dominique Deruddere. After the production of the short length animation film “Dji Veu Vou Volti” from the well-known Belgian director Benoit Feroumont (already selected by almost 45 festivals and obtained several national and international prizes) Walking The Dog is developing the first animated feature film “Macrâles” from this talented director in co-production with La Parti Production(B). Together with Cometafilm (It), Iris Production (Lux) and 2d3d Animations (Fr), Walking The Dog is co- producing actually the new film of Enzo d’Alo called “Pinocchio” based on the script of Enzo d’Alo and Umberto Marino and with the Lorezo Mattotti as art director. In co-production with EuropaCorp Walking The Dog is working “Un Monster A Paris” a CGI movie directed by the French director Bibo Bergeron. This CGI movie will be released in2011.

Walking The Dog is also involved in other animated projects from Belgium, France, The Netherlands and the UK. Walking The Dog is fully equipped with hardware (IBM and HP Workstations and render farms) and specialised software tools.