My Grandmother Beijing (Min Bestemor Beijing)

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My Grandmother Beijing
Original title	Min Bestemor Beijing
Type	Shorts
Genre	Animation
Director	Mats Grorud
Short summary	The modernisation of Beijing told through the eyes of a young boy, playing with his old wrinkly grandmother.
Screenplay	Mats Grorud
Based on	An idea by Kaja Wright Polmar
D.O.P	Mats Grorud
Editor	Mats Grorud
Animation	Mats Grorud
Composer	Zhang Lei
Sound	Bent Erik Holm
Producer	Pål Røed
Production company	Ape&Bjørn with Nubbsjangs Production
Country of origin	Norway
Release date (national)	2008-06
Technical information
Format	35mm
Screen ratio	1:1,85
Colour	Colour
Sound System	Dolby SRD
Length in min's	9' 07''
No. of reels	1
Festival participation	2009 New York International Children's Film Festival 2008 Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto 2008 Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad 2008 Anima Mundi, Sao Paulo & Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 2008 Festival Internacional de cine para niños (…y no tan niños), Mexico 2008 The Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund - Children's programme 2008 Lucas Intl. Childrens Film Festival, Germany 2008 Bergen Animation Festival 2008 KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2008 Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece 2008 Ottawa Animation Film Festival 2008 Nordisk Panorama 5 Cities Festival, Malmö 2008 Le Carrousel Int'l du Film de Rimouski, Canada 2008 China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival, Beijing 2008 Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2008 Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland 2008 Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany 2008 Brest European Short Film Festival, France 2008 IFF Etiuda & Anima, Krakow, Poland 2009 Reel to Real Int'l Film Festival for Youth, Canada 2009 Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim 2009 BUFF Children & Youth Film Festival, Sweden 2009 St. Paul International Film Festival - Childish Filmfest 2009 Viewfinders Children & Youth Film Festival, Halifax 2009 International Children's Film Festival, Turkey 2009 Kristiansand Children's Film Festival 2009 Film Festival Zlin, Czech Republic 2009 Jerusalem Children's Film Festival 2009 Cypros Childrens Film Festival 2010 Athens Animation Festival, Greece 2010 Taiwan Int. Children's TV& Film Festival, Taipei
Prizes received	2008 Fredrikstad Animation Festival: Best Nordic-Baltic Short Film

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Director biography:
The Director Mats Grorud, animation director, educated at Volda animation College.

Mats made this film while in Beijing, studying at the China University of Communication, as a comment on the physical reconstruction of the city. He has worked with several other animation directors, such as Kaja Wright Polmar and Pjotr Sapegin. He is running his little animation company in Oslo called Nubbsjangs Production.