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Talk: Bastien DUBOIS, director of the short "Souvenir, Souvenir."

20 April 2021 Graduate News
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Born in 1983 in Lille (France), Bastien Dubois earned his diploma in CGI Directing from Supinfocom Valenciennes in 2006.
 
His CGI graduation short entitled AH (codirected with Simon Moreau and Joris Bacquet) was about a little girl who gazes into her hot alphabet soup, then plunges in to find a surreal landscape of alphabet letters in a world of naughty kids. Bastien Dubois is a keen traveler, it was after he hitch hiked from the north of France to Istanbul that he had the idea of making an animated travel log. His first independent film Madagascar, a Journey Diary was based on a one year trip to the big red island. This film was very well received and screened in more than 200 international film festivals including Sundance. The film ultimately garnered an Oscar nomination in 2011.In 2012 he directed a TV program based on Madagascar, a Journey Diary called Faces From Places a series of 20 animated 3 minute travelogue films featuring various countries around the world.
 
In 2012 Bastien released, Cargo Cult an animated short film which is set in Papua New Guinea during the second world war.
Bastien has won more than a dozen awards including the Sundance Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival for his latest animated short film "Souvenir, Souvenir".
 
Shorts directed :
Madagascar, carnet de voyage : https://vimeo.com/bastiendubois/madag...
Portrait de voyage (trailer) : https://vimeo.com/bastiendubois/pdv
 
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