Archived News 2007
Film New Zealand congratulates Flux Animation Studio
1st March 2007
Film New Zealand congratulates Flux Animation Studio on 'An Inconvenient Truth' winning best documentary feature at the 2007 Academy Awards™.
The New Zealand animation studio worked on the feature film 'An Inconvenient Truth', a box office favourite which documents Al Gore's campaigning on climate change.
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise helped award-winning Flux Animation Studio secure the contract to direct two animated sequences in the 90-minute film, and the same sequences have also been screening as a backdrop to Al Gore on stages throughout the world when he has delivered his highly-acclaimed environmental speeches.
Flux animator Fraser Monroe directed one sequence, which was based on the parable of the boiled frog in which a frog remains in water that is gradually heated until boiling. Andrew Newland directed the other sequence, which centres on the plight of a polar bear searching desperately for a scrap of polar ice.
'An Inconvenient Truth' has grossed almost US$43 million (NZ$58.5 million) since in was released in May 2006. It currently ranks the United States' third-highest grossing documentary in the past 25 years, behind 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and 'March of the Penguins'.
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