International Short Film, Country of Origin: Germany, Country of Filming: Germany & Singapore, 3 minutes, Texas Premiere

Synopsis:

Shakespeare’s works are timeless. This film proves it!

Written, directed and produced by Hannes Rall

Storyboards, layouts and keys: Hannes Rall

Animation: Khoo Siew May and Jay Septimo

Music and sound design: Patrick Kuhn Botelho

Hannes Rall

Bio:

Hannes Rall is President’s Chair Professor in Animation Studies and Associate Chair Research at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He is also a successful director of animated short films. They have been shown at over 900 film festivals worldwide and have received 95 international awards. 16,000 of his film drawings and illustrations have been added to the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf's collection. His conference presentations include FMX, ACM SIGGRAPH, ARS Electronica, the Annual Conferences of the Society for Animation Studies (SAS) and Keynotes at IEEE VR (Osaka 2019) and CONFIA (Esposende 2018). In 2016 he was the Chair of the 28th Annual Conference of the Society for Animation Studies The Cosmos of Animation in Singapore. His successful books “Animation: From Concept to Production” and “Adaptation for Animation Transforming Literature Frame by Frame” (CRC Press) can be found in over 160 important university libraries, including Stanford, Yale, Cornell, UCLA and Columbia.