‘Memoir Of A Snail’: Read The Screenplay For Adam Elliot’s Annecy And London Film Festival Winner
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with IFC Films‘ stop-motion animated tragicomedy Memoir of a Snail.
Written and directed by Australian filmmaker Adam Elliot, the film boasts an all-star Aussie voice cast including Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Jackie Weaver and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
IFC Films, which also distributed Elliot’s first stop-motion film Mary & Max, scooped up rights to Snail in May and sent it on a fruitful fall festival run, where it picked up the top prizes as Annecy and BFI London.
It was released in theaters in October and has since picked up Golden Globe and Critics Choice animation noms. The plot follows Grace Pudel (Snook), a snail-obsessed misfit with an optimistic outlook on life.
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