Oscar Winner Andrew Ruhemann Announces New Film ‘The Day I Became a Bird’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMarta Balaga Oscar winner Andrew Ruhemann has returned to the director’s chair for “The Day I Became a Bird.” His first short in 13 years, based on a book by Chabbert Ingrid, will see a boy who falls in love – with a girl that only has eyes for birds.
Desperate to get her attention, he comes up with a rather unusual plan. “I was at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and that’s where I found this book.
I thought it was a very intriguing image: Why is there this kid in a bird costume? It moved me,” he says. Ruhemann’s previous short, “The Lost Thing,” brought him an Academy Award in 2011, shared with Shaun Tan. “With ‘The Lost Thing,’ it was the first book I saw at that fair.
I felt a little tingle at the back of my spine and said to myself: ‘This is going to be my first film.’ It all happened in a very similar way,” he laughs. “You could say this story is about first love or about being true to yourself, but it’s just one layer.
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