Nadia Micault: Last News

Emilio Mayorga French arthouse shingle Autour de Minuit, which produced the Academy Award-winning animated short “Logorama,” has released the first teaser for Nadia Micault’s “Shadows,” awarded as a project with the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Cartoon Movie last March.Autour de Minuit is joined in co-production by Belgium’s Panique on what will be Micault’s first feature length production. Her stop-motion short “Naïade,” co-directed with Lorenzo Nanni, won the Arte Award at Annecy’s MIFA market in 2008.“Shadows” tracks the adventures of Uzu and Ada, two children following in the footsteps of their father who set out on his own looking for a better world.

Emilio Mayorga “Shadows,” “Winnipeg,” and “Sheba” feature among 10 nominated in the running for a Eurimages Award at this year’s Cartoon Movie, one of Europe’s principal animated movies forums.The Eurimages Co-production Development Award will be the only prize granted at 2021’s Cartoon Movie online edition, which will not feature traditional tributes nor a territory spotlight.Nadia Micault’s first-feature, “Shadows” is based on the same-titled French fantasy graphic novel by Vincent Zabus & Vincent Tavier. One of many projects at Cartoon Movie this year addressing migration, in “Shadows” two children flee a region devastated by blood-thirsty horsemen in order to seek a better life in the Other World.