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Inside Hothouse 10

For the NFB’s 10th edition of Hothouse, we challenged eight intrepid filmmakers – six from Canada and two from Mexico through our partnership with the Mexican Film Institute – to use found sounds as the basis for their short animations. Going from storyboard to screen in just three short months, Hothouse participants played with their chosen audio, subverting its meaning through their animation and finding new ways of seeing the world around us. Hothouse continues to be about re-imagining ways of making animation, ways that are faster, more flexible, and which embrace the many possibilities in the animation process while …
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For the NFB’s 10th edition of Hothouse, we challenged eight intrepid filmmakers – six from Canada and two from Mexico through our partnership with the Mexican Film Institute – to use found sounds as the basis for their short animations. Going from storyboard to screen in just three short months, Hothouse participants played with their chosen audio, subverting its meaning through their animation and finding new ways of seeing the world around us.



Hothouse continues to be about re-imagining ways of making animation, ways that are faster, more flexible, and which embrace the many possibilities in the animation process while maintaining creative and technical excellence.

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