A Rapid Love Story of Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange - Kati Kovacs (Finland), Mait Laas (Estonia)

* In cooperation with Finnish Institute in Estonia.

Finnish comics artist Kati Kovacs and Estonian animation director Mait Laas will discuss how similar or different ways of thinking in comics and in animation can be. The authors will describe their lively collaboration in creating the work-in-progress animated stop-motion feature An Opera of Forgotten Stories: A Rapid Love Story of Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange. The adventurous animation, full of music and humour, consists of allegorical stories of illegal boat refugees and the bittersweet love story of an Orange boy and a Lemon girl. The idea, parts of the script and the design were created by Kovacs and the film will be directed by Laas. The 65-minute feature animation will be released by Nukufilm studio in 2012.

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Kati Kovacs

Kati Kovacs drew her first comics at the age of six and studied at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, majoring in graphic design. Her first comics were published in Finland in 1988. The first album Green Rhapsody was published in 1994. Since then 11 other books have sprung from her pen, along with longer stories and collections of short stories.. Many of her comics have also been translated and she has participated in several exhibitions all over Europe. Her works have won awards many different times, among them the Sarjakuva Finlandia Prize (2011) for her last book, Who’s Afraid of Nenian Ahnav?

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Mait Laas

Mait Laas is an international award-winning animation artist, author and director. He studied art at the Pedagogical University in Tallinn and visual media at the Advanced School for Fine Arts in Vienna. He made his first stop-motion film as his final thesis in Nukufilm studio and has been tightly bound up with the studio since then. His best-known film, The Way to Nirvana (2000), won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Laas has held several lectures and organised workshops about animation. Besides that, his work has been seen at art exhibitions and performances.

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