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TOPIALIZ
(2007, 7:00 min., 24fps, NTSC)

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___Topializ is a conceptual animation that involves several themes and ideas, its main theme yet is the new representation of two social and historical icons from Mexico: La Virgen de Guadalupe and Quetzalcoatl. These two icons are remarkably significant in Mexican society and history, they represent different values, traditions and beliefs, and have been represented and interpreted visually and intellectually in many different ways and techniques throughout their history.
Topializ means "what we must preserve" in Nahuatl, the native Aztec language, and this animated short is a new visual representation of these two icons that proposes their union and integrity as the only way to save our cultural values, traditions, and collective beliefs from the humanitarian and global crisis, and the massive social problems that are currently killing our cultural roots and our ancestor's knowledge and traditions.
Technically, Topializ mixes different techniques, it used 3D and 2D computer animation, video and traditional animation. It was created at the California Instute of the Arts in 2007.

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+-Credits:

--++-Director: Pablo Calvillo.
--++-Music and Sound Design: Petros Sakelliou.
--++-Virgin: Kate-Eloise Mallor.
--++-CG Character Rigging: Si-Hyung.
--++-Special Thanks: Kirsten Winter, Maureen Selwood, Michael Scroggins, Igor Kovalyov, Pepe Valencia.

+-Festival screenings and awards:

--++-Wiesbaden Intl Animation Festival, (October, 2008)
--++-Stuttgart 2008 Intl Animation Festival. (September, 2008)
--++-KINOKI, 4to Fest Intl de Cine, Mexico City,(Febrary 18th, 2008)
--++-IMAGO ‘07 - INTL FILM FESTIVAL, Fundão, Portugal (October, 2007)
--++-IMAGO ‘07 - Best Animated Short Award.
--++-Valencia Intl Film Festival, Valencia, Spain, (November, 2007)
--++-Festival Intl de Filmets, Barcelona, Spain, (October 15th, 2007)
--++-DigiFest, Milan, ITALY. (October 8th, 2007),
--++-PLATFORM, Portland, Oregon, (June 28th, 2007)
--++-UCLA Shorttakes, Los Angeles, CA. (May 20th, 2007)
--++-UCLA Shorttakes, Best in Show Award.

+-The Making Of:

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