Production info

Category: short animated film
Country of origin: Poland
Year of production: 2007/08
Duration: approx. 15 min.
Website: www.goodnewsbadnews.eu
Script and direction: Kacper Shikeli
Production and distribution: Studio Se Ma For
Production assistant: Adam Ptak

Directors file

Kacper Shikeil born in Moshi (Tanzania) in 1982.

1997-2002 Public Secondary School of Arts in Warsaw
2002- PWSFTViT in Lodz. Animation and film special effects faculty

Filmography

Se-ma-for studio

SE-MA-FOR studio specializes in classic puppet animation, which was popularized by world famous Nick Park's films about Wallace and Gromit produced by Aardman Animations. Over the last few years Se-ma-for produced several short animated films like "Ichtys" directed by Marek Skrobecki. The film was shown and rewarded on numerous festivals in Poland and abroad. One of the studio ambitions is to find young, talented filmmakers and help them to put their first steps in difficult and demanding field of animation. Therefore Se-ma-for is closely cooperating with Polish National Film School in Lodz, which students and recent graduates made their films in the studio. The latest productions are "Caracas" directed and animated by Anna Błaszczyk and "Switeź" directed by Kamil Polak. The studio is also keen to cooperate with foreign co-producers. Currently they are involved in one of he biggest animation production in Poland "Peter and the Wolf" based on Prokofiev story and co-produced with British studio BreakThru Films from London. The studio is prepared to take up all kinds of production from traditional cartoons and puppet animation, through experimental and combined techniques to live action films. It offers a wide rage of additional technical options like semi-flat puppet animation on glass, clay animation, combining puppets and cartoon with actors, animation of spatial forms, and computer animation.

The film "Good news, bad news" is going to be a diploma film and a debut at the same time.