THE SAUSAGE RUN

As always with my animated shorts THE SAUSAGE RUN is an unusual and complex film. The narrative structure is based on Little Red Riding Hood.

In our fairy tale version animal and human characters are reversed: the big bad wolf is a human being and the people are animals: Little Red Riding Hood, her mother and in our case, grandpa are sheep. The forester and his wife are dogs.

With a mixture of humour, cynicism, tragedy the film expands on the idea how greed… Show more

The premiere is planned to be in Kassel end of 2021.

The film aims for a wide audience from the age of 12 years upwards.

For its global distribution I'm going to

• send the film to about 300 film festivals
• propose it for teaching purposes to schools, universities and media centres
• offer it to TV and cinemas for short film programs
• offer it at my online-shop to buy or rent
• THE SAUSAGE RUN will be added in my successful TRICKFILM SHOW. In this unusual infotainm
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• Because up from 15,- € you will appear in the credits.
• Because you want unusual and daring film projects to be realised that don't fit into any known category.
• Because you have the confidence that I will make another good film.
• Because you love quirky, humorous, provocative and thought-provoking stories that gives room for interpretation.
• Because you know that extraordinary films cannot be created by passion alone.
• Because together with others you want to
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The film is supported by Belgian and German film funds. But for a successful funding application, the costs had to be calculated very tightly.

The subsidies were used up last year, because:

• To get the story across the duration of the film is now 10 minutes instead of 7.
• Instead of the planned 1,5 years we are working on the film for 3 years now.
• Production time doubled and production costs have gone up by 35%.

Thus, we need another 50.000,- € to finance th… Show more

I'm Thomas Stellmach, a freelance animation filmmaker and producer.
I live in Kassel (Germany) since my studies at the Department of Animation at the Kassel Academy of Art.
One of the particular strengths of my film projects is the variety in the artistic implementation. I attach great importance to new forms of design and narration.
It fascinates me to use different animation techniques such as stop-motion, 2D and 3D computer animation, cartoon, pixilation a… Show more