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Leah Shore is a Brooklyn, NY based artist, animator, and film director best known for her short films: 2010 Sundance Film Festival selection Meatwaffle, 2011 and 2013 SXSW selections BOOBatary and Old Man, and 2014 Slamdance Film Festival selection I Love You So Much.

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Biography

Shore grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended RISD college in Providence, Rhode Island, graduating in 2009. Her thesis film, Meatwaffle, which animation historian Jerry Beck called "either genius or nonsense," [1] and Sundance deemed "wonderfully bizarre" [2] was selected for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, where Shore was only woman and youngest participant selected for the Animation Showcase. [3] Meatwaffle went on to play at SXSW and more than fifty other film festivals.

Work and style

As an animator, Shore has been mentioned in a sentence with Bill Plympton, [4] and is known for a bold, colorful style described as "extreme, and often humorous," and "raunchy and bizarre" [5] that frequently depicts pop culture or well-known subjects. She typically writes, animates, directs, and produces her own work. Shore cited Ralph Steadman, Eric Fishl, Jan Svankmajer, Salvador Dalí, Tom Waits, Matthew Barney, Patti Smith, and Robert Mapplethorpe as influences in a 2010 interview with Channel Frederator. [6]

Shore is a prolific creator of short-form content, directing animated spots for Cartoon Network, Google, MTV, and collaborating on music videos for notable recording artists like Ke$ha. Shore is known to work on a fast schedule; many of her spots commissioned for VICE and MTV are completed in under 5 days. [7] [8] She was named in 2013 Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. [9] Mountain Dew's online magazine Green Label named Shore one of "10 Animators You Need to Know" alongside Cartoon Network showrunners Pendleton Ward and Rebecca Sugar. [10] In 2013, Meatwaffle was inducted into the Sundance Permanent Collection at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

According to Shore's Tumblr page, her first fully live-action short, Hallway, filmed "in a real secret sex club in NYC", [11] should debut in 2015.

Old Man

Old Man, Shore's third film, is an experimental documentary short animated to never-before-heard telephone calls between Charles Manson and Canadian author Marlin Marynick, recorded as reference for a biography by Marynick. Beginning pre-production as early as February 2010, [12] Shore edited the 10 hours of phone calls—originally captured through a smuggled prison cell-phone—into a 5-minute audio track, then spent over 2 years animating the film. [9] Selected for over fifty festivals worldwide, Old Man opened the prestigious Gen Art festival in New York City in August 2012, and competed in the Animation category at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival.

I Love You So Much

I Love You So Much debuted at the 2014 Slamdance Film Festival and played at the Los Angeles Film Festival and continues to play at festivals today. Shore's first time mixing animation with live action, the film, about "the muck of romantic language," [13] was a Vimeo staff pick in December, 2014 and has been viewed over eighty thousand times. Most recently it was shown as a part of "Vimeo Staff Picks Cinema: Directors Commentary" at the SXSW 2015 Film Festival. Shore was one of five directors to show.

Filmography

TitleYearMediumFormatRole
Meatwaffle20092D/Stop Motion Animation/Mixed MediaShort FilmDirector, writer, editor, animator
Boobatary20112D AnimationShort FilmDirector, writer, editor, animator
Old Man20122D Animation/Stop Motion Animation/Computer Animation/Mixed MediaShort FilmDirector, writer, editor, animator
I Love You So Much2014Live Action/2D AnimationShort FilmDirector, writer, animator, Storyboard, Art Direction
Hallway2015Live ActionShort FilmDirector, writer, Storyboard, Art Direction

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References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jerry (30 September 2009). "Leah Shore's 'Meatwaffle'". cartoonbrew.com. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Zakheim, Landon. "Your Guide to Animation". sundance.org. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Hartley, Christina. "Meatwaffle". risd.edu. Archived from the original on February 23, 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Jaeger, Max (3 June 2014). "Sketchy characters: W'burg animation fest features hand-drawn hosts". Brooklynpaper.com.
  5. ↑ Furfaro, Danielle (3 December 2014). "The new pornographers: Bushwick artists hosting smut fest". The Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  6. ↑ DesRocher, Bailee. "Leah Shore's 'Meatwaffle'". frederatorblogs.com. Frederator. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Shore, Leah (22 February 2012). "VICE!! BIG SEAN! PROJECT X Teaser Promo". leahshore.wordpress.org. leahshore. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  8. ↑ Shore, Leah (29 February 2012). "GUCCI GUCCI GUCCI GUCCI! KREAYSHAWN!!!". leahshore.wordpress.com. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  9. 1 2 Salovaara, Sara (15 July 2013). "25 New Faces of Independent Film". www.filmmakermagazine.com. Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  10. ↑ Cheng, Susan. "10 Animators You Need to Know". Green Label. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  11. ↑ Shore, Leah. "About Leah Shore" . Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  12. ↑ DesRocher, Bailee. "Leah Shore's 'Meatwaffle'". frederatorblogs.com. Frederator. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  13. ↑ Macauley, Scott (19 December 2014). "Short Film: I Love You So Much by Leah Shore". www.filmmakermagazine.com. Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
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