The Irish animated short, Agricultural Report, will be released by Eclipse Pictures with the award-winning documentary 'Super Size Me' nationwide from September 10th.
Agricultural Report, a short comedy exploring the bliss of ignorance, was produced by Irish animation company Barley Films. It was produced under the BSÉ/IFB Short Shorts scheme which aims to produce ultra short, eye-catching films which can be used to promote Irish film-making by being released in cinemas before full length features.
Agricultural Report was directed by Sydney Padua, a graduate from Sheridan College in Canada who spent several years as a traditional animator and development artist at Warner Bros. Feature Animation and Sony Pictures. Agricultural Report is her first experience as a director and as a computer animator. Previously, Sydney has worked on such high profile animated features as Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, Osmosis Jones and The Iron Giant.
Agricultural Report has also been selected for competition in several international festivals including the Fantastisk Film Festival No. 10 (Lund & Malmo, Sweden, 17-28 September), the Kerry Film Festival (18-24 October), the 23rd Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Uppsala, Sweden, 18-24 October) and Cinanima - The 28th International Animated Film Festival (Espinho, Portugal, 8-14 November).
It will also screen non-competitively at the 9th Milano Film Festival in Italy (10-19 September) and at the Junior Film Fleadh in Galway this November.
