Still from "The Flying Machine"
The world premiere of "The Flying Machine" / "Latająca maszyna" took place in Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall. The animated film, created by the makers of the Oscar-winning "Peter & the Wolf" / "Piotruś i wilk", is the first 3D animation production in history to be shown at the famous Chinese concert hall
The film, created in the Polish city of Łódź on a set spanning close to10,000 square metres, is one of 20 foreign pictures this year which was granted permission for Chinese distribution by the country's authorities. In doing so it obtains official status as a Chinese coproduction from SARFT: the (Chinese) State Ministry of Radio, Film and Television. The Asian coproducer and film distributor is BONA FILM GROUP.
The "The Flying Machine" stars Heather Graham ("The Hangover") and world renowned Chinese pianist and TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the world nominee: Lang Lang. His Chopin recordings feature in the film, which is reminiscent of Pixar's "Up!". Over 200 animators, special effects persons, set designers, puppeteers and costume makers were involved in the film's production. Past credits of the animation team include: "Coraline", "Toy Story", "Wallace & Gromit", "Corpse Bride", "Chicken Run" and "Jurassic Park".
The world premiere of "The Flying Machine" forms part of the cultural programme of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council. Bogdan Zdrojewski, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and PISF (Polish Film Institute) director Agnieszka Odorowicz will be present at the premiere. The film showing will be accompanied by a piano recital of a Chopin étude performed by Lang Lang as well as a screening of "Postman Pan" - the first ever 3D film étude directed by Dorothy Kobiel.
Date: 30th of August, 2011
Venue: Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing
Organised by: Polish Film Institute (PISF), Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Polish Embassy in Beijing
Project cofinanced by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Source: Adam Mickiewicz Institute