CATEGORY: BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
INTERVIEW WITH: SUZIE TEMPLETON, HUGH WELCHMAN
FILM: "PETER & THE WOLF"
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Q. Nice to see you again. What's it like to get on that stage and be given the Oscar and how do you feel? And what does it mean for BreakThru in the future?
A. Well, I mean, it just I was actually just grinning from ear to ear, so it's easy to say that. It actually felt just exciting. I thought it was going to be scary, but it was just exciting. And for BreakThru Films and for the film, you know, Peter & the Wolf. It means this film will be seen by, you know, many millions more. So that's why we made the film, to get Peter & the Wolf and you know, surviving and being appreciated by children all over the world for many generations more. So, it couldn't be better.
Q. Congratulations. How long did you work on this film and now that you are did you ever imagine you would be here during all that time you were working on it?
A. Well, I'm actually still working on this film, and I resigned myself to working on it for many years more, but over five years now. And so that's how long I was working on it.
A. I am I was working on it for five years. Two years writing, one year on animatic and just over a year, actually, in production, and then compose.
A. But we actually managed to make 25 percent of the film in two months just before the royal premiere.
Q. First I wanted to ask you how it was going on the AWN tour this last week or two; and second, I showed Peter & the Wolf to my seven year old son and he was spellbound and was constantly asking questions about it. And so I wanted to know, what was the biggest challenge in adapting this into a story that is timeless and yet still relevant?
A. Yes. It's an interesting question. The biggest challenge for me was actually writing to the musical score to actually fit each beat of the story and each arc to the music.
A. Well, I mean, I knew it was such an impossibly difficult task and that's why I actually approached Suzie to do it, because she's a fantastic writer and has an amazing vision. In terms of the toll, it was a real buzz to meet people like Ed Catmull, and Brad Bird. And for them to come up to us and say that they've watched the film and to wish us the very best, and just to have such, you know, experienced and brilliant animators watch our film and share their experience of how they felt about our film gave us a lot of confidence, I think.
Q. Congratulations. I am curious being here tonight is who have you seen or talked to or who do you hope to see or talk to whose work you really, really admire?
A. Well, the first person I went up to was Roger Deakins because I think that he is a legendary filmmaker. He thoroughly deserves to have his two Oscar nominations this year, and I was absolutely thrilled to meet him.
A. I am just trying to have some fun, and I would like to have, like, a lovely time now with my boyfriend.
Q. Thank you and congratulations.
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