The Ape Man

Pieter Vandenabeele (2017, 11')

A small, plump man lives on the top floor of a skyscraper. During the day, he's a garbage man, but in the evening, he watches Tarzan-movies and dreams off in his lush roof jungle.

One day, when he hears the aggressive rants of his neighbour, he looks for the Tarzan inside to rescue his nextdoor Jane.

This short animation film by Pieter Vandenabeele is supported by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund and co-produced by Alph Studios. It will be released in 2017.

Check out Pieter's previous film A Dog's Life!

I'm working an a new animation short called THE APE MAN: https://www.facebook.com/theapemanshort/ It's about a small, chubby man (who wants to be Tarzan) in love with his nextdoor Jane. - A dog lives a lonely life in the house of his master and tries to fill his days with all kinds of hobbies. Hopefully, some unexpected event will take place. If not, this could turn out to be a very boring film. An animated short by Pieter Vandenabeele www.pieterv.com/adogslife Awards: Anima Brussels 2015 - Best Belgian Student Short Film Award Anima Brussels 2015 - BeTV Award Festival Internacional De Cine De Lanzarote 2015 - Audience Award Best Animation Short Film Festival selections: Short Film Festival Leuven 2014 Anima Brussels 2015 Festival Internacional De Cine De Lanzarote 2015 Athens Animfest 2015 Ciné Privé 2015 BesteBuren programme at Holland Animation Film Festival 2015 Brussels Short Film Festival - Next Generation 2015 Animafest Zagreb 2015 - Films for Children Competition Future Film Festival Italy 2015 Nationa(a)l - Talents van Demain 2015 Animatou Geneva 2015 Anibar International Animation Festival 2015 KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2015 CINANIMA 2015 - International Non-Competitive Programme Graffix Festival Antwerp 2015 Brussels Short Film Festival 2016- Best of Bar Shorts Film Club Present Euro Shorts - London 2016 Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival 2016

written and directed by PIETER VANDENABEELE
voices by KARLIJN SILEGHEM & JELLE DE BEULE

producer ANIMAL TANK

line producers BRECHT VAN ELSLANDE & BERT LESAFFER
animation by KAROLIEN RAEYMAEKERS, JEROEN CEULEBROUCK, ENO SWINNEN & PIETER VANDENABEELE
backgrounds MAARTEN ZERELIK & PIETER VANDENABEELE
compositing JAKOB VANDENABEELE & PIETER VANDENABEELE
sound design, editing & mixing GREG SCHEIRLINCKX (Kabaal for Studio THINKNTALK)
music by PETER VERMEERSCH & TOY-BOX (Per Holm, Ami El-Falaki & Aneela Mirza)

festival coordination & sales LUCE GROSJEAN (luce@miyu.fr)

distribution (BE) DALTON DISTRIBUTION

with the support of:

FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL FUND
TAX SHELTER OF THE BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
ALPH STUDIOS
SÈVE FILMS

FESTIVALS

World premiere in the International Competition of the Linoleum Festival (Kiev, Ukraine): 28 September - 1 October 2017
KLIK (Amsterdam, the Netherlands): 17 - 22 October 2017
Festival du film d'animation pour la jeunesse (Bourg-en-Bresse, France): 21 - 25 October 2017
Festival Tous Courts (Aix-en-Provence, France): 27 November - 2 December 2017 // winner 'Prix des Enfants'
Seoul International Youth Film Festival (Seoul, Korea): 30 November - 10 December 2017
Bogota Short-Film Festival (Bogota, Colombia): 5 - 12 December 2017
Internationaal Kortfilmfestival Leuven (Leuven, Belgium): 2 - 9 December 2017
Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA): 17 December 2017
Anima Festival (Brussels, Belgium): 9 - 18 January 2018
Animac (Lleida, Spain): 22 - 25 February 2018
Montreal International Children’s Film Festival (FIFEM) (Montréal, Canada)): 3 - 11 March 2018
Animafest Cyprus (Cyprus): 14 - 17 March 2018
Ciné Privé (Ghent, Belgium): 15 - 17 March 2018
Athens Animfest (Athens, Greece): 15 - 18 March 2018
Mecal Pro - International Short Film and Animation Festival (Barcelona, Spain): 24 March 2018
Concours de Courts (Toulouse, France): 5 & 7 April 2018
Monstronale Film Festival (Halle, Germany): 11 - 15 April 2018
Riverside Film Festival (Riverside, USA): 17 - 22 April 2018
Ciclic Animation (Vendôme, France): 10 April & 27 June 2018
New Horizon International Youth Festival of Short Cinema and Animation (Voronezh, Russia): 23 - 28 April 2018
FIAV - Festival International d'art vidéo de Casablanca (Casablanca, Morocco): 25 - 29 April 2018
Festival Internacional de Animacion Chilemonos (Santiago, Chile): 8 - 13 May 2018
LISFE - Leiden International Short Film Experience (Leiden, The Netherlands): 10 & 12 May 2018
Future Film Festival (Bologna, Italy): 29 May - 3 June 2018
Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca (Huesca, Spain): 8 - 16 June 2018
Tout Court! Festival du Court-métrage de Gisors (Gisors, France): 6 - 8 July 2018
SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival (Sicilie, Italy): 10 - 15 July 2018
Insomnia International Animation Film Festival (Moscow, Russia): 19 - 23 July 2018
Rhode Island International Film Festival (Rhode Island, USA): 7 - 12 August 2018
Anima Mundi (Rio De Janeiro & São Paulo, Brazil): 24 July - 5 August 2018
Anibar Animation Festival (Pejë, Kosovo): 13 - 19 August 2018
TAFF - Turku Animated Film Festival (Turku, Finland): 29 August - 2 September 2018
Carton - Festival Internacional de Cortos de Animacion La Tribu (Buenos Aires, Argentina): 4 - 9 September 2018
FestiFrance Brasil - Mostra Francesa de Cinema ( Belo Horizonte, Brasil): 4 - 16 September 2018
Animanima (Cacak, Serbia): 16 September 2018
Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine): 6 - 9 September 2018
Fifigrot (Toulouse, France): 14 - 23 September 2018
Fifigrot - Festival International du Film Grolandais de Toulouse (Toulouse, France): 15 - 24 September 2018
Brazilian Kids Film Festival: (Sao Paulo, Brazil): September 21 - 30 ; (Rio de Janeiro, Niteroi and Aracaju, Brazil): 19 - 28 October; (Natal and Salvador, Brazil): 26 October - 4 November 2018
Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival (Bristol, UK): 25 - 30 September 2018
SCHLINGEL - Internationales Filmfestival für Kinder und Jugendliche (Chemnitz, Germany): 1 - 7 October 2018
Timishort Film Festival (Timisoara, Romania): 3 - 7 October 2018
ANNY - Animation Nights New York (NY, USA): 6 - 8 October 2018
Bogoshorts - Bogota Short Film Festival (Bogota, Colombia): 4 - 11 December 2018
Leiden International Short Film Experience ( Leiden, Netherlands): 2 March 2019
Détour en Cinécourt (Haute- Garonne, France): 4 - 8 June 2019
FiSahara (Tindouf, Algeria): October 2020