Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) has joined an all-star line-up of Australian talent in lending his exceptional talent to voice the role of Max in the new claymation feature Mary and Max.
Mary and Max producer Melanie Coombs revealed to Fringe delegates she set personal rules for the production of the stop motion film in order to quickly solve problems during the massive 57 week shoot.
Mary and Max, the animated feature by the Oscar-winning team of writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs has been selected to open the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
The Funk, written and directed by Cris Jones and produced by Melanie Coombs has picked up the International Jury Award at Short Cuts Cologne.
Adam Elliot's long-awaited debut feature Mary and Max has screened and the first reviews are in, with critics describing it as a high-end claymation drama with strong doses of humor and quirkiness.
Mary and Max is an upcoming stopmotion claymation feature film directed and written by Adam Elliot
Mary and Max producer Melanie Coombs is one of three producers that have joined together to create the company
She was one of the first people approached by the filmmakers behind a documentary about her grandfather and the poet Judith Wright