Mary and Max
'Mary and Max' is the first claymated feature film from the creators of the Academy Award winning short animation 'Harvie Krumpet'. It is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44 year old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs.
Mary and Max has won the Grand Crystal Best Feature award at the prestigious Annecy Animation Festival, picked up the Grand Jury Prize at the Stuttgart Animation Festival and the Jury and Audience Awards at the Zagreb Film Festival.
Written and Directed by Adam Elliot; Starring, Toni Collette (the voice of Mary), Phillip Seymour Hoffman (the voice of Max), and narrated by Barry Humphries.
Australian
Friday 11th September - School Session | 10.00am
Saturday 12th September - Cinema 1 | 1.30pm including guest speaker Pierce Davison (one of the films animated clay makers)
Sunday 13th September - Cinema 2 | 6.30pm
“Mary And Max is original, personal, funny and moving; a film of warmth and compassion from a major artist.”
Paul Byrnes, SMH Entertainment