Melodrama Pictures has announced that the award winning film Mary and Max by the Academy Award winning Australian director Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet) will be released on the Sundance Select on-demand platform of Sundance Channel. Beginning on October 14 Mary and Max will be available on the on-demand platform of major US cable operators including Comcast, Cox and Cablevision. The film will also have an Academy Award quilifying release in Los Angeles which will make it eligible for this years Academy Awards.
A feature-length claymation animation film, Mary and Max opened the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. With voices by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana and Barry Humphries, the film tells the story of a 20-year pen-pal friendship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne and Max Horowitz, a 44-year-old Jewish man living an isolated life in New York City. The film is a triumph of emotion, insight and eccentricity – a complete delight. In May, the film shared the Grand Cristal Best Feature award at the prestigous Annecy Animation Festival with Henry Selick’s Caroline.
Sundance Select will be a platform for documentary and world cinema debuting on Sundance Select August 26th with Spike Lee's Passing Strange The Movie which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Initially the venue will feature one new film a month on-demand with plans to increase to 2 offerings a month.
Under the creative direction of Robert Redford, Sundance Channel advertises itself as the television destination for independent-minded viewers seeking something different. Sundance Channel offers audiences a diverse selection of films, documentaries, and original programs, all unedited and commercial free. Launched in 1996, Sundance Channel is a subsidiary of Rainbow Media Holdings LLC. Sundance Channel operates independently of the non-profit Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival, but shares the overall Sundance mission of encouraging artistic freedom of expression. Sundance Channel's website address is www.sundancechannel.com.
You can visit Mary and Max at their website www.maryandmax.com
