Director
Kim Noce
Producer
Jayne Bevitt
An Short Film, founded by CHANNEL 4 and Produced by Sherbet
Outline (Word Count: 19)
A little fairytale of a child and her imaginary friends, recalled by an old woman drifting into bygone memories
Synopsis (1) (Word Count: 44)
An elderly woman recalls bygone memories: as a child she had three imaginary pets that she held with strings. She carried with her them all day and night, until one day she lost them. She looked for them everywhere to then find them unexpectedly.
Synopsis (2) (Word Count: 122)
This story is told by Betty, an elderly woman, embroidering on a quiet afternoon.
When she was a child, during the Second World War, she had three invisible pets that she held with three strings. She knew they were invisible and the only way she could keep her imaginary friends close was to let never go of the strings.
She carried them all day and night, until one night during an air raid she was forced to leave them behind, losing them. She looked for them everywhere. Time passed and Betty grew old with the sensation that something was always missing, until one day she realised that she has never lost them, because her imaginary friends had always been living inside her.
Technical Information
Original Title: “Forget Me Not”
Format 16:9 FHA Colour Digibeta/Beta
Sound Stereo TV Mix
Duration 3 minutes and 10 second
Language English (no subtitles)
Genres/Category Animation/ Drama/ Fiction
Production Year (14 July) 2006
Country of Production UK
Main Credits
Director/Animator Kim Noce
Producer Jayne Bevitt
Editor Napoleon Stratogiannakis
Sound Designer Rainer Heesch
Music Peter Gosling
Sound Mixer Sion Tammes
Script Andras Gerevich, Liana Dognini
Director of Photography Mike Beresford Jones
Leading Actors
Child
Macy Nyman/Ella MacRae
Old woman
Anna Wing/ Barbara Kingsland
Technique
• 2D Cut_Out, Collage of Archive photographs
• Embroidery in Stop Motion
• Live Action
Programmes used
After Effects, Flash, Photoshop
Translation of Title
German Vergißmeinnich
French Ne M’Oubliez Pas
Italian Nontiscordardimé
Swedish Förgätmigej
Danish Forglemmigej
Dutch Vergeet-Mij-Nietje
Romanian Nu-mă-uita
Hungarian Nefelejcs
Czech Pomněnka
Bulgarian Hезабравка; (Nezabravka)
Russian Hезабудка (Nezabudka)
Slovak Nezábudka
Polish Niezapominajka
Spanish Nomeolvides
Japanese ワスレナグサ (Wasurenagusa)
Korean 물망초
Chinese 勿忘草
Director Statement (Word Count: 48)
“Forget Me Not” was inspired by my childhood imaginary friends and by long conversations with my greataunt about her past. The film aim to represent the journey of rediscovery of one’s own beliefs through memories and what was thought to be lost might indeed is always inside you.
Director Biography (1) (Word Count: 55)
DOB 20/06/1973 Mendriso (CH)
Nationality: Italian
Kim graduated in Fine art and then with an MA in the “Animation Director Course” at the National Film and Television School. Currently Kim Noce and her partner Shaun Clark are working together creating the collective of MEWLAB at http://mewlab.wordpress.com/
Director Biography (2) (Word Count: 155)
Kim graduated from the Academy of Art in Italy with a traditional background in drawing & painting; and she exhibited her work in several galleries across Europe,
Moving to London, she worked as an animator on a number of various productions, and then she graduated with an MA in the “Animation Director Course” at the National Film and Television School. .
Her graduation film “After” has been received very well by more than 30 festivals worldwide… receiving awards along the way, and just recently it has been selected for the Royal Television Society 2006 Award and by London Film Festival 2005
She also have been awarded the “Channel 4’s Animator in Residence Scheme” to create her latest short film “Forget me Not