La metáfora de “Historia de un Oso”, el Oscar de Chile

Smiles and emotion was the reaction of the Chilean’s creators of the rewarded animated short film, Bear Story. The production was directed by Gabriel Osorio, who worked during four years with his team to tell a story that was inspired in the exile and family. Around15 people worked in this spectacular animated short film which deposed producers such as Disney/ Pixar. The short film had a low budget of US 40,000 however all the Dolby Theatre approved it in the 88th Academy Awards ceremony.

It is a story that tells the life of a big and old bear,and for awful reasons it is sad and alone. The bear builds a diorama. While the magic box is being winded, a world the bear built with its own hands emerges. It is a remembering of its past happy life, when the bear was with its bear wife and its bear son before a circus enslaved it and took it out of its house to work receiving whips and by force.

But the inspiration of Osorio was not completely literal. Such as each creation there is a background and the story is inspired by the exile of Osorio’s grandfather during the military government in Chile. He was separated of his family and he met his grandson when the kid was 8 years old. With the short film, spectators of other countries can understand the metaphor of their own past or humanity and others identifies the animal mistreatment.

The artistic work was an important factor and thanks of them, the short film of the producer Punkrobot company achieved the success. At first side it could seem as a short story in 3D but on the opposite side there is many scenes where watercolor and drawing were the techniques to achieve a perfect result.

“Our idea was to save the drawings and the traditional techniques , and take them to a 3D world. All seem that was created in 3D but there is a lot of manual labor. I think that in esthetic terms we did it, because it seem so different to other movies”, said the director in a interview with BBC.

The short film was produced by Patricio Escala, it was written by Daniel Castro, the art direction by Antonia Herrera, the music was created by the Chilean band Dënver, the sound was in charge of Cristian Cosgrove and the animation by Nicolas Canales.

Is possible to see Bear Story in national cinemas together with the Disney movie Zootopia, it is estimated that more than one million people will see it. You can’t miss it!

 

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