Oscar and Bafta-winning costume, production and set designer and producer Catherine Martin is to be honored by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) with the body’s most prestigious award, the Longford Lyell Award.
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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Brandon Oldenburg (The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore) will make his feature animation directing debut on Mouschi: The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank — a new film based on the children’s book The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank by David Lee Miller (My Suicide) and Steven Jay Rubin (Silent Night).
Billed as The Lion King meets Inglorious Basterds, Mouschi is a work of fantastical, historical fiction, reimagining the cat who lived with Anne Frank as an Amsterdam swashbuckler who becomes a freedom fighting hero of the Dutch Animal Resistance. (Snuck into the famed Secret Annex by teenager Peter Van Pels, a cat named Mouschi really did live in hiding with Anne Frank. Anne wrote about Mouschi frequently in her red-checkered diary, which she named Kitty.)
The Penguin imprint Philomel published the book with illustrations by Elizabeth Baddeley in 2019. Miller and Rubin penned the screenplay for the upcoming film adaptation, with the former also to serve as co-director. Multiple Independent Spirit Award nominee Patrick Cunningham (Spell, Martha Marcy May Marlene) is producing, with Rubin and Christa Lang Fuller serving as executive producers. Pic is being made with consultation and guidance from the Jewish human rights organization, Simon Wiesenthal Center, which also hosted the book’s launch at their Museum of Tolerance on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Portions of the movie’s profits will support the SWC.
“This is an exciting action/adventure story chock-full of entertainment value that will intrigue audiences from 8 to 80. It’s also a very timely film,” said producer Patrick Cunningham. “Stories like this unite everyone. With the rise of anti-Semitism around the world, it’s
Oscar and Bafta-winning costume, production and set designer and producer Catherine Martin is to be honored by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) with the body’s most prestigious award, the Longford Lyell Award.
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