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For Robin Robin, directors Dan Ojari and Mikey Please looked towards animated Christmas specials as inspiration for their musical animated short.
Robin Robin follows Robin (Bronte Carmichael), a young bird raised by a family of mice after her egg rolls into a dump. As she grows up and the differences between her and her family become more apparent, Robin sets off on a heist to prove that she can be just as good of a mouse as them. Richard E. Grant, Gillian Anderson, and Adeel Akhtar also voice characters.
This musical animated short has been shortlisted for the Best Animated Short category at the Oscars. Robin Robin was produced by Aardman Animations and is streaming on Netflix.
DEADLINE: What was the inspiration for Robin Robin?
DAN OJARI: I think the starting point was thinking about the tradition of an animated Christmas special, which me and Mikey love dearly, and they’re a big part of the UK Christmas celebrations. A very known one is Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman, but also all of the Wallace and Gromit films that came out every Christmas and sort of became part of the background of Christmas Day.
And it dawned on us, that’s a wonderful platform to tell a story, having a whole family gather around and watch, particularly an animated short. And we make animated shorts, that’s what we were doing as a filmmakers, and we thought, “oh, that would be an amazing kind of thing to make.”
And it was actually my wife that mentioned that robins are quite Christmas-y, and we should make something about robins. It was about eight years ago, I think, we came up with the beginning of the story, and the main parts of the story, I guess, about a robin brought up by a family of mice, and getting roped into this bizarre heist to steal a star
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