Alma (film)
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| Directed by | Rodrigo Blaas |
| Produced by | Cecile Hokes Nina Rowan |
| Written by | Rodrigo Blaas |
| Music by | Mastretta |
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| Country | Spain |
Alma is a 2009 Spanish computer-animated short film produced by ex-Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas. It had received notable recognition at the Fantastic Fest awards.[1] The word "alma" in Spanish means "soul".
Summary
On a cold day in Barcelona, Alma comes wandering down a quiet alleyway. Encountering a blackboard with thousands of names of various children. She then writes her own name. Then she turns around, and sees a dark mysterious toy store filled with countless of dolls stacked on top of each other. She notices a doll who looks exactly identical to her on display in the front window. Curious, she tries to enter the shop to get the doll for herself only to find that the door is locked. Getting frustrated, Alma starts to throw snowballs at the door. Thinking the shop is closed, Alma begins to walk away. Then, the door suddenly opens. Alma enters the empty store.
Alma walks in she nearly steps on a small toy of a boy riding a bicycle. The toy paddles across the floor and heads to the exit but the door closes before the toy can escape. Alma starts to climb a shelf to reach a doll. The moment she touches the doll, she finds herself looking at the shop below from the doll's perspective.
Unable to move and trapped, Alma notices all of the other dolls whose eyes blink back at her. A different doll is immediately raised to the shop's display window, ready to trap a new child.
Film adaptation
In October 2010, it was announced that DreamWorks Animation is developing an animated feature film based on Alma. Short's director Rodrigo Blaas is again set to direct the feature, with Guillermo del Toro executive producing it.[2] In November 2011, it was reported that the studio has hired Megan Holley, a writer of Sunshine Cleaning, to write a script.[3] Del Toro, who is also helping with the story and the design work, said in June 2012 that the film was in visual development.[4]
References
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- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Alma at IMDb
- Alma at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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