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The director and composer João Gonzalez’s imaginative animated film showcases a father and son’s daring ice-delivery method, set to a riveting score.
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- The New Yorker
Ice Merchants is a 2022 animated short film directed by João Gonzalez. The 14-minute short about family love is the first ever Portuguese animation to be awarded at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered as part of the 2022 Critics' Week (Semaine de la Critique).
Jan 4, 2023 · Douglas Watson reviews João Gonzalez’s animated short film “Ice Merchants,” a family drama about loss and connection.
Jan 4, 2023 · Nominated for Best Animated Short Film. The director and composer João Gonzalez’s imaginative animated film showcases a father and son’s daring ice-delivery method, set to a riveting score.
- Condé Nast
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Jan 4, 2024 · Oscar-Nominated Short Film 'Ice Merchants' by Joao Gonzalez. Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village...
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Jun 24, 2023 · Writer-director Joao Gonzales's Ice Merchants places the viewer into a beautifully hand-drawn world of a father and young son living on the side of a giant ice mountain. It is a world where it's entirely normal for the pair to sell their ice to a local village via base jumping from.
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Jan 17, 2023 · It’s about a father and son who live in a house on the edge of a cliff. Each day, they dive way, way down, providing ice to townspeople. Their lives are exciting… and quite dangerous. Gonzalez details the making of Ice Merchants in this Animation Scoop Q&A.
