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Adam Elliot’s Mary and Max opens Sundance’s Silver Year edition

Sundance’s silver anniversary film festival edition will commence with a stopmotion claymation feature from short film Park City alumni Adam Elliot.

Eric Lavallée

Published on November 19, 2008

What a great way to kick start a film festival. Sundance’s silver anniversary film festival edition will commence with a stopmotion claymation feature from short film Park City alumni Adam Elliot. The non-confirm feature starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette in obvious voice roles and narrated by Barry Humphries, Mary and Max tells the tale of a pen-pal friendship between Mary, a chubby lonely 8-year-old girl in Melbourne, Australia, and Max, a 44-year-old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in New York.

Elliot has been clicking one frame at a time for a good five years now – his 2004 short film Harvie Krumpet (click here to get a peak) was screened at Sundace’s 2004 edition and went onto claim the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. If you want to see what Hoffman might look like in a claymation coating – then head on over the the official site for Mary and Max.

Look for our LIVE coverage of the 09′ edition of the Sundance film festival to begin with the Opening Night screening of this film.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).