Academy Award Nominated Director Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship; Teams With Distinguished Animated Short Producer to Make New Film

From: U.S. Newswire | Date: July 9, 2004 | Copyright information

LOS ANGELES, July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Academy Award(r) nominated Director Mark Osborne and Karen Dufilho-Rosen, producer of several Academy Award(r) winning animated short films, announced their partnership today in Los Angeles. The duo, which will make The Better Half a stop-motion animated short film, also announced that Osborne received a 2004/2005 Guggenheim Fellowship to partially fund the making of the new short film.

"This new short is a seven-minute film to be realized in stop- motion animation. It is an intimate portrait of someone so in need of a companion that he takes material ...

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