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The two Oscar frontrunners for Best Documentary Feature are safely through to the next round of voting.

For Flee, composer Uno Helmersson was tasked with creating a score that mirrored the sense of loss felt throughout the film. He listened to the interviews between director Jonas Poher Rasmussen and his co-writer “Amin,” who is also the subject of the film, and decided that the music should follow the emotional state of Amin.

We still haven’t reached the true halfway point of this year’s awards season, but the documentary race is becoming distinctly more clearer with each and every critics’ group announcement. Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee” and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul” are in one of the closest races for the documentary Oscar in recent memory.

A version of this story about “Flee” and Jonas Poher Rasmussen first appeared in the International Issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.Animation has been used for a variety of purposes in documentaries. It can be used for re-enactments, or to explain a complex concept, or to draw out a map or a timeline.

Selome Hailu editorWhile working on animated documentary “Flee,” on the forefront of art director Jess Nicholls’ mind were questions of the camera.She had no use for a real one, of course, but that didn’t stop her from thinking very specifically about where she may have placed one or what kinds of lenses she’d hypothetically use to capture the kinds of scenes her team was animating.

With voting set to open soon to determine the Oscar documentary shortlist, Flee continues to make a very strong case for recognition.

Addie Morfoot ContributorThe 31st annual edition of the Gotham Independent Film Awards, taking place Nov.

Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s singular animated doc Flee and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will head into the 15th annual Cinema Eye Honors as the leaders in nominations, Cinema Eye announced today.

J. Kim Murphy administratorAnimation Is Film has announced the winners of its fourth annual film festival.

The Danish Oscar committee has selected Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s Flee as its entry for this year’s international Oscar race.

Addie Morfoot ContributorWOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Indie film distributor Neon is hoping to make a statement with its awards consideration plan for the animated documentary “Flee.”Tom Quinn, co-founder of Neon, told Variety that Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s story of a gay refugee who fled to safety in Denmark from his home in Afghanistan as a child, will be submitted for Oscar best picture consideration in addition to the documentary, animation and foreign language categories.

Marta Balaga Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary “Flee” – already awarded at Sundance and Annecy – was granted the Grand Prix – Bank Millennium Award at the 18th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, which will continue online from September 16 until October 3. Jurors Agnieszka Holland, Christian Frei and Tomasz Wolski were taken by the story of a man who, about to marry his husband, decides to finally open up about his refugee past.

Annika Pham “Flee” multi-awarded Danish writer/director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, most recently nominated for the Nordic Council Film Prize, is set to take up the animated format and displacement theme with the project under the working title “Dane” (“Dansker”), spear-headed by Danish production outfit Ja Film (“LEGO Elves”).The animation feature project is based on “The Dane Trilogy” (“Dansker Trilogien”) comic books by rising Danish talent Halfdan Pisket, winner of the 2019 series prize at the

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While they’re not all that common, we have seen a number of acclaimed animated features make huge debuts at film festivals over the years.

Jamie Lang On Saturday evening, after a week of onsite and virtual screenings, conferences, masterclasses and panels, the Annecy Animation Festival announced the winners of its major prizes, joining the already announced Special Prizes from the night before.Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee” continued its winning form from the previous evening – it won best original music from a feature – taking both the Cristal for a Feature Film, the festival’s top prize, and the Gan Foundation Award for

Just as Waltz with Bashir did 13 years ago, director Jonas Poher Rasmussen robustly reaffirms in Flee that animation can be used not just for amusement but for any purpose, in this case to tell the harrowing story of what some refugees from Afghanistan went through in order to forge new lives in the West.

Participant, which is known for bolstering positive social change, has partnered with Neon for the North American distribution of Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary Flee. The film recently made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Neon acquired the film after its debut. 30WEST and Cinephil brokered the acquisition deal on behalf of the filmmakers.

Neon has picked up Jamila Wignot’s documentary Ailey, about dance and choreography legend Alvin Ailey, after its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The deal is Neon's second at Sundance after it nabbed the North American rights to Flee, an animated doc from Jonas Poher Rasmussen that counts Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as executive producers.

Also Read: Neon Acquires Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 'Flee' in 7-Figure Deal“Ailey is a searing and inspirational account of a visionary artistic genius who used his gift of dance and movement to express the Black American experience,” Darcy Heusel, Neon’s Head of Impact and Audience Engagement, said in a statement.

Also Read: Neon Acquires Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 'Flee' in 7-Figure Deal“CODA” is produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger and Jerome Seydoux.

Also Read: Neon Acquires Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 'Flee' in 7-Figure Deal“CODA” is produced by Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger and Jerome Seydoux. The executive producers are Ardavan Safaee and Sarah Borch-Jacobsen and the film is a production of Vendome Pictures and Pathé Film.More to come…Deadline first reported the news.This year's Sundance is shorter, virtual, national instead of local and has a new director for the first time in years.

Also Read: Neon Acquires Jonas Poher Rasmussen's 'Flee' in 7-Figure DealMore to come…Deadline first reported the news.This year's Sundance is shorter, virtual, national instead of local and has a new director for the first time in years. But what has not changed is that Sundance remains one of the best marketplaces for independent films.

Also Read: 'Summer of Soul' Film Review: Questlove's Vibrant Concert Film Captures a Pivotal Harlem Moment“Flee” is produced by Final Cut for Real, in co-production with animation studio Sun Creature, Denmark, Vivement Lundi!, France, MostFilm, Sweden, and Mer Film, Norway. ARTE France and Vpro, Nederland.

One of the most exciting international discoveries of last year's Sundance festival was His House, which explored the cultural dislocation of the refugee experience through a genuinely nerve-rattling horror prism.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticAmin Nawabi is not the real name of the Afghan refugee introduced in the Sundance movie “Flee,” nor is that his real face, which has been distorted by animation to protect his identity. As “Flee” unfolds, you may also start to question whether the story Amin shares is even real, doubling back and contradicting itself as it does over the course of director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s unconventional portrait.There’s a good reason for such subterfuge.

Amin Nawabi is an Afghan refugee living in Denmark. He has a successful career and a boyfriend.