Be amazed! Fasten your seat belt and dive into 24 films in less than 60 minutes. Here is the Nordic-Baltic Competition program for Commissioned Films, including commercials, music videos, information films, identity work, and one or two exhibition pieces. In other words, all the fun the industry makes for a customer. A diverse, but very commercial program that the jury should have a tough job to judge and fun to watch for the rest of us.
The films are competing for the festival award for Best Commissioned Film.
Age limit: 12
Blue forests around the world are disappearing at an alarming rate mostly due to human impacts and climate change.
Watch to learn more about the underlying causes threatening blue forests, and how these trends can be reversed.
Video produced by GRID-Arendal 2022 for the Norwegian Blue Forests Network. Animation by Syed Hasan Abbas.
Syed Hasan Abbas is a visual storyteller, animator, and illustrator who believes in the power of storytelling to communicate the complexity of our world. At GRID-Arendal, Syed collaborates with various partners to bring their stories to life through 2D animation. He also contributes to developing GRID-Arendal's visual identity and explores innovative methods of visual storytelling using cutting-edge technology. With a background in the animation, game, comic book, and film industries, Syed has worked as an animator, storyboard artist, and illustrator. In addition to his professional work, Syed engages in personal projects that push the boundaries of cross-disciplinary storytelling, using art as a means of creative exploration.
- Year2023
- Runtime02:10
- CountryNorway
- DirectorSyed Hasan Abbas
- ScreenwriterSyed Hasan Abbas, Olivia Polkinghorne
- ProducerRob Barnes, Tanya Bryan
- AnimatorSyed Hasan Abbas
Be amazed! Fasten your seat belt and dive into 24 films in less than 60 minutes. Here is the Nordic-Baltic Competition program for Commissioned Films, including commercials, music videos, information films, identity work, and one or two exhibition pieces. In other words, all the fun the industry makes for a customer. A diverse, but very commercial program that the jury should have a tough job to judge and fun to watch for the rest of us.
The films are competing for the festival award for Best Commissioned Film.
Age limit: 12
Blue forests around the world are disappearing at an alarming rate mostly due to human impacts and climate change.
Watch to learn more about the underlying causes threatening blue forests, and how these trends can be reversed.
Video produced by GRID-Arendal 2022 for the Norwegian Blue Forests Network. Animation by Syed Hasan Abbas.
Syed Hasan Abbas is a visual storyteller, animator, and illustrator who believes in the power of storytelling to communicate the complexity of our world. At GRID-Arendal, Syed collaborates with various partners to bring their stories to life through 2D animation. He also contributes to developing GRID-Arendal's visual identity and explores innovative methods of visual storytelling using cutting-edge technology. With a background in the animation, game, comic book, and film industries, Syed has worked as an animator, storyboard artist, and illustrator. In addition to his professional work, Syed engages in personal projects that push the boundaries of cross-disciplinary storytelling, using art as a means of creative exploration.
- Year2023
- Runtime02:10
- CountryNorway
- DirectorSyed Hasan Abbas
- ScreenwriterSyed Hasan Abbas, Olivia Polkinghorne
- ProducerRob Barnes, Tanya Bryan
- AnimatorSyed Hasan Abbas