Sarah Van Den Boom is a French

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and co-founder of the Papy3D Productions production company.

Biography

Van Den Boom studied arts in the ESAG Penninghen, then in the animation workshop of the ENSAD in

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. After graduating in 2000, she started the production of her first animation short film, ''Novecento, pianist'', adapted from the famous novel by

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. She then worked as a

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and

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s, before creating several commercials for Acme Filmworks. In 2009 she directed her second personal film, ''The Skeleton-Woman'', inspired by a famous

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story. The film was included in the list of 10 selected short films for the Cesar for the Best Animation Film, 2011. Her third film, '' In Deep Waters'', co-produced with the

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, was released in 2015, and won awards in

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, in

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and in

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. It was included in the online My French Film Festival. It was included in the list of 12 animation short films selected for the Cesar for the Best Animation Short Film, 2016. Her last

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film '' Raymonde Or The Vertical Escape'' was nominated for the Cesar for the Best Animation Short Film in 2019. It won major awards in

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, Brooklyn and

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. It also won the French broadcast France Télévisions award in 2019, awarded during the Clermont-Ferrand festival.

Filmography

Short films

References

External links

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