‘Scayrecrow‘, second short animated film in the Penny Dreadful project, wins the Project Greenlight bursary award.
Co-funded by Exeter Phoenix arts centre and Devon County council, the award aims to allow South West based film makers to develop and produce a short film which will subsequently be screened at the Exeter Phoenix during 2008.
As with the series first entry ‘The Vampire‘, ‘Scayrecrow’ will be a blend of photographed / roto-scoped images and hand painted cells and backgrounds. Location shooting will be based in Devon and also around Dymchurch, Kent (home of the Thorndike character ‘Dr Syn’). The film itself is a tragic love story, stylistically inspired by Hammer’s output in the early 60’s.
