{"id":2977,"date":"2018-11-06T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2024-09-01T04:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T04:46:23","slug":"within-a-dream-bringing-emotion-to-trevor-jimenezs-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/within-a-dream-bringing-emotion-to-trevor-jimenezs-weekends\/","title":{"rendered":"Within a Dream: Bringing Emotion To Trevor Jimenez\u2019s \u2018Weekends\u2019 | ANIMATIONWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Written and directed by Trevor Jimenez, \u2018Weekends\u2019 won both the Special Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year\u2019s Annecy Festival, and topped two other Oscar-qualifying festivals, the Nashville Film Festival and the Warsaw Film Festival.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

AnimationWorld Magazine<\/em> \u2014 November 6, 2018
Within a Dream: Bringing Emotion To Trevor Jimenez\u2019s \u2018Weekends\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents over the course of a year, the painterly short film Weekends<\/a><\/em> blends surreal, dream-like moments with the domestic realities of a fragmented family in this hand-animated dialogue-free film set in 1980\u2019s Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekends<\/em> is written and directed by Canadian-born filmmaker Trevor Jimenez<\/a>, who — working closely with production designer Chris Sasaki — oversaw a crew of 27 animators and artists to bring the project to life. Generating awards season buzz on the festival circuit, the 15-minute short film won both the Special Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year\u2019s Annecy Festival, and topped two other Oscar-qualifying festivals, the Nashville Film Festival and the Warsaw Film Festival, in addition to a slew of other awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jimenez has worked as a story artist for more than 10 years, most notably at Pixar, Cinderbiter, Disney Feature Animation, Illumination Entertainment and Blue Sky Studios. His student film Key Lime Pie<\/em> screened at numerous international festivals including Annecy, Ottawa, AFI Fest, Zagreb, and Mike Judge\u2019s \u201cThe Animation Show vol. 4,\u201d and won the award for best animated short at AFI Dallas 2008. He is currently employed in the story department at Pixar, where he is working on the as-yet untitled forthcoming feature from Pete Docter, while also pursuing his own creative projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film was produced as part of Pixar\u2019s co-op program, which allows employees to use Pixar resources to produce independent films, but without full-fledged studio support. The program has already yielded short films such as Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi\u2019s The Dam Keeper<\/em> (2014) and Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj\u2019s Borrowed Time<\/em> (2015), both of which received Oscar nominations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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