2002 Academy Award nominated short film Give Up Yer Aul Sins has been made into a 7 x 5 minute animated television series by Brown Bag Films. The series, including the original short, is based upon the 1960s recordings of young children telling Bible stories in a classroom to their schoolteacher.
When a film crew arrives at an inner city Dublin National School to record the children, the result is a warm, funny and spontaneous animated documentary, featuring young children telling the story of John The Baptist, The birth of Jesus, the Crucifixion, Saint Patrick and others. Give UP Yer Aul Sins combines simple humour with clever animation to create films with a timeless quality and appeal to a family audience.
The series is being sold along with a 'making of' documentary companion piece, 1 x ½ hour, which traces the remarkable history of the sound recordings and how they were rescued from a dustbin and ultimately brought to the Academy awards forty years later.
Give Up Yer Aul Sins the series premiered on RTE on Christmas day with a ratings share of 23% and the original short has screened in almost 50 film festivals, including The Galway Film Fleadh (where it won Best Animation), Cork Film Festival (Best Irish and Best International Animation), Cartoons on Bay (Special Award for Original Idea), New York Comedy Festival, Boston Irish Film Festival, Aspen Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival.
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