Stanley is a 1999

1999 in film

The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...

 award-winning stop motion

Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

 animated short film written, directed and animated by Suzie Templeton

Suzie Templeton

Suzie Templeton is a director, animator and writer of stop motion animation films. She is best known for her 2006 animated adaptation of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf....

. It was made at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College

Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College

The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College was an art college in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Kent Institute of Art & Design on 1 August 2005 to form the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester, now the University for...

, now the University for the Creative Arts in England.

Synopsis

While his frustrated wife wreaks violence and death in the kitchen, Stanley finds love in a giant cabbage he is growing in his back yard.

Awards

• Best College Student Animation: 2000 Nashville Independent Film Festival, USA
• Luna de Bronce: 2000 International Film Festival Cinema Jove, Spain
• Grand Prize: 2000 Dervio International Cartoons and Comics Festival, Italy
• Prizewinner - Student Film Showcase: 2000 Hamptons International Film Festival
  Hamptons International Film Festival
  Hamptons International Film Festival was founded to provide a forum for independent filmmakers from around the world to express their vision. The Festival is traditionally held for five days in mid-October in theatre venues from Montauk to Southampton and attracts roughly 15,000 visitors annually...
  
  , USA
• Best Student Animation: 2000 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, USA
• Jury Prize: 2000 International Short Film Festival ‘Der Eisenstein’, Germany
• Best Student Animation: 2000 FAN International Short Film and Animation Festival, UK
• Best Animation: 2000 Interfilm Berlin Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
• Doug Wandrei Award for Best Lighting Design, 2001 Ann Arbor Film Festival
  Ann Arbor Film Festival
  The Ann Arbor Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Ann Arbor in the U.S. state of Michigan. Established in 1963, it is the third-oldest film festival in North America ; and the oldest experimental film festival...
  
  , USA
• Golden Sun Award - Best of the Festival: 2001 California SUN International Animation Festival, USA
• Best Animation: 2001 Bare Bones International Independent Film Festival, USA
• Best Short Animation: 2002 Fantasy Film Festival, Malaga, Spain

External links

• Stanley - official site
• Suzie Templeton - official website