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Tomm Moore - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

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Born January 7, 1977, Newry, Newre and Moorne, Northern Ireland, UK - Irish illustrator, comic book writer and director, screenwriter, producer and artist.

Interested in animation at the age of eleven or twelve. As a child, he was greatly influenced by the work of Don Blute and Hayao Miyazaki. At the age of fourteen, together with his friend Stuart Ross, who later became one of the directors of the "Cartoon Saloon", he visited Don Blueth's studio and met the director himself. As a teenager, he worked at Young Irish Film Makers, a studio where teens aged 3 to 20 can master digital animation and even direct their first films. After graduating from the prestigious Roman Catholic St Kieran's College in Kilkenny, he studied classical animation at Ballyfermot College of Further Education in Dublin.

In his final year at Ballyfermot College in 1998, Moore co-founded the Cartoon Saloon animation studio (with Paul Young and Norah Twomey). The first project of the studio was the television series "Skunk-Fu!" (2007-2008). The series became a significant event in Ireland and won the 2008 Irish Film & Television Academy Award for Best Animated Film (it was also nominated for Best Film for Young People). However, the participation of Tomm Moore himself in this project was insignificant and he did not bring him wide popularity. Then, in 1998, Moore became the production designer for the fiction television film Under the Branches of the Hawthorn, based on the novel by Marita Conlon-McKenna. The dark and cruel story of the journey of three teenagers in 1845 to their distant relatives across the whole of Ireland, seized by the Great Famine, received adequate expression in the work of Tomm Moore.

Tomm Moore has worked as an artist on Nora Twomi's short animated film "Cuilin Dualach" (2004, winner of the 2005 Irish Film and Television Awards in the Best Animation nomination), participated as an actor in the television series "Last Call with Carson Daley" (since 2002), animator on the set of the full-length cartoon "City of Sorcerers" (2003, this cartoon became a notable event, directed by Antonio Navarro) and the short animated film "Old Fangs" (2009).

Most of the director's animation projects are based on medieval Irish folklore.

Moore's first animated film as director (co-written with Nora Twomey) is The Secret of Kells (2009). The film is based on the legend of the Book of Kells, a richly illustrated manuscript book written by Irish monks around 800. The book was kept at Kells Abbey. This monastery was founded in Kels (County Meath, Ireland) in the middle of the 6th century by St. Colum Kille. The script was written by Fabrice Tsiolkowski, Moore himself and Aidan Hart. This is a co-production of Cartoon Saloon, Les Armateurs, Vivi Film and France 2. Soundtrack was written by Bruno Kule, music by Irish band Kila was also used. The film premiered on January 30, 2009 at the Gerardmer Festival. The film was then shown on 8 February 2009 at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film was widely released in Belgium, France, Ireland. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. In 2009, the film was also shown at film festivals in Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Warsaw. In 2010 it was released in limited editions in the USA and Great Britain. In early 2011, it was released in limited release in Russia.

In 2014, Moore completed his second feature film, The Song of the Sea (the music was again composed by Bruno Kule). As in The Secret of Kells, its plot is based on Irish folklore (in particular, based on the silk legends). The cartoon characters are mythical creatures, sea people, seal people. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. In addition, in the same 2014, Moore became the director of a small episode in the collective film The Prophet (Bill Plympton was among the project participants). The film is a free interpretation of the book "The Prophet" (1923, the book has been translated into more than 100 languages; it is believed that it combines the tradition of Western philosophy of the New Age with medieval Sufi symbols) of the Lebanese and American philosopher, artist, poet and writer Gibran Kahlil Gibran. The reviewer noted that Moore's episode "combines traditional Islamic patterns with elements of the work of Gustav Klimt." Both films of 2014 were presented at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Cannes International Film Festival.

In November 2015, Moore announced a new animated cartoon called "Wolfwalkers".


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