

Academy Leader Variations
1987-04-12 · 6 min · ★ 5.6
Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.
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- Directors
- He Yumen, Wenxiao Lin, Piotr Dumała, Jerzy Kucia, Daniel Suter, Yan Dingxian, David Ehrlich, Martial Wannaz, Jane Aaron, Chang Guangxi, Al Jarnow, Georges Schwizgebel, Skip Battaglia, Claude Luyet, George Griffin, Paul Glabicki, A Da, Hu Jinqing, Krzysztof Kiwerski, Stanisław Lenartowicz
- Production companies
- Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Studio Filmów Animowanych w Krakowie, Se-Ma-For, rr1
- Countries
- United States of America, China, Poland
- Status
- Released
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