Lachlan Pendragon is not your common movie scholar.
The 27-year-old Brisbane animator has joined the likes of trade heavyweights Baz Luhrmann and Cate Blanchett as one of many Aussies nominated for an Oscar this yr.
His 11-minute cease movement movie, An Ostrich Advised Me the World is Pretend and I Assume I Imagine It, which Pendragon wrote, directed, animated and voice acted in, is nominated for Finest Animated Quick.
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“You positively do not set out for one thing like this if you begin making a scholar movie. So yeah, [I’m] extremely excited, it is past what I might dream,” Pendragon mentioned on Right now this morning.
An Ostrich Advised Me the World is Pretend and I Assume I Imagine It is about an workplace employee who slowly begins to understand that the world round him is pretend.
Pendragon is taking his mum, Melinda, together with him to the gala, the place the duo will rub shoulders with Hollywood’s greatest and brightest. That is not, nevertheless, what Melinda’s trying ahead to.
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Melinda says she is blown away by how far her son has gotten.
“To have the ability to watch it was sufficient – to look at him making it within the lounge was cool, I obtained to see that day by day. In order that was superior sufficient,” Melinda mentioned on Right now this morning.
“And now this journey is completely sudden and just a little bit loopy and just a little bit surreal and just a little bit fantastic,” she mentioned.
Each mom and son will you should definitely signify the Aussie spirit on the Oscars, with the pair selecting to put on Australian designers on the purple carpet.
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Pendragon excitedly instructed the hosts that he has been fitted for a tuxedo by Clay Rondo, a Brisbane model, and Melinda can be carrying a design from Brisbane-based First Nations artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins.
Whereas Pendragon says he is excited to probably seize a selfie with Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro and even Tom Cruise, Melinda simply desires an image along with her son on his large day.
“Crazily for me, like I hold saying, ensure that we get a shot collectively, Lachy, as a result of we by no means get a photograph collectively… simply us, that will be cool,” she mentioned.
“[It’s] one thing we by no means do like, you already know, that is a bit loopy.”
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