JeffSimmonds
- Animator
Working with his brother Phill, Jeff Simmonds has created a run of quirky ‘documation’ films, which retell real-life stories using traditional 2D-style animation. The films from the SPADA 2006 New Filmmaker of the Year (shared with Phill) include family history tale A Very Nice Honeymoon and disintegrating band chronicle The Paselode Story.
Screenography
Biography
Growing up in the Hawkes Bay, Jeff Simmonds became a film fan early on, thanks partly to Walt Disney animated movies. After he was given an 8mm camera as a teenager, Jeff and his brother Phill began experimenting in the same techniques that underlie animation, by creating stop frame scenes of bottles moving around the backyard.
Awards
2008 Show Me Shorts Film Festival (New Zealand)
Best Film (shared with Phill Simmonds): Noise Control
2007 Show Me Shorts Film Festival
Best Film (shared with Phill Simmonds): A Very Nice Honeymoon
“One thing that we learned through the animation is that if you are taking a different approach from others who are professionally trained, you come up with alternative ways of doing things that can be faster and cheaper, and that an audience still responds to. ”