Freedom Dance, the animated documentary by producer Steven Fischer and animator Craig Herron, re-telling the inspiring escape story of two newly weds from Communist Hungary to the US in 1956, has won a CINE Golden Eagle Award.
Freedom Dance re-counts the adventurous escape of artist Edward Hilbert and his wife Judy to the United States and freedom during the deadly 1956 Hungarian Revolution. During his four months as a refugee, Hilbert kept a journal of cartoons depicting an adventurous, tumultuous, and often dangerous escape by foot, by bus, by train and by boat. The journal is brought to life in the movie through animation.
The movie premiered at the Maryland Film Festival in May 2007, has screened at the Frozen Moon Showdown, Utopia Film Festival, and has won a Peer Award in the Documentary Under 30 Minutes category.
The movie is narrated by Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay. Other key personnel include Associate Producer Diane Leigh Davison, Director of Photography Gregg Landry, Sound Designer Kevin Hill, and composer Phil Rosensteel.
This is Fischer's second win of the award. He won for his 2006 documentary, Draw the Line: An Animator's Showcase, about surviving in the animation profession. The CINE Golden Eagle Award acknowledges high quality professional production in a variety of content categories as well as in student and independent works. CINE will celebrate its first half-century in 2007.
For more details about Freedom Dance visit www.freedomdancethemovie.com.
