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THE OUTSIDER: An Animation-Rich Film

The Outsider (2007) is a digital film created by American Film Director Joaquin ("Kino") Gil from a meditation on Fredric Brown's seminal "Arena" 1944 short story. The film, a mixture of animation, effects and live-action photography, stars Catie Boles as a pregnant stranded space pilot and a computer-generated animated creature as her opponent.

"What if you were selected as a champion for all mankind... but didn't want the job?" (from the original poster)

Support roles fall to Kari Zander, Tracy Muller, Gloria Rodriguez-Gil, Monica Espinoza and Lacy Baxter, and was shot in the Joshua Tree National Park in the Summer of 2004 with a Panasonic DVX100A Camera. It took almost four years, with only the director as all crew, to complete the 80 animated minutes using two computers, Autodesk's Maya, Digital Fusion and Curious GfX software, Apple's Final Cut and the Corel graphics Suite, plus a scattering of small programs that Gil wrote for specific visual or logistic tasks. Gil, born and raised in Costa Rica, a country whose constitution forbids the creation of an Army, did not agree that a human in the future would blindly follow military orders, but would need a more immediate, visceral motivation, so he recast the story, a seminal WWII allegory, with an expectant mother reticent to more fighting instead of a lone soldier. The film (81 minutes, Stereo, Color, NTSC Extended) was premiered in the Heart Of England International Film Fest, in Tamworth, England, where it was awarded the Best Sci-Fi film by the Wales Critics Association in 2008. The film has recently finished its first distribution run (Wonderphil.com) and is currently undergoing preparations for the American market.