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Kate The Taming of the Shrew. In papermotion
Kate - the Taming of the Shrew - is the first stop motion animated feature length film ever made in Italy. The film is handcrafted in stop motion with all the characters and sets laboriously made out of colored paper in the technique film director Roberto Lione calls papermotion. After four years in the making for a budget expenditure of €5 million, the highly original "Kate" made its debut on April 23, 2004 at the Cartoons on the Bay festival near the Isle of Capri. Awards: Chicago International Children's Film Festival. Animated Feature Film, 1st Prize. October, 2004. " With colorful paper puppets, skateboarding races, and pop tunes, Shakespeare gets a vibrant hip makeover in Italy's first stop-motion animated feature. In this update of the classic play, Petruchio is a smooth-talking wolfish rogue with money to burn. Kate is the fiery, free-thinking daughter of a spaghetti magnate who scandalizes Verona with her conviction that women can do anything. (And she proves it: no one can match her wicked talents with a skateboard or a sword!) Petruchio needs a needs a rich wife to pay off his debts and Kate's father needs to find someone who'll marry his spitfire of a daughter. It seems like a perfect trade-off. Too bad Kate despises Petruchio! Meanwhile, her frivolous sister Bianca is in a bind of her own: she just agreed to marry a wealthy geezer, but now she's got a wandering eye for that cute drummer. Will she, Kate, and Petruchio each get their happy ending?" (From the Chicago Film Festival website). The director Roberto Lione is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, Mod Art artist and director of photography, who created papermotion, the new style of animation used in "Kate", and in 53 Taco & Paco television stories, and 10 theatrical shorts. Italian film critics have described his approach to film animation in "Kate" as "having a poetical dimension, almost metaphysical which recalls De Chirico and the Surrealists". (Movies.it)

The studio. For the production of "Kate", 200 custom-made bronze armatures were made for the 6 inch tall characters which were painstakingly animated by hand. Ten miniature sets were built, each with up 40 light sources. More than 50 miniature scenes were constructed. Almost a half square mile of colored paper was used and over 230,000 photos were taken, one at a time for every single frame of the film. Each animator averaged 5 seconds of filmed animation a day.

The characters.

IL MATTINO "CARTOONS ON THE BAY" is betting on the 3-D of "Kate"                          IL MATTINO on line 3.04.2004 Rai Trade                                                                                                                                               A  most original "Kate",  in "The Taming of The Shrew"  presented by Italian director Roberto Lione in  three-dimensional  animation, with music by Giovanni Bacalov. Cartoons on the Bay/RAI TRADE La Repubblica                                                                                                                                        …. last evening the audience has applauded the enjoyable and funny Italian version of Kate,                                                                                                                                   Nino Marchesano, LA REPUBBLICA April 24 2004 La Bisbetica Domata, one of Shakespeare most beautiful comedies, now becomes a funny cartoon musical. Laura Antonini HYPERLINK "http://www.Dweb.repubblica.it"www.Dweb.repubblica.it 12/3/2004 LA STAMPA -Kate- the first feature film in origami animation inspired from Shakespeare The Taming of The Shrew, produced and directed by Roberto Lione, with music by Giovanni Bacalov and Neri Marcorè and Pino Amendola among the voices. Guido Tiberga, HYPERLINK "HTTP://WWW.lAsTAMPA.COM" WWW.lAsTAMPA.COM 19/4/2004 Panorama

A charming comedy  from Shakespeare's masterpiece, revisited with Italian gusto and turned into an animated film for the delight of children and grownups. Maria Caterini, HYPERLINK "http://www.Panorama.it" www.Pnorama.it 23/4/2004 IL MATTINO Entirely made in Italy, another charming cartoon presented in Positano is "Kate - La Bisbetica Domata" by Roberto Lione. The first feature length animation film made in papermotion                                                                                                                      Luciano Giannini, Il Mattino 24/4/2004 LA NAZIONE ….with unique time changes throughout the centuries, to the pace of jazz, rock and classical music, "Kate" by the director Roberto Lione is a particular and interesting product form the point of view of the narration and technique …. Roberto Davide Papini, La Nazione/Il Resto del Carlino/Il Giorno 24.04.2004 CORRIERE DELLA SERA A post-modern version of "Kiss me Kate", the musical, produced in stop motion with paper characters and directed by Roberto Lione. Biagio Coscia, Corriere della Sera, 24.04.2004 http://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/speciali/Kate/Kate.htm http://www.deneroff.com/Commentary/2004/0407.htm http://tamtam.cinecitta.com/festival.asp?ID=292&lang=ita http://www.ilgazzettino.it/main.php3?Luogo=Padova&Pagina=19&Data=2004-4-22 http://www.ilmanifesto.it/Quotidiano-archivio/28-Aprile-2004/art103.html http://www.radiomagazine.net/cartoons.htm cinema.superava.it/festival/artl 1399.html