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Free and Beautiful

Free and Beautiful is a poetic animated short that illustrates heartbreaking realities in three parts around the subject of violence against women.

  • Manisa Hope
    Director
    Animator and director
  • Patrick Bengio
    Writer
    Composer
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 20, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Manisa Hope

Manisa Hope (Narges Haghighat) is a Canadian-Iranian animation filmmaker who graduated from the Film Animation program, at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University in 2017. Later on, she was accepted into the Master of Fine Arts in Film Production program at the same school which she completed in 2023.
She holds a prior bachelor’s degree in computer software programming, and has two decades of experience in acrylic and oil painting techniques, as well as intricate colour pencil drawings.
Manisa's animated films have been screened in film festivals all around the world such as Edmonton International Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF), Anim’est – international animation film festival.

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