Dream Balloon Production’s Animated Movie “Once Upon A Christmas Village” Wins 33rd Award for “Best Animation Film.”

Dream Balloon Productions Executive Producer, John Hadity, has announced that Multi-Award Winning Director, Michael Attardi’s Once Upon a Christmas Village featuring the voices of Jim Belushi and Tim Curry won the Action/Cut Film Competition for Best Animation marking this the 33rd Award for the film. This comes right after the Aurora Awards announced that Michael [...]

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Michael Attardi’s Dream Balloon: Is on the Rise

Los Angeles – Dream Balloon Productions Executive Producer, John Hadity, has announced that Multi-Award Winning Director, Michael Attardi’s Once Upon A Christmas Village starring Jim Belushi and Tim Curry has won the HollyShorts Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for “Best Animation”.
This is the 11th Grand jury win and the 30th award for this independent animation [...]

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Dream Balloon’s Snowyville gets a pop art collaborator – Orlando Sentinal

Posted on Aug 7, 2007 9:59:43 AM
Orlando animation start-up Dream Balloon is ramping up to make its first feature,a musical, Snowyville, based on an award-winning short CG animation they made called Once Upon a Christmas Village.
Director Michael Attardi has added pop artist Nicolosi as a colaborator.
Attardi and Nicolosi met at the Festival De Cannes and [...]

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DBP IN THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER : “Dream Balloon heads to ‘Snowyville’

By Carolyn Giardina (Aug 6, 2007)
Dream Balloon Prods. is moving forward with the development of a feature-length animated musical titled “Snowyville,” based on helmer Michael Attardi’s animated short “Once Upon a Christmas Village.”
The latest news from the company is that celebrity pop artist Nicolosi will collaborate [...]

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DBP IN ANIMATION MAGAZINE: “Dream Balloon heads to ‘Snowyville’”

By Ryan Ball (Aug 6, 2007)
Dream Balloon Ent. co-founder Michael Attardi, creator and director of the award-winning, CG-animated short film Once Upon A Christmas Village, tells us he is pushing forward with Snowyville, a feature-length version of the story. Since announcing his intentions to do so in April, he says he [...]

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“Once Upon A Christmas Village” Wins “Best Animation Film” at The 2007 Las Vegas International Film Festival.

Dream Balloon Production’s Animated Movie “Once Upon A Christmas Village” Wins tenth Grand Jury Prize in a row and 25th Award for “Best Animation Film” at The 2007 Las Vegas International Film Festival.
Dream Balloon Productions Executive Producer, John Hadity, has announced that Multi-Award Winning Director, Michael Attardi’s Once Upon a Christmas Village featuring the voices [...]

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OUACV wins at The 2007 Swansea Bay International Film Festival in Wales, United Kingdom

Dream Balloon Production’s Animated Movie “Once Upon A Christmas Village” Wins Grand Jury Prize for “Best CGI-Animation Film” at The 2007 Swansea Bay International Film Festival in Wales, United Kingdom.
Dream Balloon Productions has announced that Multi-Award Winning Director, Michael Attardi’s Once Upon A Christmas Village featuring the voices of Jim Belushi and Tim Curry won [...]

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SWANSEA BEST FOR INDEPENDENT FILM

BY GARETH DAVIES for the SWANSEA EVENING POST (view the original article)

A Prize-winning American director who was at the Swansea Bay Film Festival reckons it is better for independent film- makers than Cannes.Michael Attardi won the category for Best CGI (computer-generated imagery) movie at the festival awards last Friday.
The animated film is called Once [...]

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Dream Balloon Production’s Animated Movie “Once Upon A Christmas Village” Is A Finalist at the Rhode Island International Film Festival

Dream Balloon’s Award Winning Director Michael Attardi’s Once Upon A Christmas Village featuring the voices of Jim Belushi and Tim Curry will be a finalist for “Best Animation” at the 11th Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival August 7-12, 2007. RIIFF is ranked as one of the top 12 festivals in the United States. A [...]

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Once Upon A Christmas Village and the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival

No Melt-Down for Once Upon A Christmas Village in the heat of southern France during the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival
Award Winning Director Michael Attardi’s Once Upon A Christmas Village featuring the voices of Jim Belushi and Tim Curry, was the 1st Runner-up winner of the Moving Picture Magazine Award in the Short [...]

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