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BARRY HAGMAN P.I.
Anything is wrong, Barry Hagman is the man to call.
Some say trouble always comes on high heels.
So I wasn't really surprised when she came through my door.
I instantly sensed that the tale she cooked up was ***.
I've never heard of a more puzzling story in my whole life.
Someone, she said, animated away our own Statue of Liberty.
It was obvious that the person who did it was a pro.
I decided to unravel the mystery.
But I had no idea where to start.
I didn't know who I should be looking for.
I only needed one clue to help me get started.
I didn't know where the arrows pointed exactly,
yet my hunch told me to follow them.
The Statue of Liberty couldn't have been animated away by some cheap-*** mug.
I ended up in the cinema called Uránia.
Good Bhye!
I became certain that here I'd find the man I was looking for.
Still, I had to take care. I knew that the animator was not someone
who'd be easy on me if I found out about his identity.
THE ANIFEST CASE DAY ONE
I knew that in the Fábry room I could get some answers for...
...my questions from the people of distributors such as...
...Budapest Film, SPI, Best Hollywood and Minimax TV.
First of all, I found out that you can't get rich in the animation scene, unless you animate animals.
Of course, Les triplettes de Belleville is the lucky exception.
So it became clear that my criminal wasn't after the money.
What was he after then?
The case started to have more holes than a good Emental cheese.
Anyway, I sat in for the films of Section A.
I started to suspect some shady business: every film was flawless.
The French, German, Czech, Irish, British and Dutch directors instantly joined my list of suspects.
Of course I still didn't know who the offender was.
The Hungarian movie titled "The District" soon got my attention with its peculiar...
...technique of combining photographs, cut-outs, and 3D animation.
I knew I had some sniffing to do around this feature.
Success is always suspicious.
I decided to put some pressure on the director, Áron Gauder.
-What was the shooting like?
-Uncle Guszti was hard to deal with,'cause he always came to set pissed.
-Soaked up in wine?
-Hell yeah. Once Ricsi fell off the gutter, so, life wasn't a piece of cake.
-Were there scenes you had to re-shoot?
There was one with Uncle Guszti where they couldn't do their own lip synch properly...
...so we had to record that like fifteen times.
-Thanks for the interview.
Around this time I knew I had to see who this Tamás Liszka, one of the organizers was.
He could easily hire someone to do the job.
He seemed to be the ever-so-ambitious young lad anyway.
Anifest today, Statue of Liberty tomorrow.
Organizing a festival like this is a really strange experience.
You work on it for months and then you see that the things you planned
mostly work out, but still,the whole event ends in three days.
So after the festival is over, I'll scan through the photos to see...
...what I missed during these crazy days.
The latest clay animations of AARdman animation had their gifted creators' fingerprints on them.
I didn't let myself be fooled by the fact that these films...
were not participants in the competition of the festival.
I felt that I was on the right track,
but you know, this is precisely the time when the *** hits the fan.
I soon realized that I got trapped and had no idea how I'd get out of this mess.
Of course, Barry Hagman never gives it up.