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NUCLEAR PHYSICIST GIVES HIS SON FREE ADVICE
THE NUCLEAR PHYSICIST GIVES HIS SON FREE ADVICE
 
World Premiere

Director: Hanan Harchol

United States, 2006, 16min
Format: Beta (screening) - other (shooting)
Festival Edition: 2006
Category: Animation
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Sales:  Hanan Harchol, New York, NY
Email:  hananhananharchol.com
Web:  www.hananharchol.com

synopsis
In this funny and poignant animated short, the animator has impersonated the voices of his Israeli parents. The parents provide their "words of wisdom" on life, career, relationships, love, marriage, and everything else.

director
Hanan Harchol received a BFA with Highest Honors from The Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where he was a four-year Merit Scholar. Harchol was the recipient of a 1998 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and in 2002 received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Harchol was awarded The 2004 Ronnie Heyman Prize, by The National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Currently Harchol is working on a series of animations. At the heart of the animations is a character, "The Nuclear Physicist", based on Harchol's father, an Israeli nuclear physicist of Eastern-European Jewish heritage. In the animations and videos, Harchol impersonates his parents' voices. Harchol's animations have screened in numerous film festivals worldwide.


filmography
- The Nuclear Physicist Gives His Son Free Advice, 2006
- Hanan! Listen To Me!, 2006
- The Nuclear Physicist Gives His Son A Haircut, 2003
- The Nuclear Physicist Sings to the Seventies, 2002
- The Nuclear Physicist Goes ToThe Shrink, 2002
- The Funeral of Uncle Avner, The Nuclear Physicist's Brother, 2001

notes
Director Hanan Harchol will be available for Q&A after the screening.

related links
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