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Ice Age Comes to Tampere First

You can see the animated film Ice Age at the Tampere Film Festival before anyone else in the world. Ice Age will be screened at the Festival on Saturday. The film's premier in the United States is on 15 March and in Finland, on 22 March.

The film's events take place on the ice age some 20,000 years ago. The earth's surface was slowly becoming covered with ice and all animals had to travel south to escape the coldness.

The main character is a woolly mammoth named Manny, who has decided to travel north. A sloth named Sid joins Manny, and these two meet a human child who has wandered off and lost his mother. Sid and Manny decide to return the child to his family.

Two other characters join them, a saber-toothed tiger named Diego, and Scrat, who is a prehistorical creature, a cross between a squirrel and a rat.

This digitally-animated feature film is directed by Chris Wedge, whose short animation Bunny won Oscar in its series in 1999. Bunny was the first film where the so-called Radiosity application was used. This technology is excellent in creating different kinds of lighting for a film.

Ice Age is produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

TEXT:Tuija Lundelin
TRANSLATION: Laura Katajisto
UPDATED: 1 March 2002

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