1.
GOTTA
BARN
PRODUCTIONS
CONTACT:
DAN
LUND
FOR
IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
danlunddreamer@yahoo.com
NOVEMBER
14th
2013
818-­720-­4195
LONG
FORGOTTEN
SONG
FROM
HOWARD
ASHMAN
&
ALAN
MENKEN
COMES
TO
ANIMATED
LIFE
Aria
For
A
Cow,
an
animated
short
based
upon
a
song
of
the
same
title
by
the
award-­‐
winning
team
of
Howard
Ashman
and
Alan
Menken,
the
men
behind
the
music
of
Little
Shop
of
Horrors,
The
Little
Mermaid
and
Beauty
and
The
Beast,
is
about
to
find
its
voice.
A
multi-­‐generational
and
multinational
team
of
talent
will
enter
a
Santa
Monica
recording
studio
On
December
6,
to
give
voice
to
a
cow
to
whom
attention
must
be
paid.
On
Tin
Pan
Alley,
great
songs
never
die;
they
just
wait
around
for
the
right
moment
to
arise.
When
veteran
Disney
animator,
Dan
Lund,
contacted
Sarah
Ashman
Gillespie
-­‐
webmaster
of
Howardashman.com,
a
website
about
the
work
of
her
late
brother,
lyricist,
director
and
writer,
Howard
Ashman
–
the
moment
was
right
for
Aria
For
A
Cow.
Lund
took
the
reins
of
the
project,
bringing
in
Nikitha
Mannam
and
Amos
Sussigan
-­‐
talented
young
filmmakers
straight
out
of
school
-­‐
and
veteran
producer,
Connie
Thompson.
Singer
Kate
Pazakis
soon
signed
on.
Working
with
great
enthusiasm
and
talent
and
little
money,
the
Aria
team
has
created
a
kind
of
crowd-­‐sourced,
guerilla-­‐filmmaking
style,
which
Thompson
believes
is
the
future
of
the
art.
“We’re
a
small
group
of
passionate
people
from
all
over
the
globe,
working
in
new
way,
finding
new
solutions
with
limited
resources
and
using
technology
to
leverage
talent
from
across
the
globe.”
It
is
a
style
of
filmmaking
that
has
garnered
Sussigan
and
Mannam
much
attention
and
numerous
awards
for
their
first
two
animated
shorts,
Broken
Wing
and
Swan
Cake.

2. “I
believe
Howard
would
be
thrilled
to
be
contributing
to
the
development
of
talented
young
people,”
Gillespie
says.
“Although
his
first
love
was
theater,
he
loved
animation
–
and
he
specifically
loved
seeing
his
words
come
to
new
life
through
animation.
For
me,
seeing
Aria
spring
to
life
in
the
hands
of
such
enthusiastic
young
talents
is
an
absolute
gift.”
Dan
Lund,
the
mastermind
behind
the
project,
is
particularly
excited
about
working
off
the
grid,
"I
wanted
this
production
to
be
fun
and
gather
momentum
that
could
transcend
the
lack
of
budget
and
studio
support.
The
only
way
to
get
that
forward
motion
is
to
surround
yourself
with
people
with
something
to
prove."
In
keeping
with
the
way
they
worked
on
their
first
two
shorts,
Sussigan
and
Mannam
have
opened
up
the
animation
work
on
this
project
to
a
virtual
world
of
creators.
Eager
animators
–
set
designers,
model
makers
and
background
artists
from
Burbank
to
Bombay
are
now
on
the
Aria
team.
“Crowd
sourcing
can
be
challenging
in
terms
of
getting
your
point
across
over
the
Internet,”
Mannam
says.
“However,
when
we
told
people
we
were
putting
on
this
show,
they
immediately
grabbed
their
toolboxes
and
marched
into
our
global
barn.”
A
welcome
surprise
to
the
"Global
Barn"
is
the
recent
inclusion
of
Linda
Bel
and
the
San
Francisco
Academy
of
Art
University.
“Seeing
Linda
and
her
students
showing
up
and
ready
to
put
on
a
show
makes
me
feel
like
Linda
and
I
did
back
in
the
day”,
says
Lund.
Bell
and
Lund
started
their
career
together
at
the
Disney
studios
animating
on
"Beauty
and
the
Beast"
and
remember
fondly
their
time
animating
to
the
songs
of
Alan
Menken
and
Howard
Ashman.
For
Amos
Sussigan,
the
project’s
art
director,
working
on
Aria
For
A
Cow
is
both
a
professional
and
a
personal
milestone,
“Howard
Ashman
made
my
childhood
a
little
more
magical.
Beauty
and
the
Beast
is
one
of
the
first
movies
I
ever
saw.
When
I
go
home
to
Switzerland,
my
grandparents
and
I
still
watch
it
together.
So
I
am
both
honored
and
excited
to
be
able
to
work
on
such
an
ambitious
and
creative
project.”
Production
on
Aria
For
A
Cow
has
just
begun.
With
the
good
will
and
talent
of
artists
around
the
world,
a
new
song
from
Ashman
and
Menken
will
be
brought
back
to
life
–
through
the
magic
of
animation
–
in
the
spring
of
2014.

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