A team of Oscar-winning producers is working on a film about the life and death of Vincent Van Gogh.
Entitled ‘Loving Vincent’, it’s a feature-length hand-painted animation based on hundreds of paintings and letters by the artist.
Herself a painter, the film’s director Dorota Kobiela says she was inspired by the artist’s own words: “In one of his letters to his brother, he said ‘We can only speak through our paintings’. And these words were very important for me and they were actually the reason we are making this film like that. So we are telling the story of the artist by his art.”
Inspired by Van Gogh’s unique style, artists hired for the project will have to hand-paint close to 57,000 frames.
Finding the right people for the job was a challenge. Producers chose Polish artists with the right set of skills.
“We will require fifty to sixty painters on this film and each of those painters needs to be able to paint to an incredibly high level,” says the film’s producer, Hugh
