Keith Bunin wrote the script for the film.
Bier made a name for herself with the Danish-language melodrama After The Wedding – which was nominated for a foreign-language Oscar in 2007 – and went on to helm the Benicio del Toro-starring recovery tale Things We Lost In The Fire for Paramount.
She also co-wrote and directed the Danish language Brothers, a war-themed drama that is being remade for Lionsgate with Jim Sheridan at the helm and starring Natalie Portman. She is attached to Universal’s romantic comedy Lost For Words, which concerns a movie star who falls for his translator.

Mary And Max gets top Ottawa

animation fest prize

Mary and Max, a claymation film from Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam Elliot and voiced by Toni Collette, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Barry Humphries, earned the grand prize for best animated feature at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, which wrapped last Sunday night.

The Ottawa jury also gave honourable mention to My Dog Tulip, from U.S. directors Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, an animated feature voiced by Christopher Plummer, Isabella Rosseillini and Lynn Redgrave.

And the Estonian film Kaasundinud Kohustused, (Inherent Obligations) by Rao Heidmets picked up the grand prize for best independent short animation.

The 33rd Ottawa animation festival also awarded Madagascar, A Journal Diary from French director Bastien Dubois, the best adult TV animation trophy and the NFB Public Prize.