Nirvan Mullick
{{Primary sources|date=April 2025}}{{Short description|American animator and filmmaker (born 1975)}}
Nirvan Mullick (born April 8, 1975) is a Los Angeles–based filmmaker, writer, speaker, stop motion animator and founder of the Imagination Foundation.
Career
Mullick came into public view after creating The 1 Second Film project, amongst the first crowd-funded films, Mullick began selling $1 Producer credits in 2000 to raise funds for the film's production, with companies and individuals funding the film via donations in exchange for being listed in the film's credits in the order of amount donated. Producer donations from dozens of prominent celebrities helped the film achieve international recognition with over 14,000 producers. The one-second of film consists of animation created by large murals painted collaboratively on March 8, 2001, at California Institute of the Arts, where Mullick studied Experimental Animation. Color design for the animation was created by Jules Engel. From 2015-2016, Mullick directed the UN Foundation's #EarthToParis Climate Campaign for COP21 and COP22.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
Mullick also directed the opening title-sequence animation to the 2003 film Willard{{cite web |url=https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/willard/ |title=Willard}} and the stop-motion animated film The Box Man which screened in multiple film festivals, including Cannes Cinefondation,{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/47623707-9bae-4de2-beca-37854e6c5235/year/2003.html |title=The Box Man |date=28 May 2023}} winning the AFI Fest Audience Award, and was nominated for a Student Academy Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmjerk.com/news/2003/05/07/finalists-selected-for-30th-student-academy-awards/|title = Finalists Selected for 30th Student Academy Awards|date = 7 May 2003}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nirvan.com/theboxman/|title = The Box Man}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nirvan.com/thethreeofus|title = The Three of Us}} Mullick received an MFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
He also created a viral short documentary called Caine's Arcade about a nine-year-old boy named Caine Monroy who created a cardboard arcade in his father's used auto parts shop. The short was released on April 9, 2012, and received considerable attention,[https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/04/caines-arcade-nirvan-mullick.html New Yorker Article on Caine's Arcade & Nirvan Mullick] and launched a movement to foster the creativity of more kids.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul9c-4dX4Hk "Caine's Arcade 2: From a Movie to a Movement"] Mullick's goal of raising a $25,000 college fund for Caine reached $180,000 in on-line PayPal donations by April 20, 2012 (only ten days after the initial release of the video) – eventually raising over $240,000,[http://cainesarcade.com CainesArcade.com]{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-perfect-moment-goes-perfectly-viral|title = The Perfect Moment Goes Perfectly Viral|magazine = The New Yorker|date = 24 April 2012}} with over ten million views on YouTube and Vimeo. Five days after the film was posted on-line, the Goldhirsh Foundation awarded Mullick a $250,000 grant to create a non-profit inspired by Caine's Arcade, with a mission to "find, foster, and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in kids worldwide". Mullick made a follow-up film to Caine's Arcade titled Caine's Arcade 2 to launch the first Global Cardboard Challenge in 2012. The Cardboard Challenge has since become a popular activity for kids in schools around the world.{{cite web|url=http://cardboardchallenge.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914172051/http://cardboardchallenge.com/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=September 14, 2013 |title=Day of Play 2022 - Imagination.org's Cardboard Challenge |publisher=Cardboardchallenge.com |date=2022-07-29 |accessdate=2022-12-30}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.nirvan.com/ Nirvan.com]
- {{IMDb name|1301263}}
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Category:American animated film directors
Category:American stop motion animators
Category:American male writers