11 · 22 · 13 Aningaaq by Jonás Cuarón, available online Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Aningaaq, by Jonás Cuarón, official selection at the 11th FICM, is now available on the Internet. The short film is a spin-off to Gravity, by Alfonso Cuarón, the opening film at the festival and one of the best-received works by the public and critics in 2013. Jonás Cuarón co-wrote the screenplay for Gravity with his father. The short film Aningaaq has been submitted to the U.S. Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (AMPAS) to be considered for an Oscar nomination. If both works by the Cuaróns are nominated, it would be historic because, according to The Hollywood Reporter, it would be the first time that a feature and its spin-off would participate in the same contest in the same year. Aningaaq is the name of an Inuit fisherman camped in a remote place in Greenland who receives a signal from a two-way radio in space. The viewers of Gravity know that the voice is that of Doctor Ryan Stone who is an emergency situation, but for the person on land it is a human voice who he can talk to, even though the communication is not perfect. You can see the short film that accompanies Gravity here:
