The Good Company Arts film Ato-Mick will feature at the International Festival of Contemporary Animation and Media Art Linoleum Festival in Moscow next month.
"We're absolutely delighted that they've selected it to be in there," Good Company Arts director Daniel Belton said yesterday.
"It's a huge festival ... the first time we've got a film into Russia."
The film about "a musical toy that comes alive and befriends a factory worker" took four months to film and produce in a Jutland St studio in Dunedin, he said.
"It's a sci-fi fable of friendship, discovery, and imagination, inspired by the physical poetry of Chaplin and Keaton.
"It combines an old cinematic look with contemporary technology ...
"It's actually got quite a Soviet aesthetic and feel to it," he said.
Ato-Mick had its world premiere in the 2010 New Zealand International Film Festival in Dunedin in July.
The 17-minute film features Dunedin performers Richard Huber, Lisa Warrington, Emmett Hardie, Alisa Periera, Aislinn Furlong, Barbara Power, Donnine Harrison and Daniel Belton, with animation by Jac Grenfell.
