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Adam Elliot and Melanie Combs are returning to Park City, Utah with their clay-animated feature Mary and Max. The feature, voiced my Oscar winner Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Oscar nominee Toni Collette, opens the 25th Sundance Film Festival, January 15, 2009.

The story is a portrait of global friendship that follows a 20-year, pen-pal correspondence between an 8-year-old girl in Melbourne and an obese, 42-year-old man in New York

Australian animator Adam Elliot screened his short Harvie Krumpet at the 2004 Sundance, and then went on to win the Oscar.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman has joined the cast of Mary and Max, an Australian claymation project. He and Toni Collette will play the title roles in the story of pen pals – one living in Australia, the other in the US – with the movie following them as their friendship grows.

The film will be narrated by the legendary Barry Humphries and feature cameos from Eric Bana, singer Renee Geyer, music critic Ian Meldrum and more.

Adam Elliot and Melanie Coombs make their feature film directorial debut on this project.

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