For director Stanislav Sokolov, Hoffamniada is the culmination of over ten years work on a story about the Prussian literary master of the early 19th century, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. whose works of fairy-tale horror and Gothicism inspired The Nutcracker, Powell and Pressburger’s The Tales of Hoffmann and other historic works. Through stop-motion puppetry, Hoffmann becomes an unwitting participant in his tales when he is transported into a world of his own writing where he must confront the villains of his three most famous stories. As he comes across a world of witchcraft, mysticism and grotesquery as found in Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandman, Hoffman must defend love and beauty at all costs.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
