Shane Acker

September 12, 2009 at 6:52am PST

Tags: 9, Behind the Scenes, Christopher Plummer., Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Shane Acker

Photos: Focus Features

Since 1999, Shane Acker has been fixated on a post-apocalyptic world inhabited only by stitchpunks (Acker’s term) and the robots that hunt them. While studying at UCLA, he began work on a short thesis film which became an eleven-minute animated piece entitled 9. The short, about nine puppet-like creatures who inherit the earth after machines destroy humanity, was eventually nominated for an Oscar, won a Student Academy Award and, on 9-9-09, the big screen version landed in theaters with the voice talents of Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly and Christopher Plummer.

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