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He has a funny name. He's got a disability. He is terribly lonely... He is Ernie Biscuit, a deaf Parisian taxidermist. If you are thinking to yourself that his story couldn't be too interesting, you are mistaken. Great storytellers can bring the most unusual characters to life, put him or her in the most unexpected situations and create the most unforgettable stories. And Adam Elliot, director of the short film about Biscuit, is an amazing storyteller. After making his first short film trilogy (Uncle, Cousin and Brother), Elliot won an Academy Award for Harvie Krumpet, his 2003 short film about a man with Tourette's Syndrome. He followed that up with his only feature film to date, Mary And Max, which is about an unlikely friendship between...

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"Mary and Max" reviewby Steve Ramos, Writer   "Mary with Max" opens Sundance with an artful bang.   The plasticine heroine at the heart of "Mary and Max," Australian filmmaker Adam Elliot's funny, eye-popping and somewhat moody claymation film is eight-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle (voice of Toni Collette), a social misfit in suburban Australia whose life changes after finding a pen pal in New York City. Her faraway friend is a surprising soul mate, Max Jerry Horowitz (voice of Phillip Seymour Hoffman). He is overweight, a Jewish atheist with Asperger's Syndrome and a social outcast equal to Mary, a most unlikely hero.   Both Max and Mary come to life thanks to artful detail and exquisite production design from Elliot, who won an Oscar for his short film "Harvie Krumpet," his photographer Gerald Thompson and an Australian production team of 50 artists responsible for this frequently solemn but always engaging friendship tale, one...