The official promotional site for the Fine Line Features movie Before Night Falls.

The site was part HTML and part Flash-animated. It utilized painstakingly animated frame-by-frame faux-video, to the extent Flash was capable of at the time: a series of PNG images, extracted from a QuickTime .mov file of the trailer.

Unusually, two of us from the New Line Cinema New Media Department were dispatched to director Julian Schnabel's New York City studio to pick something up, so it an impressive opportunity to catch a glimpse of a famous artist's working space.

Visual design derived in part from official digital assets, including: movie poster, movie trailer, and production stills. The entire site was archived on the Before Night Falls DVD as a bonus feature.

Before Night Falls - Home
A screenshot of the Before Night Falls website Intro Animation/
Before Night Falls - Home Screen
A screenshot of the Before Night Falls website Homepage.
Before Night Falls - About the Film Screen
A screenshot of the Before Night Falls website About the Film section.
Before Night Falls - About the Film Screen
A screenshot of the Before Night Falls website About the Film section.
A screenshot of the Before Night Falls website Downloads Screen.
Before Night Falls: Downloads
A screenshot of the Before Night Falls website Downloads Screen.
Before Night Falls: Awards
A screenshot of the Before Night Falls website Director's Statement Screen.
Before Night Falls: Director's Statement
A screenshot of the Before Night Falls website Theaters screen.
Before Night Falls: Theaters