An eclectic assortment of edgy animated short films from across the globe.
*Some themes may be too intense for children under 13.
*Some themes may be too intense for children under 13.
*Online screenings will be available for three days of program start.
Country of Origin: Hungary
Length: 9:45 Minutes |
a WORLD in CHAOS
A series of insights into the meaning of life and the moral concerns of humans told through a selection of animals in their natural habitats re-enacting unfortunate everyday situations and highlighting the absurd nature and preposterous consequences of ethics, emotion, behaviour and the very concept of humankind on planet earth.
Animation Director: David Crisp
David Crisp is an Englishman currently residing in Budapest, Hungary where he has been studying a masters degree in animation as a writer and director at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. In 2015 he graduated from The Animation Workshop in Denmark as a Computer Graphic Artist. He co-wrote and co-directed his graduation film “Roommate Wanted - Dead or Alive'' which has gone on to be screened at various festivals around the globe and also won several prizes and a "Staff Pick" on Vimeo. In 2014 he started an animation studio in Denmark called Monkey Tennis, where he worked primarily as a Director, producing 3D animated content for television and the web, with an emphasis on exciting characters and engaging storytelling. Monkey Tennis developed and pitched their first web/television show idea, "Alan's Apartment" at Cartoon Forum in 2015. Currently he is working in the Directorial Department at DIGIC Pictures in Budapest with clients for some of the biggest names in the AAA gaming industry. |
Director Statement: The film is a non-linear story comprising many different animals in their natural habitats re-enacting the unfortunate situations that an average human may experience everyday, including, but not limited to; racism, sexual discrimination in the workplace, transphobia, immigration, climate change, anxiety and depression. This will bring into focus the fact that humans have created these issues for themselves and are not born with these kinds of prejudices or predispositions, highlighting the general chaotic insanity of life as a human being on planet earth at this time in our history.
The 21st century has become a hotbed (literally) of grotesque problems and issues that are being consistently belittled and misrepresented by governments, lobbyists, corporations and the general public on social media for selfish financial gain, political power or even out of sheer ignorance. The inspiration for this film comes from seeing and experiencing these problems on a daily basis, both in person and online; and from my personal need to understand and justify the reasons behind them.
The idea originally came from my own struggles with anxiety & depression, and was further influenced and developed through the research for my dissertation, I concluded that there isn’t nearly enough representation of these issues in mainstream animation (as well as the other issues raised in the film) that treats these difficult subjects as ongoing issues that are indicative of a character and a personality as a whole, rather than merely plot devices that can be solved by the end of a film, episode or season without any reflection on what it means to experience them. In this film I have tried to boil down these issues to their very core and I believe representing them with animals removes the initial stigma of the issues from human prejudice and in turn, highlights their abject absurdity and a large percentage of the general population's attitude towards them.
The characters in the film are designed to be instantly recognisable and their environments reflect not only their normal surroundings; the places they should, under normal circumstances, feel comfortable inhabiting, but also the mood of the animals and the situations they find themselves in. The characters are also constructed to have a wide range of easily distinguishable and expressive facial features as they do not move much in the scenes so I needed them to be able to portray the broad catalog of emotions that each situation demanded; from blind ignorance to deep depression without any confusion or loss of meaning.
It was very important to me to keep the tone of the film as light as possible by using humor while simultaneously balancing the gravity and importance of each issue covered. The 2D animation style and simplistic flat shaded colour palette was chosen with this in mind to not be too distracting and have the focus remain on the issues portrayed. With this film i want the audiences to be engaged in what they are watching but simultaneously stimulate them in such a way that they are forced to recognize the problems that many of them will already be familiar with across the globe and digest them in different, hopefully, more positive way as we traverse the long and winding road towards achieving real and lasting change in these areas.
My main goal for the film was not to try and find solutions to these problems, or to preach to sufferers and contributors, but to highlight them in such a way that provokes discussion, I also felt it important that there was heavy, conversational dialogue to show that the first step in tackling these societal problems is to talk
about them. This is also why I chose to voice all the characters myself. I wanted to be able to talk to the audience directly and personally take the first step towards what I hope to be a constructive debate about them.
The 21st century has become a hotbed (literally) of grotesque problems and issues that are being consistently belittled and misrepresented by governments, lobbyists, corporations and the general public on social media for selfish financial gain, political power or even out of sheer ignorance. The inspiration for this film comes from seeing and experiencing these problems on a daily basis, both in person and online; and from my personal need to understand and justify the reasons behind them.
The idea originally came from my own struggles with anxiety & depression, and was further influenced and developed through the research for my dissertation, I concluded that there isn’t nearly enough representation of these issues in mainstream animation (as well as the other issues raised in the film) that treats these difficult subjects as ongoing issues that are indicative of a character and a personality as a whole, rather than merely plot devices that can be solved by the end of a film, episode or season without any reflection on what it means to experience them. In this film I have tried to boil down these issues to their very core and I believe representing them with animals removes the initial stigma of the issues from human prejudice and in turn, highlights their abject absurdity and a large percentage of the general population's attitude towards them.
The characters in the film are designed to be instantly recognisable and their environments reflect not only their normal surroundings; the places they should, under normal circumstances, feel comfortable inhabiting, but also the mood of the animals and the situations they find themselves in. The characters are also constructed to have a wide range of easily distinguishable and expressive facial features as they do not move much in the scenes so I needed them to be able to portray the broad catalog of emotions that each situation demanded; from blind ignorance to deep depression without any confusion or loss of meaning.
It was very important to me to keep the tone of the film as light as possible by using humor while simultaneously balancing the gravity and importance of each issue covered. The 2D animation style and simplistic flat shaded colour palette was chosen with this in mind to not be too distracting and have the focus remain on the issues portrayed. With this film i want the audiences to be engaged in what they are watching but simultaneously stimulate them in such a way that they are forced to recognize the problems that many of them will already be familiar with across the globe and digest them in different, hopefully, more positive way as we traverse the long and winding road towards achieving real and lasting change in these areas.
My main goal for the film was not to try and find solutions to these problems, or to preach to sufferers and contributors, but to highlight them in such a way that provokes discussion, I also felt it important that there was heavy, conversational dialogue to show that the first step in tackling these societal problems is to talk
about them. This is also why I chose to voice all the characters myself. I wanted to be able to talk to the audience directly and personally take the first step towards what I hope to be a constructive debate about them.
MUKTI: Poems of Liberation
Three animated poems dealing with the personal struggle for liberation created from interviews with three different young adults from Argentina, Mexico, and Afghanistan. Each person interviewed is reading the poem that was written about their experiences. This was part of a collaboration with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Interlochen Center for the Arts. A High School Production.
Animation Director: Charley Rosenberg, Darrian Looney
Country of Origin: United States
Length: 3:35 Minutes Student Film |
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Country of Origin: Canada
Length: 4:10 Minutes |
Two One Two
Two One Two, by award-winning filmmaker Shira Avni, combines shimmering clay on glass animation with personal archives in this deeply intimate, experimental animated documentary love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, and two headed monsters everywhere.
Directed by: Shira Avni Shira Avni is an animation filmmaker and Associate Professor of Film Animation at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her animated documentary films (John and Michael, Tying Your Own Shoes, and Petra's Poem), produced in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada, have garnered over 30 international awards, including the prestigious DOK Leipzig Golden Dove and the NHK Japan Prize, and have screened in over 120 festivals worldwide. Her 2023 film, Two One Two, has won 4 international awards to date, including the Special Jury Prize at the Sommets du Cinéma d'animation. Two One Two begins its public life with over 35 festival screenings, in Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, Calgary, Lunenburg, Montreal, Ottawa, Percé, Quebec City, Vancouver, Australia, Cyprus, Germany, Korea, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, the UK, and more. She holds an MFA in Film/Video/New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2003). Avni is the proud recipient of a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award at Concordia, where she teaches Under Camera animation, Animated Documentary, and Advanced Animation Filmmaking. Her current research weaves documentary, animation, and personal memoir to address neurodiversity, identity, social justice, motherhood, and interdependence through luminous clay-on-glass animation, back-lit to create the shimmering effect of stained glass in motion. |
Director Statement: Two One Two initially began as a film about perinatal trauma after the unexpectedly violent birth of my son. He was born prematurely and often stopped breathing at night in his first years of life; the only way he slept safely was upright as I walked endlessly through the fog of love, fear and exhaustion. I see parenting very much as a feminist issue, and wanted to document both the joys and intense struggles of being a neurodivergent 2-headed monster while working, caretaking and surviving with my easily-overwhelmed autistic sensory system. As the film evolved it became less explicitly about trauma and more about the uniquely symbiotic journey. While the final film is joyful, upon close viewing the Two One Two monster is heavily scarred.
I decided to embrace the necessary fragmentation and tactile immediacy of filmmaking under the constraints of being a full time professor/filmmaker/parent, experimenting with clay on glass, object animation, rotoscoping and trying to capture the sensory experience of continually walking through the world as a dual being. One day after a particularly difficult sleepless period a somewhat inebriated man told me he had finally seen my “deuxième tête (second head)” - only then did I realise many people did not notice the very chatty, singing little human on my back!
Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni continues her deeply personal animated documentary journey to explore motherhood, fragmentation, neurodiversity, trauma, and healing through the infinitely laborious, handcrafted frame-by-frame filmmaking process. Two-One-Two mixes archival video, sound recordings, experimental, clay on glass, under-camera, and rotoscoping animation; exploring the loving bond between mother and child in this intimate love letter to the process of (un)becoming a two-headed monster
I decided to embrace the necessary fragmentation and tactile immediacy of filmmaking under the constraints of being a full time professor/filmmaker/parent, experimenting with clay on glass, object animation, rotoscoping and trying to capture the sensory experience of continually walking through the world as a dual being. One day after a particularly difficult sleepless period a somewhat inebriated man told me he had finally seen my “deuxième tête (second head)” - only then did I realise many people did not notice the very chatty, singing little human on my back!
Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni continues her deeply personal animated documentary journey to explore motherhood, fragmentation, neurodiversity, trauma, and healing through the infinitely laborious, handcrafted frame-by-frame filmmaking process. Two-One-Two mixes archival video, sound recordings, experimental, clay on glass, under-camera, and rotoscoping animation; exploring the loving bond between mother and child in this intimate love letter to the process of (un)becoming a two-headed monster
Monsters With Garlands
Film Background: The inspiration for this film stems from traditional Chinese beliefs surrounding gender preferences in childbirth. In conventional families, having a male child is often considered more desirable than having a female child. This mindset can result in unequal treatment of children during their upbringing, leading to gender disparities in society. As a result, the filmmaker believes that the pervasive gender inequality is largely shaped by the influences, direct or indirect, that children receive from an early age, molding their social behaviors with inherent biases.
Film Plot: "Monsters With Garlands" narrates the tale of two young siblings who playfully exchange garlands, but their innocent game takes a dramatic turn when an outsider seizes the garland and places it on the younger brother's head. This incident triggers a profound psychological change in the boy, and he becomes determined to claim ownership of the garland. Unfortunately, this newfound power engulfs him, transforming him into a monstrous figure adorned with a crown. The sister is initially terrified by her brother's transformation but, while escaping from the clutches of the monster, she recollects the fond memories they once shared. Fueled by bravery, she manages to rescue her brother from the grasp of the malevolent creature. Directed by: qi yuan The filmmaker is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Digital Media at the Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology. Originally from Anhui, China, he completed his undergraduate studies in Animation at the College of Fine Arts, Anhui Normal University. Following graduation, he dedicated several years to crafting animated short films and conducting theoretical research related to film. His works predominantly focus on themes of human rights and environmental protection and have garnered numerous accolades at prestigious Chinese animation festivals and art competitions. Furthermore, he has authored numerous research papers on animation and digital media. Country of Origin: CHina
Length: 4:25 Minutes Student Film |
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Love has no Borders
Gang violence forces a loving family to leave Central America in hopes of finding a better life only to find more trouble in the U.S.
Directed by: Pamela Oliver Muñoz Pamela Oliver Muñoz is an artist, photographer, songwriter, filmmaker, and animator. She currently lives exactly 10 miles from the Texas/Mexico border. She has made several live-action and animations that have received awards. Love Has No Borders is her second animation. Director Statement: Living 10 miles from the U.S. border with Mexico, I had a front row seat to the horrors of the separation of immigrant families in 2018. I volunteered at the shelters and saw their struggles first hand. My only thought was, "The government must not actually believe they're human beings." So I made this to show we are all people who love our families, and deserve to be treated humanely. Country of Origin: United States
Length: 3:57 Minutes |
Feeling Home
Four best friends who are all Chinese-born gather together this New Year’s Eve in Vancouver. Some unexpected dramas happen during the dinner preparation.
Directed by: Jinglin Gao, Tingyi Zhang Jinglin Gao is a 2D animation director, game designer, and storyboard artist from China, who has been profoundly influenced by Chinese culture and is willing to bring it to the bigger screen. Jinglin is creative and passionate about creating story-based art pieces inspired by life and culture. Feeling Home is the second film directed by Jinglin. Before that, she independently directed the animated film Addiction. Jingling has a Bachelor of digital media degree from Emily Carr University, and she is a current master's student in the digital media field. She has 5 years of experience as a freelance artist, and her collaborative projects include 2D animation, games, illustrations, comics and pet toy design. Animation director Tingyi Zhang strives for striking aesthetics and compelling stories in her films. She studied 2D animation for a brief time at the Central Academy of Fine Art in China before enrolling as a foreign student at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Due to her exposure to both Eastern and Western educational systems, she is able to think more deeply about the world's current social issues, which is profound and valuable for artistic creation. Zhang patiently engraves frames and frames with intricate drawings, to convey the tale of inner development. Country of Origin: Canada
Length: 5:07 Minutes |
Director's Statements: (Jinglin Gao): As an international student who has lived in Canada for eight years, I deeply understand the struggle of being far away from home. That homesickness gets stronger around the holidays. But that doesn't mean we won't celebrate the holiday! When we come to an unfamiliar environment, we will form a community with people from similar cultural backgrounds. Friends are our family in a foreign country, we support each other and take care of each other. Culture makes our connection, which is enough to transcend the differences in time and space.
(Tingyi Zhang): All concepts of this film start from the intersection of two circles. Surprisingly, Gao and I discovered that we share the same passions and aspirations. The pandemic swept over and engulfed almost three years of our academic education career. It has gotten extremely difficult for us to see them. The gene for nostalgia is innate to Chinese people and is sparked by every moment of the Spring Festival. The 2D animation short film Feeling Home is about homesickness among international tourists. For our family members who are worried about us, it is a telling message with a happy and upbeat attitude. |
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Love, Harmony
A girl overcome by grief is surprised by a new beacon of light in her life.
Directed by: Julia Sousa Country of Origin: United States
Length: 3:07 Minutes Student Film |
American Dream
This is a story of a young girl's day at school, bright and cheerful until the sound of gunshots rings in her ears. Her best friend dies in the shooting, and she must walk through the tainted hallways of her school once again. This animation is dedicated to the victims of school shooting tragedies.
Directed by: Renee Shi Director Statement: The world is a better place without gun violence. Country of Origin: United States
Length: 2:55 Minutes Student film |
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Country of Origin: China
Length: 9:10 Minutes |
Circle
After failing in the ring, Bökh wrestler Temur returns to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, where he seems to catch a glimpse of his old indomitable self in the form of a younger wrestler.
Directed by: Ke Wang WANG Ke is the founder of PAPA Animation, he’s a director, producer, screenwriter, and storyboard artist. He specializes in action design, focuses on expressiveness of the lens and performance rhythm arrangement. He has a passion for athletic sports-related subjects and joined the animation industry officially after the release of his boxing-themed graduation animation work "Fearless". From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a storyboard artist for the movie "The Wandering Earth ", as well as the character designer for "Dragonkeeper", "Miracle Swordsman" and "Four Dimitrios Monkeys". Ke founded PAPA Animation in 2017. In 2022, he participated Bilibili’s short films project “Capsules”, creating the Mongolian wrestling-themed short film "CIRCLE". Later, he will participate the production of the original 2D drama "Millennium Fables" as a director. Director Statement: This is a long-gestating story of a Bökh wrestler from the grasslands. Over the course of the year-long process, from the planning stages to its final form, the story went through many drafts that included elements of science fiction, post-apocalyptic cyberpunk, and even ethnic mythology, not to mention settings and concepts that would help it spread across the Internet. These ideas were all abandoned in the end when I discovered I wanted to tell a simple story, one that encompasses sport, grassland culture, and family. Over and over, the words “national character” and “destiny” surfaced in my mind: through the many difficulties of the past few years, “tenacity” has been the defining element of national character. And my understanding of destiny is this: when someone can no longer put up any resistance, it will be inescapable fate that finally runs headlong into him. |
Monk SEISHIN
In the 19th century, a rice merchant encounters a mother who tries to buy rice in exchange for her own child's clothes. The merchant becomes Monk Seishin and relieves the islanders of Miyajima from poverty by digging wells and starting the wooden ladle industry. Directed by: Ryotaro Miyajima Born in Tokyo in 1989. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Intermedia Art in 2015. In 2017, he completed the animation major at the same school. In 2020 he entered the doctoral program at the same graduate school. "RADIO WAVE" "AEON" "CASTLE", and others have won 20 awards and have been selected for over 150 film festivals. Director Statement: I created an animation using ink on paper and mainly uses long single takes. Country of Origin: Japan
Length: 2:53 Minutes |
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Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Length: 3:33 Minutes |
Mind
Mind´details the deterioration of the mental health of a woman, while she is on a rest cure in a remote holiday home Her obsession with the noise and the movements inside the walls in her room marks her descent into psychosis .
Directed by: Leo Toli Camaj In 2023 Toli graduated from the University of Westminster in Animation with First Class Honours. These new skills acquired are a new addition to his life long passion of Fine art . To create his Animations Toli merges different techniques, from the initial pencil sketches to digital post production. He builds by himself the sets, props and puppets as well as crating the 2D Animation .He also collaborates with sound designers and voice over actors as well digital artists. Toli has a very rewarding experience as a painter and book illustrator.He has worked on commissions for marble and glass mosaics as well as collaborated in large murals for private collectors. Director Statement: My aim is to create Animated Fine Art by merging different techniques of Animation and Fine Art. |
The Lost Voices of Partition
An animation showcasing the stories of older South Asian women (who were young children or were born shortly after the Partition of India and the newly formed state of Pakistan) touching on the themes of mass migration, dislocation, trauma, silence, loss, love and hope.
Directed by: Stacy Bias Stacy Bias is an artist and animator living in Glasgow, UK. 20+ years of social justice activism informs her practice, which is guided by the principles of intersectional feminism. Current works combine ethnographic practice with illustration and animation to create humanising narratives that amplify marginalised voices. Director Statement: This animation showcases the stories of older South Asian women (who were young children or were born shortly after the Partition of India and the newly formed state of Pakistan) touching on the themes of mass migration, dislocation, trauma, silence, loss, love and hope. Dr. Nafhesa Ali (Northumbria University) and Syma Ahmed (Glasgow Women's Library) held 8 workshop sessions where women gathered together in defiance of the old saying "No one wants to talk about partition", and wrote poetry, told stories, and shared experiences. The narrative is a collaboratively written poem which tells difficult truths and highlights the resilience of these women.
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Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Length: 2:15 Minutes |
Country of Origin: United States
Length: 2:06 Minutes Student Film |
Perk Up
A college student has a final essay deadline, but she cannot stop
herself from falling asleep. As she drinks coffee to wake herself up, a battle between Caffeine and Sleepy happens in her brain. Caffeine struggles to defeat Sleepy in the beginning, but as the student drinks more coffee again and again Caffeine gets stronger. In conclusion, Caffeine defeats Sleepy. However, when the student lies on their bed to fall asleep, she cannot, because she drank too much caffeine. Now, the battle between Caffeine and Sleeping Pill begins. Directed by: Kayun Kim I am a graduate of Computer Animation from Ringling College of Art and Design, located in Sarasota, FL. I am 3D artist living in Sarasota, Florida. My highest goal is to convey relatable story to the viewer, offering a humor and fun. Director Statement: As a Layout Artist and Lighting Artist, I focus on delivering the most appealing and fascinating experience to the audience through my artwork. My goal as Layout and Lighting artist is to make unique fluent camera work and realistic moods. I especially want to train myself for character acting techniques and facial animation to render my characters believable enough to feel truly human-like. My appreciation for animation was formed through practical training in the different forms of motion graphics and animation. I have acquired a multi-layered understanding of animation through this experience and now understand what makes animation distinct. I look forward to the next step of my career and getting a deeper understanding of character, lighting and camera techniques |
Fox Child
"Fox child" tells a story about acceptance and healing facing a congenital illness. -
"Fox child" tells the story of a young girl living with tourette's syndrome, a neurological disorder resulting in "tics" - seemingly involuntary twitches and movements as well as tic-like vocal expressions. Being different than the other kids her age she tries to gain acceptance but faces teasing and rejection on a daily basis. After a bad day, being rejected even by her mother, she meets a mysterious fox who leads her into a magical world inside of herself where she begins a journey to learn how to face and to accept her tics and how to gain back her confidence and self-love. Directed by: Jan Čapar - Born 1995 in Stuttgart, Germany. - Finished high school in 2014. - Worked as trainee in animation, illustration and script writing in 2015/16. - Studied film and acting at the educational college Ludwigsburg in 2016. - Won script writing contest of the german environmental institute and the film university Babelsberg in 2017, worked as author at the university of Babelsberg. - Started to study film at the university of Darmstadt in 2017. - Won the film festival "aftermath" of the university of Darmstadt in 2021. - The animation film "fox child" was nominated for the "Hessian film- and cinema prize 2021" - Gradutation film (animation) "The First Gardener" was chosen by 'HessenFilm' for the special film subsidy of Hessia 2021 - Successfully finished the film studies at "Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences" 2021 - "Fox Child" was screend at the 'HessenTalents' at Berlinale 2022 - Work as freelance (stop motion animation) filmmaker 2022 & 2023 - Lateral entry in the "animation directing" studies at the "Animation Institute" of "Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg" 2023 |
Country of Origin: Germany
Length: 12:58 Minutes Student Film |
Director Statemnet: Fox child is special for me because I myself live with tourette's syndrom and the work on this film and its topic of acceptance equaled working on my own acceptance of my symptoms in real live.
But this film is about more than 'only' tics. It's a story about courage and hope. A story about a journey from the outside to the inside. The protagonist of the film tries to gain acceptance from others. Her search for acceptance and love outside of herself fails. And it makes her miserable.
The fox shows her the way inwards. He brings her home. To the place where she can feel comfortable and secure again. But home is not a place somewhere outside. It's the feeling of calm and peace inside of us. Transcending all our orientations on the outer world for a while. Here we find our self love and our acceptance, here we can be truly ourselves. That's where true acceptance and healing arise.
That's what I tell in this film. I started to tell it because it was a wish for myself to find this place. And I keep telling it because I experienced it coming true and that's fascinating and beautiful. And being at this place in ourselves is not a one time achievment. It's constant work so I think this film is timless and always worth talking about, not only for people with tourette's.
But this film is about more than 'only' tics. It's a story about courage and hope. A story about a journey from the outside to the inside. The protagonist of the film tries to gain acceptance from others. Her search for acceptance and love outside of herself fails. And it makes her miserable.
The fox shows her the way inwards. He brings her home. To the place where she can feel comfortable and secure again. But home is not a place somewhere outside. It's the feeling of calm and peace inside of us. Transcending all our orientations on the outer world for a while. Here we find our self love and our acceptance, here we can be truly ourselves. That's where true acceptance and healing arise.
That's what I tell in this film. I started to tell it because it was a wish for myself to find this place. And I keep telling it because I experienced it coming true and that's fascinating and beautiful. And being at this place in ourselves is not a one time achievment. It's constant work so I think this film is timless and always worth talking about, not only for people with tourette's.
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Why The Sky Is High
The god Manama, the deities and diwatas always take care of the people of the earth. Whether the proximity of the earth and sky becomes near or far, there will always be a way to keep touch with the heavens. This was true until a man named Puhak broke the bond. A light and comic presentation on why the sky is high. A Manuvu story.
Directed by: Jade Dandan Evangelista Jade Dandan Evangelista, aka Wetsipon, is a typical kid with the love of drawing and creating. She is a digital native artist and relatively started late in her pencil skills but when the images formed, she never stopped. She expresses herself in music, coding, clay sculpting, drawing and animation. She is currently a Grade 7 homeschooler with her mom as teacher and collaborator. Her passion in animation has brought her around the globe while still in quarantine lockdown in Manila. Director Statement: With children in mind, we will present the characters in a simple and basic way, we show actions that push the story without the embellishment of design and complications. Kid made is the art style, Made by a kid, made for kids. Country of Origin: Philippines
Length: 4:28 Minutes Young Animator |