The Leaf of the Poplar, Irini Vianelli (USA, 2015), 3’ 48”
Drawing on paper
A leaf surrenders to the wind; a man yields to the waves, while Greek soundness quivers in the air. A short animation inspired by the poem with the same title by Giorgos Seferis.
Student/Graduation Films A
Credits
Director: Eirini Vianelli
Produvcer: Eirini Vianelli
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Animation, Editing: Eirini Vianelli
Music: Andreas Levisianos
Festival screenings/Awards
Festival premiere
Young Again, Ioanna Varsou (GREECE, 2014), 1’
2D computer animation, Drawing on paperYoung Again is a short film about the futile battle against time. An old woman views a picture of her younger self and tries to remedy the marks that the passage of time has brought upon her appearance. By the end of the film she has sadly remained in a dreamlike state where she has achieved what she set out to do, but every viewer knows that her reality is far from the truth.
Credits
Director: Ioanna Varsou
Producer: ΤΕΙ Athens
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Ioanna Varsou
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns
Festival screenings/Awards
Drama Festival 2014-Student Films; Shoot it Festival 2015
The Blessing Beggar, Yang Yi (TAIWAN, 2015), 5’ 26”
Cut-out animationMaria, a beggar girl, is almost starving to death because she didn't get any apple from sisters' giving everyday. In deep desperation, she comes an appetite to eat a rat on the roadside. She is struggling to eat it or not...
Credits
Director: Yang Yi
Producer: Yang Sung Cheng
Storyboard: Yang Yi
Artistic Direction: Yang Yi, Tsai De Hong
Animation: Yang Yi, Tsai De Hong, Wu Ting Rui, Chou Shu Lin
Editing: Tsai De Hong, Lin Zong Yi
Graphics: Tsai De Hong
Festival screenings/Awards
Youth Film Festival, Taiwan, Nominated
Chhaya, Debanjan Nandy (UK, 2015), 10’
2D and 3D computer animation, Live action, Paint-on-glassAn old man trapped in a mundane senior center living by the memory of his beloved wife as his own shadow. But as his past sets in threatening his present, Prakash finds himself before a difficult decision: a mesmerizing but, unreal dream or life itself?
Credits
Director: Debanjan Nandy
Producer: Josh Lowe
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Graphics: Debanjan Nandy
Animation: Debanjan NAndy, Maya Glick, Angelo A David
Music: Fraya Thomsen
Editing: Pawel Stec
Writer: Katerina Giannakou
Festival screenings/Awards
Edinburgh International Film Festival,UK; Anima Mundi , Brazil
Dust with Flour, Annelise Williams (USA, 2014), 3’ 47”
2D computer animationAn old woman mistakes her husband's ashes for flour. He comes back from the oven to experience life again.
Credits
Director: Annelise Williams
Producer: Annelise Williams
Storybard, Animation, Editing: Annelise Williams
Music: Jooil Kim
Supervisor: Eliot Cowan
Coloring: Sanna Helena
Festival screenings/Awards
Bucks Fever Film Fest (College Animation Honorable Mention)
Wood, Joost Jordens (NETHERLANDS, 2014), 3’ 43”
3D computer animationHout (Wood) tells the story of a retired woodcrafter living his remaining days in a snow coated forest, fulfilling his passion: constructing wooden animals.
Credits
Director: Joost Jordens
Producer: Utrecht School of the Arts
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Animation, Editing: Joost Jordens, Bob Los, Mike von Rotz, Bram Meulman, Wilbert van Veldhuizen, Rosalia Black
Music: Killian Elbers
Audio: Tom de Smit, Nola Klop
Voice: Thijs Visser
Festival screenings/Awards
Shortcutz Annual Awards, 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Winner of November - Shortcutz Weekly, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands; KLIK! Animation Festival, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Short and Sweet, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Capetown, South-Africa; Animated Dreams, 2015, Estonia; Viewster Online Film Festival Animated Worlds, 2015, Online; Studenten Festival, 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Athens ANIMFESTl, 2015, Athens, Greece; Stukafest, 2015, Den Haag, Netherlands; Student Art Festival, 2015, Florida, U.S.A; Go Short, 2015, Nijmegen, Netherlands
The Life-Givers, Angela De Vito (USA, 2014), 6’ 38”
2D computer animationIn the caves below the earth are housed thousands of candles, each representing a human life. Life-Givers light the candles, signifying the birth of a child, while Death snuffs out the flame when the person’s time on earth has ended. "The Life-Givers” follows the story of a young apprentice “life-giver” who struggles with the idea that life must one day come to an end. However, she learns that Death is not as final as it appears to be…
Credits
Director: Angela De Vito
Producer: Angela De Vito
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Angela De Vito
Music: Jerome Leroy
Sound Design: Sasha Larco
Festival screenings/Awards
2014 Klik! Amsterdam Animation Festival; Ladies Animated Short Screening, 2014; Athens ANIMFEST 2015
Connected, Manuela Buske (GERMANY, 2014), 4’ 45”
2D and 3D computer animation, PixilationThere is a world made out of strings. Nobody knows about it, but everybody is connected to them. One woman finds it out and has to make her conclusions.
Credits
Director: Manuela Buske
Producer: Manuela Buske
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Manuela Buske
Music: Matija Strnisa
Festival screenings/Awards
2015: Anima Mundi - International Animation Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart / Hochschulpräsentation; Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart / Young Animation Wettbewerb; Holland Animation Film Festival, Netherlands;2014: Animated Dreams, Estonia; Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele; PISAF - Puchon International Student Animation Festival, South Korea; Anibar International Animation Festival / Student Competition, Kosovo
Armenian Papers, Ornella Macchia (BELGIUM, 2015), 6’ 34”
2Dcomputer animation, Internet software, Live action, Pixilation, Sand animation At the market of Yerevan , in Armenia, a merchant invites us to share his fruits and his history...
Credits
Director: Ornella Macchia
Producer: Vincent Gilot
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Animation, Editing, Graphics: Ornella Macchia
Music: Benoit Charron
Light: Laura San Martin Perrera
Festival screenings/Awards
Festival premiere
Blindly, Joanne van der Weg (NETHERLANDS, 2014), 2’ 20”
2D computer animationWhat does a blind person see what i don't see. The animation is a short trip as how a blind person would make it.
Credits
Director: Joanne van der Weg
Producer: Joanne van der Weg
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Animation, Editing: Joanne van der Weg
Sound: Berend Hesselink
Festival screenings/Awards
2014: Dioraphte award at Nederlands Film Festival, Netherlands; 2015: Anima Festival Brussels, Belgium; Holland Animation Film Festival, Netherlands.
Eidolozän, Paul Brenner (GERMANY, 2015), 4’ 15”
PhotosEidolocene is a geologic chronical epoche in the far future. The Eidolocene research project is exploring the life of humanity in a world decisively influenced by a omnipresent digital environment. During thousands of years this virtual World even affected the human evolution. Due to the immovability of human species there is no more physical interaction between them, even the procreation process is fully virtualized.
Credits
Director: Paul Brenner
Producer: Madlen Folk
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Paul Brenner
Music: Lorenz Schimpf
Sound Design: Moritz Drath
Festival screenings/Awards
Festival premiere
The Whyers, Lora D'Addazio (BELGIUM, 2015), 7’ 15”
2D computer animation, PhotosThe Whyers meet at a party – bored by atmosphere, they decide to go on the streets where they belong. On the front stairs of a church, a prophetic hobo who warns them of an imminent terrorist attack. Will they save Europe – and stop being bored ?
Credits
Director: Lora D'Addazio
Producer: Aterlier de production de La Cambre
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Lora D'Addazio
Music: Nicolas Grombeer
Writer: Alexandre Mailleux
Festival screenings/Awards
Festival premiere
None of That, Anna Hinds Paddock, Isabela Littger, Kriti Kaur (USA, 2015), 4’ 10”
3D computer animationA museum guard is on night patrol when he finds that someone has censored the museum's nude artwork. Soon after he goes to find who it is, only to find that the culprit is a tiny mysterious nun.
Credits
Director: Anna Hinds Paddock, Isabela Littger, Kriti Kaur
Producer: Ringling College of Art + Design
Storyboard: Anna Hinds Paddock, Isabela Littger, Kriti Kaur
Animation: Anna Hinds Paddock, Isabela Littger, Kriti Kaur
Music: Corey Wallace
Editing: Anna Hinds Paddock, Isabela Littger, Kriti Kaur
Festival screenings/Awards
Best of Ringling 2015, President's Award
Operation Rising Tusk, Benjamin Brand, Johannes Engelhardt, Markus Eschrich, Johannes Lumer, Julius Rosen, Alexander Ochs (GERMANY, 2015), 5’ 20” 15
3D computer animationThe USA decides to start 'Operation Rising Tusk', a space program aiming to send an elephant into space, to challenge the USSR. Soon a wild elephant is on the journey to the final frontier, where he has to face the professional space-dog Laika.
Credits
Director: Wildboar (Benjamin Brand, Johannes Engelhardt, Markus Eschrich, Johannes Lumer, Julius Rosen, Alexander Ochs)
Producer: Nuremberg Institute of Technology Georg Simon Ohm
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Editing, Graphics: Wildboar
Animation: Johannes Lumer
Music: Benjamin Brand
Sound Design: Stefan Wühr
Festival screenings/Awards
2015: 20 Kitaso Kurzfilmabend Erlangen; Concorto Film Festival - 14th edition; Ohmrolle spring
Two Friends, Natalia Chernysheva (FRANCE, 2014), 4’ 02”
2D computer animationEven the best of friends can have trouble understanding each other when they are from two different worlds.
Credits
Director: Natalia Chernysheva
Producer: Annick Teninge
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Graphics: Natalia Chernysheva
Animation: Youri Tcherenkov,Natalia Chernysheva
Music: Yan Volsy
Editing: Myriam Copier
Festival screenings/Awards
Graduation film award CINANIMA, Portugal , 2014; Prix RTS KIDS ,Black Movie, Geneva, 2015; Special Mentions of the International Jury, FILMFEST DRESDEN, Dresden 2015
Morse, Daniel Vidal (CHILE, 2014), 5’ 43”
2D computer animationA single mother must face confusion and fear in her own house after a weird figure starts appearing on her daughter's drawings.
Credits
Director: Daniel Vidal
Producer: Manuel Ulloa
Storyboard, Editing: Daniel Vidal
Animation: Florencia Atria, Manuel Ulloa, Daniel Vidal
Music: Miguel H. Campos
Festival screenings/Awards
International Animation Festival Chilemonos 2015 (WINNER)