2D computer animation
A line runs away from the sphere.
The blue fish enters into the paper world.
Papers show the line path.
A red bird is always waiting to guide the way.
But how shall the fish escape from the loop?
CREDITS
Director: Padelis Paradisis
Producer: Padelis Paradisis
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Padelis Paradisis
Music: Ivan Lavrov
Ciel, Faidra Derizioti (GREECE, 2015), 5’ 16”
2D computer animation
This film is about an inner exploration in relation to the soul, the conscious and unconscious, ultimately to life.
CREDITS
Director: Phaedra Derizioti
Producer: Phaedra Derizioti
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Animation, Editing: Phaedra Derizioti
Music: Georgiana Filippaki
Mind the Gap, Katy Wang (UK, 2015), 1’ 34”
2D computer animation
An animation portraying the sights, sounds, and movement of the London Underground, inspired by its iconic seat patterns.
CREDITS
Director: Katy Wang
Producer: Kingston University
Storyboard, Animation, Music, Editing: Katy Wang
Heavy as a Hill, Emily Neilson (USA, 2015), 4’ 51”
Clay, Puppets
A little girl and her mother must each cope in her own way with the stuff of youth, age, imagination, and depression.
CREDITS
Director: Emily Neilson
Producer: Emily Neilson
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Emily Neilson
Shrink Wrapped, Tommy Robin (UK, 2015), 2’ 12”
Live action, Pixilation
Enter a maze of doors. Discover the uncomfortable truth of the people trapped behind them. And those who choose to open them.
CREDITS
Director: Tommy Robin
Storyboard, Animation: Tommy Robin
Artistic Direction: Ana Martinez Fernandez (dinamitalight)
Music: Rebecca Dale
Editing: Zsofia Talas
Director of Photography: Samira Oberberg
Sound Design: Thomas Blazukas
In your eyes, Arnal Julien (FRANCE, 2015), 6’ 06”
Drawing on paper
The body of a man is forever marked by the horrors of war.
CREDITS
Director: Arnal Julien
Producer: Caumon Céline
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Julien Arnal
Music: Bosques de mi mente
The present, Jacob Frey (GERMANY, 2014), 4’ 26”
3D computer animation
Jake spends most of his time playing videogames indoors until his mum decides to give him a present.
CREDITS
Director: Jacob Frey
Producer: Anna Matacz
Storyboard: Fabio Coala
Artistic Direction, Animation, Editing: Jacob Frey
Music: Tobias Buerger
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS/AWARDS (selection)
2014: International Festival of Animation Cinema and Comics Cartoon Club, Italy - Cartoon Kids award; FESA, Belgrad, Serbia - Best film for children; Hiroshima Int. animation festival, Japan; Animpact Animation Festival, Seoul, South Korea; Anim Arte, Brazil - International Students – Maxi 2nd place : Audience Award; Filmschau Baden Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany – Best Animation
2015: Watersprite 2015, Cambridge, UK – Best Original Film Music; VAFI, Croatia – MIDI Section First prize; Sehsuechte Int. Student Festival Konrad Wolf, Potsdam, Germany – Best children film.
Mother, Joan Chung (CANADA, 2015), 5’ 40”
2D computer animation
A single mother, pushed beyond her limit by an overwhelming number of tasks and chores, falls into a coma after her consciousness is split from her body. It is now up to her children to help their mother and make everything right by understanding their Mother and realising how much she has done for them.
CREDITS
Director: Joan Chung
Producer: Sheridan College
Storyboard: Joan Chung, Seeyun Lee, David Du
Artistic Direction: Rui Hao, Joan Chung, Stephanie Chiew
Animation: Joan Chung, Stephanie Chiew, David Du, Ana Gomez, Matthew Fazari, Rui Hao, Nicholas Nason, Jessica Jing, Seeyun Lee, Dadi Wang
Music: Matthew Fazari, Mike Mclaren
Editing: Joan Chung, Ana Gomez, Stephanie Chiew
Pokey Pokey, Junjie Zhang (USA, 2015), 6’ 43”
2D computer animation
A father starts a journey to figure out the best way to protect his son from seeing filthiness of this crime-ridden city.
CREDITS
Director: Junjie Zhang
Producer: Zhen Zeng
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Junjie Zhang
Music: Pantawit Kiangsiri
Graphics: Shangning Wang
Give and Break, Nicolai C. Stigar (NORWAY, 2014), 4’ 45”
3D computer animation
A boy made out of porcelain meets a porcelain girl. She has lost most of her porcelain surface, and they develop a relationship when he start giving her pieces of himself.
CREDITS
Director: Nicolai C. Stigar
Producer: Nicolai C. Stigar
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Animation, Editing, Graphics: Nicolai C. Stigar
Music: Renate Rubini
Lamps, Patrick O'Mahony (UK/IRELAND, 2015), 6’ 25”
Puppets
A young, Victorian lamp lighter named Magnet encounters a problem only he can solve.
CREDITS
Director: Patrick O'Mahony
Producer: Will Bishop-Stephens
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Patrick O'Mahony
Music: Hollie Buhagiar
The Girl Who Spoke Cat , Dotty Kultys (UK/POLAND, 2014), 5’ 40”
2D computer animation, Cut-out animation
In a dull, organised world a curious girl longs for some colour and joy — against the wishes of her rule-obeying mother. When the girl follows a strange cat that doesn’t fit into society’s black and white standards, she discovers a boisterous underground filled with life. She decides to introduce it to the surface.
CREDITS
Director: Dotty Kultys
Producer: Dotty Kultys
Storyboard, Editing: Dotty Kultys
Artistic Direction: Justine Saint-Lo, Szu Yu Chen
Animation: Dotty Kultys, Szu Yu Chen, Nicola Dunlop, Hoda Touny
Music: Dave Yapp
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS/AWARDS
2015: Animafest Zagreb, Croatia; Zlin Film Festival, Czech Republic; KINOLUB, Poland; Supertoon, Croatia; Golden Kuker Sofia, Bulgaria; Athens Animfest, Greece; VAFI, Croatia
Pet, Alice Cool (CANADA, 2014), 2’ 33”
2D computer animation
The film Pet presents a reverse world where animals dominate everything, whereas human beings have become pets and livestocks.
CREDITS
Director: Alice Cool
Producer: Alice Cool
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Animation: Alice Cool
Music: Julian Lawrence
Editing: Alice Cool, Wenyu Jiang
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS/AWARDS
2014: Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canadian Student Competition; Anim'est, Animash Showcase
The Adventures of Phyllis and Roc, Iwan Jones-Roberts (UK, 2015), 3’ 15”
3D computer animation
A middle-aged woman ‘Phyllis’ wakes up every morning to feed her cat. But on this particular morning she finds the cat lying on the road, run over.
Phyllis lives on her own in the middle of the Welsh countryside, miles from the nearest village. She walks over to the cat thinking it’s dead but the cat is still alive. She now has a problem, how to get the cat to the vet? Her only option is to hitchhike. Will she get a lift or does she resort to more extreme measures to acquire one? This opens a roller-coaster of events as Phyllis tries to get the cat to the vet in time.
CREDITS
Director: Iwan Jones-Roberts
Producer: Iwan Jones-Roberts
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Animation, Editing, Graphics: Iwan Jones-Roberts
Music: Dave Brown
Voice: Catrin Fychan
Violet, Ryan Ines (USA, 2015), 5’ 56”
2D computer animation
Flowers, fire, friendship, and fun.
CREDITS
Director: Ryan Ines
Producer: Ryan Ines
Storyboard, Animation, Editing: Ryan Ines
Music: Tokyo Megaplex
Mothership Opera, Caress Reeves (USA, 2015), 7’ 17”
2D computer animation
Under the enslavement of the opera house prima donna, a lowly maid learns her past and destiny extend beyond confines of the theater. A funk-opera musical!
CREDITS
Director: Caress Reeves
Producer: University of Southern California
Storyboard, Artistic Direction, Animation, Editing: Caress Reeves
Music: Grant Fonda
Writer: Jeffrey Bassette