Two characters discover an interesting new object, and learn about what it means to share.
Created by Annie-nominated Michael Ruocco, an artist whose credits include Looney Tunes Cartoons, The Cuphead Show and BoJack Horseman.
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Written and Directed by Tyler March & Eric Paperth. Music and Lyrics by Rob Tanchum.
Synopsis: Jealous of the Sun’s stardom, the Moon bails into space in search of a planet that actually cares about him. Will he find his place in the universe, or is he destined to be a lonely loser forever?
Director Antoni Sendra created this short film about his daughter using more than 2,000 hand-painted frames.
Sendra is a freelance director from Spain who specializes in mixed media projects. He combines animation, live action, stop motion and collage in his work, which includes commercials, documentaries, music videos and main titles.
My Parent, Neal is a short documentary about director Hannah Saidiner and her parent as they discuss her parent’s gender transition.
Saidiner describes her creative process as such:
“The film was made using a combination of rotoscoped and hand-drawn animation. Frames were first drawn digitally in TVPaint, then printed out. Each frame was colored by hand with colored pencil and watercolors, at 1/4 of their original scale in size. This scale change then heightened the tangibility and texture of the coloring materials when scanned and enlarged to fit the screen.”
Directed by Martine Chartrand. Paint-on-glass animation shot with a 35mm camera.
Synopsis: MacPherson recounts the friendship between singer-songwriter Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company.
Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it MacPherson.
Directed by Uri Kranot & Michelle Kranot.
Synopsis: The Hangman at Home by American poet Carl Sandburg was written almost 100 years ago and is still as relevant and more poignant than ever, as our world slides into dark times.
Through a series of paintings bringing together eclectic fragments of life, strange human behaviors are highlighted. Eccentric or banal, they plunge us into intimacy or embarrassment.
This portrait ultimately suggests that we human beings are much more similar than different.
Directed by Janine Nadeau.
Synopsis: A short film adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, Harvey depicts a young boy who candidly recalls the spring day when his world turned upside down.
Told through the eyes of a child with an overflowing imagination, the short film examines bereavement and coping with the loss of a parent.
In February, 2010, the Chilean town of Juan Fernandez slept not knowing a tsunami was approaching. Luckily, 12-year-old Martina felt a tremor and was able to warn and save everyone in town.
Directed by Leo Campasso, Antonio Balseiro and Carlos Balseiro.
Directed by Éva Darabos at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary, who describes the short film as “a surreal farewell to a blockhouse area.”
Bye Little Block! screened at film festivals worldwide and won numerous awards, including Best Design at Ottawa International Animation Festival (2020).
Would my daughter be better off without me? This is the question explored in Rosemary A.D. (After Dad), a short film by Ethan Barrett that was completely drawn with crayons, leading to 23 film festival awards.