Projects in categories: Animation

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This powerful virtual reality documentary series allows audiences to experience the alarming events of January 13, 2018, in Hawai‘i. This first chapter opens on an ordinary Saturday morning, when the entire population of Hawai‘i received a startling text message from the state Emergency Management Agency: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAI‘I. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” As cellular communication networks collapsed and panic took hold of the population, 1.4 million people — as well as their friends and relatives across the globe — came to understand the real, growing, and urgent nature of today’s nuclear threat. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - New Frontier - World premiere Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2022

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This film depicts the harrowing effect of climate change on the lives of girls and women globally, and features over 400 pieces of handmade artwork from 150 refugee and marginalised women in 17 Commonwealth countries worldwide and climate activists, these were created during ARTconnects workshops. The film calls for climate justice and presents personal accounts of how women and girls lives are directly being affected by climate change. The film raises awareness of the devastating impacts climate change has on the globe, as well as promote diversity and spark meaningful discussions on this human rights issue to promote cohesion. 

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A big head baby, one of the numerous victims of the white melamine-tainted milk powder incidents caused by the Sanlu (Three Deer) Group Co. Ltd in China, witnesses such nightmarish pain and sinks into with other babies the abyss of horror and despair. Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022 – PÖFF Shorts Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023

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Martha has stopped listening to her intuition and her life is suffering as a result. But a strange encounter forces her to see things a little differently, Martha must embrace the seemingly irrational as she embarks on a surreal journey of discovery to trust her gut instinct once again. BAFTA Film Awards 2023 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation

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As our world strains under the weight of unprecedented global migration and colonial extraction, this animated virtual reality documentary immerses participants in one of the largest forced migrations in human history: the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. CHILD OF EMPIRE takes audiences through a deeply personal perspective of this epic historical event. Two men from the Partition generation — Ishar Das Arora, an Indian Hindu who migrated from Pakistan to India, and Iqbal-ud-din Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim who made the opposite journey — share childhood memories of their experiences while playing a board game. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022 - New Frontier - World premiere

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DAWTA has a power she is unaware of, until she is propelled through time and space to a utopian planet. Inspired by family history of trans-racial fostering and concepts of inherited trauma, DAWTA is a story of escaping the past through the imagining of an unknown future, an unknown hope.

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A highly emotive, visual feast set in the imaginative mind of a heartbroken panda named Herbie, who has broken up with his deer girlfriend Rice. Through Herbie's art we delve back through the memories of his relationship from the heart-breaking end to the beautiful beginning. Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2021 - Virtual Reality Competition Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2022

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An animated short film on "invisible conditions" and the experiences of those affected – it features the voices of Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Outlander), Isy Suttie (Peep Show, Man Down, Damned), Weruche Opia (I May Destroy You, Bad Education, Sliced), and members and friends of the NPUK/INPDA community. This project has been developed closely with the charity's community in order to illustrate the many emotions and challenges an individual with an invisible condition can face on a daily basis. By using a mixture of animation, photography, and narrated lines read by stars from both outside and inside of our community, the film hopes to raise awareness of both Niemann-Pick disease(s) and invisible conditions more broadly...as "not all that you can see, is everything that is there"…and there are far more similarities than differences when it comes to the lived experiences of those affected by rare, genetic and/or invisible conditions.

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Donald and Daffy, talking to each other. Official Selection Ottawa International Animation Festival 2022

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A woman walks into a hotel bar on the romantic island of Sicily, waiting to be lit. Official Selection Animafest Zagreb 2022 Official Selection Indie Lisboa 2023 - International Competition

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Inspired by Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs, NO ORDINARY JOE explores the extraordinary relationship between a colourfully defiant lesbian and 'Toddie', the love of her life, who was a dapper little Steiff doll. Through this outspoken puppet, ‘Joe’ finally appreciates that she had a life full of adventure and incident!

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Many Ghanaians are aware of this night-biter living amongst them, yet they still choose to ignore the danger. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2022