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Synopsis

When an overwhelmed single dad pig moves his piglets into a trailer park, he fears he's failed his family. But soon his kids create a wildly imaginative game, and Dad has a choice between dwell on the past or join them on their adventure.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection LA Shorts International Festival 2025
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025
BAFTA Film Awards 2026 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation

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Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 8 min 15 sec
Director: J.P. Vine
Producer: Michaela Manas Malina
Executive Producer: Julie Lockhart, Mary Coleman, Natalie Fischer, Elisabeth Murdoch
Editor: Conor Wilson
Screenwriter: J.P. Vine
Production Designer: J.P. Vine
Sound: Glen Gathard
Composer: Hugo Brijs
Principal cast: Richard Webber, Cameron Baggarley
Other Lead Creative(s): Andrew Baggarley

Genre

Adventure Children’s Comedy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Locksmith Animation,

Hayley Porter
113 Regent's Park Rd
London
NW1 8UR

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Set in the summer of 2000, 14 year old Lucian explores his sexuality through fantasy in a pre-internet world. Lucian is a 14 year closeted gay kid going through puberty. He doesn’t know how to communicate in a world that doesn’t speak his language so he lives in isolation, observing the world as an outsider. With the fear of ever exposing who he really is, Lucian seeks comfort in fantasy and lives his life in a daydream.

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