The Birds

Film & Animation, KIDS FIRST!

The Birds Film & Animation – 5 min The Birds by Joe Chang is a film that centers on birds and their innate beauty as they chirp and flit about in the branches. The birds are remarkably rendered in the style of washed ink. The film, especially with its dearth...

Mother

Film & Animation, NFFTY

Mother Film & Animation – 3 min Mother is a 2D computer-animated film that depicts my grandfather’s life from losing his mother at a young age to building his own family and later reuniting with his mother. The central theme of this film is the never-ending...

No More Screen Time

Challenge 59, Film & Animation, Short Film

No More Screen Time Film & Animation – 1 min Children aged 5 and 6 from an East London primary school wanted to highlight the importance of free play and time in the outdoors, particularly in areas of high-density housing. Their message was that too much...

Keys

Film & Animation, NFFTY

Keys Film & Animation – 4 min A college student sits down to write his final essay an hour before it’s due, when he suddenly discovers something strange with his computer. DIRECTOR Barb Hoffman CINEMATOGRAPHER Suzanne McAuley SCREENWRITERSydney Thun...

Fairy Tail

Film & Animation, KIDS FIRST!, Short Film

Fairy Tail Film & Animation – 4 min A hopeless romantic discovers an unlikely intruder and finds love at first fight. DIRECTOR Justin & Kristin Schaack CINEMATOGRAPHER Kyle Moe SCREENWRITER Justin & Kristin Schaack PRODUCER Justin & Kristin...

Siroun

Film & Animation, Global Nomads, Short Film

Siroun Film & Animation – 7 min Siroun tells the story of two friends against the landscape of the Armenian Genocide. This virtual reality experience was created on the set of “The Promise” and is set at a critical moment in history, in 1915  at...

Evil Nicotine

Challenge 59, Film & Animation, Short Film

Evil Nicotine  Film & Animation – 1 min Young people aged 12-13 years old joined together in a bid to address peer pressure and intimidation by older smokers in the bike sheds and after school. On the 59th second a boy chose to close his mouth to symbolise...

Swimming Upstream

COMMFFEST, Film & Animation, Short Film

Swimming Upstream Film & Animation – 15 min Swimming Upstream documents the Japanese Canadian community’s case against the British Columbia government. B.C. politicians of the day orchestrated the forced removal, deemed ethnic cleansing by the United...

The Mime

Film & Animation, KIDS FIRST!

The Mime Film & Animation – 19 min At a fish restaurant in Jeju Island, there is a mother who has been living as a sea woman for her life and running a restaurant, and her son, Gyeongsik, who wants to be a mime. Kyung-sik’s mother wants to inherit a...