Animation

Bryce O'Loughlin | US

Runtime: 5:34 min

Synopsis: Pee-Paw wakes up hangry. Good thing Curly Frye knows how to cook up a cheeseburger.

Bio: Bryce O'Loughlin is a media producer and performer from Buckhannon, WV. O'Loughlin founded The Church of Sound Netlabel and created "Pee-Paw" to promote local artists.

Elmano Diogo | Portugal

Runtime: 5:05 min

Synopsis: After his best friend's death, Solomon leaves on an introspective trip, searching for an answer to erase his sadness and fill the void in his chest.

Bio: Elmano Diogo was born on the 9th of September, in Funchal, on the island of Madeira.
He lived in Machico, studied in the computing area, and completed a bachelor’s degree in Interactive Media Design, at the University of Madeira.
In 2017, he moved to Lisbon and completed the master's degree in Animation Arts, in Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias de Lisboa.

Antonello Matarazzo | Italy

Runtime: 3:30 min

Synopsis: "Flumina" is a daring helpless ramshackle going at breakneck speed towards the sea following the current, escaping, like paper titans, to every evil.

Junqing Duanmu | China

Runtime: 1:57 min.

Synopsis: To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Dante's death, I drew the love story of Paolo and Francesca in the Divine Comedy based on the Divine Comedy, Inferno, Chapter 5 'Legend Love story of ''Paolo and Francesca''. This is a forbidden love that is not blessed. Francesca fell in love with her husband's brother Paolo. Her husband found an affair and killed them. After their death, they were tortured by the wind every day in hell, but they still loved each other and hugged each other tightly. I was deeply moved by their love. With Chinese traditional painting style, I try to explore Dante's hell in my heart, hoping to present a new style for this shining love after 700 years.

Carl Knickerbocker | US

Runtime: 1:26 min.

Synopsis: A group of unusual creatures looks at my documentary videos.

Mahdi Barqzadegan | Iran

Runtime: 6:34 min.

Synopsis: Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. The story is about the forgotten place of human in nature. Sudden rain in a modern city tries to remind people of this, but they all prefer to be in umbrella cages. During this story, a little girl can discover a new world created by rain and find that she is the king of this new world

Bio: Born in 1993/2/27 in Hamedan.

Graduated with a master's degree in architecture in 2018.

Freelance animation maker.

Débora Mendes | Portugal

Runtime: 4:50 min.

Synopsis: A girl serves fish in a restaurant until it runs out.
The film has excerpts from Captain Paul Watson's TedTalk, founder and president of the organization called Sea Shepherd, who uses direct action to protect ocean life.

Bio: Born in Lisbon in 1991, Débora Mendes had her initial training in health care.
She is currently studying Cinema de Animação at the Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa. In her films, she likes to mix animation techniques: Reverso (live-action and 2D animation) and Sea Shepherd (2D animation and stop motion). She is also interested in the areas of illustration, painting, and photography.
She is currently doing her internship in Sardinha em Lata.

Annick Odom & Federico Forla | US

Runtime: 9:37 min.

Seven Bones is a folktale as told by Anna Krajnak in 1948 in Fairmont, West Virginia. She thought it came from Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). It was collected in "Green Hills of Magic" by Ruth Ann Musick. Listen to more music and purchase the song: https://annickodom.bandcamp.com/

Directed and Produced by : Federico Forla and Annick Odom
Annick Odom: voice, double bass, crankie artwork, composition, & recording
Federico Forla: oboe & video
Yannick Laret: sound editing and mastering

Heidi Neff | US

Runtime: 6:47 min.

Synopsis: This is a personal documentary of Election Day 2020 to Inauguration Day 2021.

Bio: Heidi Neff is Professor of Art + Design at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland, where she was granted a sabbatical to work on animations for the Spring semester of 2020. Despite headaches of online teaching, small children, and a love/hate relationship with technology, Heidi makes apocalyptic animations with a hand-drawn/hand-painted aesthetic. Heidi earned her MFA from University of Iowa and her BFA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She makes her home in Maryland with her husband, Paul Chuffo, and their two children, Max and Maya.

Patrick Lichty | US

Runtime: 1:48 min.

Synopsis: The Martin is a Machine-Learning based visual poem based on the poem, "The Martin", by Patrick Lichty, written for his wife, Negin Ehtesabian in 2018, as interpreted by AI.

Mohsen Salehi Fard | Iran

Runtime: 9:30 min.

Synopsis: The sculptor struggles a lot every day to create a new sculpture
and the sculpture that loses its freedom when it takes shape

Bio: Born in 1984, Iran, Najafabad Filmmaker of the Iranian Young Cinema Association is the Director of several short films and animations.

Margot Cavret | France

Runtime: 3:55 min.

Synopsis: Every day, Renard turns on and off his curious lamppost that seems to control the cycle of night and day. One day, his routine collapse, when he discovers that Louve and the moon have fallen in love. Should he accomplish his duty despite everything and force the lovers to separate, by triggering the break of day?

Bio: Margot Cavret was born in Rennes, in 1995. She began her studies with an HND in light and camera for television and cinema, which she validated in 2014, and during which she directed her first short film, entitled La Source. She also occasionally participated in a web series entitled Les Madlord, as director of photography, cameraman, and actress.
After a year of theoretical studies, validating a license in Cinema History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, she resumed practical studies, taking a master’s degree in nature and environment documentary filmmaking, in 2016. She directed several short documentaries there: Les Plumes du Rivage, which she co-directed with two other students, then Jamais Plus, her graduation film. She pursues her interest in environmental documentaries by co-directing, during her first year of studies at ENS Louis-Lumière, the short film Ahmed et Les Oiseaux.

Wrik Mead | Canada

Runtime: 4:05 min.

Synopsis: Tender memories of a first gay embrace, of shock and exhilaration-and disavowal-animated against the waves of a deep blue lake. This animated biography tells the story of the artists' first encounter with another boy. This was not the way his life was planned, and he hoped that this feeling would eventually pass. He waited years until he finally met someone who would change his life forever.

Bio: Wrik Mead has accumulated a unique body of more than forty animated miniature narratives: queer fantasies, parables, dreams, and even documentaries. His films are psycho-dramatic by inclination, first-person narratives of desire and accommodation. They're a mix of painstaking animation, fairy-tale allegory, and queer identity.

Charlotte Taylor | US

Runtime: 58 sec.

Synopsis: Across the held breath distance that we keep in order to forget that we love

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