BLOCK CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING FILMS:
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BASICS
SYNOPSIS: In the future, school has become free to play, pay to win. When Suzy agitates her father, he cancels her Supremium Membership. Losing her status, she is plunged into the slimy world of Base Users, where she will butt heads with unlikely friends and unexpected foes alike.
DIRECTOR: Spencer Smyth
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Spencer Smyth is a multi-mode story teller. After creating an action packed live action short film and spending a year developing an animated piece, Spencer knows what makes for a great final project is the ability to hone in on ideas that capture everyone’s imagination and to actively communicate with his team. Spencer holds a BFA in Animation and Digital Art from Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Art. Before college Spencer spent his childhood filming sitcoms in his sisters doll house.
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FROM LIFE
SYNOPSIS: An amateur artist sketching in a churchyard has a series of encounters with a young woman, who we might come to believe is a ghost. In fact, the truth is stranger than that.
DIRECTOR: Uli Meyer
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Uli Meyer is recognized as one of the world’s leading animation directors, whose work ranges from the seminal ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ to ‘Space Jam’ and more recently, ‘King Arthur’, ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Mary Poppins Returns’. Uli has always loved analogue film and ‘From Life’ is his first all Live Action short.
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iRONY
SYNOPSIS: A film that explores the relationship between man and technology…told from the perspective of a phone.
DIRECTOR: Radheya Jegatheva
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Radheya Jegatheva is a young Perth based Australian filmmaker who was born in Johor, Malaysia in 1999 to parents of South Korean and Malaysian ancestry. He is a 2nd year Bachelor of Commerce and Arts student at Curtin University in Western Australia.
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MARIPOSAS
SYNOPSIS: Set in a universe of magical realism, a boastful father prattles on superficially about his daughter to another parent in the school pick up line, but is unable to perceive her when it matters most.
DIRECTOR: Adrian Carey
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Originally from Nashville, TN, Adrian has almost 9 years of post production experience in which he has worked as an editor, motion graphics designer, and producer for non-profits, musicians, and large corporations. He received a B.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
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MORFRUSIS
SYNOPSIS: A delirious fable about Rena, an enslaved ordinary frog who becomes a liberator. Where once existed a lush and paradisiac forest, now agonizes a desolate landscape of enslaved frogs forced by other stronger, armed frogs to operate a huge industrial, tree swallowing mill. How could our tiny protagonist ever defeat this evil regime and its gluttonous, narcissist leader? Hint: magic fruits are involved…someday, somehow, somewhere…
DIRECTOR: Santiago Castaño
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Santiago Castaño grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. He moved to New York in 2003 after being awarded a grant for a masters degree in computer animation at The School of Visual Arts. This provided work opportunities that include creative direction, 3d animation and storyboard design for clients such as Cannon, Sundance Channel, ESPN, Nicktoons, Lifetime, Versus, CBS, TV Land, Mercury Ford, Sprint, AT&T, MLB Networks, the video game God of War amongst others. In 2013 Santiago was awarded a Graphic Designer Emmy for for the show package MLB Tonight. in 2014 he was nominated for a second Emmy for his MLB Network’s promo: Monuments were he was creative director. In 2017 Santiago founded Lenticular Pictures with the purpose of producing original animated content. He currently lives and works in New York City.
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PAPER BEAST
SYNOPSIS: A young boy escapes a miserable and violent existence into the wilds of his own imagination.
DIRECTOR: Daniel Klein
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Daniel Klein started making short films when he was 12 years old. He studied film and dramatic writing at Chapman University where he wrote the Student Academy Award winning short film, “It’s Just A Gun” (directed by Brian Robau).
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THE PUPPY TRIALS
SYNOPSIS: Written by 3rd grader Claire Hartman, “The Puppy Trials” is the story of an old abandoned German Shepherd teaching a group of puppies how to behave, so they can get adopted.
DIRECTOR: Thomas Nicol
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Thomas and Becky Nicol are a husband/wife filmmaking team who started producing animation together in 2010. They live in Champaign IL, where they also help to put on the annual Pens to Lens Student Screenwriting competition.
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TO BE FIONA
SYNOPSIS: Fiona received a surprise visit from the younger version of herself, the eight year old little Fiona who wanted to grow up and get rid of her childhood “problems.”
DIRECTOR: Fiona Lu
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
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WENDY
SYNOPSIS: It’s Halloween and Wendy doesn’t have anything to wear. She must rely on her own ingenuity and help from her imaginary friends to make a costume and join the other kids for Trick-Or-Treating.
DIRECTOR: Michael Oshins
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Monsieur Soeur is a small collective that makes odd animated films in an awful hurry since around 2009 and once stumbled into the Palais at Cannes totally unprepared.
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WINGMAN
SYNOPSIS: A couple constructs a massive cardboard plane for their nephew…but when they take it for a test flight, they find themselves fighting off an entire squadron of enemies! They’ll need more allies to win this battle.
DIRECTOR: Benoit McCullough
AWARDS WINS / NOMINATIONS: TBD
DIRECTOR’S / FILMMAKER’S BIO: Benoit is a Melbourne based Camera Department Nerd. He’s currently running around either Operating, Pulling some sharps, or loading some claps.
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