Competition 3

Moving Out 02:56
USA 2016
Directed by: SeoHee Choi, John Han
Screenplay: John Han
Animation: John Han
Technique: 3D
Music: Garth Neustadter
Production/School: John McIntosh


A teenage daughter is loading heavy luggage onto a car as she is preparing to move away from her rural home. She believes that she is prepared to take the world head on, as most teenagers do and wants to prove it by loading the heavy luggage onto the car herself without the help of her mother.



Satellite 02:59
USA 2016
Directed by: Sungwon Moon
Screenplay: Sungwon Moon
Animation: Sungwon Moon
Technique: 2D
Music: Kenji Ueda
Production/School: John McIntosh


An astronaut named Ema struggles between the harshness of reality and the emptiness of a virtual world.



The Gardener 03:06
USA 2016
Directed by: Elana Lederman
Screenplay: Elana Lederman
Animation: Cat McDonnell, Meg Pangiochi, Brandon T-bone, Alejandra Alvarez
Technique: 3D
Music: Phill Boucher
Production/School: John McIntosh


An old woman at the end of her life uses all of her skills - gardening, tinkering, and a little bit of magic - to try to save herself, with unexpected results. After coming to the realization that her body is crumbling before her eyes, the old gardener puts the finishing touches on her masterpiece, a mythical bonsai tree that she believes can restore her to youth. But when time runs out too soon, the old woman fails in her quest and passes on. Her spirit, however, lives on in her creation, which begins to grow magnificently thanks to her love, dedication, and care.



True Colors 05:27
USA 2016
Directed by: Nicole Morciniec
Screenplay: Nicole Morciniec
Animation: Nicole Morciniec
Technique: 3D
Music: Tim Quick
Production/School: John McIntosh


A small sparrow falls in love with a beautiful bird, and paints himself to be colorful in order to catch her attention.



That Fat Cat Ate Dad's Hat 09:38
Singapore 2015
Directed by: Darran Kuah, Sebastian Law
Screenplay: Vanessa Ng, Chung Yin Ping, Sebastian Law
Animation: Larry Pagcaliwangan, Cidy Affandi, Yang Lin, Sebastian Law
Technique: 2D, 3D
Production/School: Chung Yin Ping
Dialogue language: English


A modern telling of the nine lives of a cat through its eyes. Connected by the soul of a single cat in different bodies through different times, the cat remembers its lives in a world run by humans through happy and tragic experiences with its neighbours, both feline and human alike.



One Day in July 02:12
Italy 2015
Directed by: Hermes Mangialardo
Screenplay: Hermes Mangialardo
Animation: Hermes Mangialardo
Technique: 2D computer
Music: Antonio Mangialardo
Production/School: Hermes Mangialardo


One children play with sand on a beach, buat a soldier come with his gun...



Puzzle 03:00
Israel 2015
Directed by: Stav Levi
Screenplay: Stav Levi
Animation: Stav Levi
Technique: 2D, Drawing on Film
Music: Tatran
Production/School: Stav Levi
Dialogue language: English
Subtitles language: English


A strange character is engulfed in the creation of its grand masterpiece - a puzzle the size of the world itself.



The Little Dancer of the Moulin Rouge / La Petite Danseuse du Moulin Rouge 20:00
France 2016
Directed by: Eric Vanz de Godoy
Screenplay: Eric Vanz de Godoy
Animation: Eric Vanz de Godoy
Technique: Puppets, Stop Motion
Music: Marc Siffert
Production/School: Eric Vanz de Godoy


Is the story of a little girl, my mother, with a dream of stars and light. An odyss