
MONDAY
JULY 25, 1:00PM
PROGRAM 19
SHORTLIST

Babe-Braham Lincoln
USA / Animation / 11 minutes
Director/Writer: Jared Nigro
A psychedelic retelling of Abraham Lincoln's childhood.

Focket Fyre
Belgium / Animation / 11 minutes
Director: Loulou João
Producer: Loulou João, Nathan Van den Bossche
“Focket Fyre: Skate or Die” is a story about a girl named Miss Focket who wants to get into quadskating. However, before she can do that, she’ll need to break the mental block which is keeping her in a dissociative loop within the compounds of her bedroom.

Laika & Nemo
Germany / Animation / 15 minutes
Director: Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow
Writer: Jan Gadermann
Producer: Johannes Schubert
Nemo looks different. Nobody else wears a diving suit and such a huge helmet. But then he meets Laika, an astronaut.

Liv & Bell "Bell's long thin friend "
Japan / Animation / 5 minutes
Director: Natsuki Kida
Writer: Natsuki Kida, Naoya Kida
Producer: Izumi Nakazawa, Ryosuke Komine
Liv & Bell, the story of Liv, a girl with a big ribbon, and Bell, a colorful hedgehog, who travel in the flying house with an inventor pig.
One day, the flying house lands in a beautiful but Lackluster town.
On the outskirts of town, there is a lot of nature, but there is also a factory spewing black smoke.

Do Not Feed The Pigeons
United Kingdom / Animation / 9 minutes
Director: Antonin Niclass
Writer: Vladimir Krasilnikov
Producer: Jordi Morera
Even in a lonely, revolting and boring place such as a coach station, a little bit of harmony can always be found...

Dreamer
Bulgaria / Animation / 10 minutes
Director:Writer: Vladimir Todorov
Producer: Victor Chouchkov, Borislav Chouchkov
Dreamer is a dystopian fairytale about the hope of rebuilding a world that has suffered seemingly irreversible disasters. The hope of fixing something that has gone horribly wrong. The hope of a second chance.

Jump Start Man
USA / Animation / 4 minutes
Director/Writer: Jonathan Girgis
Producer: Jonathan Girgis
Cast: Brendan Hunter, Irene Yenko
Clark, a disgruntled superhero on the verge of divorce, must go on a rescue mission when his wife is kidnapped by his arch nemesis the Resistor.

Meal on the Plate
USA / Animation / 7 minutes
Director/Writer: Chenglin Xie
Producer: Chenglin Xie, Michelle Yu Du
You are what you eat. In a world where people start to look like the thing they eat the most of, you can take this quite literally. When a newcomer prefers different eating habits, the visible consequences turn the world upside down.

Pimento!
USA / Animation / 6 minutes
Director/Writer: Caleb Carl Nelson
Producer: Caleb Carl Nelson
Cast: Abigail Hendricks, Jeffery Todd Parrott, Caleb Nelson, Amelia Hernandez
Pimento! Follows a tiny goblin’s misadventures as she’s sent out on a special errand: stealing from the sprawling human-populated metropolis Ballyhoo! Only time will tell if she’s enough of a monster to commit heinous crimes—or if her moral compass will stand in her way!

My Breakfast With Barf
USA / Animation / 9 minutes
Director/Writer: Peter Javidpour
Producer: Julie Trieu
Cast: Peter Javidpour
A struggling artist reunites with his old friend and mentor over breakfast.

The Social Chameleon
USA / Animation / 10 minutes
Director/Writer: Alex Ross
Producer: Andrew Austin, Alex Ross, Vrinda Sood, Spencer Turley, Shayna Naemi
Cosmo the chameleon doesn't fit in with the other animals. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't seem to find his place in the jungle. Then, everything changes when he meets another chameleon who shows him how to live by his own true colors!