Spring, Orchid
China/USA, 2017, 20 min.
Hui Lan, who refuses to accept her husband’s dementia and battles to get his love back, navigates their new relationship in this compelling romantic drama about first-generation Chinese immigrants.

Director: Hengqing Pan
Producer: Hengqing Pan
Writer: Hengqing Pan
Cast: Lee Chen, Cici Lau, Larry Wang Parrish
Executive producer: Charles Vijay Kumar
Cinematographer: Ludovica Isidori
Music: Micah Byers
School: Loyola Marymount University
 

Birdcage
USA, 2017, 24 min.
An animated story about opening up — literally.

Director: Vincent Cappelluti
Producer: Vincent Cappelluti
School: SCAD
 

The Peak
USA/Hong Kong, 2018, 15 min.
In this love story set against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s Hungry Ghost Festival, a young man leads his girlfriend on an elaborate scavenger hunt as they prepare to say goodbye to the city where they first met.

Director: Mark Alex Vogt
Producers: Dominique Koski, Shayain Lakhani
Writer: David Scanlon
Cast: Loïc Suberville, Brianna Weiss
Cinematographer: Kendall Sweeney
Production designer: Madelon Roser
Sound supervising editor: Tri Nguyen
School: SCAD
 

Dictoven
USA, 2017, 8 min.
A delusional dictator prepares for the arrival of his massive piano. In the midst of his performance, he snaps out of his delusion to realize the music and the world are not what he thinks they are.

Director: Ammar Nusry
Animation: Robert Wilson
Modeler: Leo Alvarez
Lighting: Naveen Sabesan, Aasha Sriram
Composers: Haddon Kime, Jared Le Deux
Sound effects: Cooper Skinner
School: SCAD
 

$30 to Antarctica
Hong Kong/USA/Antarctica, 2017, 18 min.
Ka Foon Chau grew up an impoverished child and retired a renowned doctor. Through a small gesture of support she received from a teacher, Chau built a life that moved beyond the obstacles set by her parents. Now, she’s ready to fulfill her dream of visiting Antarctica.

Director: Joey Chu
Producers: Joey Chu, Kelly McKay
Writer: Joey Chu
Cast: Ka Foon Chau, Ka Tak Chau
Cinematographer: Dumaine Babcock
Sound supervisor: Adam Traister
Editor: Samantha Cordova
School: SCAD
 

Whale Heart
Denmark, 2017, 8 min.
In an isolated whaling community, a man has developed an ungodly way of preparing himself to kill the creatures upon which his livelihood depends. Now he must initiate his son into the harsh blood trade.

Director: Robert Allen
Writer: Robert Allen
Art Director: Trine Sørensen
Production manager: Antoine JLL Lefevre
Technical director: Kenneth Doronin
Animation lead: Marie Eriksen
Music: Kenneth Lampl, Kirsten Lampl
School: The Animation Workshop at VIA University College
 

Creature from the Lake
France, 2017, 5 min.
In the '80s, a manly monster-hunter hero of a low-budget TV show and his cowardly camerawoman go to a remote lake on the night of a full moon, when mysterious disappearances tend to occur.

Directors: Renata Antunez, Alexis Bédué, Léa Bresciani, Amandine Canville, Maria Castro Rodriguez, Logan Cluber, Nicolas Grangeaud, Capucine Rahmoun-Swierczynski, Victor Rouxel, Orianne Siccardi and Mallaury Simoes
Producer: ISART Digital
School: École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs



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