The ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS returns for its second year in theaters with 12 charming family-friendly films. The films included are:
• Stems - Ainslie Hendersen (Scotland)
• Shift - Cecilia Puglesi & Yijun Liu (U.S.)
• Pearl - Patrick Osborne (U.S.)
• Crin-crin - Iris Alexandre (Belgium)
• Mirror - Chris Ware, John Kuramoto, Ira Glass (U.S.)
• Last summer in the garden - bekky O’Neil (Canada)
• Waiting for the New Year - Vladimir Leschiov (Latvia)
• Piper - Alan Barillaro (U.S.)
• Bøygen - Kristian Pedersen (Norway)
• Afternoon Class - Seoro Oh (Korea)
• About a Mother - Dina Velikovskaya (Russia)
• Exploozy - Joshua Gunn, Trevor Piecham, & John McGowan (U.S.)
• Inner Workings - Leo Matsuda (U.S.)
• Corpus - Marc Héricher (France)
• Blue - Daniela Sherer (Israel)
• Manoman - Simon Cartwright (England)
• All Their Shades - Chloé Alliez (Belgium)
Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat's epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the planet.
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium.
The Hidden Rebellion is a docudrama about an 18th Century popular uprising against the French Revolution, and how the rebellion was brutally suppressed by the Revolutionary armies.
"Panic Attack!" is a hand-drawn animation from the point of view of a woman having a panic attack. I wanted the transitions between reality and her imagined fears to be seamless, so there are no edits -- it is one continually transforming drawing.