Official Selections: 7th LA Animated Film Festival

Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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Our story went through many drafts, but from the start we knew we wanted to write a story about love. Maybe this could have been a love story about human beings in a more realistic and relatable setting, but love is so much bigger than reality. I don’t know why but it was always going to be about the moon and the stars.

Personally, I have a deep love of outer space. I find it mysterious, grandiose and magical. A twinkling reminder that there is always so much more out there. We’re all connected to a much larger, beautiful, abstract picture. As Carl Sagan put it “we are made of star stuff”. We are in fact, made up of the same matter that makes the stars shine, but I’ve found that the more significant truth is that everything, even our complicated and intangible emotions, are made of star stuff too. It’s profound to imagine that the invisible material that makes up people, is also what makes up planets, birds, black holes and empty air. Everything is actually connected. I’m sure there’s plenty more truthful and accurate names for this invisible connection, but I don’t really believe there’s a term more fitting than ‘love’. to love someone is to see the star stuff shining through them, and realize that your souls came from somewhere similar. It’s a swirl of many feelings, wrapped into one deep desire to understand and be understood. Anyone who has been in love will agree that there is no force as strong or as willful. No matter the distance or barriers, to love is to reach past all that and hold tightly to each other with gentle hands that only hearts can feel. To love is simply to care about one another. Even when love doesn't align, even when the lack of love hurts so badly, good things will blossom when you choose to love anyway. This film is a beautiful culmination of all the love my team gave to this project. And when I look back on what we made I couldn’t be more proud. The time we spent together has left me changed. I might, hopefully, be a better artist now, but I know undoubtedly that I have become a better person. I am better off because the artists that worked on this project cared and loved it deeply.

Thank you, for caring about this thing we worked so hard on, for seeing the common star stuff we share, and I hope you can feel at least a little bit of all our outpouring of love.

- Frankie Lasley, Director