Official Selections: 5th LA Animated Film Festival
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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The 7th Night: MaoMao Revisits
Los Angeles Premiere
Short Short
According to Chinese custom, every soul will pay a last visit to their beloved family on the 7th night after they passed away. This is a story about a little boy waiting for the return of his lost beloved cat MaoMao.
Will MaoMao come back for her farewell? or has she forgoten about her owner?
Director: ahLoong
Producer: Edmund Chan, Raye Lee
Writer: ahLoong
Cast: NA
Editor: Foo Kiat Leong
- Semi Finalist, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival laurel
- Official Selection, Warsaw International Film Festival
- Official Selection, Montreal International Animation Film Festival - ANIMAZE
- Nominee, Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology
- Award Winner: SEA Kre8tif award & TBS Digicon6 award
The Meeps - Love Louder
Music Video
The Meeps are a fictional musical group of stuffed animals who have relocated to Venice Beach California to pursue their dreams of becoming rockstars.
Director: Olivier Staphylas
Producer: Michelle Jurado Staphylas / Varunee Santa
Cast: Lamar Morris, Joshua Jackson
Editor: Olivier Staphylas
Instagram: @themeepsofficial
Twitter: @themeepstweet
The Yellow Kite
World Premiere
Music Video
Two friends explore a world of imagination with the aid of their Yellow Kite.
Director/Producer: Woody Yocum
Writer: Lynn Pickering
Music Composed and Played by Klaus Ebert
This film began as a poem that Lynn wrote in response to a series photos that I had sent her of some of our little characters posed in the garden. Klaus began composing music to it and no time we were assembling animation. A story of simple and happy collaboration.
Instagram: @Woodyyocum