Family Shorts
2011 Festival
Films in this package
Filmmakers in Attendance: Rio and Skyler Fitch. During an afternoon of play, a young boy must use his wits and creativity to recover from a minor tragedy.
A magical tale about a mouse who takes a stroll through the woods and encounters three predators who all wish to eat him – a fox, an owl, and a snake. Based on the classic picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, the plucky mouse has to use his wits to survive. …
Ten-year-old Pico struggles to settle into the international boarding school high in the Himalayas of India that his British parents have enrolled him in. Picked on by bullies, he runs away. Travelling through a landscape he barely knows, can he find his way home? www.nomadosphere.com
Presenting Sponsor: Capstan Hauling Ltd. A young boy has fun in the park firing a crossbow … at his sister.
Presenting Sponsor: Freson Bros. IGA Ormie is a pig in every sense of the word. Pig see cookie. Pig want cookie. But they are out of reach and Ormie will do anything to gain the warm sweet taste that is his obsession.
Presenting Sponsor: Mr. Mikes Steakhouse & Bar Using classic, high-speed camera with dynamic and smooth jumps, and zooming in with 3D animation, Formic shows how a skateboarder (Dennis Gläser) disturbs the life of an ant and how it finally gets even.
A hamster chases his true love around the globe. Will he get her? Won the Audience Award at the 2010 AlpeAdriaCinema Trieste Film Festival. www.jacobfrey.de
Barko runs away to join the circus even though he never wanted to be a performer. Yet he finds exactly what he was looking for in the arms of a caring boy. www.titmouseshorts.com
Based on the book of the same name by multi award-winning author and illustrator Shaun Tan, The Lost Thing tells the story of a boy who discovers a strange creature on the beach and decides to find a home for it in a world where people are too busy to notice it. Won the Oscar…