Director Shaofu Zhang and the crew at Taiko’s studios in LA and Wuhan, China reimagine the Chinese myth of Pangu (aka the first living being and creator of everything) in this charming short film for Tencent’s Penguin Pictures. [Watch]
Director/designer Alessandro Novelli at Newgold in Barcelona: “We helped create different animated clips and loops for Anxiety Empire magazine’s 2020 Kickstarter campaign. [Watch]
Digital creative agency Hook in Ann Arbor, MI and Los Angeles, CA: “We are in a climate emergency. It’s not coming in the near future, it’s already here. In January 2019 at the World Economic Forum, this crisis was sparked by a speech from a 16-year-old student who decided our survival was more important than going to class. [Watch]
With the help of London’s Moth Studio and Saatchi & Saatchi, UK charity Marie Curie (who specialize in caring for people with a terminal illness) are on a mission to raise our comfort level with conversations about death. [Watch]
Following the success of their first animated mini-doc “The Only Gay in Nigeria” (included in Stash 131), writer/directors Andre Tomonari and Gui Boucault at Royal in São Paulo return with a twisted tale of maraschinos and marijuana in Brooklyn. [Watch]
In 2017, Toronto animator/filmmaker Noam Sussman decamped to the Estonian Academy of Arts to pursue his master’s degree in animation. The result was “Dream Cream”, a comedic look at dark themes including boredom, greed, and addiction. [Watch]
