Commissioned by FX Networks and based on Pamela Ribon’s acclaimed coming-of-age memoir, “My Year Of Dicks” earned Icelandic director/animator Sara Gunnarsdóttir a 2023 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film.

Billed as a retro-romantic-comedy that “pulls no punches with its female-forward look at sexual awakening”, the film uses a variety of loose animation styles plus live-action snippets of Ribon, to follow “an imaginative fifteen-year-old stubbornly determined to lose her virginity despite the pathetic pickings in the outskirts of Houston in the early 90’s.”
 
 

 
Client: FX Networks

Production: Cat’s Pajamas, Wonder Killer
Director: Sara Gunnarsdóttir
Creator/writer: Pamela Ribon
Producer: Jeanette Jeanenne
Animators: Josh Shaffner, Grace Nayoon Rhee, Amanda Bonaiuto, Brian Smee, Isabelle Aspin, Kevin Eskew, Cassie Shao
Background artist: Isabelle Aspin, Simon Estrada, CJ Walker
Cleanup and Color: Kyle Brooks
Compositing: Ethan Clarke

Music: Adam Blau
Sound Design: Trevor Gates

Cast:
Pam: Brie Tilton
Sam: Jackson Kelly
Karina: Klarissa Hernandez
Joey: Chris Elsenbroek
David: Sterling Temple Howard
Wally: Mical Trejo
Robert: Sean Stack
Clint: Dylan Darwish
Dad: Chris Kelman
Mom: Laura House
Natalie: D Ribon Upton
Diane: Martinique Duchene
Kelly: Pamela Ribon
Anais Nin: Pamela Ribon
Teen Driver: Ira Carling