Director Stéphanie Clement’s Pachyderme is on the 96th Annual Academy Awards Best Animated Short Film shortlist. It’s about a woman named Louise who recalls visiting her grandparents as a child. What follows is a serious and shocking look at their time together. Clement provides some context for how Pachyderme came to be in this Animation […]

Letter to a Pig is about a guest speaker in a classroom recalling a traumatic event and a female student who becomes immersed in the story. In this Animation Scoop Q&A, director Tal Kantor takes me through how she made one of this year’s 15 finalists for the Best Animated Short Film Oscar. (This Email […]

Academy Award nominee Dave Mullins (of Pixar’s Lou) is back on the Oscars Best Animated Short Film shortlist. He has directed WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko. Learn how Mullins took an iconic song and paired it with a powerful story to create a short that will likely be talked […]

Flora Anna Buda is the director of 27, a 2024 Oscar shortlisted animated short about a 27-year-old woman trying to navigate life’s complications — what she experiences day to day and what she feels, emotionally, inside. Buda and I explore the short’s themes, which will likely resonate with some of this generation’s twentysomethings, in this […]

It’s a day in the life of a worker who loves ballet dancing and lives in a… Dog Apartment. Ordinary for him. Unique for us. This short comes from director Priit Tender, who is thrilled to be on the 96th Oscars Best Animated Short Film shortlist. (This Animation Scoop Q&A was conducted as an Email […]