Cootie Contagion
Film Information
Director: Josh Smooha
Country: USA
Year: 2012
Language: English
Runtime: 7 minutes
Credits
Producers: Zachary Johnson
Cinematographer/DP: Nick Reinhard
Original Music: Greg de Iulio and Daniel Hildreth
Editor: Aaron Pagniano
Visual Effects: Marco Barreto and Adam Greenstein
Perfect Houseguest

Ru Kuwahata
Director, Producer, Writer

Max Porter
Director/Writer/Producer
Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata are award-winning animation directors. Specializing in mixed-media narratives, they are particularly interested in marrying analog and digital animation techniques, often combining handcrafted art, CG animation, drawn animation, stop-motion, and photographic effects. Since 2003, their films have screened in over 250 film festivals worldwide, including Sundance Film Festival and Annecy Animation Festival, and have received 25 international awards.
In addition, their personal and commissioned works have been profiled in various publications including IdN, Stash, Computer Arts, Animation Magazine, and MotionGrapher.com. They were profiled in Variety‘s “Up Next” spotlight in 2011.
Max has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a full-time faculty member at Maryland Institute College of Art. Ru earned a BFA from Parsons The New School for Design and is a thesis advisor for an MFA candidate at the School of Visual Arts. They finished a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Animated Film and released their film, Between Times, inspired by their time there.
Film Information
Director: Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata
Country: USA
Year: 2015
Runtime: 2 minutes
Credits
Director / Animator / Writer / Designer / Compositor / Editor: Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata
Music Composer / Sound Designer: Bram Meindersma
Musicians: Simone Aarnink, David Beukers & Tymen Bergman
CG Rigger: Brian Horgan & Will Walker
Funding: Marcella Brenner Grant
Tiny Power
Film Information
Director: Chen Chang
Country: USA
Year: 2015
Runtime: 2 minutes
Credits
Sound Design: León Bertone
Rosso Papavero
Film Information
Director: Martin Smatana
Country: Slovakia
Year: 2015
Runtime: 5 minutes
Credits
Producers: Martin Smatana and Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava
Writer: Ivana Sujova
Sound: Adam Kuchta
Post-Production: David Stumpf
Grading: Michal Sabik
Theme: Alzbeta Remencova
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
Film Information
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Country: Russia
Year: 2014
Runtime: 15 minutes
Credits
Script: Konstantin Bronzit
Design: Roman Sokolov
Animation: Vera Shiganova, Katya Ryabkova
Music: Valentin Vassenkov
Sound: Vladimir Golounin
Producers: Alexander Boyarsky, Sergey Selyanov
Olilo
Film Information
Director: Ao Li
Country: USA
Year: 2015
Runtime: 6 minutes
Credits
Writer: Ao Li
Composer: Nancy Li
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The Red Thunder
Film Information
Director: Alvaro Ron
Country: USA – Spain
Year: 2015
Language: English
Runtime: 6 min
Credits
Producer: Alvaro Ron
Executive Producers: Greg Haggart, Rosana Tomas
Writers: Alvaro Ron, Rafael Alvarez and Clara Viola
Story: Alvaro Ron & Valentina Pozzoli
Cinematographer/DP: Patrick Rousseau
Editor: Vicente Perez
Catwalk
Film Information
Director: Ninja Thyberg
Country: Sweden
Year: 2015
Language: Swedish
Runtime: 11 minutes
Credits
Producers: Eliza Jones and Johanna Lind
Director of Photography: Kristoffer Jonsson
Production Design: Jenny Akerstrom
Editor: Anton Hemgren
Sound: Philip Eriksson
Original Music/Composer: Linus Andersson
Costume: Freja Berglund
Key Cast: Freddie Mosten-Jacob and Sara Askelof
Switch Man
Hsun-Chun Chuang
Director, Producer, Writer
The first personal original animation piece: The Magical Eyeball, wined several animation awards in 11 countries during 2009-2010.
Shao-Kuei Tong
Director
Film Information
Directors: Hsun-Chun Chuang and Shao-Kuei Tong
Country: Taiwan
Year: 2015
Language: English
Runtime: 4 min
Credits
Producer, Writer, and Animation: Hsun-Chun Chuang
Original: Ming-Hsun Yu
Key Cast: Hsun-Chun Chuang and Shao-Kuei Tong
The Present
Film Information
Director: Jacob Frey
Country: Germany
Year: 2014
Language: English
Runtime: 4 min 20 sec
Credits
Producers: Anna Matacz and Jacob Frey
Writers: Fabio Coala and Jacob Frey
Voice Cast: Samantha Brown and Quinn Nealy
Walk the Dog
Film Information
Director: Sonja Rohleder
Country: Germany
Year: 2014
Language: N/A
Runtime: 3 min
Credits
Animation: Sonja Rohleder and Veronica Solomon
Sound: Michal Krajczok
Dancing with Gene Kelly
Film Information
Director/Writer: Katharine Rogers
Country: Australia
Year: 2015
Language: English
Runtime: 5 min
Credits
Producers: Amanda Asquith
DOP: Eddy Gill
Editor: Ceinwen Berry
Key Cast: Clementine Bell, Ruth Bell, Naomi Livingstone, James Stevenson