Sundance just announced the short films selected for the 2008 festival. It's interesting that Sundance separates the US films and the International films. Clearly this is a strong year for international films. For a complete list of short films you can read the press release here. Here is the list of animated short films:
US Animated Short Films
THE ADVENTURES OF BAXTER & MCGUIRE: THE BOSS (Director: Mike Blum; Screenwriters: Michael Weithorn, Nick Bakay)– This animated buddy-comedy chronicles the adventures of Baxter and McGuire, the closest of pals who never leave each other's side. They also just happen to be testicles.
CHONTO (Director: Carson Mell)–Wilted rock idol Bobby Bird literally tries to buy a friend when he adopts a monkey from a zoo in South America.
THE HISTORY OF AMERICA (Director: MK12)–A psychedelic western space opera.
MY BIODEGRADABLE HEART (Director: Dana Adam Shapiro)– A story about puppy love and how long it would take said puppy to decompose.
TEAT BEAT OF SEX (Director: Signe Baumane)– A take on sex exclusively from a woman's point of view.
International Animated Short Films 1977/ United Kingdom (Director: Peque Varela)– A small town, a growing knot, and a girl searching for her identity.
DOG/ Iceland (Director: Hermann Karlsson)– Remembering the death of a dog and the guilt of a boy that soon followed.
FLIGHTY/ United Kingdom (Director: Leigh Hodgkinson)– Butterflies in search of mates undergo penultimate speed dating, and for good reason: they have two weeks to live.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD/ United Kingdom (Director: Joe Tucker; Screenwriter: Joe Tucker and Raphael Warner)– Graham lives with his overbearing mother in a Christian bookshop, trapped in the seedy outskirts of a decaying nowhere town. He and his mother both love God, but in very different ways.
I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE/ Canada (Director: Cam Christiansen; Screenwriter: Kris Demeanor)– A suburban boy competes in a tennis match with his father in the suburbs of Calgary when three young men approach and start to rudely accost them.
I MET THE WALRUS/ Canada (Director: Josh Raskin)– In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. Using the original interview as the soundtrack, this narrative tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multi-pronged animation.
LAPSUS/ Argentina (Director: Juan Pablo Zaramella)– A curious nun ventures into the darker side of her animated world.
MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI/ Canada (Directors: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski)– Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure adrift between real and imagined worlds.
PARADISE/ France (Director: Yi Zhou)– A lyrical look at plants and bugs preparing for pollination in the spring.
THE PEARCE SISTERS/ United Kingdom (Director: Luis Cook)– An amusingly bleak-hearted tale of two weather-lashed old spinsters living on a remote and austere strip of coast, scraping out a miserable existence from the sea.
YOURS TRULY/ United Kingdom (Director: Osbert Parker)– Animation and live action collide in the story of Frank and Charlie, a dark romance of psychological tension that unfolds as the two men sacrifice their morals in search of what they love.
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