FAU 2025
DIGITAL STORYTELING SHOWCASE
JUROR : Eddy Moon
Head of Programming of White Elephant Group Films https://www.wegfilms.com/team-members/eddy-moon
Award-winning filmmaker and nonprofit Arts Programs Director with 10+ years of experience in curating diverse film programs, managing arts nonprofit operations, creating artist development programs, and building industry partnerships.
PROGRAMMING TBA
Event: November 20th
MAD ARTS
https://www.yeswearemadarts.com/
481 South Federal Highway
Dania Beach, Florida 33004
United States
FALL 2024
2024 JUROR
Juried by Cassie Shao https://www.karasucassie.com
Featuring Animated Shorts by FAU’s SCMS Students
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animated by Sam Young
Patterned (2024) will explore self and identity, examining our connections with ourselves, others, and our environment. It will delve into our relationships with intangible concepts like love, fear, and rejection—everything we cling to but can’t see
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animated by Alina Ambar
Internal (2024) portrays the meaning of internal beauty through animation. It is important because it can help people with self image problems. Experimental introspection of social norms and self acceptance.
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animated by Joshua Perrin
Amiss (2024) Following the death of his wife a man takes a job as Lightkeeper
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animated by Conner Cox
Confeld (2024) This is a parody of Seinfeld in the style of 2010s “storytime animators.”
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animated by Sophia Manrique
Una Carta Al Cielo (A Letter to Heaven 2024 ) Antonio, a 7-year-old boy, has recently lost his mother due to a chronical illness and he is currently struggling with accepting this reality.
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animated by Natalia Oviedo
The Sorceress's Echoed Burden (2024) The process of preparing to pass on generational responsibility occurs through magical dreams, as Blu has been having dreams of memories for the past ten years that point to her destiny.
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animated by Gissele Bentacourt
BLU (2024) is an adaptation of the story of The Red Moon by Pedro Pablo. In a Florida slope forest, the protagonist Blu is born from a Rain Lily and soon encounters deforestation and extinction due to infrastructural development.
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animated by Siarra Ruiz
Mally Daydreams (2024) is an intellectual montage of the effects of maladaptive daydreaming, a psychological phenomenon in which real life experiences and interactions are substituted with fantasy. Each sequence of the animation are independent and distinct visual renditions of the condition that categorize it as a coping mechanism, employing a surrealist portrayal of its components.
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animated by Fatima Fernandez
In the Quiet, a Friend (2024) The main point of this story is to reflect on how everyone feels lost at times, which can lead to depression and anxiety. However, we should never give up—instead, we should seek help and learn to support one another. The genres explored in this animated story are: Slice-of-life drama genre and Psychological exploration.
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animated by Malik Augustin
A Star’s Vivid Journey (2024) The main character finds themself on a planet they are seeing for the first time. And due to the warnings of The World Tree, they find themself with an overbearing responsibility to save the planet from utter doom.
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animated by Priscilla Nieto
Nature’s course (2024) The story follows the life of a phoenix from its birth as it explores the world around it and makes friends, until losing everything causes the phoenix to be riddled with guilt and choose isolation to prevent harm to others. Will the phoenix hide itself away forever or will it learn to forgive itself?
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animated by Amaris Ortiz-Gomez
Ramona McBane’s Beastly Secret (2024) The visual poem’s theme is identity explored through the subject of werewolves. Protagonist Ramona McBane is the third great-granddaughter of the Wolfman, and she is part monster herself.
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animated by Kirlan I Moreno Lopez
The Sound of the Rabbit (2024)
In order to cope with the trauma, Victor creates an alternate persona in his head called the Rabbit. The animation starts with the Rabbit commenting on the apparent change of season visualized within Victor’s inner head space. Trigger Warning: Viewer discretion is advised.
FAU DIGITAL STORYTELLING SHOWCASE 2024
Assistant Professor Alejandra Abad’s Special Topics Course in Digital Storytelling and Animation investigates the moving image as it relates to media production and contemporary art practices. Students experiment with storytelling in the medium of animation while blurring fiction and non-fiction as stories based on true events are then adapted into fantasy and/or explorations of psychological interiority. Topics range from mental health and healing to dream logic, experimental comedy, coping with grief, trauma, environmental advocacy, and the inner workings of the mind through diverse character development and visual poetry.
EVENT SCHEDULE
7:00 pm Doors Open
7:10 pm Introductions
7:30 pm Screening Begins
8:30 pm Screening Ends
9:00 pm Student Q&A
10:00 pm Event Ends
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Animated Shorts by
Sam Young, Alina Ambar
Amaya Alleyne, Julie Nardelli
Joshua Perrin, Conner Cox
Sophia Manrique, Natalia Oviedo
Gissele Betancourt, Siarra Ruiz
Fatima Fernandez, Malik Augustin
Priscilla Nieto, Amaris Ortiz-Gomez
Kirlan I Moreno Lopez
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LOCATION
Date: November 22, 2024
Time: 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Address: Studio 18 Art Complex,
1101 Poinciana Dr, Pembroke Pines, FL 33025
Parking on the side of the building.
Phone: (954) 961-6067
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Students from Florida Atlantic University’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies will screen their animated shorts on November 22nd at Studio 18 Art Complex in Pembroke Pines in partnership with Lauren Mathes, Program Coordinator at The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery.
