A young and bright-eyed Sandpiper is motivated by her mother to start hunting for food along with the rest of the flock in the sandy seashore. However, the tiny bird is still terrorised by the surfs that break on the ocean's shoreline, unable to take care of herself. Poor little Piper, growing up is difficult, nevertheless, your caring mother believes in you.
Piper is a 2016 computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Alan Barillaro, it was theatrically released alongside Pixar's Finding Dory on June 17, 2016. At the 89th Academy Awards it won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Like many of Pixar's shorts it has a lot more depth than can be expected in a short running time, and the unique aspect to this is how the birds and ocean moves so closely as to how in life that it's only incredible that it wasn't done via digital-rendering on actual animals.
Directed by Alan Barillaro.
Road rage with an elderly driver! An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.The Oscar choices for Best Animated Short left me and the audience at the theater confused and annoyed when we saw them this morning. Never before had I gone to a showing of the Oscar-nominated shorts (animated or live action) and heard people loudly grumbling about the [...]
Brilliant school-shooting drama! The lives of a young boy, his classmates and their gym teacher are shattered forever by the presence of a shooter in their small-town elementary school. The short has been sweeping the festival circuit and has Oscar buzz written all over it.Fabrice Joubert is a French film director and producer best known for his computer-animated short film, French Roast (2008), f [...]
Shortlisted by the Academy for Oscar consideration in the best documentary short categoryAlone tells the story of a 20-something black girl in Louisiana, who is in love with a prisoner apparently serving a ten year sentence and intends to marry him. I say apparently, because this black and white short is frustratingly vague about details. It's mainly composed of close-ups and voice overs of the gi [...]
Enjoy this CGI 3D Animated Short Film and winner of over 50 film festival jury and audience awards including Best Short Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Animated Film, Best Production Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Design. During the construction of the universe, a young member of the Cosmos Corps of Engineers decides to break some fundamental laws in the name of self-expression.Produced [...]
Plot:Two octopuses fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.>So this was an oscar nominee. But it's very unlike other oscar nominated shorts I know about. It is not a serious film. It's just that it is enjoyable. I like it because it's really well made. The stunts were more realistic than full length action films. But th [...]
Oscar-Contending film Umbrella earned acclaim on the festival circuit! Umbrella is a work of love, discipline, and resilience. It’s proof that when we find unique stories within our own experiences and we believe in our dreams with all our hearts, one day they will come true.The widely acclaimed short has had a successful festival run. It has made history in Brazil by participating in 19 Oscar-q [...]