“Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill.” a film by STEPHEN IRWIN // sound design by KEITH DUNCAN // supported by ROOFTOP FILMS // smalltimeinc.com GRAND PRIZE – New Chitose Airport Int’l Animation Festival 2020 OFFICIAL SELECTION – Sundance Film Festival 2020 BEST OF THE FEST – London International Animation Festival 2020 BEST UK FILM – London International Animation Festival 2020 HONOURABLE MENTION – Minimalen Short Film Festival 2021 “Survival, motherhood, death and beyond to alternate dimensions, parallel lives – we’ve never seen anything like it before, truly unique… Propelled by a triumphant orchestral score it takes us into the depths of weirdness where birth and death meet in an endless cycle of rainbows, blood and breast-milk.” LIAF Jury (Sophie Koko-Gate, Chris Shepherd, Max Hattler) “Exceptionally surprising and darkly funny, this animated curiosity loops and warps a message of monochromatic destruction and rainbow creation into a warning about nature – our own and Earth’s. In an orchestral explosion of collapse and colour, this hypnotic trip shows life and death as a queer, surreal and grotesque pattern of regeneration and degeneration that affects both land and body.” Minimalen Short Film Festival Jury Screenings: Silhouette Short Film Festival, July 2021 Bridge Film Festival, Verona, 14-17 July 2021 ShorTS International Film Festival (In Competition), 1-10 July 2021 Short Waves Festival, Poland, 14-20 June 2021 Zubroffka ISFF (In Competition), 9-13 June 2021 British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin (In Competition), 27 May – 2 June 2021 Animatricks (In Competition), 20-25 May 2021 Kaboom Animation Festival (In Competition), 31 March – 4 April 2021 Animac Spain, 25 February – 7 March 2021 Black Movie, Geneva, 22-31 January 2021 Minimalen Short Film Festival (In Competition), 12-17 January 2021 London Short Film Festival, 15-23 January 2021 Bogotá Short Film Festival (In Competition), 8-15 December 2020 Icona Animation Festival (In Competition), 4-6 December 2020 Les Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montreal, 1-6 December 2020 Animateka Int’l Animated Film Festival (Best of World), 30 Nov – 9 Dec 2020 Animasivo Mexico (In Competition), 27-29 November 2020 London Animation Festival (In Competition), 27 Nov – 6 December 2020 New Chitose Airport Int’l Animation Festival (In Competition), 20-23 November 2020 Manchester Animation Festival, 17-19 November 2020 This is England, Rouen (In Competition), 16-24 Nov 2020 Animest Romania (In Competition), 9-15 November 2020 Leeds International Film Festival (In Competition), 3-16 November 2020 REX Animation Film Festival (In Competition), 29 Oct – 1 Nov 2020 Denver Film Festival (In Competition), 22 Oct – 8 Nov 2020 Banjaluka IAFF (In Competition), 24-28 October 2020 Uppsala Short Film Festival (In Competition), 19-25 October 2020 BFI London Film Festival (In Competition), 7-18 October 2020 Sapporo Short Fest (Drunken Night Programme), 14-18 October 2020 Milwaukee Film Festival (In Competition), 15-29 October 2020 Riga International Film Festival (In Competition), 15-25 October 2020 DFF Oakland (In Competition), 4-11 October 2020 GLAS 2020 Showcase, 5-9 October 2020 Animafest Zagreb (In Competition), 28 Sept-3 Oct 2020 Loudoun Arts Film Festival (In Competition), 10-19 September 2020 Sydney Underground Film Festival, 10-20 September 2020 Fantoche (In Competition), 1-6 September 2020 Fest Anča (In Competition), 27-30 August 2020 Concorto Film Festival (Deep Night section), 22-29 August 2020 Film Festival della Lessinia (In Competition), 21-30 August 2020 IFFY (Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti), 20-22 August 2020 Rincon Int’l Film Festival (In Competition), 7 August – 6 September 2020 Melbourne International Film Festival (In Competition), 6-23 August 2020 Sundance London, 7-9 August 2020 Kyiv Int’l Short Film Festival (In Competition), 5-9 August 2020 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), (In Competition) 9-16 July 2020 Edinburgh International Film Festival (In Competition), 17-28 June 2020 Krakow Film Festival (In Competition), 31 May-7 June 2020 Vienna Shorts (In Competition), 28 May-2 June 2020 Flatpack (In Competition), 5-10 May 2020 Go Short (In Competition), 1-5 April 2020 Glas Animation Festival (In Competition), 19-22 March 2020 Tampere Film Festival (In Competition), 4-8 March 2020 IFFR (Quay Brothers screening), 25 & 28 January 2020 Sundance Film Festival (In Competition), 23 Jan – 3 Feb 2020 *PREMIERE*