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SCREENING INFORMATION
· Each film had to be made within 48hrs, and have included the chosen theme, action, and object that were pulled randomly and announced on April 9th at 6pm PT (and noted above).
· The film had to be 4 minutes or under.
· The film had to feature live-performance puppetry.
OUR GRACIOUS 2021 JUDGES
Alva Rogers is a writer, dramatist, lyricist and educator whose writing utilizes magic realism to explore themes of American identity, gender, otherness and “the uses of enchantment.”
CREDITS INCLUDE
Daughters of the Dust
School Daze
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Michael Oosterom is an actor, improviser, and puppeteer living in Los Angeles who brings humor, grace, and expert wiggling to skillfully made dollies.
CREDITS INCLUDE
Earth to Ned
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Puppet Up
Jean Marie is a NYC-based, multi-hyphenate creative and business expert. Known in the arts as an Emmy-nominated supervisor, award-winning producer, writer, puppet artist and an all around cheerleader
CREDITS INCLUDE
Helpsters
The Muppets
Wyatt Cenac's Brooklyn
48hr PUPPET FILM PROJECT 2021 SPONSORS
The 48hr Puppet Film Project is an annual event produced by Alex U. Griffin through the LA Guild of Puppetry. For the past two years, it has also been sponsored by Heather Henson and the Handmade Puppet Dreams film series.
This event first started in 2018 as an effort to spark creativity-through-challenge within puppeteers and filmmakers in the LA area by giving them just 48hrs to create a short film using our randomly-drawn theme, object, and action. Since then, the event has gone international and attracts submissions from participants from around the world!
Past judges have included Kirk Thatcher (The Muppets, Dinosaurs), Tim Lagasse (Crash & Bernstein, Helpsters), Trish Sie (Step Up: All In, Pitch Perfect 3), Heather Henson (IBEX Puppetry, Handmade Puppet Dreams), Christine Papalexis (Team America: World Police, Amaterasu), Bill Watterson (Dave Made a Maze, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Sam Koji Hale (Alien X-Mas, Yamasong: March of the Hollows), Liz Hara (Sesame Street, Life in Pieces) and Victor Yerrid (Crank Yankers, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance)