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Wild Life

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Created By
Adam Davies

In Association With
Octopie & Valparaiso Pictures

An animated series about zoo animal friends hanging out after the apocalypse.

Written & Produced by Alex Plapinger, Dylan Dawson & Adam Davies. Featuring Reggie Watts, John Reynolds, Claudia O’Doherty, Natalie Palamides, Baron Vaughn, Skittlez Ortiz with guest appearances from Tim Heidecker, Rhys Darby and Peter Serafinowicz.

Black Death

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Created By
Gustaf Lindström

In Association With

An animated series that uses dark age mythology and folklore imagery to explore the modern world.

Written by Gustaf Lindström, Peter Lisinski & Alex Plapinger. Featuring Jamie Demetriou, Ellie White, Natasia Demetriou, Emma Sidi, Johnny White Really-Really, Rob Carter and more.

Dog Girl

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Created By
Katy Fishell

In Association With
Bandera, Green Street Pictures
Negative Space

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Created By
Nick Vokey

In Association With
Green Street Pictures

A comedy about a man trying to run an art gallery inside a coffee shop in Western Massachusetts. Featuring Jamie Demetriou, Jillian Bell, Mekki Leeper, Wayne Brady, Kate Berlant and John Early

Jay

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Created By
Joe Bennett & Ted Travelstead

In Association With
Lisa Mierke, Green Street Pictures
strawberry mansion

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Created By
Kentucker Audley & Albert Birney

In Association With
Smudge Films & Ley Line Entertainment

In a world where the government records and taxes dreams, an unassuming tax auditor gets swept up in a cosmic journey through the life and dreams of an aging eccentric named Bella

Strawberry Mansion is inspired by ancient fairy tales, but warns of the dangers of modern technology and consumerism gone too far. The story takes place both within a near-future reality, and inside the dreams of our main characters.

Premiered Sundance ’21.

Teddy

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Created By
Alex Plapinger, Dylan Dawson & Derek Eads

In Association With

A blood-soaked horror-comedy about TEDDY, a notorious slasher with a teddy bear for a head who travels the country with his equally psychotic yet lovable family as they all search for the American Dream via the “ultimate kill”.

Swan Boy

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Created By
Branson Reese

In Association With
Augenblick Studios

An animated series based on Branson Reese’s webcomic about Swan Boy, who is a swan but also a boy.

Featuring Jo Firestone, Sydney Battle, Marcos Gonzalez, James Adomian, Jon Lovitz and Henry Rollins.

Stevie

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Created By
Felipe Di Poi Tamargo

In Association With
Green Street Pictures
the legend of ochi

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Created By
Isaiah Saxon

In Association With
Encyclopedia Pictura & Neighborhood Watch & AGBO

A live-action fantasy adventure movie about a girl who uncovers the mysteries of animal communication.

Featuring animatronics from practical effects wizard Jonathan Nolan and the music of Dave Longstreth (Dirty Projectors).

The Dream

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Created By
Alan Resnick, Dina Kelberman & Robby Rackleff

In Association With
International Pidgeon Productions

Bit (Ana Fabrega) and James (Gary Richardson) attempt to become real people by moving into their first house together only to discover that everything is still confusing and difficult all the time.

The Last Forest

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Created By
Sean Pecknold

In Association With
Big Beach

A stop-motion feature set in a not-so distant future about the world’s few remaining animals clinging to survival in the last forest on earth.

Black Death: The Series

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Created By
Gustaf Lindström & Peter Lisinski

In Association With
Jamie Demetriou & Dylan Dawson

An upcoming half hour animated series, based on the Cake mini-series, about navigating life and relationships in a dark medieval world reminiscent of our own.

Abstract

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Created By
Ben Dickinson

In Association With
Shaka King & Brandon Harris

A workplace relationship comedy about the team developing the “next big thing” in consumer technology and how their lives change as they test the product on themselves.

sunbelly

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Created By
Jordan Speer

In Association With
Encyclopedia Production & Endcue

An award-winning sci-fi adventure about Earth’s last remaining survivors restoring life to their long lost home.

Featuring an original score from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

drifters

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Created By
Gustaf Lindström

In Association With

A ten-part animated series exploring themes of insignificance and helplessness through the lives of plankton and other micro-organisms.

Based on the award-winning and Oscar shortlisted film, PLANKTON.

Featuring performances from Jamie Demetriou, Charlotte Ritchie, Ellie White, Cam Spence, Rob Carter, Ben Seeder, Anna Seregina and more…

Beings

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Created By
Dan Britt

In Association With

As conspiracy theories have shifted from the fringe to the mainstream, BEINGS takes the “encounter” phenomenon to an absurd extreme presenting a series of animated tales of unlikely encounters with cryptozoological creatures.

Featuring Johnny Pemberton, Sam Campbell, Ayo Edebiri, Jamie Loftus, Jamie Demetriou, Brendan O’Hare and Corey Snearowski, Baker Terry and Ellie White.

USE

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Created By
Joe Pelling

In Association With

A reminder to the general public about the importance of things they may have forgotten or chosen to ignore such as Cups, Windows and Tantrums.

Written by Joe Pelling, Brendan O’Hare & Corey Snearwoski.

Featuring the artwork by Mikey Burey and Keith Rankin.

Vimeo Staff Pick.

No Glory In The West

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Created By
Sean Buckelew

In Association With
Green Street Pictures

An animated feature about the unlikely relationship that forms between a human employee at an warehouse fulfillment center and Margaret, an advanced AI robot laborer initially deployed as a publicity stunt, who unexpectedly becomes radicalized when the warehouse makes a push to unionize.

Two Pink Doors

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Created By
Dr. Brown

In Association With
Abso Lutely

TWO PINK DOORS brings Philip Burgers’ performance-based development process to screen for the first time.

Devised and performed by the Lyric Hyperion Theater clown community, the entire series unfolds in a single location with each film unfolding in a single unbroken shot.

Featuring Natalie Palamides, Courtney Pauroso, Max Baumgarten, Ian Bratschie, Bill O’Neill, Christina Catherine Martinez, Chad Damiani and Juzo Yoshida.

Time and Space

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Created By
Graham Mason

In Association With
Sarah Winshall, Nothing To See Here…

A sci-fi comedy feature, told in the style of a “real” documentary, TIME AND SPACE follows Don Pheasant, a small-town man who is abducted by aliens along with an eclectic group of humans from around the world. Together they stage a daring escape back to Earth and in the process find purpose, community, and love. Like Amblin-era Spielberg by way of Christopher Guest.

Piggy

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Created By
Steve Smith

In Association With
Abso Lutely

A Silicone Valley mega-corporation beta tests it’s first genetically engineered employee.

Directed by Steve Smith
Written by Steve Smith & Clay Tatum
Starring Clay Tatum, Eric Dadourian, Kyle Mizono and Ben Seeder.
Music by Jerry Paper

Pretty Good Story

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Created By
Ryan Miller & Alex Plapinger

In Association With

A true story series about extraordinary encounters with notable people.

Animated in hand painted stop motion by artist and musician John Andrews (Cut Worms, Hand Habits, Woods).

Featuring unexpected tales about run ins with Prince, Bob Dylan, Bill Clinton, David Bowie, Goldie Hawn, Ed Harris, Andrew WK, Willem Dafoe, Russell Brand and Coolio.

Good Morning Pickles

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Created By
Mike Anderson & Ryan Dickie

In Association With

Every morning Pickles and Carl recount the previous day over coffee.

The Grand Unified Theory of Howard Bloom

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Created By
Charlie Hoxie

In Association With
BricTV

Directed by multi-Emmy award-winning filmmaker Charlie Hoxie, this feature documentary explores the life and philosophies of Howard Bloom, “Inventor of the Sixties” and legendary publicist to Prince, Run DMC, Talking Heads, Michael Jackson and many many more

Following a life-halting bout of chronic fatigue syndrome, Howard turned to science and has devoted himself to uncovering the mysteries of humanity and the cosmos.

2020 NY DOC Fest Premiere

HOT FUTURE

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Created By
Mike Anderson

In Association With
Ryan Dickie

1000 years in the future, dance is violent and everything is hot. Johnny can’t find his girlfriend. When the beat drops, no one is safe.

Dear Lizzy

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Created By
Tim Lahan & Andy Baker

In Association With

A psychedelic animated virtual reality experience produced in collaboration with Pharrell Williams’ FiveHundred & With.in and set to the music of Deborah’s Child.

Art Direction by Tim Lahan.

Animation by Andy Baker Studios.

Official Selection Tribeca Film Fest 2020.

Playground

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Created By
Rodrigo Sousa

In Association With
Green Street Pictures

An animated adult horror feature film about children lost in a horrifying and fantastical world where they must adapt to survive.

last days

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Created By
Dr. Brown

In Association With
Abso Lutely

Dr. Brown evolves the performance-based devising process established in TWO PINK DOORS in this series of cinematic and profoundly dumb comedy films showcasing eight clowns in a variety of surreal environments.

Featuring Natalie Palamides, Courtney Pauroso, Max Baumgarten, Ian Bratschie, Bill O’Neill, Christina Catherine Martinez, Chad Damiani and Juzo Yoshida.

Hypercrypt

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Created By
Jordan Speer

In Association With
Encyclopedia Pictura, EndCue

A serialized sc-fi fantasy series about a band of outcasts on the run who find themselves trapped in a mysterious planet-sized labyrinth. A medieval fable wearing power armor and approaching hyperspeed at the edge of the galaxy.

Other People

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Created By
Will Dennis & Ellie Sachs

In Association With
Hannah Fidell

A half hour relationship comedy about a couple who are mutually uncertain about their future together and decide to experiment with being open.

Janpu

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Created By
Sean Hellfritsch

In Association With
Encyclopedia Pictura

A cartoon with no dialogue about the timeless state of pure exploration that encourages little kids to be courageous and curious.

Self

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Created By
Joey Izzo

In Association With
Brain Dead Studios

A hybrid live-action animated documentary series tracing the controversial history of the self help movement from its origins through to today, inspired by Joey Izzo’s short film You’ve Never Been Completely Honest.

City of George

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Created By
Andrew DeYoung

In Association With
Joe Bennett

An animated comedy series that explores a community of characters as they deal with the consequences of a local crisis.

Marina Tire

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Created By
Blair Beeken & Doron Max Hagay

In Association With
Lucia Aniello & Paul Downs

An ensemble workplace comedy about a straight women who opens a queer auto shop in an attempt to be an entrepreneur and ally.

Dr. Brown, Naturally

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Created By
Phil Burgers & Alia Shawkat

In Association With
Abso Lutely

A series of short films featuring Dr. Brown as a hapless explorer journeying through the natural world.