Directed by Melissa Graziano
A combination of stop-motion cutouts and computer animation, Love on the Line is about two mid-Victorian teenage sweethearts sneaking onto their parents’ telegraph machines to chat.
Phineas, a sixteen-year-old rapscallion with a healthy appetite for ‘the fairer sex’, sneaks into his train manager father’s telegraph office to contact his long-distance girlfriend, Elizabeth. Prim [...]

Directed by Jesse Davis
Bring your daughter to work day! It’s finally time to show
Wendy what ‘father’ does all night long. But being a typical kid, Wendy’s interests only arise when her childhood curiosity kicks in. Although happy she’s enthused, ‘father’ is ill-prepared for the meddling mind of his daughter.
Biography
Jesse was born in Connecticut, growing up [...]

Directed by Joaquin Baldwin
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
Biography

Joaquin Baldwin is an animator and website designer from Paraguay, with a BFA in animation and working on an MFA in animation at UCLA. He has been granted several awards including the Jack Kent Cooke full Graduate [...]

Directed by Andy Windak
A dream-like world explored through the chasing of an ice cream truck with a mixed media animation approach. Fully animated using stop motion and extensive digital compositing with photo collage backgrounds.

Directed by Joaquin Baldwin, 3min
Papiroflexia (Spanish for “Origami”) is the animated tale of Fred, a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands.
Originally created as a poem by the director, it was turned into a short animated film created in the UCLA Animation Workshop.
Biography
Joaquin Baldwin is an animator and website designer from [...]

Directed by Dan Cregan, 8min
In this tale we meet her as a 12 year old little girl who finds herself in a strange country looking for her father. She is then taken in by a “unique” looking man who goes by Nino. The short film is completely from the perspective of Princess and what she [...]

Directed by Kevin Barlow, 3min
Genetic Scientists working for the Helix Corporation combine the metal lithium with human DNA to create an indestructible superhuman creature to use in its ongoing world conquest.
This creature’s name is Lithium.
His first mission in Fusion City is to track down an experimental abomination: Razor, who escaped from the Helix Advanced Biofusion [...]

Directed by Anthony Scalmato, 7min
In the underworld of the New York City Subway system, one man struggles with madness for a chance at love. Presented as a disjointed sequence of fantasies ‘When the World Goes Dark’ is a chilling reminder that the everyday and commonplace can be as grotesque as it is absurd. In the [...]

Directed by Brad Puttulo, 19min
24 Frames is a stop-motion animated black comedy mockumentary about a stop-motion animated film production at an art college in the southern U.S. The crew, which consists mainly of ambitious animation students, aspires to adapt a children’s book into an animated film to impress the school’s president, who also happens to [...]