Forage
Section: International Competition of Short Animations for Children (up to 12 years of age)
Director: Carolyn Gair / United States of America / 2024 / 7 min
No dialogues / No subtitles

Carolyn Gair is an award winning Canadian filmmaker with a degree in Classical Animation. She resides in Los Angeles as a writer, director & story artist winning both an Emmy Award and an Annie nomination. In 2023 she completed her first animated feature RETURN TO KELLOGG, as well as stopmotion shorts FLOWER, and FORAGE, which won Best Children’s Short, Audience Favorite Award, and Best Stopmotion Award at Los Angeles’ 2024 LAAF. TIN TUNE is her 3rd film in the found-object Rustnik series.
Zip is an intrepid but lonely “rustbot” in a world of found-objects come-to-life. Zip explores the vast expanses of a cluttered and long-abandoned attic.
This film screens as part of the programLaika and Other Animations.