Drifting

When life's stresses physically manifest themselves, Simon is left to survive in the middle of the ocean on an airplane wing, fishing for better memories and fruit candies. Dir. Joel Benjamin Sound by Bryen Hensley / RDS Chicago Music by Sam Mewton AWARDS Silver Plaque Short Film: Animation Competition – Chicago International Film Fest Festival 1st Prize, Best Animation – Elgin Short Film Festival Stephen Susco Award: 1st Runner Up – River Bend Film Festival Special Festival Mention – Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival Best Animation, Nom. for Best Film, Production, Editing – Premiere IX SCREENINGS & FESTIVALS 2015 Cinefiesta-Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Puerto Rico Festival SPASM 2015, Montreal, Canada Tally Shorts Film Festival, Tallahassee, FL Taos Short Film Fest, Taos, NM Festival Mauvais, Tours, France (invited to submit) Athens Animfest, Athens, Greece International Noncommercial Animation Festival, Dresdon, Saxony, Germany Riverbend Film Festival, Southbend, IN Imago Film Festival, Elgin (invited to submit) SCREENINGS & FESTIVALS 2014 Klik! International Animation Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol, UK Kinofest, Bucharest, Romania Festival Internacional de Animacion (FIDA), Chile Mica Film Fest, Amazonia, Brazil Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival, Kolkata India Golden Orchid International Animation Festival, Penn State University Elgin Short Film Festival, Elgin, IL Premiere IX, Chicago, IL Thanks to Dustin Foster at Chop & Hue for cutting the trailer!