CRYSTALYNE WILLIS
Design for Stage & Screen
Be-Friended Writer, Director, Producer, Production/Puppet/Costume Designer
FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS & HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
BEST CHILDRENS SHORT FILM Tamizhagam International Film Festival. Chennai, India.
BEST ANIMATED FILM Arts Film Awards. Skopje, Macedonia.
BEST FOREIGN SCREENPLAY HIIFF Heart International Italian Film Festival. Bologna, Italy.
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST CHILDREN'S SHORT FILM, BEST DIRECTOR/ SHORT FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITOR Bharatha Desam International Film Festival. Chennai, India.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY EB Indie Film Festival. New Jersey, USA.
BEST ANIMATION FILM CIC International Film Festival. Mumbai, India.
HONOURABLE MENTION: PRODUCTION, DIRECTOR SHORT FILM, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY, SOUND DESIGN, EDITING & POSTER DESIGN Arts Film Awards. Skopje, Macedonia.
HONOURABLE MENTION: COSTUME DESIGN Best International Film Festival. Bucharest, Romania.
HONOURABLE MENTION: CHILDREN'S SHORT SHORT to the Point. Bucharest, Romania.
HONOURABLE MENTION: SHORT FILM Rolling Ideas. Bucharest, Romania.
FINALIST: SHORT FILM Marcellus Mini Movie Family Film Festival. Marcellus, USA.
FINALIST: BEST SHORT FILM Lucerna Youth and Children Film Festival. Moscow, Russia.
A live-action puppet short film.
In a world where everyone is constantly connected to their device, an elder woman yearns so much for a connection that when a playful dragon wants to befriend her she accepts which endangers herself and those around her.
Below: The trailer made as part of the fundraising campaign to shoot the film.