A young filmmaker spent 10 months working on his animated short film in the living room of his Brisbane home. Now, he's off to the Academy Awards. 🏆 Read his story:
An Ostrich Told Me
The film qualified for the Oscars when he won the gold medal at the Student Academy Awards and best Australian short at the Melbourne International Film Festival last year.Pendragon, who taught animation at the university for an income last year, became interested in filmmaking in high school. “I was in the living room during lockdown,” he said. “It’s pretty extraordinary that you can make something like that in your living room by yourself and it can go this far.”An Ostrich Told MeHe describes it as a comedy about an office worker who slowly realises he is living in a stop-motion universe.
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