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Elder Birdsong
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Elder Birdsong

Elder Birdsong is one of fifteen films shortlisted by the World Health Organisation for their inaugural Health for All Film Festival. This animated short musical features 3 elderly birds: an ailing Owl, a physically challenged Tui, and a couple of isolated Korean Godwits who sing about challenges of mobility, loneliness, and self-reliance. The film has been a collaboration between Professor Merryn Gott and Dr Lisa Williams from the University of Auckland’s School of Nursing and Associate Professors Sarina Pearson and Shuchi Kothari from Media and Communication. Funded by MBIE’s Ageing Well National Science Challenge, Professor Gott and Dr Williams conducted interview-based research on issues of social isolation and loneliness among New Zealand’s elderly. They approached Drs. Pearson and Kothari who devised a funny, touching animated short film that could live on social media, in policy rooms, and on the film festival circuit. Kothari and Pearson chose animation because they believed that anthropomorphic animals and birds in particular have a great capacity to communicate powerful ideas more concisely than live-action characters. After reviewing more than 200 pages of interview material while scripting Elder Birdsong, the research was clear—these were not self-pitying old people. They were resilient, engaged and eloquently pointed out the systemic social structural problems that contributed to their sense of isolation and loneliness. To reflect the inclusiveness of the nursing research, 3 bird characters were created. Yukfoo Animation designed the birds and brought the characters to life on a very tight budget. In terms of voice-work there was a strong commitment to casting culturally appropriate performers for the respective birds. Rima Te Wiata’s rendition of the elderly Tui is a testament to the power of voice in animation. Musician Marshall Smith’s composition of the melody elevated the film’s lyrics and high school teacher Margaret’s willingness to take her singing from her classroom into the studio gave our Pakeha Owl real sincerity. The Korean non-actors that voiced the Godwits had never sung outside of the shower! All films are collaborative, but animation even more so. This project is an ode to our wise Kaumatua (elders) and the team who made it hope it inspires people to pay their older relations and neighbours a visit, or at least pick up the phone. http://www.elderbirdsongfilm.com https://www.who.int/film-festival
Menstrual Hygiene
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A Little More Blue - A film on Gender Identity
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A Little More Blue - A film on Gender Identity

A Little More Blue is a short animated film based on the story of a girl, trapped inside the body of a boy. Since childhood she knew she was a girl, and she knew someday she will have to break off her shackles and tell the truth to everyone, but until that day; she struggled between having the body of a boy and soul of a girl Many a times, some individuals do not identify with the gender that has been assigned to their biological sex. Such people may feel neglected and unaccepted by the society, only because of being different. Through this film I would like to create awareness among the society so that it accepts alternate sexualities and LGBTQ community, and also among the people who are having a problem in identifying with their gender, to comfort them by letting them know that they aren't alone in this. The film is based on a true story. Animation, Story, Direction: Sugandha Bansal Music: Chintan Trivedi Awards: -Riya Wadia Award at KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, Mumbai, 2019 -Runner Up at Iran Simorgh International Film Festival in Animation Category, 2019 -Finalist at Orange Flower Awards, 2020 Official Selections -Health for all Film Festival, Switzerland, 2020 -KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, Mumbai, 2019 -Film Screenings at Bollywood Indian Film Festival, Prague, 2019 and 100% Manusia Film Festival, Jakarta, 2019 and various cities like Chennai, Pune, Delhi and Lonavala as a part of Best of KASHISH All Year-Around Program -Starz Play Short Film Competition, Pakistan, 2019 -Zero MM Youth Film Festival 2019 -Global University Film Awards, Hong Kong , 2020 -Thessaloniki Animation Festival 2019 -Shanghai Pride Film Festival, 2019 Semi-Finalist -TASI Anifest Viewer’s Choice Award Finalist, 2019 -Simorgh International Film Festival, Iran, 2019 -Frames Film Festival, 2020 -Orange Flower Awards, 2020
Confetti
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Confetti

SINOPSIS: English: Some parties don't end as one expect... Español: Algunas fiestas no acaban como uno espera... 🎬DIRECCIÓN🎬: Mercè Sendino Àngel Estois Lucía Hernández 💲PRODUCCIÓN💲: El Tercer Pájaro Animation http://eltercerpajaro.com 2:28 min. | Cortometraje | 2018 | Barcelona (Spain) Técnica: Stop Motion (Pixilación) 🏆PREMIOS🏆 MONSTRA, Best Super Short Film, Lisboa, Portugal 2019 🎦FESTIVALES🎦 _Health for All Film Festival Team World Health Organization, WHO (OMS), 2020 #film4health _International Public Advertisement Festival of Seoul, Corea del sur 2019 _Mobile Animation Film Festival, Alabama, USA 2019 _Baixada Animada, Brasil 2019 _Cinespaña, Festival Internacional de Cine Hispánico, Toulouse, Francia 2019 _BlackBox Short Film Festival, Kunstraum Aarau, Suiza 2019 _Photometria International Photography Festival, Grecia 2019 _International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films: Varna, Bulgaria 2019 _Festival du Film d’Animation de Savigny, Festival de animación, Savigny, Suiza 2019 _Constantine’s Gold Coin: Festival de animación, Serbia, 2019 _Monstra, Festival de animación, Lisbóa, Portugal 2019 _Animac, Festival de animación, Lleida, España 2019 _FIFES Comedy film festival, Zagreb, Croacia 2019 _MOHA Short Film Night, Festival de animación, Budapest, Hungría 2019 _NukhuFest, mejores películas del año, Nueva York, USA 2018 -Locomocion, Festival de animación experimental, CDMX, México 2018 _ANNY: Animation Nights New York, Nueva York, USA 2018 ❤️ Visítanos en ❤️: http://eltercerpajaro.com 📷 INSTAGRAM 📷: https://www.instagram.com/eltercerpajaro/?hl=es
Antibiotic Resistance
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Antibiotic Resistance

Student Prize and Official selection of the World Health Organization Health for All Film Festival 2020 - Category 2 - Animation films https://www.who.int/film-festival You probably have heard the term ‘ Antibiotic Resistance ’, but are you sure you know what exactly it means? Rest assured, even people who have learned about antibiotic resistance in their undergraduate classes still have some major misconceptions regarding it. In this short video, we explain what antibiotic resistance (or bacterial resistance to antibiotics) actually is, and what are the processes that make it a serious problem to human health. If you have more questions about the subject, or want to discuss some of the simplifications made in this video, please post them below! We’ll try to answer them to the best of our knowledge, or refer you to online resources. • Written, Directed Filmed and Animated by Nitai Steinberg (http://nitai-sci-visuals.com) • Supervisor: Jodie Jenkinson (https://sciencevis.ca/) • Content Expert: Gaël McGill (http://www.digizyme.com/team.html) • Second Voting Member: Michael Corrin • Narration: Peg Graham • Music and Sound Design: Michael Guglia • Cast: Urfa Arain, Promise Bomide, Alex Cameron, Lohana Capanema Queiroz, Gurinder Kahlon, Devin Kreuger, Heidi Moore, Arathy Navaratnam, Frances Rankin, Ferzeen Sammy, Stephen Scharper, Shiyu Sheng • Narration Recording and Editing: Tim Wheeler, AMI Artist Management Inc. (http://amiagency.ca/contact-us/) • Computer Simulation of Bacterial Colonies: Bartlomiej Waclaw (https://bartekwaclaw.wordpress.com/) • Human 3D model: Nicholas Woolridge • Subtitiles: Spanish - Claudio Feimblatt and Claudio Steinberg; Arabic - Taysir Al Janabi and Hakeem Muhammad; French - Margot Riggi; Russian - Boris Morozov and Michael Morozov; Greek - Athanasios Tsagkadouras; Hebrew - Nitai Steinberg • Special Thanks:Nicholas Woolridge, Marc Dryer, Anya Rexha, Maeve Doyle, Shirley Long, Contessa Giontsis, Cindy MacDonald, Biomedical Communications Faculty and Students (https://bmc.med.utoronto.ca/), My Family Current subtitles: English, Español, العربية, Français, Русский, Ελληνικά, עברית, (...) If you want to help and contribute a translation to another language please contact Nitai, or comment below. Content: 0:01 Intro 0:35 What are antibiotics 1:21 What is antibiotic resistance 2:04 How antibiotic resistance appears by random mutations 3:29 Evolution of antibiotic resistance (by natural selection) 3:57 Antibiotic resistance spread 4:11 New directions 4:45 What can we do now? This movie was part of a Master’s Research Project submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Biomedical Communications (MScBMC), offered through the Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, in collaboration with Biomedical Communications, Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga. This is a shortened version of the movie, to watch the original version, please follow: https://youtu.be/ePxnY41LI8Y © 2020 Nitai Steinberg
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