Get ready for a great session with 2 short films straight from our official selection! After each screening, we interview the team behind the film and get to know more about their process and vision.
We are honoured to receive in this session as Special Guest HISKO HULSING. Hisko has directed the bonus episode of The Sandman "A Dream of A Thousand Cats" for Netflix. He also directed the animated series Undone for Amazon, starring Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel) and Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul). Hisko also made the beautiful animations in 'Cobain: Montage of Heck' directed by Brett Morgen.
Official Competition
Check out the cool short films and teams you can watch/meet this session:
Marijn Liek | Live-Action | 04'36''
When Peter walks into a lunchroom, he instantly falls in love with Anne, who works there. He wants to impress her with the right order but can't seem to make up his mind.
Lavinia Xausa | Documentary | 20'48’'
So Loud The Sky Can Hear Us is a documentary where an Italian director investigates how the sense of faith, community, belonging, conformism and exclusiveness, traditionally professed by Christian culture, can be found in Rotterdam in the encounter with a group of Feyenoord supporters.
Special Guest
ANIMATOR/DIRECTOR (COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK, UNDONE, THE SANDMAN: A DREAM OF A THOUSAND CATS)
Hisko Hulsing majored in painting and animation at the art academy of Rotterdam in 1995. His films Seventeen and Junkyard were invited to numerous festivals and won many awards, including the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the Audience Award at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.
Both Seventeen and Junkyard were the official Dutch entry for the Oscars.
Besides writing, directing, painting and animating for his animated films, Hisko composes the orchestral soundtracks for his own films. Hisko made illustrations and storyboards for over 100 advertising- and production companies such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Czar. He directed and animated television leaders for MTV and Dutch broadcasting companies and created comics and illustrations for several newspapers.
In 2012 Hisko Hulsing was invited by Disney Studio and Dreamworks to present his film Junkyard to the artists.
In 2014 Hisko Hulsing and his team of animators made large animated sequences for Cobain: Montage of Heck, the first authorized documentary about Kurt Cobain, directed by Brett Morgen. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has been theatrically released by Universal Pictures worldwide. HBO broadcasted Cobain: Montage of Heck in May 2015.
The film was critically hailed all over the world.
Hisko Hulsing directed, and production designed Undone, an animated series for adults for Amazon Prime and Michael Eisner’s Tornante, written by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Undone premiered in September 2019. It received a 100% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and appeared in the Top Ten lists of the New York Times, Vanity Fair and Time Magazine, among others.
Season 2 of Undone was released on April 29 2022.
He directed, and production designed the bonus episode of The Sandman for Netflix called ‘A Dream of a Thousand Cats’. It was released on August 19, 2022.