Two SALE toys, cruelly rejected by the buying public because they are different… plan a daring escape and end up somewhere unexpected…and quite wonderful.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION
RUBY & ROACH
SHORTS O’CLOCK II, Saturday, March 5, at 17:00 GMT +2
English title:
Ruby & Roach
Original title:
Ruby & Roach
Director:
Erentia Bedeker
Country:
South Africa
Genre:
Animation
Year:
2020
9’
Dialogues:
No
Subtitles:
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Cast:
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A quote for the film:
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Selective list of festivals and awards:
WINNER Best South African Short Film 2020 (Durban International Film Festival), WINNER Best African Short Film 2020 (Durban International Film Festival), WINNER Best Children Film (Tbilisi International Animation Festival (TIAF) 2020), Best Music Video/Music Films at the Blu-Hill Film Festival (Season 3, 2021), Best Animation Short Film at Onyko Films Awards
Directors’ bio:
Erentia Bedeker is an animator and animation director, and one of the founders of Wreckless Creative, a small independent graphic design and animation studio. She works in various forms of stop-motion animation from paper cut-out to carved wooden puppets. Bedeker's first professional film The Wild Goose Let a Feather Fall was a semi-finalist for ANNY: Animation Nights New York (2018). It also won an award for Best Original Soundtrack at the African Smartphone International Film Festival (2018) and Best Animated Short Movie at the Vesuvius International Monthly Film Festival, January 2021. The Wild Goose Let a Feather Fall was screened at various international film festivals. Her third film, Ruby & Roach, which was completed in 2020 has been selected for 36 international film festivals to date. Bedeker studied at the University of Stellenbosch where she received a bachelor’s degree in Acting and an honour’s degree in Afrikaans and Dutch. She is also a published poet, freelance puppeteer, and performer with a post-grad in education.
