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Viola: The Traveling Rooms Walking with Grandpa
of a Little Giant
3 minutes a73 2008 a73 USA a73 In Competition
9 minutes a73 2008 a73 USA
Saturday 10:10a
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Friday 9:40p
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Saturday 3:40p
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Sunday 10:10a
Plays in: Family Shorts (p13)
Plays in: Animation Shorts (p50)
Director/Screenwriter/Animator: Holly Thorstad a73 Principal Cast: Olivia Salt, Gene Stahnke
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Director/Screenwriter/Animator/Editor: Shih-Ting Hung a73 Producers: Shih-Ting Hung, Joe
Tamas a73 Cinematographer: John Harrison a73 Music/Composers: Natasha Miren, Cynthia
What do an old man and a little girl have in common? A whole
shorts
Simonian a73 Narrator: Bob Davidson a73 shihtinghung.com
lot of nothing—at least that’s what Grandpa thinks. Two
characters at the opposite ends of their lives find they are linked
This winner of the 2008 Student Academy Award in the
together by their imagination. [family-friendly]
category of animation introduces us to seven-year-old Viola, as
she tries to grow up. The adventure she begins turns to surreal
Sponsor: Ashland Home Net
poetry, bringing her through adolescence, love and
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womanhood. From her ascension she comes, in the end, to
Holly Thorstad
know herself.
Student: Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Sponsor: Project A
Director’s Statement
Shih-Ting Hung
Growing up on a street named Los Amigos
Circle, I loved every minute of my
Graduate Student: University of Southern California
childhood. I was the Spanky McFarland of
Director’s Statement
a group of friends of every age. Now I bring this playful, life-
loving personality to the world of animation. Focusing on
When I hear a song or walk on the streets,
traditional hand-drawn animation I hope to inspire others to
random images come to me. I also have
enjoy life, even the times when you forget to add the water to
dreams about surreal settings. For Viola, all the visuals came out
lemonade.
of daydreams. I collected these visual elements for years and
wanted to put them together to see if they could make any sense
Filmography: The Frozen Cowboy
all together. Because of that I knew exactly how each scene was
going to look like before executing it: how wide the walls would
be, what kind of colors the settings might have, what the depth
of field we should have for each shot, and so on.
Some elements came later, however, in order to fit storytelling
needs. For example, the flamingoes appeared in the very middle
of the production—I found flamingoes so beautifully annoying,
so they fit perfectly for the metaphor I was going for—so here
they are.
Filmography: 1976: party, Planting Trees
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