Sog

Animated short film, written, directed and produced by Jonatan Schwenk

Year:		2017
Running time:		10:14 min.
Language:		no dialogue
Press kit:		download pdf
supported by:		HessenFilm und Medien
Sales & distribution:		Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg

After a flood, some fish got stuck in old trees. In danger of drying-out they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don't feel happy about the unintended gathering.

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selections (excerpt):

Animafest Zagreb
Annecy Intl’ Animation Film Festival
Anima Mundi
Anibar Intl’ Animation Festival
Ottawa Intl’ Animation Festival
Viborg Animation Festival
Klik Amsterdam Animation Festival
Bucheon Intl’ Animation Film Festival
Banjaluka Intl’ Animated Film Festival
DOK Leipzig
Leeds Intl’ Film Festival
Denver Film Festival
CutOut
Animage Pernambuco
Poitiers Film Festival
Animateka
Pune Intl’ Film Festival
Flickerfest
Trieste Film Festival
Premiers Plans Film Festival
Max Ophüls Preis
Glasgow Short Film Festival
Athens Animfest
SXSW
GLAS Animation Festival
Atlanta Film Festival
Filmfest Dresden
itfs Stuttgart
Pictoplasma

Total: 126+

AWARDS (excerpt):

CRISTAL FOR A GRADUATION FILM – Annecy
BEST STUDENT ANIMATION – Palm Springs ShortFest
EUROPEAN ANIMATION AWARD – Encounters Bristol
GOLDEN HORSEMAN – Filmfest Dresden
BEST STUDENT FILM – itfs Stuttgart
BEST ANIMATED SHORT – RiverRun
GRAND JURY PRIZE Europ. student films – Premiers Plans
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT ANIMATION – Flickerfest
GRAND PRIX – Primanima
MOST ORIGINAL FILM – Filmschoolfest Munich
BEST DIRECTION – Animage Pernambuco 
FIRST PRICE German competition – Interfilm Berlin
BEST FILM Animated Dreams – PÖFF Shorts
ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD – Go Short Nijmegen
BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION – Shorts México
BEST INTL. SHORT ANIMATION – DKF New Wave Festival
BEST ANIMATION AWARD – Artfools Int. Film Festival
BEST ANIMATED FILM – Brussels Independent Film Festival
SPECIAL JURY AWARD – Chennai Int. Short Film Festival
AUDIENCE AWARD – Lichter Filmfest
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM – Hyperfest
AUDIENCE AWARD – OpenEyes
BEST OF CATEGORY STUDENT SHORT – Salute Your Shorts
GOLDEN HERCULES – Kasseler Dokfest
BEST OF ANIMATIONS CORNER – Literally Short Film Festival
GOLDEN DONKEY – Concorto Film Festival
SPECIAL MENTION – Animateka
SPECIAL MENTION – Athens Animfest
SPECIAL MENTION – Festival of Animation Berlin
SPECIAL MENTION – Festival du Film court d‘Angouleme
HONOURABLE MENTION – Etiuda&Anima

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CREDITS:

written, directed and animated by Jonatan Schwenk
cowriter Merlin Flügel 
additional stop motion animation Marc Rühl 
additional 3d animation Florian Maubach 
2d animation Florian Maubach, Marc Rühl
 cinematography Iván Robles Mendoza 
gaffer Maximilian Reimann 
sfx set supervisor Marc Rühl 
sfx Nils Wildegans 
3d character modelling + rigging Jonatan Schwenk 
3d environments Ferdinand Kowalke 
cave destruction scene vfx Mikola Debik 
matchmoves Valentin Oellers
compositing Jonatan Schwenk, Maximilian Wagener, Daniel Maaß 
sound Jonatan Schwenk
set builders Teresa Rinn, Lynn Weyrich, Aleksandar Radan, Marcus Morgenstern
mentoring Prof. Rotraut Pape, Prof. Alex Opperman, Prof. Thomas Meyer-Hermann, Prof. Martina Bramkamp, Erika Surat Andersen, Urte Zintler, Anne Breymann

Behind the scenes

CONCEPT SKETCH