Prickly Jam
Director: James Cunningham
New Zealand, 2019, 6 min
Shooting Format:Digital, Sony FS7
Festival Year:2020
Category:Animation
Genre:Comedy
Cast:Rima Te Wiata, Ryan Cooper, Anna Jullienne
Crew:Writers: Kathryn Burnett, James Cunningham - Producer: James Cunningham - Music: Claire Cowan - Sound: Amy Barber - DOP: Aleks Sakowski - Animation and Visual Effects: Media Design School class BoAD19023
Email:mdsshortfilms@gmail.com
Synopsis
An end of days comedy animation about an amorous cricket and a starving hedgehog who wants to eat the last cricket left in the world.
About the director
James Cunningham is a New Zealand film director and animator of a dozen award winning short films. Many of those were made while he produced and directed short films with his students at Media Design School, the premier Animation and Visual Effects new media school in New Zealand.
Filmmaker's note
This film was inspired by news of a potential extinction of insects and the sound of a cricket's repetitive and boring song keeping me up at night. When I found a dying hedgehog in my driveway one day I discovered the other key character in the story.