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Best of Florida Animation Festival
September 27, 2025 @ 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm EDT
A collection of award-winning films from Tallahassee Film Society’s Florida Animation Festival
Presented in part by the Tallahassee Film Society, this curated showcase features a selection of award-winning short animated films from the Florida Animation Festival. From poetic visual essays to quirky character-driven tales, these works span styles, cultures, and emotional tones. Some highlights include a Belgian acrobatic love story, a DreamWorks desert adventure, a cryptid’s quest for the perfect selfie, and a haunting dance metaphor on identity and acceptance.
Films featured in this program include: Bilby, Balance, Love Me Fear Me, Negative Spaces, Only A Child, Undiscovered, and others!
About the Program
- Undiscovered
- Negative Spaces
- Love Me Fear Me
- Only A Child
- Balance
- Bilby
Theater #3
A film by Sara Litzenberger
Undiscovered follows Sasquatch on his quest for a good photo of himself. His attempts to jump into a photo before scaring away the hikers who are taking them are thwarted by the usual suspects–food in his teeth, closed eyes, mussed-up hair, an out-of-focus shot–resulting in deleted photos every time. Dejected, Sasquatch accepts his fate as a cryptid without a headshot when a candid photograph catches him by surprise. Before he gets a chance to check the photo, the hiker runs–and then trips, dropping his camera. Sasquatch discovers it’s a Polaroid, and we see the hiker–who managed to hold on to the printed photo–watch it develop into a familiar-looking image. Meanwhile, Sasquatch has found the perfect way to get a good photo: using the camera to photograph himself.
A film by Michaela Wadzinski
What if your sketchbook drawings came to life? The possibilities of an open page are exciting, but being erasable has its drawbacks. Negative Spaces explores the idea of self worth and how we can come to love ourselves.
A film by Veronica Solomon
What would you be willing to do for them to love you?
Love Me, Fear Me is a dance metaphor about the roles we play and the shapes we take, about the stages we chose, the audience we try to impress and the price of acceptance.
A film by Simone Giampaolo
Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn Cullis-Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet.
Featuring: Walkingframes, Marjolaine Perreten, Andrea Schneider, Emilien Davaud, Barbara Brunner (Brunner & Meyer), Nino Christen, Patrick Graf, Imgart Walthert, Oswald Iten, Philip Hofmänner, Tiny Giant, Michaela Müller, Team Tumult, Cyril Gfeller, Roman Kaelin, Cesar Diaz Melendez, Eisprung Studio, Stéphan Nappez
A film by Timothée Crabbé
Partners on stage and in life, acrobats Alec and Theo find each other in a perfect balance between lifting and flying, between leading and following, until this fragile balance is turned upside down by an accident. While Alec has to understand his physical situation, Theo climbs into the depths of his being, looking for the strength to deal with reality.
A film by Pierre Perifel, JP Sans, & Liron Topaz
Bilby is a 2018 CGI animated short film written and directed by Pierre Perifel, JP Sans, and Liron Topaz. It is the second short released from the DreamWorks Shorts program, following Bird Karma. The short evolved from ideas for the studio’s cancelled feature film Larrikins.
Set in the Australian outback, Bilby follows the desert-dwelling marsupial Perry through the trials and tribulations of “parenthood” after he saves a defenseless chick from predators and inadvertently becomes her protector.
Courtesy of DreamWorks Animation