The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce a special lineup of award-winning animated short films in a session titled Saturday Morning Cartoons for Grown-ups. Special guests Amos Sussigan and Dan Lund will be in attendance.
This animation showcase features acclaimed shorts from around the world, including 2020 Academy Award nominee “Sister.”
The complete animation showcase line-up includes:
10:00 a.m. “The Kite”
10:15 a.m. “Sister”
10:25 a.m. “The Girl in the Hallway”
10:35 a.m. “Flowing Through Wonder”
10:50 a.m. “The Bird and the Whale”
11:00 a.m. “The Fox and the Bird”
11:10 a.m. “Flower Found!”
11:20 a.m. “Coaster” with animators Dan Lund and Amos Sussigan
The screening of “Coaster” will be followed by a presentation and Q and A with filmmakers Amos Sussigan and Dan Lund.
The Saturday Morning Cartoons for Grown-Ups animation showcase will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 21 at the Fargo Theatre.
Tickets are now on sale at the Fargo Theatre box office and are also available for purchase online.
About “Sister”
“Sister” is an Academy Award-nominated animated short in which a man recalls childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently?
About “Coaster”
“Coaster” is a coming-of-age animated short about a recent graduate experiencing the literal ups and downs of adulthood after moving into his first house, which happens to be built atop a roller coaster in sync with his emotions.
Amos Sussigan (“Coaster” director/producer/writer)
After working at Paramount Pictures, Disney, Fox, DreamWorks and Netflix, Amos is now an artist for Ryan Coogler’s “Space Jam 2” at Warner Brothers. Outside his studio work, Amos is a published author and has been awarded for writing and directing “Broken Wing” (2012), “Swan Cake” (2013), and art-directing and co-producing “Aria for a Cow” (2015), which features one of the last songs of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (“Beauty and the Beast,” “Aladdin”) which has been screened at more than 60 International Film Festivals.
Dan Lund (“Coaster” producer/writer)
Dan Lund has been a Disney effects animator/designer as well as an independent filmmaker for 30 years. His role as EFX Design Lead on “Frozen” was to conceptualize and animate effects traditionally and then work with the CGI animators in following it through to completion. Dan began his career at Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1989 as a production assistant and then went on to learn Disney
effects animation while working on the Oscar-nominated “Beauty and the Beast.” He has worked on such films as “Aladdin,” “The Lion King,” “Pocahontas,” “Mulan,” “The Princess and the Frog,” “Moana,” and “Frozen 2.”
Dan directed the documentary “Dream on Silly Dreamer” in
2005, for which he received a certificate of Merit from ASIFA. He was awarded Best Director from the York Film Festival for his feature length documentary “Death Becomes Them: The Musical.” He also directed the animated short “Aria for a Cow,” based on the
never-before-heard song from Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.
He is very active outside of the studio system with his own independent filmmaking projects, including the animated shorts “Hildy Hildy” and the web series “Jeffrey: The Series.”