Our screenplay named in official selection for US film festival

The screenplay for our upcoming debut short animated film has been named in the official selection at a film festival in the USA.

The Georgia Shorts Film Festival has chosen the script for A Fish Out of Water among those considered for honours at the festival in Atlanta, Georgia in June.

Francesca Louise White, who provides the voice of Lizzie Shepherd, with her copy of the screenplay

The festival is a theatrical screening event for independent short films of all genres. It focuses on films from Georgia and the South Eastern states, but also showcases some of the best films and scripts from around the world. 

The screenplay by our Andy Weltch and award-winning scriptwriter Rob Lancey was previously named in the official selection for the KinoDrome International Motion Picture & Screenplay Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, and the London-based Paperscreenplay competition.

A Fish Out of Water is described as 'a Victorian tale of the fantastical and bizarre' and is set in a West Country fishing village in an alternative version of the 1890s.

Andy and Rob developed the script from a piece of flash fiction, which Andy wrote during the COVID-19 lockdown.

The film, due for completion by early summer, is animated and directed by Matthew Creed and designed by Anthony Richards, with main characters voiced by Robert Daws, Francesca Louise White, Richard Oliver, and Samantha Hudson.

You can find out more on the film's IMDb page. You can also watch the teaser trailer here.

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