"Panic Attack!"
short film
“Panic Attack!” is a 3-minute, hand-drawn animation from the point of view of a woman having a panic attack.
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I wanted the transitions between reality and her imagined fears to be seamless, so there are no edits --it is one continually transforming drawing.
AWARDS
First Prize, Bilderbeben, Germany
First Prize, Benedictine Film Festival
First Prize, Huntington Beach Film Fest
First Prize, Queens World Festival
First Place, Animation, KinoDrome
Best Animated Film, Procida Film Festival
Best Animation, Corto Helvetico al Femminile
Best Animation, Cinema Perpetuum Belarus
Best International Animation, Asti Film Festival
Best International Film, Wirksworth Film Festival
Best Experimental Short, Brooklyn Women's Film Fest
Best Short Film, PUSH! Film Festival
Best Animated Short, 6 Nebraska, Cape Town
Best International Short Film, Kinomorphia
Best 2D Short, Carton Festival, Buenos Aires
Best MicroShort, Fisheye Film Festival
Best Animation, Splice Film Fest
Best Animation, Under the Stars, Italy
Best Genre-Bender, Sunrise 45
Francie Award, Clones Film Festival
Spirit Award, Brooklyn Film Festival
Popular Jury Award, LoboFest
Jury Prize, Jaipur Film Festival
Jury Award, Beirut International Women's Festival
Jury Award, Preview Festival, Barcelona
Jury Award, Fano Film Festval, Italy
Platinum Remi, WorldFest-Houston
Professional Animation, St. Francis Film Festival
Audience Award, Splice Film Fest
Solé Tura Award, Brain Festival, Barcelona
Daena Corto Prize, Corto e A Capo
Kalifilm Award, Female Filmmakers Berlin
Cortos Ganadores, Festicine Pehuajo
Golden Sausage, Orscheler FilmFest
Special Mention, Pentedattilo Film Festival
Special Mention, Orvieto Cinema Fest
Special Mention, London Comedy Shorts
Special Mention, St Petersburg Film Festival
Honorable Mention, James River Festival
Honorable Mention, Muestra Intergalactica, Mexico
FESTIVALS
Aesthetica
American Psychological Assn Film Fest
Anchorage Film Festival
Anim’est
Ania Grand Off, Poland
Animakom, Bilbao
Animasyros Animation Festival
Animation Chico
ANIMAL Film Fest
Animattikon Project, Cyprus
Apulia Film Fest
Arizona Int'l Film Festival
Aspen Shortsfest
Athens Animfest, Greece
Athens Film and Video Festival, Ohio
Athens Short Film Festival, Greece
Aurora Film Festival
Barcelona Mecal Pro Film Festival
Beijing Short Film Festival
Beeston Film Festival
BendFilm Festival
Benicia Film Festival
Berkshire Film Festival
Bilbao Film Festival - ZINEBI
Big Muddy Film Festival
Bolton Film Festival
BOGOSHORTS
Boston Underground
Boulder Film Festival
Brainwash Movie Festival
Breaking Down Barriers, Moscow
Brixia Film Festival
Burien Film Festival
Bushwick Film Festival
Buskopolis Cinematic Oddities
Caminhos Film Festival
Canted Angle Film Festival
Canton Short Film Festival, China
Capital City Film Festival
Carmel Film Festival
Carnegie Mellon Film Competition
Castrovillari Film Festival
Catalyst Film Festival
Cefalu Film Festival
Certamen Cortos Soria, Spain
Chaktomuk Film Festival, Cambodia
Charlotte Film Festival
Chicago Feminist
Chicago Underground
CineFem 9 - Uraguay
CineKasimanwa, Western Visayas
Cinema Talks, Graz, Austria
Cinematic Panic
Cinequest Film & VR Fest, Colombia
Cinetoro Experimental Film Festival
CineMuskova
Cineglobe Film Festival
Columbus Film & Video Festival
Corfu Animation Festival
Dallas Medianale
Dalmatia Film Festival
Dances with Films
Defy Film Festival
Detroit Animation Festival
Detroit SheTown Women's Film Fest
Directed by Women, Turkey
Directed by Women • NYC Shorts of all Sorts
Doc Sunback Film Festival
Dublin Feminist
Duluth Short Shorts
Dunedin Film Festival
El Grito Fantastic & Horror Film Festival
El Ojo Iluso
Fantboi
Fargo Film Festival
Fastminds Neurodiversity Arts Festival
Fem.Cine.Anarchy
Feminist Border Arts Film Festival
Feminist Film Series: Nonfiction Shorts
Feminysta
Fest Anca, Žilina, Slovakia
Figari Film Fest
Film & Folklore, Trinidad & Tobago
Film Fest Petaluma
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
Flatland Film Festival
Flatpack FIlm Festival
Florence Film Festival, Italy
Florida Film Festival
Flying Broom Women's Film Festival
Focus on Female Filmmakers, Egyptian Theatre
Fort Myers Film Festival
Goa Short Film Festival
Gozo Film Festival
GRAND OFF - World Independent Short Film Festival
Grand Rapids Feminist Film Festival
Green Bay Film Festival
Greenpoint Film Festival
Hackney Attic Film Festival
Hamilton Film Festival
High Peak Independent Film Festival
Hollyshorts
Hoosier Films Annual Festival
Idyllwild Festival of Cinema
Imagine This Women's Film Festival
Indy Film Fest
InFest Short Film Festival
interfilm Berlin
International Alexandria Short Film Festival
International Motion Festival, Cyprus
International Short Film Festival Landau
International Tour Film Festival Rome
Istanbul International Short Film Festival
Johns Hopkins Film Festival
Karlovki Film Festival
Kerry Film Festival, Ireland
Kraljevski Filmski Festival, Serbia
Kyiv Short Film Festival
Lake Champlain International Film Festival
La Mano Festival
La Plata Independent Film Festival
Las Cruces Film Festival
Landshut Short Film Festival, Germany
Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival
Leicester Film Festival
Leiden Shorts
Linoleum International Festival
Linz Short Film Festival
Lobo Fest, Brazil
London Animation Festival
Lucca Film Festival
Lucid Dream Fantastic Film Fest
Madrid Indie Film Festival
Making Waves Film Festival
Medusa Underground Film Fest
Melbourne Animation Festival
Melkbos Short Film Festival
MicroActs Film Screening
Midwest Film Festival
Milwaukee Film Festival
Milwaukee Women’s Film Festival
Minneapolis - St Paul Film Festival
MikroFAF, Serbia
Mobile Animation Festival
MOHA Short Film Night, Budapest
Monster Fest, Australia
Nepal Film Festival
New Zealand Film Festival
Norwich Film Festival
Nox Film Fest
Ojai Film Festival
Omaha Film Festival
Onirica Film Festival
Orvieto Cinema Fest
Ouray International Film Festival
Overmountain Film Festival
Oxford Film Festival
Palace Film Festival, Poland
Palm Springs ShortFest
Panama Horror Film Festival
Phenomena Film Festival
PiGrecoZen Film Fest
Ploiesta International Film Festival
Positively Different Short Film Festival
Psarokokalo Short Film Festival
Pulcinella Film Festival
Pune Short Film Festival
Raindance Film Festival, London
Rainier Film Festival
Ramsgate Film & TV Festival
Reel Horror Fest
Rendezvous with Madness
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Riga International Film Festival
River Film Festival, Padova, Italy
River Bend Film Festival
Riverside International Film Festival
Rochester Global Film Series
Rome Independent Prisma Awards
Saigon Experimental Film Festival
St. Albans Film Festival
St. Cloud Film Fest
St. Louis Film Festival
Santa Cruz Film Festival, Argentina
Scampia Short Film Competition
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Seoul Film Festival
Shorts Attack – Berlin
Shortstack Film Festival
Sinevizyon
Sioux City Film Festival
Solidando Film Festival
Soo Film Festival
Spiritual Film Contracorriente
Stuff MX Film Festival
Tabor Film Festival, Croatia
Taos Shortz Film Fest
Tlanchana Fest
Tulsa American Film Festival
Twin Cities Film Fest
Varese Film Festival
Victory Int'l Film Festival
Victoria TX Independent Film Festival
Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival
Ville Film Festival
Vinilonga Short Film Festival
Walla Walla Movie Crush
Walthamstow Film Festival
Wanda: Feminism & Moving Image, Belfast
Washington DC Indie Film Fest
White Deer Film Festival
Windy City Film Festival
Women in Comedy Festival, Boston
Women Make Waves, Taiwan
Women Texas Film Festival
Women's Film Festival, Philadelphia
Woodstock Museum Film Festival
Worcester Film Festival
Yellowstone Int'l Film Festival
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