BRIDGE -My Little Friends-
●Synopsis
“I’ll make sure you meet Shiro again. It’s a promise!”
Jin, the cat, makes this vow to Mugi, who is heartbroken over the loss of his beloved dog, Shiro.
With the help of a pigeon and a squirrel, Jin’s grand plan is set into motion!
●Cast
Jin: Natsumi Kawaida
Kageyama: Yuichi Nakamura
Mugi: Tomori Kusunoki
Squirrel: Shiori Izawa
Pigeon A: Natsu Yorita
Pigeon B: Ahiru Ohira
●Credit
Original Concept & Director: Kazushi Ishihara
Screenplay: Takahiro Nagano
Character Design: Gurihiru
Direction & CGI Director: Mizuki Saito
Sound Director: Takeshi Takatera
Sound Production: qooop
Music: Asuka Ito
Animation Producers: Yasunobu Yamagata, Yutaka Nishino
Producer: Shin Mizusawa
Production: StudioGOONEYS
●Film Festival Awards Information
Selected for the award‼
●Akihabara International Film Festival – Grand Prix
https://x.com/Aiff_jp/status/1855942358350889068
●Portland Film, Animation, and Technology Festival – Best 3D Short Animation Winner
●Portland Film, Animation, and Technology Festival – Best Short Animation for Kids Silver Award
https://pdxfestofcinema.com/awards/
●Bondance International Film Festival － Best Short Animation Winner
https://www.bondanceiff-j.com/2024
●Black Star International Film Festival － Best Animation Film Winner
https://bsiff.org/bsiff24-awards/
●Boston International Kids Film Festival－ Best Foreign Language Short Film Winner
https://bikff.org/2024-films/
●Best Hollywood Day Short Film Festival － Best Animation Winner
https://bestfilmawards.com/winners/hollywoodday-short-film-festival
●New York Film & Cinematography Awards － Best Director – Animation Film Special Award
https://bestfilmawards.com/official-selection/2024
●Los Angeles Film & Music Video Awards － Animation Film Special Award
https://bestfilmawards.com/winners/los-angeles-movie-and-music-video-awards
●Sapporo International Film Festival － Children’s Short Category Bronze Award
https://sapporoshortfest.jp/24/programmes/family/
Selected for nomination and screening‼
●SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Electronic Theater
●New York Animation Awards – Finalist
●Waterford International Film Festival – Finalist
●San Diego International Film Festival
●DC Shorts International Film Festival
●Bangalore International Short Film Festival
●Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival
●Boston Film Festival
●International Kids Film Festival
●International New York Film Festival
●Comment
〈Portland Film, Animation, and Technology Festival〉
Bridge – My Little Friends – “This film was absolutely beautiful and touching! All lovable characters, and masterful storytelling, and fun voice acting. Animation was slick, with a mix of 2-D and 3-D elements, Gorgeous art direction and color styling, accompanied with an elevated musical score. Theme was really sweet and relatable, and whimsical element of having the animals be able to communicate. Overall, such a sweet film and well done!
Temporarily Removed – “Tremendous, from start to finish. Loved the main character, excellent art direction, color pallet, and character design throughout. Amazing composition and storytelling. Just superb!”
〈Boston International Kids Film Festival〉
It is our pleasure to inform you that BRIDGE -My Little Friends- was selected as the Best Foreign Language Short Film of the 12th Annual Boston International Kids Film Festival!
There is so much about your film that our judges loved and the audience reaction was the perfect validation that they made the right choice! We all found your work to be very impressive and so creative! We have a beautiful award to send to you so please share the best address to ship it to.
Congratulations again! Choosing a winner among so many wonderful submissions was a very difficult decision and we hope that you are as proud to receive our award as we were to be able to share your film with our audience.
Please keep in touch and we’ll hope for another film next year!
●Contact
E-mail：original@gooneys.co.jp
TEL：03-6300-9523