SEMÁFORO (Stoplight)

"Under the three lights of a Colombian stoplight a beautiful circus act becomes a terrifying freak show"

"Bajo las tres luces de un semáforo colombiano, un acto circense se convierte en un terrible show de fenómenos"

Idea & Animation by: Simón Wilches-Castro //

Music composed by: Anna Drubich

See the recording session here
( tinyurl.com/chowbeh )

Grand Prize Winner Adobe Achievement Awards 2013

Best Animation Adobe Achievement Awards 2013

Official Selection Ottawa International Animation Festival 2013

Official Selection Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2013

Regional Finalist Student Academy Awards 2013

Official Selection Animation Block Party 2013

Official Selection AnimaMundi Panorama 2013

Official Selection Anibar International Animation Festival 2013

Official Selection File +Anima 2013

Official Selection Cutout Fest 2013

Official Selection Tacoma Film Festival 2013

Official Selection Kuandu International Film Festival 2013

Official Selection Cyprus Animafest: Views of the World.

Official Selection RabbitFest 2013

Official Selection Chilemonos 2013

Official Selection Walthamstow International Film Festival Full Programme 2013

Official Selection Adobe First Frame 2013

Flux Screening series at the Hammer 2013

Official selection 12th International Student Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy (ISFVF)

22nd Annual Berkeley Video and Film Festival 2013.

Official Selection Primanima 2013

Official Selection Cinetoro 2013

Official Selection Blackrock animation film festival 2013
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Due to the ongoing war in the Colombian jungles, many people is forced to flee their rural territories and find refugee in capital cities. Their only mean of acquiring money is to put on shows under the city stoplights. Some dress like clowns or do acrobatics, others spit fire or juggle; and some show the only thing they have left: deformities and amputations in exchange for some sympathy and change.

This is the life of the people who live under a stoplight and the people who watch them.
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Debido a la continua guerra en las selvas colombianas, mucha gente ha sido forzada a abandonar sus territorios rurales y hallar refugio en las capitales. Su único medio para obtener dinero es montar shows bajo los semáforos de la ciudad. Algunos se visten de payasos o hacen acrobacias, otros escupen fuego o hacen malabares; y otros muestran lo único que les queda: sus deformidades y amputaciones a cambio de simpatía y alguna monedas.
Esta es la vida de la gente que vive bajo el semáforo y la gente que los mira.

Painted frame by frame in Photoshop.

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