Animation students from Griffith Film School have been selected to showcase their work at the Melbourne International Animation Festival this week.
Brodie Stephenson’s stop-motion short Fifty-Two is one of the films screening in Melbourne.
His graduate project has created waves on the international festival circuit: it won Best Animation at the Tiblisi International Student Film Festival, was shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Film Awards and also screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film was part of his Honours project, which explored ways to create independent stop motion movies on a shoestring budget.
The young filmmaker has been astounded at the response to Fifty-Two, a post-apocalyptic thriller with a powerful twist.
“It’s super exciting,” he said.
“Getting selected to screen at festivals here in Australia and overseas has given my film a wider audience – and it’s been fantastic watching it up on the big screen with an audience.”
This was Brodie’s first foray into stop motion – a notoriously