CRYSTALYNE WILLIS
Design for Stage & Screen
Be-Friended Writer, Director, Producer, Production/Puppet/Costume Designer
FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINS:
BEST CHILDRENS SHORT FILM Tamizhagam International Film Festival. Chennai, India.
BEST ANIMATED FILM Arts Film Awards. Skopje, Macedonia.
HONOURABLE MENTION: PRODUCTION, DIRECTION, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY, SOUND DESIGN, EDITING & POSTER DESIGN Arts Film Awards. Skopje, Macedonia.
BEST FOREIGN SCREENPLAY HIIFF Heart International Italian Film Festival. Bologna, Italy.
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM, BEST CHILDREN'S SHORT FILM, BEST DIRECTOR/ SHORT FILM, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST EDITOR Bharatha Desam International Film Festival. Chennai, India.
HONOURABLE MENTION: COSUTME DESIGN Best International Film Festival. București, Romania.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY EB Indie Film Festival. New Jersey, USA.
HONOURABLE MENTION: CHILDREN'S SHORT SHORT to the Point. Bucharest, Romania.
Live-action puppet short film currently in the film festival circuit. Trailer for the fundraising campaign to shoot the film is below.
In a world where everyone is constantly connected to their device, an elder woman yearns so much for a connection that when a playful dragon wants to befriend her she accepts which endangers herself and those around her.