Sand
Sand (2017) - 4:52 min
You get up at five, eat your vitamins, take some water with your coffee, work for a few hours, eat your omegas and flavonoids, work a little more, get some exercise and then take a shower. But don’t bother trying to wash the sand out of your hair.
Director, script, animation, music, editing: Arjan Brentjes
Narrated by Bart van der Schaaf
This film was supported by The Netherlands Film Fund
Awards and nominations
-Best animation at Siciliambiente, San Vito Lo Capo, Italy (July 2019)
-Best animation at Miami Short Film Festival, Miami, USA (November 2018)
-3rd place Best Animation at Open Eyes FilmFest, Marburg, Germany (July 2018)
-Best Animation Film at Boomtown Film and Music Festival, Beaumont, USA (April 2018)
-Prix des Lycéens at Micro & Films, Aubenas, France (March 2018)
-Best Professional Short Fiction at RAW Science Film Festival, Santa Barbara, USA (January 2018)
-Best Animation Film at Ouchy Awards, 1st season of 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland ((January 2018)
-Nominated for Golden Calf for best short at Dutch Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands (September 2017)
Screenings
Sep 2019 - Shortcutz at Film by the Sea, Vlissingen, Netherlands
Sep 2019 - Manifesto Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jul 2019 - Siciliambiente, San Vito Lo Capo, Italy
Mar 2019 - Internationale Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg, Germany
Mar 2019 - Ouchy Awards, Lausanne, Switzerland
Jan 2019 - Shortcutz Annual Awards, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nov 2018 - CinemaForum, Warsaw, Poland
Nov 2018 - Miami Short Film Festival, Miami, USA
Nov 2018 - St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, USA
Nov 2018 - Indie Memphis Film Festival, Memphis, USA
Nov 2018 - Rome International Film Festival, Rome, USA
Oct 2018 - Festival de Cine de Madrid, Madrid Spain
Aug 2018 - Animaze, Montreal, Canada
Aug 2018 - Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
Aug 2018 - Wiz-Art International Short FIlm Festival, Lviv, Ukraine
Jul 2018 - Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, Seattle, USA
Jul 2018 - Open Eyes FilmFest, Marburg, Germany
Jul 2018 - Manlleu Film Festival, Manlleu, Spain
Jul 2018 - Short Film Breaks, Bucharest, Romania
Jun 2018 - Transilvania Shorts, Târgu Mureș, Romania
Jun 2018 - British Animation Film Festival, London, UK
Jun 2018 - Florida Animation Festival, Tallahassee, USA
Jun 2018 - deadCenter Film Festival, Oklahoma City, USA
Jun 2018 - Rebel Film Festival, PLymouth, UK
May 2018 - Altered Esthetics Film Festival, Minneapolis, USA
May 2018 - Sorsi Corti, Short Film and Wine Festival, Palermo, Italy
May 2018 - Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA
Apr 2018 - Working Title Film Festival, Vicenza, Italy
Apr 2018 - Indy Film Fest, Indiana, USA
Apr 2018 - Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
Apr 2018 - Festival du Film Court d’Angoulême, Angoulême, France
Apr 2018 - Monstra on the Loose, 8 locations in Portugal
Apr 2018 - Boomtown Film and Music Festival, Beaumont, USA
Apr 2018 - Independent Days International Filmfest, Karlsruhe, Germany
Apr 2018 - Tlanchana Fest, Metepec, Mexico
Apr 2018 - Shortcutz, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mar 2018 - Tallahassee Film Festival, Tallahassee, USA
Mar 2018 - Animation Dingle, Dingle, Ireland
Mar 2018 - Internationale Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg, Germany
Mar 2018 - Athens AnimFest, Athens, Greece
Mar 2018 - Monstra, Lisbon, Portugal
Mar 2018 - Micro & Films, Aubenas, France
Feb 2018 - Anima, Brussels Animation Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Feb 2018 - Artfools international Film Festival, Larissa, Greece
Jan 2018 - RAW Science Film Festival, Santa Barbara, USA
Dec 2017 - Video Babel, Cusco, Peru
Dec 2017 - Eindhovens Film Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Dec 2017 - Bogotá short film festival BOGOSHORTS, Bogotá, Colombia
Dec 2017 - Bucharest Short Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
Dec 2017 - London International Animation Festival, London, UK
Nov 2017 - Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Montréal, Canada
Nov 2017 - Red Rock Film Festival, Cedar City, USA
Nov 2017 - International Animation Film Festival Gdansk, Poland
Nov 2017 - Animation Marathon, Athens Greece
Nov 2017 - Tirana International Film Festival, Tirana, Albania
Oct 2017 - Multivision Animation Arts Festival, st. Petersburg, Russia
Oct 2017 - Film Front, Novi Sad, Serbia
Oct 2017 - Curtas Film Fest, Vilagarcía de Arousa, Spain
Oct 2017 - Braunschweig International filmfest, Braunschweig, Germany
Oct 2017 - FICPA, Pasto, Colombia
Oct 2017 - KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oct 2017 - Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, USA
Oct 2017 - Warsaw Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Oct 2017 - Tucson Film & Music Festival, Tucson, USA
Oct 2017 - International Festival of Animated Films TOFUZI, Batumi, Georgia
Sep 2017 - Conway Film Festival, Conway, USA
Sep 2017 - Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia
Sep 2017 - Dutch Film Festival, Golden Calf competition, Utrecht Netherlands
Jul 2017 - Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest, Romania
Jul 2017 - SICAF, Seoul, South Korea