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Amplifying Feedback Loop

Logline:

Unfolding visual poetry loops and transforms, advocating for the need for sustainable futures and community action.

Synopsis:

Amplifying Feedback Loop is an animated short film featuring contextualizing the magnifying "domino effect" of the causes and effects of the Climate Crisis. Presenting the human causality of a deteriorating biosphere, poetic visuals present the intensifying real-world outcomes and guide towards de-escalation through a call to action for unified community-led solutions.

  • Vanessa Sweet
    Director
    Wild Woman, Bridging the Gap, Who Rules the Earth
  • Fleassy Malay
    Key Cast
    "Narrator"
  • Kory Burrell
    Sound Design
  • Dave Sluberski
    Project Sound Mentor
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 25 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 25, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Rebel DSLR, ToonBoom Harmony,
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 2022 Rochester Fringe Festival
    Rochester, NY
    September 16, 2022
    WIP screening
Director Biography - Vanessa Sweet

Vanessa Sweet is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Currently residing in Rochester, NY as an Assistant Professor at the School of Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Vanessa's work often touches upon themes of social and environmental advocacy, activism, and sustainability through the use of 2D animation. Through her mobile studio SleepingFox Studio, she has created animations, illustrations, and graphic design for such clients as Fandango, Hallmark, "General Hospital", the BBC, and more. Her motto is "think globally, act locally" and she has sought to embody this in her practices while she lived in various U.S locals like Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, New York, and Alaska too. Her films have been screened in over 50 festivals across the globe and have won numerous awards.

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Director Statement

“Amplifying Feedback Loop” is a poetic call to action, highlighting the human causation of the current increasing rise in global temperature. The film points to some of the primary sources: human-led carbon emissions. It is a call for community action to put pressure on leaders to create vital systemic change toward better policies that would help reduce global carbon emissions. We have seen unprecedented rising temperatures, changing weather patterns, global shifts in animal migration, and more within the last century. This film utilizes animation to mirror its namesake; The amplifying feedback loop is an increasingly intensifying pattern we are currently experiencing on this planet. With a positive collective effort, we can work towards designing a more sustainable future to ensure a thriving healthy planet for all its inhabitants.