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Chapter 1: The Call

"Have you ever felt so alienate?"

Chapter 1: The Call is a frame-by-frame 2D animated short film.

The Call is the first chapter of a serie of shorts, and it tells about the introspection to the search of what we carry inside despite the difficulties of the context we are living, even when we feel small in this big world. The Call to accept yourself as you are, to believe, to create...

  • Jvlie Ganem
    Director
  • Jvlie Ganem
    Writer
  • Nayeli Farroh
    Producer
  • Jvlie Ganem
    Animator
  • Jvlie Ganem
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Capítulo 1: El llamado
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
  • Genres:
    Sci Fi, Romance, Animation, Fantasy, Introspection, Mentalillness, Nonbinary
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 12 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    1,600 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Berlin Flash Film Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    Official Selection
  • Berlin Flash Film Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    Outstanding Achievement
  • Lift-Off Online Sessions 2021

    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
  • First-Time Filmmaker Online Sessions 2021

    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
  • Elipsis: Encuentro Internacional de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas
    Hidalgo
    Mexico
    May 8, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Festival Iberoamericano de Cinema de Sergipe: Curta-se
    Sergipe
    Brazil
    April 25, 2021
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cine de Oro Negro
    Veracruz
    Mexico
    Selection
  • Shorts Mexico
    Mexico
    Mexico
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cine e Infancia y Adolescencia

    Colombia
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cine e Infancia y Adolescencia

    Colombia
    Winner, 1st place.
  • MICE Mostra Internacional Cinema Educatio
    Valencia
    Spain
    Official Selection
  • Chaniartoon - International Comic & Animation Festival

    Greece
    Official Selection
  • MAGICA Advertising Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    Official Selection
  • FERATUM International Fantastic Film Festival

    Mexico
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Jvlie Ganem

Jvlie Ganem is a Mexican Artist, Illustrator, Designer, Postproducer and Animator, best known for her drawings of magical and fantastic characters. Nonbinary, Schizophrenic artist, Human, writter/illustrator of twisted dark cute stories.

She was the Art director of the Stopmotion Short Film Maraña, which has obtained several national and international recognitions. She has also focused on storyboarding and concept art for animation and film; they as well as they has collaborated in illustration projects for children's books.

She is currently actively producing animations and illustrations.

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Director Statement

When you have problems or you are different from the rest, people tend to label you, me "the crazy one", others "the gay", "feminazi", "the intense one", and so on. But these are only labels, of what does not fit.

I'm schizophrenic, [and I still decided to study arts, pansexual, non-binary, haha], I was so scared to show this part of me (the short) because it feels like I was exposing myself; and the truth; I don't see the error in my life, I see it as a gift; grasp, feel more, keep my mind open. We all have that something that makes us special. Let no one take that away from us.

Sometimes it's a matter of stopping, of realizing that life is done step by step, we will never fully fit in the society, we are completely different universes. Sharing through the things we love is what makes us realize who we are and what our purpose is.

You just have to think, breathe, smile, even cry, say "I am alive", here and now, I have done this, I have so much to do and I am doing it well. No one but you can confirm that to you. Believe in yourself.