Kitty
On a hot summer day, a little girl discovers a baby opossum on the side of the road. Mistaking it for a kitten, she takes it home and does her best to hide it from her older sister.
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Isabella HolzbergerDirector
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Isabella HolzbergerWriter
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Vanessa WongProducer
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Ruby RoarkKey Cast"Georgia"
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Iris HolzbergerKey Cast"Maryanne"
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Logan McGawKey Cast"Baby Opossum"
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Ava HolzbergerVoice Director
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Jake WilliamsScore
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Dakota PassaroFlute By
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Liz DennLead Layout Artist
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Evelyn DaleLayout Artists
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Alex Diaz AzpeytiaLayout Artists
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Laura Cadavid UcrosLayout Artists
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Jess BaumgardnerLayout Artists
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Madison ArellanoLayout Artists
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Kate PresnellLayout Artists
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Emma KlepackiLayout Artists
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Varsha VasudevanLayout Artists
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Anindita MaturiLayout Artists
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Ja’Zaria HallAdditional Visual Development
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Vanessa WongAnimators
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Ryan VogelAnimators
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Riley S QuinnAnimators
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Thinh Quang NgoAnimators
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Niyah AndrewsAnimators
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Jayla MontgomeryAnimators
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Andrew MotollaAnimators
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Emily TongAnimators
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Marisa MollaAnimators
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Po Kei Nicole WongAnimators
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Angela Mauvezin-QuirogaAnimators
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Deborah Custodio RodriguezAnimators
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Alyssa ThompsonAnimators
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Joanna NhemaAnimators
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Annelise CoelloAnimators
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Sydney AmesAnimators
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Alanah GeorgeAnimators
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AJ CorredorAnimators
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Hannah PoonAnimators
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Sara ColemanAnimators
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Anya PerezAnimators
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Madison ArellanoAdditional Animators
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Bean HillAdditional Animators
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Rion RussellAdditional Animators
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Brooke MurphyAdditional Animators
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Panzu MavingaAdditional Animators
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Madhava KinnicuttAdditional Animators
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Yang MeiqianziAdditional Animators
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Liz DennAdditional Animators
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Liza Leonova-KhvalkoAdditional Animators
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Eugene ParkAdditional Animators
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Jessica GoddardAdditional Animators
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Ja’Zaria HallAdditional Animators
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Ella HigginsonAdditional Animators
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Panzu Mavinga MavingaCompositor Supervisor
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Aaron (Naya) FowoweCompositors
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Jia RuanCompositors
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Solomon ThorpeCompositors
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Ryan VogelCompositors
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Sara HanifCompositors
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Jesus Ramirez SaucedoCompositors
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Theo BraddockSound Designer and Mixing
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Brooke MurphyProduction Artist
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Emma AustinEnd Credit Designer
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Matthew MaloneySpecial Thanks
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Jason ButcherSpecial Thanks
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Aaron McComasSpecial Thanks
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John SanfordSpecial Thanks
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Lisa PringleSpecial Thanks
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Jean KuykSpecial Thanks
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For my siblingsDedication
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Savannah College of Art and Design AtlantaProduced at© 2025 Isabella Holzberger
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Project Type:Animation, Short, Student
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Genres:Slice-of-Life, Comedy, Family, Cute, Heart-warming, Animals, Kids, Adult
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Runtime:3 minutes 30 seconds
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Completion Date:May 30, 2024
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Production Budget:3,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:Yes - Savannah College of Art and Design
Isabella is an avid storyteller, constantly inspired by personal experience, diverse cultures, music, and imagination. She enjoys generating stories embedded in reality, drawing ideas from the little things in life.
Above all else, Isabella desires to connect audiences from various backgrounds and demographics through universal themes while highlighting new perspectives in an entertaining and enjoyable manner.
Before “Kitty” came to fruition, I scribbled a list of small concepts that popped into my mind. I knew that I wanted to create a short that was simple and charming, made to be enjoyed by children and adults alike. I wanted to create a story that was within a small and familiar world within a short time frame. I had jotted down an idea about a little girl and her exotic pet when my mind went back to my childhood, in which I was interested in opossums. Despite my mother’s disgust, I desired to have an opossum of my own, thus inspiring the overall plot of the short. I stuck with the theme of childhood, specifically from the early 2000s.
Though I ended up loosely basing Georgia and Maryanne’s relationship on my younger sister and myself, as well as the neighborhood design and clothing styles reflecting my own childhood, I wanted to create a sense of nostalgia for other viewers who grew up in the late 90s to the early 2000s. Small details such as Maryanne’s Heelys, the crooked eyes of the SpongeBob popsicle, and the ZooPals party plates were able to resonate with other people my age who grew up in lower-middle-class America without drawing away from the overall story. Though the film touches on Gen Z nostalgia, I wanted to create a film that was enjoyable to both younger and older generations through universal themes surrounding play, curiosity, and positive sibling relationships.
In recent times, my generation has viewed the future nihilistically, desiring to revert to our childhood days of outdoor play before we were drowning in blue light and worried about the state of our planet, our ability to own a home, or if we could send our future kids to a safe school. I believe our damaged view of the future is what draws my generation to past eras of analog screens and tactile tools. We were the last generation to use a landline, to rent movies from Blockbuster, to be kids. With “Kitty”, I wanted to create a film that touched on nostalgia and the subtle joys of being young. I hoped to connect with my generation and show that we too can make the world of “Kitty” into a reality with our own families and reinforce a sense of child-like wonder and play that can last for many years to come.