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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.

  • Isabella Holzberger
    Director
  • Isabella Holzberger
    Writer
  • Vanessa Wong
    Producer
  • Ruby Roark
    Key Cast
    "Georgia"
  • Iris Holzberger
    Key Cast
    "Maryanne"
  • Logan McGaw
    Key Cast
    "Baby Opossum"
  • Ava Holzberger
    Voice Director
  • Jake Williams
    Score
  • Dakota Passaro
    Flute By
  • Liz Denn
    Lead Layout Artist
  • Evelyn Dale
    Layout Artists
  • Alex Diaz Azpeytia
    Layout Artists
  • Laura Cadavid Ucros
    Layout Artists
  • Jess Baumgardner
    Layout Artists
  • Madison Arellano
    Layout Artists
  • Kate Presnell
    Layout Artists
  • Emma Klepacki
    Layout Artists
  • Varsha Vasudevan
    Layout Artists
  • Anindita Maturi
    Layout Artists
  • Ja’Zaria Hall
    Additional Visual Development
  • Vanessa Wong
    Animators
  • Ryan Vogel
    Animators
  • Riley S Quinn
    Animators
  • Thinh Quang Ngo
    Animators
  • Niyah Andrews
    Animators
  • Jayla Montgomery
    Animators
  • Andrew Motolla
    Animators
  • Emily Tong
    Animators
  • Marisa Molla
    Animators
  • Po Kei Nicole Wong
    Animators
  • Angela Mauvezin-Quiroga
    Animators
  • Deborah Custodio Rodriguez
    Animators
  • Alyssa Thompson
    Animators
  • Joanna Nhema
    Animators
  • Annelise Coello
    Animators
  • Sydney Ames
    Animators
  • Alanah George
    Animators
  • AJ Corredor
    Animators
  • Hannah Poon
    Animators
  • Sara Coleman
    Animators
  • Anya Perez
    Animators
  • Madison Arellano
    Additional Animators
  • Bean Hill
    Additional Animators
  • Rion Russell
    Additional Animators
  • Brooke Murphy
    Additional Animators
  • Panzu Mavinga
    Additional Animators
  • Madhava Kinnicutt
    Additional Animators
  • Yang Meiqianzi
    Additional Animators
  • Liz Denn
    Additional Animators
  • Liza Leonova-Khvalko
    Additional Animators
  • Eugene Park
    Additional Animators
  • Jessica Goddard
    Additional Animators
  • Ja’Zaria Hall
    Additional Animators
  • Ella Higginson
    Additional Animators
  • Panzu Mavinga Mavinga
    Compositor Supervisor
  • Aaron (Naya) Fowowe
    Compositors
  • Jia Ruan
    Compositors
  • Solomon Thorpe
    Compositors
  • Ryan Vogel
    Compositors
  • Sara Hanif
    Compositors
  • Jesus Ramirez Saucedo
    Compositors
  • Theo Braddock
    Sound Designer and Mixing
  • Brooke Murphy
    Production Artist
  • Emma Austin
    End Credit Designer
  • Matthew Maloney
    Special Thanks
  • Jason Butcher
    Special Thanks
  • Aaron McComas
    Special Thanks
  • John Sanford
    Special Thanks
  • Lisa Pringle
    Special Thanks
  • Jean Kuyk
    Special Thanks
  • For my siblings
    Dedication
  • Savannah College of Art and Design Atlanta
    Produced at
    © 2025 Isabella Holzberger
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Slice-of-Life, Comedy, Family, Cute, Heart-warming, Animals, Kids, Adult
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 30, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Savannah College of Art and Design
Director Biography - Isabella Holzberger

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.

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Director Statement

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.