Private Project

Siggy Brat

Siggy Brat is a young “songwriter” and a “lost soul” who writes his songs while watching people from the window of his room.
When writing his songs, he falls in love with the beautiful, but equally desperate Valerie from the opposite building, where a strange old man, Mr. Maudit, also lives.
Siggy’s fascination with the fates of these people later becomes fateful for him too.

  • Tomáš Svašek
    Director
  • Tomáš Svašek
    Writer
  • Zuzana Svašková
    Producer
  • Tomáš Svašek
    Animation
  • Tomáš Svašek
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 17, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Czech Republic
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • OAXACA FilmFest
    Oaxaca
    Mexico
    Official Selection "New Industry Section"
  • 4° TRUJILLO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, PERU
    Trujillo
    Peru
    Official Selection "Short Film Animation"
  • 4th Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival (CUCIF 2019)
    Cuzco
    Peru
    Official Selection "Animation Short Film"
  • Visualis Film Festival
    St. Petersburg
    Russian Federation
    Semi-Finalist
  • Polish International Film Festival
    Warsaw
    Poland
    Award Winner "Best Animation Film"
  • International Shorts
    Melbourne
    Australia
    Official Selection
  • Indie Visions Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    Award Winner - Animation Short Film
  • Indie Short Fest
    Los Angeles
    Official Selection
  • Near Nazareth Festival ( NNF)
    Afula
    Semi-Finalist
  • Golden State Film Festival
    Hollywood
    United States
    February 21, 2020
    Official Selection
  • Bermuda International Film Festival
    Hamilton
    Bermuda
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Tomáš Svašek

In the first half of the 1990s Tomáš was an active member of the Czech alternative music scene (music band “Moving Holiday”).

In the last decade, he has begun to focus on his own “digital” creations (e.g. the illustrated series “Secret Garden”). In 2015 he completed his first “film project”, a short animated film called “Chlapec & Havran” (Boy & Raven). He conceived the entire work as an exclusively authorial project by also composing the musical score for the work, thereby interrupting his nearly 20-year break from music.

In 2016 he began composing his new folk-rock songs, under the summary working title of “Siggy Brat”. It is these new songs that subsequently became the primary impulse for the making of a short animated film of the same name. In 2019 he is thus completing a further exclusively authorial film project – an animated “musical love story” about a songwriter in thrall of his “demons”…

Filmography:
(2015) – “Chlapec & Havran” (Boy & Raven)
(2019) – “Siggy Brat”

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