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.
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Tomáš SvašekDirector
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Tomáš SvašekWriter
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Zuzana SvaškováProducer
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Tomáš SvašekAnimation
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Tomáš SvašekMusic
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Project Type:Animation, Short
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Runtime:16 minutes 45 seconds
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Completion Date:April 17, 2019
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Production Budget:10,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Czech Republic
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Language:English
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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OAXACA FilmFestOaxaca
Mexico
Official Selection "New Industry Section" -
4° TRUJILLO INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, PERUTrujillo
Peru
Official Selection "Short Film Animation" -
4th Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival (CUCIF 2019)Cuzco
Peru
Official Selection "Animation Short Film" -
Visualis Film FestivalSt. Petersburg
Russian Federation
Semi-Finalist -
Polish International Film FestivalWarsaw
Poland
Award Winner "Best Animation Film" -
International ShortsMelbourne
Australia
Official Selection -
Indie Visions Film FestivalLos Angeles
Award Winner - Animation Short Film -
Indie Short FestLos Angeles
Official Selection -
Near Nazareth Festival ( NNF)Afula
Semi-Finalist -
Golden State Film FestivalHollywood
United States
February 21, 2020
Official Selection -
Bermuda International Film FestivalHamilton
Bermuda
Official Selection
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”