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Accidents, Blunders and Calamities
Short Film (Full Length) – 2015
This morbidly funny short, made by students of Auckland's Media Design School, depicts the demise of 26 alphabetical and animated animals at the hands of nature’s greatest enemy — the human. Framed as a father possum (Phil Greeves) reading his children their favourite bedtime story, the alliterative animal deaths are undercut with cheerful giggling from the two young possums. The film won acclaim at festivals worldwide —screening at South by Southwest in 2016, and taking out Best Animated film in the Comic-Con Film Festival later that year.
Kelly the Killer Bee was kicked by the keeper. Lisa the Lemming was levelled by leaper.– Father Possum (Phillip Greeves), reading to his children
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Music
Music composed by Emile De la Rey
Soprano voice Elizabeth De la Rey
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