Fire in Cardboard City

I tried to put as much action-packed action into seven minutes and just keep it entertaining. I often find you go to short film screenings and they’re really depressing.

– Director Phil Brough in an interview with Flicks website, 18 July 2017

Actually, someone said, 'It’s got a terrible name – Fire in Cardboard City – I know immediately what's going to happen.' F***ing idiot.

– Director Phil Brough in an interview with Flicks website, 18 July 2017

The thing is we got $10,000 from the [NZ] Film Commission. Then we spent that quite quickly. It was mostly done after we blew the money just trying to fit it in between any free time.

– Director Phil Brough in an interview with Flicks website, 18 July 2017

...a fantastically original stop motion piece made with corrugated cardboard.

– Reviewer Annabella Gamboni, Regional News, 28 November 2017, page 6

Chief, what are we going to do? 

– The Deputy Fire Chief (Ella Wilks), in one of the film's longest pieces of dialogue

...I learned stuff and, because it took so long, the software got better. So there were better ways to simulate water, and render times sped up heaps — initially, it would take ages to render a shot. Due to being so slow, technological advancements made it a hell of a lot easier. Some of that stuff wouldn’t have worked six years ago.

– Director and animator Phil Brough in an interview with Flicks website, 18 July 2017