This award-winning animated short has a key ingredient for a pulp movie: cardboard. It features car chases, explosions and out of control infernos, as a heroic fire brigade battles to save Cardboard City and its dangerously flammable landmarks — including the Beehive and Sky Tower. Director Phil Brough collaborated on the script with fellow Back of the Y alumnus Matt Heath. Brough made his action epic on and off over six years. Fire in Cardboard City was selected for the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. It won awards in New Zealand and the United States, and later spawned TV series Welcome to Cardboard City.