An animated short film, narrated by two asylum-seeking men detained in Australia’s Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, recounting the dangerous journeys that brought them to the island and their memories of the riot that erupted in 2014. —————————————- In July 2013, the Australian Government introduced a controversial immigration policy, transferring asylum seekers arriving by boat to remote offshore detention centres on foreign Pacific islands. Seven months later, the Manus Island centre erupted in violence when police and guards put down protests with sticks, machetes and guns, and 23 year-old asylum seeker Reza Barati was killed. We spoke to Behrouz and Omar, who are currently detained on Manus Island. This film contains recordings of these conversations. ——————————————————————————— AWARDS AND SCREENINGS: WINNER: Best Short Documentary, Melbourne International Film Festival 2015 NOMINATED: Best Animation, Raindance 2015 SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR ANIMATION: San Francisco International Short Film Festival 2015 SHORT DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION: Flickerfest 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Palm Springs Shorts Fest 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION: British Animation Film Festival 2015 OFFICIAL SELECTION: Interfilm, Berlin 2015 ——————————————————————————— CREDITS Directed and Produced by Lukas Schrank Character Artwork by Luke Bicevskis Executive producers Carly Bojadziski | Gilbert Caluya | Neil Holden | Peter Murphy | Kevin Roberts | Lucy Best 2D Character animation Lukas Schrank | Marisa Rossi Matte painter Himashis Karmakar 3D character rigging and animation Elmer Frihdson Ona | Melvin Riego 3D face modelling Edgar Marocsek Production Design Lukas Schrank Music Composed by Ian King Sound design and mix by Nick Ryder at Bamboo Audio Colourist Daniel Stonehouse at Crayon Creative consultant Peter Savieri Editor Chris Ward Fixer Hossein Babaahmadi Copywriter Emma Koster Publicists Soraya Dean Miguel Oyarbide Music ‘Gnossienes 1’ Written by Erik Satie Performed by Carl Banner

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