The trailer is here! 🐸🌱 Our graduation film „polliwog” (2024, German original title: “kaulquappe”) tells the story of ten year old Marlene, who is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body on on a forest home trip with her classmates. She feels all alone with her troubles - until she meets an oddly developed tadpole whom she is weirdly identifying with. “polliwog” seeks to provide some comfort and soothe the endless discomfort and awkwardness of early puberty. Thank you so much to my wonderful, wonderful team, who made the production possible, to my producer @maxpollmann_, my amazing lead animator and partner @benjamin.wahl and thank you @maepauli for giving Marlene her beautiful voice. And thank you to all the mentors who helped along our journey: Thank you @robertkondo for being such a clear thinker and for giving us your time and expertise, thank you @keeponrem for being there with your artistic input and empathy, thank you for inspiring conversations @philipalso @tal.kantor @ruthlingford. And thank you Andreas Hykade. And of course: THANK YOU to our film school, who provided us with the time, space, tools and the mentorings mentioned above @animationsinstitut 💚💚💚 Festival News tba! CREDITS
written and directed by Julia SKALA
produced by Max POLLMANN and Julia SKALA
starring Paulina LARSON as Marlene
trailer editors Benjamin WAHL & Revan SARIKAYA
animatic editor Revan SARIKAYA
co-writer Theresa WORM
animation lead Benjamin WAHL
animation Benjamin WAHL, Alina SCHUSTER, Lydia SCHÜTTENGRUBER, Karla RIEBARTSCH, Mikael JACOBSEN, Gina STEPHAN, Julia SKALA, Melanie SCHNAIDT, Adina BARTH, Jeanne BRESSAND, Louis HARTMANN, Kei SABITBEK.
additional Clean-Up and coloring Adina BARTH, Paul KLEY, Amy BRUCHNER
art direction Julia SKALA
layouts Esther BRECHLIN, Gregor WITTICH, Julia SKALA
background painting Cristina NARATA, Esther BRECHLIN, Julia SKALA
compositing lead Andra BERILA compositing Haiyang LIU, Eileen KAMMER, Leo NEUMANN, Caroline KEULERTZ.
film score Clemens GUTJAHR
sound design Simon WASSERFALL, Marc UHLHERR color grading Tobias ECKERLIN (c) Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg 2024 @filmakademie_bw