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Chasing Birds film image, director Una Lorenzen

Chasing Birds

World Premiere

A hand-drawn animation of parallel universes in which strangers, unaware of each other’s presence, share the use of a long table as their worlds gradually merge.

 

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Director
Credits
Country of Origin

Canada/Iceland

Year

2022

Language

No Dialogue

Film Contact
G
8 min

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Credits

Producer

Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Heather Millard

Screenwriter

Una Lorenzen

Editor

Una Lorenzen, Kristján Loðmfjörð

Original Music

Gunnar Tynes

Director

Una Lorenzen headshot, Chasing Birds director

Una Lorenzen

Una Lorenzen is a film director who uses animation to create visual worlds for movies, documentaries, music, and theatre. In past years, she has mostly worked on documentaries, such as the award-winning Yarn (2017) and Rebel Hearts (2021). Her work has traveled to festivals such as SXSW, Toronto International Film Festival, Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Animation Block Party in New York City, Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Festival in Vienna, Nordisk Panorama Film Festival in Sweden, and screened at Artforum online.

Filmography: Yarn (2017)