30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: International Competition of Animated Films for Children

Belly Flop (2018) 6

South Africa | 2018 | 5 min.

It’s Penny’s first time at the public pool and though she can’t compete against an obviously experienced diver, it’s one of her belly flops that saves the day.

CountrySouth Africa
Year2018
Duration5 min
Rating6
LanguageNo dialogues
SubtitleNo subtitles
Directed by Jeremy Collins and Kelly Dillon
Screenplay Kelly Dillon
Director of Photography Jeremy Collins, Matthew Lowry
Music Pamela and Stefan Myburgh with Annike Pienaar
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Biography

Kelly is a content creator with a particular interest in producing positive and uplifting stories for girls of an influential age and helping combat unconscious bias which is so prevalent in children’s media. Together with a writing partner, Kelly’s TV series Ninja Princess was a finalist in Triggerfish’s StoryLab and is now in further development with Disney and global distributor eOne. She has recently written, produced and co-directed a short animated film, Belly Flop, a labour of love taking five years to complete. This film is a part of the set Short Animations 5.