Lost & Found is a stop motion short film that tugs at the heartstrings. A knitted toy dinosaur must completely unravel itself to save the love of its life.
„This wedding of raw craft and storytelling is quite mature here. Generously funded by Screen Australia, we’re used to stop-motion being a contained craft, executed with models in small spaces, but this film is on a different scale entirely. The character animation is incorporated into a life-size sushi restaurant set that was built from scratch, and this decision pays off in the impressive camera direction that results—the production is able to go wide and really play with perspective and depth of field in a way that is rare for the form.“ – Curator Jason Sondhi
7mins / Australia / 2018
DIRECTED BY Andrew Goldsmith & Bradley Slabe
PRODUCED BY Lucy J. Hayes
WRITTEN BY Bradley Slabe
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY & MOTION CONTROL Gerald Thompson
ANIMATION Samuel Lewis
PRODUCTION DESIGNER Rennie Watson
FILM EDITORS Andrew Goldsmith John Gavin
VFX CREATIVE DIRECTOR Andrew Goldsmith
SUPERVISING SOUND DESIGNER Ryan Granger
MUSIC BY Adrian Sergovich with Jonathan Dreyfus
SET DRESSERS Sophie Hayward, Laura Curtis
PROPS MAKERS Samuel Lewis, Laura Curtis, Donna Yeatman
SET BUILDER Sophie Hayward SCENIC ARTISTS Aimee Francis, Xin li
ART ASSISTANTS Raphael Fantl, Nicholas Issel, Nathan Reardon, Michael Greaney, Eve Gilbert
CULTURAL ADVISOR Kei Shiokawa
CHARACTER DESIGNER & SCULPTOR Samuel Lewis
CHARACTER ARMATURIST Scott Ebdon
CHARACTER CROCHET ARTIST Julie Ramsden
VFX ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Haley Polacik
VFX SUPERVISOR & PIPELINE DIRECTOR Dave Abbott
COMPOSITORS Andrew Goldsmith, Dave Abbott, Brent Cataldo, John Gavin, Andrew Montague, Toby Angwin, Damien Dunne, Scarlette Baccini, Trace VFX
ROTOSCOPE ARTIST Douglas E Pope
COLOURIST Edel Rafferty
POSTER PHOTOGRAPHY Patrick Moran
END TITLES DESIGNER Rebecca Moore
SOUND MIX Dead On Sound
SOUND DESIGNERS Ryan Granger, Adam Hunt
ASSISTANT SOUND DESIGNERS Shane Jarvie-Kohn, Talia Raso
VOICE OF THE FOX Maria Angelico
VOICE OF THE DINOSAUR Marc Gallagher
SOUND HELP FROM Joel Taylor and The Black Lodge
WOODWINDS Stuart Byrne
BRASS City of Prague Philharmonic
STRINGS Jonathan Dreyfus
HARP Genevieve Lang
PIANO Adrian Sergovitch
SCORE ENGINEERS Jezz Giddings, Damian Enemark, Jan Holzne
SCORE MIXED BY Jonathan Dreyfus
SCORE RECORDING HELP FROM Craig Harnath for Hothouse Audio James Fitzpatrick for Tadlow Music Laura Bishop for Jigsaw Music Song Zu
LEGAL Shaun Miller
SPECIAL THANKS Raphael Fantl, Tom Fantl, Dave Abbott, Haley Polacik, John Gavin, Patrick Moran, Samuel Lewis, Gerald Thompson, Justin Donoghue, Nerida Moore, Louise Gough, Nell Greenwood, John Tummino, Darryl Slabe, Matisse Fantl, Sophie McPike