Lost & Found – A film by Andrew Goldsmith & Bradley Slabe
Lost & Found is a clumsy dinosaur throws itself body and soul into rescuing the love of its life. When stop motion brings crocheted soft toys to life, the sacrifice for the loved one takes on its full meaning.
Credits
Directed by: Andrew Goldsmith and Bradley Slabe
Produced by: Lucy J. Hayes
Writeen by: Bradley Slabe
Director of Photography & motion control: Gerald Thompson
Animation: Samuel Lewis
Production designer: Rennie Watson
Film editor: Andrew Goldsmith, John Gavin
VFX Creative Director: Andrew Goldsmith
Supervising Sound Designer: Ryan Granger
Music by: Adrian Sergovitch and Jonathan Dreyfus
Set dressers: Sophie Hayward, Laura Curtis
Props maker: Samuel Lewis, Laura Curtis, Donna Yeatman
Set builder: Sophie Hayward
Scenic artists: Aimée 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 Pape
Colourist: Edel Rafferty
Posters photography: Patrick Moran
End title 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: Prague City Philharmonic
Strings: Jonathan Dreyfus
Harp: Geneviève 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
Release date: 2018
Country: Australie
Duration: 7 minutes
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival – 2018
Sydney Film Festival – 2018
Melbourne International Film Festival – 2018
Sarajevo Film Festival – 2018
CinéfestOZ Western Australia Film Festival – 2018
AACTA Shorts Fest – 2018
Encounters Film Festival – 2018
Brisbane International Film Festival – 2018
Adelaide Film Festival – 2018
Cinekid Film Festival – 2018
Austin Film Festival – 2018
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival – 2018
Mar del Plata International Film Festival – 2018
Short Of The Week – 2018
Vimeo Staff Pick – 2018
Tearful Cinema Festival – 2018
Flickerfest – 2019
Black Movie International Film Festival – 2019
Play: Festival Internacional de Cinema Infantil & Juvenil de Lisboa – 2019
New York Children’s Film Festival – 2019
Tumble Weeds Film Festival – 2019
Film Fest Sundsvall – 2019
Roanne International Animated Short Film Festival – 2019
GLAS Animation Festival – 2019
Sonoma International Film Festival – 2019
Cleveland International Film Festival – 2019
Matsumoto Children’s Film Festival – 2019
Festival Cortex – 2019
Cinéfilou Festival – 2019
Brookfield Film Festival – 2019
San Francisco International Film Festival – 2019
Kiev International Short Film Festival – 2019
Busan International Short Film Festival – 2019
Tonko House Film Festival – 2019
Vaughan International Film Festival – 2019
Short + Sweet Film Festival – 2019
Childrens International Film Festival – 2019
Fear No Film Festival – 2019
St Kilda Film Festival – 2019
Melbourne International Animation Festival – 2019
Pulski Filmski Festival – 2019
Anima Mundi – 2019
New Zealand International Film Festival – 2019
HsinChu Children’s Festival – 2019
Rooftop Films NYC (Love is Short) – 2019
Supertoon International Animation Festival – 2019
Israel International Animation, Comics & Caricature Festival – 2019
Provo Corto Gargano Film Fest – 2019
Salute Your Shorts – 2019
Gozo Film Festival – 2019
No Coast Film Fest – 2019
Heathcote Film Festival – 2019
Festival Un Mes Corto – 2019
Flatpack Film Festival – 2019
Salaam Film Festival – 2019
International Thai Film Festival – 2019
Festival Stop Motion Montreal – 2019
DC Shorts Film Festival – 2019
Pentedattilo Film Festival – 2019
Adriatic Film Festival – 2019
Roma Creative Contest – 2019
Production notes
“We expanded the story universe and relocated the setting to a sushi bar to align with the aesthetic of Wabi Sabi, a Japanese philosophy that celebrates the impermanence, imperfection and incompleteness of the world,” says Bradley Slabe, co-director of Lost & Found, thus drawing allusions to the film’s themes in the very landscape and fundamental design of the film.
A crack team of dedicated and talented experts
“The first step is putting together a crack team of dedicated and talented experts who all believe in the project and share the same goal. It’s been great to see all of our crew be recognised for their work by their respective guilds.
“Then there’s the animation part, which particularly in stop-motion, is a very slow laborious process that involves intensive planning, patience and perseverance. So we were lucky to have our prodigious animator, Samuel Lewis for three years, who took the utmost care and obsessive attention to detail with every, single, frame.”
Biography
Andrew Goldsmith, who really has storytelling in his DNA is quite familiar with crafting great short films, commercials and he proceeds to give us a full idea of what craftsmanship at storytelling really look like. With Bradley’s screenplay and direction these two filmmakers take a simple archetype story of love, a journey we all know to well or have experienced, and maybe all to familiar with and turns it on its head to unravel a beautiful journey of two lives sacrificing all they have to keep each other safe.