Animation | 12’ | Spain | 2024
DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER: María Lorenzo
SYNOPSIS
Felina is a woman who can turn into a panther, or maybe a panther who can turn into a woman. She is in love with a blind pianist to whom she does not want to reveal her nature. However, one day she receives unexpected news: she is pregnant with cubs.
FESTIVALS
- Festival de Cine de Sant Joan d’Alacant 2024 – Ficus Gominolas for Best Family Audience Short Film
- Circus International Film Festival 2024, USA – Founder’s Award
- Womanimation! 2024, Connecticut, USA – Honorable Mention for Felina
- Certamen de Creación Audiovisual de Cabra, Córdoba, 2024 – “Antonio Espinar” Award for Best Animated Short Film
- Certamen de Creación Audiovisual de Cabra, Córdoba, 2024 – Music Library & SFX Award for Best Soundtrack
- 16th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, 2024, India
- Palm Springs Animation Festival, 2024, USA
- San Sebastián Horror Film Week 2024
- Nominee for VII Premis Lola Gaos of the Valencian Audiovisual Academy, 2024
BIO DIRECTOR
María Lorenzo Hernández (Alicante, 1977) is Chair Professor of animation at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat Politècnica de València. She is one of the most renowned Spanish animation filmmakers, whose shorts have been selected, exhibited and awarded in more than 40 countries. Nominated for the 2016 Goya Awards for her short film The Night Ocean (2015), her filmography also includes Fashion Victims 2.0 (2023), Urban Sphinx (2020), Impromptu (2017), The Cat Dances with its Shadow (2012), The Carnivorous Flower (2009) and Portrait of D. (2004),