Corrie Parks

Artist

FOREIGN EXCHANGE

2019, 5:45 min

In the vast landscape of global economics, what is the worth of a handful of sand? At times, the individual is lost amidst the masses as they flow through the structures and systems of government. Meanwhile, a country curates its national stories and creates an artifact that passes through a thousand hands before ending up tucked in the back of a traveler's drawer, a useless banknote symbolizing the possibility of return

 

Press Kit

 

Director: Corrie Francis Parks

Music: Alexandra Gardner

Sound: Matt Davies/Studio Unknown

Technical Director: Thom Parks

 

Awards

Best of Baltimore - Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
Outstanding Technical Achievement - AniMAINE
ASIFA-East Women in Animation Award - Experimental Animation

Festivals

 

2021

  • Neum Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Zeitgeist Film Festival, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
  • T-Short Animated Films, Latvia
  • ASIFA East Animation Festival, New York, NY, USA
 

2020

  • ASIFA South Festival and Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • Athens AnimFest, Athens, Greece
  • Experimental Superstars, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • ASIFA International Animation Day Screenings
  • Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, Huntingdon PA, USA
  • Chesapeake Film Festival, Easton, MD, USA
  • Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO USA
  • World Festival of Animated Film Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
  • Atlanta Film Festival, Atlanta, USA
  • Fest Anca, Zilina, Slovakia
  • London Experimental, London, UK
  • Open World Animation Festival, Allentown, PA
  • Maryland Film Festival Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
  • Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, USA
  • Tricky Women Animation Festival, Vienna, Austria
  • DAM Short Film Festival, Boulder City, NV USA
  • Worlds Smallest Animation Festival, Montreal, Canada
  • Eye Myth Festival, Toronto, Canada, postponed due to COVID-19.
  • Insomniafest, Russia postponed due to COVID-19.
  • Taos Shortz Film Fest, Cancelled due to COVID-19
 

2019

  • Animation Marathon, Athens, Greece
  • CutOut Fest International Animation Festival, Querétaro, Mexico
  • Cucalorous Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, USA
  • AniMaine, Portland, ME, USA
  • International Animation Festival AJAYU, Puno, Peru
  • Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, Baltimore, MD
  • StopTrik Animation Festival, Maribour, Slovenia
 

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