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