The Flying Sailor
Directors: Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby
Producer: Iván Miñambres
Canada, 2022, 8 min.
Two ships collide in a harbor, an explosion shatters a city, and a sailor is blasted skyward, where he soars high above the mayhem and towards the great unknown.
THE FLYING SAILOR was nominated for the 2023 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was the winner of Sundance Film Festival Short Film Jury Award for Best Animation. The film was nominated for the Annie Award in 2023 as well being nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and the AFI Fest.
Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis co-directed WHEN THE DAY BREAKS, which received an Oscar nomination and more than 30 international awards, including the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Grand Prix at the Annecy, Zagreb and Hiroshima international animation festivals. Amanda and Wendy’s 13-minute hand-drawn animated film WILD LIFE received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short.
