Wander to Wonder

Director: Nina Gantz
Producers: Stienette Bosklopper (Circe Films), Maarten Swart (Kaap Holland Film), Nina Gantz
Netherlands, 2023, 13 min.

Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three tiny humans who star in a kids' TV series called “Wander to Wonder.” After the creator dies, they are left alone in the studio starving to survive and continuing to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.

WANDER TO WONDER was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival. It was also a Grand Jury nominee at the 2024 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the Hong Kin g International FIlm Festival and the 2023 Venice Film Festival.


Nina Gantz is a Dutch London-based Animation Director. After graduating at the St. Joost Art School in Breda, Gantz began a Masters in directing animation at the National Film and Television School where she completed her first stop-motion film Edmond in 2015. Edmond has received 38 awards.