Despite a strong focus on North America and Europe, a pair of projects with a connection to Australia have crept in to add some laughter and tears.
Two films in the Sundance Shorts program have an Australian connection.
Phantom Limb is an animated short from the United Kingdom and Australia, written and directed by Alex Grigg. He graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2008, is a designer as well as an animator and filmmaker, and now works in London. He is part of the Late Night Work Club, and his site has a lot of lovely short clips on which he has worked. Including, of course, the trailer for Phantom Limb –