Hero Sandwich

An award winning animated short film, “Hero Sandwich” was created as a short to explore sand animation. This is the first ever colored sand film. Before this film sand animation was either front light which gave a back and white silhouette look. The other process for animating with sand was front light and that meant that sand looked and felt like sand. This film gave us that space to create a colored sand painted style that helped capture the humane massage about being disabled.

This award-winning short film was a huge success!

• DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Andy Collen
• NARRATION: Barry Collen, Tina Collen
• PROJECT: Short Film
• ANIMATION: Amy Collen, Andy Collen
• AREA: Produced in Portland, Oregon
• AUDIO: Greg Ives
• AWARDS: Telly Award

Festival Entries

Denver Int’l. Film Festival, Denver, CO, ACT Film Festival, (Olympic Games) Atlanta, GA, Rainy States Film Festival, Seattle, WA, Melbourne Int’l. Film Festival, Australia, The Best of the NW Festival , Portland, OR, Hollywood for Children, (IMAX Cinemas), NY, Annecy Animation Festival, Annecy, France