"Charlie & Yip" Nominated "Best Trailer" at Bucharest Film Festival

Bucks New Uni tutor Alex Williams' short film "Charlie and Yip" has won an award nomination for Best Trailer at the Bucharest Film Festival.   Charlie and Yip is a short film about a kid who takes his pet to school for Show and Tell, which turns out to be a bad idea.

The short is really a teaser/trailer for Alex's indie feature film project "My Haunted House", which is still in development.  Recently it won the "Scream Award" at the Berlin Flash Film Festival, Best Animation at the Flicks Film Festival in London,  Best Trailer at the Changing Face International's Film Festival (CFIFF) in Australia, "Best Trailer" at the Lisbon Monthly Film Festival, Best Trailer at the Halicarnassus Film Festival, and Best Film at the Film One Film Fest in July.

Charlie and Yip

Charlie and Yip is a short film about a kid who takes his pet to school for Show and Tell, with unexpected results. It's a really a teaser for Alex's indie feature film project "My Haunted House", which is still in development.

The animation for Charlie and Yip was made by Tumblehead Studios in Denmark.  Voice talent was provided by Lizzie Waterworth Santo.

Financial support came from the BFI and the West Danish Film Fund. Charlie and Yip has been selected for multiple film festivals, and won Best Animation at the British Animation Film Festival.

Festival Success
In addition to winning Best Trailer at the Halicarnassus Film Festival, "Charlie & Yip" won Best Animation at the British Animation Film Festival, and recently won Best Animation at the Film One Fest, and Best Trailer at the Halicarnassus Film Festival.

Charlie & Yip
To watch the film (it's less than two minutes long) watch the video below:



My Haunted House - Teaser from Tumblehead on Vimeo.

You can find "Charlie & Yip" at the Flicks Film Festival website here. 

For more on the experience of studying at Bucks New University, come and visit us at one of our Open Days,  take a virtual tour of one of our animation studios, check out what our students think of our course, and see why we're ranked in the top 12 creative universities in the UK.