MAST by Salt Lake Film Society

03/04/2024

Yes! Amazing. One of our BRILLIANT animators, Jared Mathews, from Utah, alongside Joaquim Dos Santos & Justin K. Thompson from ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE and Pablo Berger from ROBOT DREAMS, in this beautiful spot produced by the Academy, "Drawn to the Moment".

This is what it's all about, this is why the Oscar nod matters to us—finding opportunities like these for our MAST animation fellows.

Ever wondered what goes into drawing your favorite animated characters? We sat down with some of our Animation Nominees for a demonstration of how they conce...

01/26/2024

Thanks Cory McCloskey for my spot on Fox10 yesterday!

Ninety-Five Senses is Oscar nominated for Best Animated Short in 2024. Watch the full film at:https://ninetyfivesenses.org

01/14/2024

Thanks, Taika. 🙂

10/04/2023

Ninety-five Senses "captivates with its profundity". And, it's "lyrical, mature, poetic, existential."

We'll take that! Thank you so much Film Threat.

And, we've just been selected by another Oscar-qualifying festival, for a whopping total of 18!

Aaaand, we just won the Audience Choice Award for Best Animated Short at CIFF in Calgary. For everything keeping score, that's:

Animation Di**le WINNER BEST PROFESSIONAL ANIMATED SHORT
Florida Film Festival GRAND JURY WINNER BEST ANIMATION
Desertscape Film Festival BEST SHORT FILM
Guillermo Del Toro's Guadalajara International Film Festival RIGO MORA SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Toronto Indie Shorts WINNER BEST ANIMATION
FLICKERS' Rhode Island International Film Festival FIRST PRIZE BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Palm Springs International Animation Festival WINNER BEST HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION
DC Shorts Film Festival WINNER OUTSTANDING ANIMATED SHORT
Calgary International Film Festival AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATED SHORT

You would think that Jared and Jerusha Hess, the directing duo of off-kilter cult classics like Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, would jump at the opportunity to demonstrate just how much of their trademark “outcast-humor” sensibility they can pack into 12 minutes of screen time. Instead, rath...

06/27/2023

Ninety-five Senses wins Best Short at Desertscape!

Just a few of our other wins:
Animation Di**le BEST PROFESSIONAL ANIMATED SHORT
Florida Film Festival GRAND JURY WINNER BEST ANIMATION
Guillermo Del Toro's Guadalajara International Film Festival INTERNATIONAL BEST ANIMATED SHORT

06/25/2023

Another stunning, heart-hitting animated short by MAST fellow Gabriella Badillo. Little Birds: Messages from Migrant Children at the Mexican Border

From a shelter in northern Mexico, the voices of children show that dreams survive despite uprooting and a hostile journey to safety.Make sure you don’t miss...

06/13/2023

Utah locals: Critically-acclaimed NINETY-FIVE SENSES directed by Jerusha & Jared Hess screens on June 24th at the Desertscape Film Festival in St. George.

Come and see it!

SHORT | UNITED STATES | 13 MINUTES

08/05/2022

Big news! Our BEAUTIFUL animated short film directed by Jerusha & Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman & Hubbel Palmer, "Ninety-five Senses", is premiering at HollyShorts FIlm Festival next Saturday night at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

HollyShorts is an Oscars Qualifying festival, and has a history of minting future Oscar nominees and winners, particularly animations.

Los Angeles friends, it's (incongruously) part of the Saturday-night "Comedy" line-up at 10pm, get your tickets here: https://hollyshorts2022.eventive.org/schedule/62b48b993c2c070037fee6f7

Ninety-five Senses was animated by six teams of animators who won our "Voices Seen" Springboard Animation contest. Read all about it here: https://maststudio.org/posts/2022-07-19-ninety-five-senses-will-premiere-at-hollyshorts/

05/04/2020

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