Birthday+Boy

3D animation, Australia, 2004 Director: Sejong Park Runtime: 10 minutes

Birthday Boy is a short animation film set during the Korean war in the 1950s. The main character is Manuk, a small boy who lives in a Korean village.

Birthday Boy has won over 40 awards at film festivals around the world including Best Animated Short at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival in 2004 which qualified the film for the 2005 Academy Awards.

It was subsequently nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

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