Director: Béla Klingl
Screenplay: Béla Klingl
Animation: Árpád Koós
Editor: Béla Klingl
Music: Ati Pacsay
Production: K.G.B. Studio
Year: 2017
Country: Hungary
Length: 8′
Awards: Coup de Cœur Canal+ family Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
Synopsis: When two excitable stray dogs are selected to make the journey to outer space, they make a lasting impression on the alien life forms they encounter.
Béla Klingl was born in 1971 in Baja, Hungary. He graduated in 1999 at the Animation School of Hungarian University of Applied Arts. He founded the KGB Visual Workshop in 1999 and then KGB Studio in 2002, where they also produce commercials and television headlines besides the animated films. He worked on visual effects and animations of internationally acclaimed works, such as Ildikó Enyedi’s Gold-Bear Prize winning film On Body and Soul in 2017, which has been nominated by the American Film Academy for 2018 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He worked also on Maestro, which was nominated for the Oscar Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2005, and Nyócker, which won the 2005 Feature Film Award in Annecy. Ambassadors of the Cosmos is his latest short animated film. As an animation director, scriptwriter and producer, he is currently working on his newest series as Boxi and Hunor.
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