Title: Bottle Cap
Directors: Marie Hyon and Marco Spier
Script: Marie Hyon and Marco Spier
Animation: Ryan Moran and Pat Porter
Music: Q Department
Voice: Jack Green
Production: Psyop Production, Epic Games, Parley
Country: US
Year: 2022
Length: 4’41’’
Size matters to a fiddler crab – claw size, that is. And it’s a problem for Shelton. When a plastic bottle cap stands in for his worthless digging claw, Shelton believes he is about to become a god. But for a crab who hated being different and instead dreamt of being ‘just average’, this kind of glory will come at a horrible cost.
Marie Hyon
She was born in Seoul and moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn when she was 9. She received her BA from Parsons School of Design for illustration, and was featured in publications including the New York Times and the Village Voice, and later spent several years designing and art directing for Nickelodeon and MTV Networks. Co-founder of Psyop alongside Marco, Marie has created commissioned works for numerous clients which earned her a Cannes Lion, a Gold CLIO for Best Direction, Webby, D&AD gold pencil as well as the Golden Award of Montreux. Her films have been displayed at the MOMA, Cooper Hewitt Museum and have been invited to speak at TEDx as well as the Bilbao Guggenheim.
Marco Spier
As founder and Emmy winning Director for Psyop, Marco has directed the Gold Cannes Lion-winning Adidas “Together” campaign, as well as the more recent projects for Adidas Parley, Apple, Facebook, IBM and the new Sesame Street opening, to name a few. Outside of Psyop, Marco helped start Parley for the Oceans, a creative collaboration space where creators,thinkers and leaders come together to raise awareness for the beauty and fragility of our oceans and to stop their destruction.