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Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant | Short

Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant

director: Suraya Raja
national film and television school ⏐ animation, 7min. UK, 2016

Layla fights daily against urges and compulsions, until challenged to face her darkest fears.

Winner - Best Stop Motion, Animation Dingle
Winner - Best Animation - Portugal International Film Festival
Winner - Best Animation - Phenicien International Film Festival
Winner - Best Director,  Oniros Film Awards
Winner - Best Animation, Oniros Film Awards
Winner - Best Horror, Mediterranean Film Festival
Winner - Best Student Film, Brooklyn Women's Film Festival
Winner - Gold Award 2018 - Spotlight Horror Film Awards
Winner - Best Animation, Montevideo World Film Festival
Winner - Special Insignia, Cinemaway, Ukraine
Winner - Best Animation, Midnight Film Festival, New York
Winner - 2nd Prize, Ivy Film Festival, US
Winner - Indie Visions Film Festival, US 
Winner and Bumble Honoree - Ivy Film Festival, US
Winner - Best Animation Short, Rome Independent Prisma Awards, Italy

Festivals

Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK
Encounters Short Film Festival, UK
London International Animation Festival (LIAF), UK
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, UK
New Orleans Film Festival, US
Austin Film Festival, US
Underwire Festival, UK
Foyle Film Festival, Northern Ireland
Holland Animation Film Festival
Montreal Festival of Stop Motion
London Short Film Festival, UK
Manchester Animation Festival
StopTrik International Film Festival, Slovenia & Poland
Animasyros, Greece
Anibar 8th Ed, Peja, Kosovo
Stop Motion MX, Mexico
13th World Festival of Animated Film, Bulgaria
Primanima, Hungary
Animateka, Slovenia
7th Ars Independent Festival, Katowice, Poland
Stop Motion Barcelona, Spain
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Germany
Filmstrip International Film Festival, Romania
Cartoon Club Rimini, Italy
Ale Kino, Poland
Cinewave Independent Film Festival, Germany
Lucania International Film Festival, Italy
Bristol Festival of Puppetry, UK
International Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
Minikino International Film festival, Bali, Indonesia
Spark Animation Festival, Canada
CutOut International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Mexico
Liverpool International Film Festival, UK
Oslo Independent Film Festival, Norway
Kinofilm, UK
San Jose International Short Film Festival, US
PIFF Paris International Film Festival, France
Two Short Nights Film Festival, UK
Prague Film Awards, Czech Republic
Thunderdance Film Festival, UK
Phenicien International Film Festival, France
Mediterranean Film Festival, Italy
11th British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin
Yountville International Short Film Festival, California
Bechdel Film Festival, US
Oniros Film AwardsManipulate Festival, UK
Hollywood Screenings Film Festival (HSFF), California
Athens Animest, Greece
Animation Dingle, Ireland
Animated Arizona, US
Animocje, 8th International Animated Movies Festival, Poland
Atlanta Film Festival, US
Short Shorts: Girlhood, UK
Flatpack FilmFestival, Birmingham
Cardiff Animation Festival, Wales
Sacramento International Film Festival, California
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (ITFS), Germany
Animation Studio Film Fest, US
Unrestricted View Film Festival, London Horror Society, UK
Animatricks, Finland
Animex Awards, UK
Dog & Rabbit's Animation Night, UK
Art all Night Trenton, US
The Brooklyn Women's Film Festival, US
Spotlight Horror Film Awards
TMFF The Monthly Film Festival
Montevideo World Film Festival, Uruguay
Insomnia International Animation Film Festival, Russia
GemArts Masala Festival: AWAKE, UK
Supertoon International Animation Festival, Croatia
Vidlings and Tapehaeads Film Festival, Michigan
New Renaissance Film Festival, UK
SAMPO 2018 - International Folk Theater Festival, Finland
Linoleum Animation Festival, Ukraine
Bordeaux Film Festival, France
Bristol Independent Film Festival
The 2018 Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities
Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, US
Bolton International Film Festival
Cinemaway, Ukraine
Discover & Enjoy, Istanbul
Screentest FIlm Festival, UK
Demakijaż Women's Film Festival, Poland
Eurocinema Film Festival, UK
Ax Wound Film Festival, US
13th Buried Alive Film Festival, US
Animation Marathon, Greece
Sierra International Film Weekend, Bolivia
Bloodstained Indie Film Festival, Japan
The Midnight Film Festival, New York
Sunday Shorts Film Festival, London
Winter Film Awards International Film Festival, New York
Eurocinema Film Festival, The Netherlands
19th New British Film Festival, Russia
Feedback Animation Film & Screenplay Festival, US
Ivy Film Festival, US
Rome Independent Prisma Awards, Italy
Hothouse Theatre's Nottz Film Festival, UK
Indie Visions Film Festival, US 
Ottoman Film Festival, Turkey
Stirling Silver Screen Film Festival, US
AAB International Film Festival, India
Norfolk Film Festival, UK