Hotchner also found live-action fictional work among her entries. These are rare as they tend to be on a higher budget. This selection,Adamby Hope Elizabeth Martinez, focuses on a teenage girl whose only companion is a sick 14-year-old dog.
Among the animated submissions, Hotchner found an unusually diverse style and unexpectedly serious themes. Yadid Hirschtritt Licht’s lyrical “duetFor example, a cat’s loving legacy continues after the original owner dies.
But even humorous films have surprises. Have you ever seen a cat playing in Wardle? Kim Bestis a filmmaker from Durham, North Carolina who created “The Letter Cat” with his pet, Nube. (Spanish for “cloud,” she pronounces NOO-bay.) Cat-lover Best admits that her star has no direction.
“They are very rebellious and surly,” she said in a telephone interview.
Nube was brusque enough to reject the finger-like extensions that Best tried to attach to his claws, so he used a stuffed animal paw attached to a stylus to show a cat tapping letters on an iPad. I expressed the state of being. (That makes sense.) But she also challenged herself. Nube, whose thoughts are conveyed via subtitles, only chooses words related to cats or dogs for her first Wordle effort, so Best had to use them to solve puzzles in real time. . “There was no cheating,” she said.
Best, the director who has contributed to every NY Cat Film Festival to date, also has a documentary that highlights the talents of more typical cats. Then “Please Rescue Me” Patrick BrandtA kind biochemist and arborist from North Carolina, he has donated his skills and equipment to extract about 250 trapped cats and one pet coati.
As he says in the film, “I’m not saving people, I’m saving cats.”
Of course, animals often save those who save themselves. mutual aid, a global non-profit initiative to make documentaries about these relationships to promote pet adoption, delivered “Kimo and Jazz.” The film is about a young gay man of conservative religious background who feels he can finally come out to his parents after adopting a rescue dog. Pet Jazz supported him when his father was dying.