'The Sun & The Wind' Won the Best Animation Award

Best Animation Award at the 29th Long Island International Film Expo! Thank you, LIIFE!

'The Sun & The Wind' List of Film Festival Selections

2025
Oct. 2~12           The 48th Mill Valley Film Festival, (Rafael Theatre, Lark Theatre) Mill Valley/San Rafael, CA
Nov. 21-23         The 10th Animation Marathon Festival, Athens, Greece
Nov. 24-Dec. 14 The 22nd International Animation Film Festival Tindirindis, Vilnius, Lithuania
Nov. 29-30         The 19th KIDS FIRST! Film Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Dec. 6-7             The 19th Los Angeles Animation Film Festival, Eastwood Performing Arts Center, LA, CA                               AWARD: Gold Winner, Best Children’s Educational category
2026
Jan. 17-18          The 42nd KidFilm Family Festival, presented by USA Film Festival, Dallas, Texas
Feb. 21 Square Lake Festival - Special Event Exhibition: "Earth & Light", Marine Village Hall, St. Croix, MN

Mar. 28-May 24  The 20th Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival, LA, CA

Apr. 8-15            The 20th Poppy Jasper International Festival, Morgan Hill/Gilroy, California

Apr. 8-19 The 45th Minneapolis St Paul Intl Film Festival, (The Main Cinema) Minneapolis, Minnesota

Apr. 16-19 The 21st Athens AnimFest, (Online) Athens, Greece

Apr. 17-18 The 7th Vermont Animation Festival, (Vermont State University) Lyndon, Vermont

May 7-17 The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, Washington

May 15-17 The 10th The Cultural Animation Film Festival, (HoMA: Honolulu Museum of Art), Hawaii

May 18-22         The 17th VAFI & RAFI Intl Children and Youth Animation Film Festival, Varazdin, Croatia

                            AWARD: Nominee, RAFI 7-10 category

Jun. 19-Jul.6      The 19th Jersey Shore Film Festival,  (Axelrod Performing Arts Center) Deal, NJ

                            AWARD: Best Animation Adaptation

Jul. 8-12 The 29th Long Island International Film Expo, Bellmore, NY

                            AWARD: Best Animation

Sep. 03-05 The 23rd River Bend Film Festival, Goshen, Indiana, US

Sep.10-13          The 1st Animinimist (Animest Tallinn Festival), Tallinn, Estonia

Sep.18-Oct.4      The 10th Chaniartoon Animation Festival, Chania, Greece

Sep.24-Oct.23    The 10th Seoul Metro International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea & Barcelona, Spain

'Stand Alone' at the 12th Hong Kong Art House Film Festival

'The Sun & The Wind' Won the Best Animation Adaptation Award

tête-à-tête, and The Sun & The Wind, official selections at the 19th Jersey Shore Film Festival.

 The Sun & The Wind, Won the Best Animation Adaptation Award : )

The Sun & The Wind, Nominated for the Award at The 18th VAFI & RAFI - International Children & Youth Festival

The Sun & The Wind, is selected for the RAFI 7-10 category and nominated for the Award at The 18th VAFI & RAFI - International Children & Youth Festival, Varazdin, Croatia. We are honored!

'The Sun & The Wind' at the 52nd Seattle International Film Fesetival

 'The Sun & The Wind', official selection at the 52nd Seattle International Film Festival

Directors Talks

The 19th LA Children's International Film Festival, James Theatre, UCLA on May 9

'Stand Alone' at the 59th Humboldt International Film Festival

 

Shadow Kitchen: Animation Spring Mix in DTLA, April 16

 Animation Spring Mix: a super bloom of eight animated short films made by Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artists. These works demonstrate the visually diverse nature of animation made by artists with backgrounds in painting, illustration, printmaking and sculpture.

'Stand Alone' received the Jury's Citation Award

Jury's Citation Award from the 45th Thomas Edition Film Festival (formerly Black Maria)

'The Sun & The Wind' at the KID FILM Festival, Jan. 17-18

'The Sun & The Wind' will be screened at the 42nd KidFilm Family Festival, presented by USA Film Festival, in Dallas, Texas on Jan. 17-18, 2026.

'The Sun & The Wind' Won an Award!

'The Sun & The Wind' was screened at the Los Angeles Animation Festival, Dec. 6-7, and became an Award Winner of Best Children's Educational category!

'The Sun & The Wind' at the 19th Kids First! Film Festival, New Mexico

 

Double Feature at the 10th Animation Marathon, in Greece

      

A special screening of 'Stand Alone' at the Interfilm Berlin 41'

"Eight musicians and bands meet eight films at Sound & Vision – live at the Volksbühne. The performers have not yet heard the original soundtracks of the films, most of which were selected from the festival program, in order to preserve their own creative connection to the works during the composing process. Eight films, accompanied by eight acts of talented musicians come together in a dense and intense live show, featuring phenomenal sound and the epic screen of the Volksbühne.

A few pics of 'Stand Alone' live performance at the Interfilm Berlin 41'

'Stand Alone' at the 7th Ionian Contemporary Animation Festival in Greece

'Three' is nominated for the Awards

'Three' is nominated for the Best Micro Experimental Film Awards at the Lumina Film Festival!

'Stand Alone' at the Intl Animated Film Festival Banjaluka, in Bosnia and Herzegovina

'Stand Alone ', The 18th Anim!arte, October 2025 in Brazil

'Stand Alone' was selected as official selection in Professional Environmental Film category at the 18th Animarte International Animation Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

'Stand Alone' at the Million Dollar Theatre, DTLA

'Stand Alone' at the Million Dollar Theatre, DTLA, hosted by The Secret Movie Club.
1pm on Sunday, October 19th

Featuring new experimental animated works:
Deesis by Valor Aguilar 
Storybook Apocalypse by Gina Napolitan 
Stand Alone by Soyeon Kim 
I'd Rather Be Turned into Cat Food by Walter Santucci 

'The Sun & The Wind', World Premiere at the prestigious 48th Mill Valley Film Festival

'The Sun & The Wind'

 

Stills from 'The Sun & The Wind'

'Stand Alone', at the 19th Tacoma Film Festival

'tête-à-tête' List of Film Festival Selections

Official Selections:

2024

Nov. 11-16     The 16th TOFUZI International Animated Film Festival, Adjara, Georgia

Nov. 22-24     The 9th Animation Marathon, Athens, Greece

2025

Feb 14-22     The 6th VASTLAB Experimental, Los Angeles, California

Feb 27-29     The 46th Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois

Mar. 27-30    The 20th Athens Animfest, Athens, Greece

Jun. 3-8        The 5th Tokyo International Short Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan

Jul. 1-14        The 7th Palm Springs Animation Film Festival, Palm Springs, CA

Sep. 22-23    The 2nd Pulse of Animation Festival, Gorni Bogrov, Bulgaria

Oct. 1-3         The 6th Animation Screenings Film Festival Striped Tale, Tbilisi, Georgia 

                      AWARD WINNER: Best Mixed-Media Animation 

Oct. 10-12     The 5th GENiUS DaVinci International Film Festival, LA, CA 

Nov. 6-9         The 7th Open World Animation Festival (Historic Roxy Theatre), Northampton, Pennsylvania 

2026

Feb. 21 The 20th Square Lake Festival - Special Exhibition: "Earth & Light", St. Croix, MN

Mar. 25-Apr. 12 The 11th CICA: Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Experimental Film and Video, Kimpo, Korea

Apr. 8-15,     The 20th Poppy Jasper International Film Festival, Morgan Hill, CA

Jun. 19-Jul.6 The 19th Jersey Shore Film Festival, Deal Park, New Jersey

Sep. 03-05 The 23rd River Bend Film Festival, Goshen, Indiana, US

Sep. 25-27    The 7th Bang Awards International Animation Film Festival, Lisboa, Portugal

Oct. 6-16       The 49th Mill Valley Film Festival, San Rafael, CA, US

'tête-à-tête', DaVinci Intl Film Festival, screening at the AMC Theatre, at the Grove

 

'tete-a-tete', Won an Award, at the Animation Film Festival, Striped Tale, Tbilisi, Georgia!

 

Animated short film, 'Stand Alone'

Direction/Story/Design by Soyeon Kim

Animation by Mary Catherine Wilbur & Soyeon Kim

Music by Karen Tanaka

Edit by Todd Hemker & Soyeon Kim

Stand Alone is a quiet, personal reflection on what it means to keep moving—alone—through life’s uncertainties. Following the meandering path of a snake, the film becomes a mirror for our own inner journeys, where direction is unclear, and every step is shaped by instinct, struggle, and small, hard-won wisdoms. In a world that often overwhelms with noise and disconnection, Stand Alone finds strength in solitude and beauty in persistence. It’s a meditation on becoming—on learning to trust yourself and to claim your place in a world that’s always shifting beneath your feet.

Palm Spring Intl Animation Festival 2025: tete-a-tete & Stand Alone