![]() ![]() They have active shooter drills now in a lot of these schools and that’s a new level of trauma. When we grew up, the worst thing we ever had was a fire drill. 1950 is the America singer’s debut single from 2018, and is available on most streaming services. ![]() “Schools are supposed to be safe a safe place is becoming unsafe. The song on the If Anything Happens I Love You soundtrack is 1950 by King Princess. “The flag is a representation of what a lot of schools look like,” Govier explains, adding that it could mean several things. They kind of show the sheer amount of love and hope that I feel is in the film,” Govier explains.Īt the point in the short when gunshots are heard, the viewer only sees a school room door with an American flag - the only element in color - hanging over those doors. To convey grief, the film is made largely with black-and-white and muted tones though “towards the end of the film where you see more love and compassion and caring come into the film, you get warmer, brighter tones. During their speech, they said 'Thank you to everyone who opened their hearts,' dedicating the film to those who have lost loved ones to gun violence. You’re kind of shutting down a little bit, but you still have all these huge, big feelings that you’re wrestling with and trying to come to terms with.” IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU is the Oscars 2021 winner for Short Film (Animated) Congratulations to Will McCormack and Michael Govier on their Oscar win. “Sometimes when you have trauma that acute, you kind of feel outside of yourself and it was kind of to show what’s going on inside is not what’s going on outside. If anything happens I love you is a beautifully illustrated animated short film that takes us on an extraordinary emotional journey of two parents. In the film’s use of animation, the parents are followed by shadows of themselves, “visualizations of what you look like when you’re trying to connect to your own grief,” Govier says. As storytellers, the way that we approached this was this was our artistic rant on what’s happening in America… I think the story lends an intimacy to these types of issues that sometimes the news can never reach.” With If Anything Happens I Love You, directors Michael Govier and Will McCormack, and producer Maryann Garger set out to examine the grief and suffering caused by. I think unfortunately when these tragedies happen, people talk about the death more than the life. “We just wanted to make a human story and we wanted to show what grief and loss looks like. It’s not every day that a short film resonates across the globe. He won an Academy Award in 2021 for the short animated film IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU with his co-creator Will McCormack - a film about parents grieving the death of their daughter killed in a school shooting. “I think, inexorably, the film does get discussed in a political way because it’s become a political issue, but that was never really our intention,” adds McCormick. If Anything Happens I Love You directors Michael Govier and Will McCormack Netflix. Michael Govier is an author, director, screenwriter, actor, playwright, and producer. ![]()
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