LOS ANGELES — Most of us are fairly well informed about the more high-profile categories at the Oscars. It’s often harder to find some of the other films being celebrated.
So to help get you Oscar ready, here’s a little love to the films up for Best Animated Short.
“Letter to a Pig” involves a Holocaust survivor sharing his traumatic story with students and how hearing what happened to him affects one of the kids in the class.
“This is a unique mixed media that I developed for this film that integrates segments of live action with hand-drawn animation on paper, frame by frame,” said writer/director Tal Kantor. “So we did film actors in a green screen studio. It’s just two films in one film, basically.”
War is also a theme in “War is Over!” inspired by the music of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Their son Sean is one of the executive …