THE SMORTLYBACKS COME BACK!
In a barren world TamLin of the Little People travels with his herd of splendid smortlybacks in search of greener pastures. They struggle with fear and find themselves stranded on the
shore of the ocean. With unlikely help of TamSin a wonderful mermaid and her disrespectful smortlysharks they cross the ocean and find a happy end.
Director: Ted Sieger
Switzerland, 2021
8:15 min
Born 1958 in South America, he grew up in Chile, Peru and Australia and Switzerland and lived later in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Berlin. He worked as a roofer, ferryman, horse groom, night clerk, forest worker, engineer on a cargo ship to Africa and egg counter in an egg factory until he finally found his calling: animation. His work list consists of series ("Ted Sieger’s Wildlife", " Ted Sieger’s Molly Monster" e.a.), TV specials ("The Fourth King", "Molly and the Christmas Monster"), short films (“The Smortlybacks”) and the feature "Molly Monster".
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