Scale
By Joseph Pierce
Year of production :Â 2022
Running time :Â 13′
Produced by Melocoton (FR) • Bridge Way (UK) • Endorfilm (CZ) • OZÙ Productions (BE)
Co-produced by Arte • Shelter Prod with the support of Taxshelter.be and ING and the tax shelter of the Belgian federal government
With the support of the Cinema and Audiovisual Center of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
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Synopsis: Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he’s lost forever.
Scale is adapted from Will Self ’s novella Scale, from the collection of stories Grey Area, published in 1994.
Sound :Â Dominic Fitzgerald
Director of photography : Vanessa Whyte
Music Composer : Lung Dart
Special Effects : Edd Stockton, Jérémie Mazurek
Narrator : Sam Spruell
Author of original work : Will Self
Screenwriters : Joseph Pierce, Nicolas Pleskof
Editor : Robbie Morrison
Lead Animation : Natazsa Cetner
Lead Backgrounds : Nadia Micault
Lead compositing : RĂ©mi VandenitteÂ
Festival Anima, Brussels, Belgium | 2023 | Prix de la Critique |
Curtas Vila Do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal | 2023 | Best animation |
HollyShorts Film Festival, Hollywood, USA | 2023 | Grand prize |
Le Festival Silouhette, Paris, France | 2023 | Special Jury Prize |
Paragon Film Festival, Paragon, USA | 2023 | Best animation |
 Bucheon International Animation Festival, Bucheon, South Korea | 2023 | Best film |
Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival, Italy | 2023 | Audience award |
Northern Wave International Film Festival, Island | 2023 | Special mention |
Eastern Nigeria Film Festival, Nigeria | 2023 | Best animation |
Mutoscope, France | 2023 | Jury Prize |
Usak Short Film Festival, Turkey | 2023 | Best director |
Academy of Death Racers Festival, USA | 2023 | Best animated short |
International Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France | 2023 | Audience award |




