Fresh off our official world premiere at Tribeca Festival, our next stop is SIGGRAPH 2026! We’re doing a Production Session about Dear Upstairs Neighbors on Thursday, July 23 at 11:15am, and the film itself will be showing immediately after our talk, in the Computer Animation Festival, Animation Theater 4 at 12:30pm. Also, some members of our crew who also worked on the Wizard of Oz at Sphere will be doing their own session on Sunday July 19 at 4:15pm. If you’ll be at SIGGRAPH, come say hi!
Tribeca itself was an absolute treat. The animated shorts program is curated by Whoopi Goldberg, who gave a genuine and heartfelt introduction to each screening, highlighting the diversity of voices and storytelling styles that are only possible thanks to the medium of animation. I got to see some wonderful films, catch up with some old friends, and meet a new generation of filmmakers from all over the world. But the best part was seeing our short on the big screen in a room full of animation fans, and hearing their reactions. They laughed at scenes I’d forgotten were funny!
Some of the Dear Upstairs Neighbors crew who converged on New York for the world premiere at Tribeca Festival on June 6th. (For some of us, it was our first time ever meeting in person!) Back row, left to right: Yotam Mann, Sarah Affleck, Anthony Tripaldi, Douglas Eck, Amit Raj, Andreas Veit, Andy Coenen; Middle row: Cassidy Curtis, Erika Lu, Yung Spielburg, Jess Walley, Jess Gallegos, Michael Chang, Ellen Jiang, Sarah Rumbley and her partner; Front row: director Connie He and producer Márcia Mayer.
