Project Description

DLINQ’s Animation Studio Producer Daniel Houghton created this animated film. Estrellita, (or Little Star) tells a piercing story about the constant threat of family separation and deportation for undocumented farmworkers in Vermont. Seen through the eyes of a little girl growing up on a dairy farm, the story begins in an idyllic wonderland of childhood adventure that turns dark when a powerful force raids the farm to capture her father.
Festivals:
- Indie and Foreign Film Festival (Best Animation)
- Santiago Indepedent Film Awards (Best Animation)
- Bang Awards (Finalist)
- San Diego Lation Film Festival
- Golden Kuker Animation Festival, Sofia Bulgaria
- Vermont International Film Festival
- Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
Press:
- “Middlebury Animation Studio Short Addresses Family Separation” Seven Days VT
- “Middlebury animated film ‘Estrellita’ depicts family separation in Vermont” Burlington Free Press
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