Cosmic Fling
United States
Director: Jonathan Langager
Produced by: Christian Hall & Sam Koji Hale
Qualifying win: Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival - Bruce Corwin Award Best Animation Short Film
Synopsis: Cosmic Fling is the tale of Stan, an intergalactic garbage man who lives alone on an asteroid. To feed himself, he harpoons space debris and converts it into nourishment. To feed his soul, he dreams only of love. One day, he spots Beatrice, a fellow astronaut stranded on a passing comet. He falls instantly in love … but must wait for her comet to return. In order to be with her, he will need to resort to extreme measures.