HELLO SUMMER

| SYNOPSIS
Sea, sun, beaches and family holidays. Just pick your dream destination from the catalogue, pack your bags and hit the road. But what if the hotel isn’t as stellar as promised, your room has a bit of a naughty view, the dinner is surprisingly exotic and your luggage travels independently. Family above all!

| TEASER

| CREDITS
Script and director – Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová
Art director – Veronika Zacharová
Lead animator – David Štumpf
Stop-motion animator – Martin Smatana
Editor – Katarína Pavelková DOP – Ondřej Nedvěd
Music composer – Aliaksandr Yasinski
Sound design, foley and sound mix – Geoffroy Cantou-Carrassoumet

Producers – Martin Smatana (Studio Bororo, SK), Kamila Dohnalová (Last Films, CZ), Martin Vandas (MAUR film, CZ)
Co-producer – Jean-François Le Corre (Vivement Lundi!, FR)

Animation technique – Stop motion and 2D hand drawn animation
Length – 11 minutes
Year of production – 2024

Financially supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund (SK), Czech Film Fund (CZ), Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, ARTE France, TVR, TÉBÉO, TÉBÉSUD funded by Région Bretagne, Procirep – société des producteurs, Angoa (FR)

| DOWNLOADS
Visuals – Zip
Directors photo – Zip
Poster – JPG
Presskit – Pdf

| GALLERY

| GALLERY Authors

| DIRECTORS’ NOTE
In Hello Summer we want to manifest the cinematic values of comedy, comforting tone and clever children’s content that we shared as co-directors. Through joining stop-motion and hand-drawn animation, the techniques we usually work with, the unique playful usage of objects in a different context was made possible. The family travelling story organically emerged afterwards. A sea-side holiday is a big event for a family from an inland country such as Czechia or Slovakia. We have memories from our own childhoods of our parents saving over several years and creating great expectations to have the best holiday ever. However, with our film we want to tell that the luxury of a vacation is measured more by the precious quality time a family spends together than the number of swimming pools in a hotel resort. We chose to narrate this story with an archetypal model family and through a very straightforward story line. Our goal is a fun family film with haunting visuals and a heart-warming message that both children and adults can relate to.

Martin Smatana & Veronika Zacharová
directors of Hello Summer