Polliwog (Girello)
(Germany, 2024, 9’13)
On a forest home trip with her classmates, ten year old Marlene is struggling with her early pubescent, changing body. She feels ashamed of her boobs growing. Therefore, she avoids to shower with the other girls and hides her evolving body under large sweatshirts. When the other kids start making fun of an oddly developed tadpole at the forest home museum, Marlene is weirdly identifying with it and decides to set it free.
Julia Skala – Director – SOMMERREGEN (2020)
Max Pollmann – Producer – A Calling. From The Desert. To the Sea. (2022)
Julia Skala – Producer – SOMMERREGEN (2020)
Julia Skala – Writer – SOMMERREGEN (2020)
Theresa Worm – Writer
Benjamin Wahl – Animation Lead – Symblings (2022)
Revan Sarikaya – Animatic Editor – It’s just a (w)hole (2023)
Paulina Larson – Key Cast “Marlene” – GÄNSEBLÜMCHEN
Clemens Gutjahr – Film Score – Red Ears (2022)
Simon Wasserfall – Sound Design
Marc Uhlherr – Sound Design
Julia Skala – Art Direction – SOMMERREGEN (2020)
Benjamin Wahl – Animation
Lydia Schüttengruber – Animation
Alina Schuster – Animation
Karla Riebartsch – Animation
Jeanne Bressand – Animation
Louis Hartmann – Animation
Adina Barth – Animation
Mikael Jacobsen – Animation
Kei Sabitbek – Animation
Gina Stephan – Animation
Melanie Schnaidt – Animation
Julia Skala – Animation
Esther Brechlin – Layout
Gregor Wittich – Layout
Benjamin Wahl – Layout
Julia Skala – Layout
Cristina Narata – Background Painting
Esther Brechlin – Background Painting
Julia Skala – Background Painting
Andra Berilă – Compositing Lead
Andra Berilă – Compositing
Eileen Kammer – Compositing
Haiyang Liu – Compositing
Leo Neumann – Compositing
Paul Golter – Compositing
Max Pollmann – Compositing
Esther Brechlin – Compositing
Julia Skala – Compositing
Adina Barth – Additional Clean-Up and Coloring
Paul Kley – Additional Clean-Up and Coloring
Amy Bruchner – Additional Clean-Up and Coloring
Julia Skala
Julia Skala is a European animation directress, designer, and illustrator. She has studied animation directing at the renowned Animationsinstitut of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany and at the well-known Gobelins, l’école de l’image in Paris. Julia is also a writer for the online film magazine East European Film Bulletin. Her rainy animated short film SOMMERREGEN (2020), co-directed with Oscar Jacobson, has travelled to many film festivals including Anim’est, CINANIMA, Manchester Animation Festival and more. She has recently graduated with her new animated short film POLLIWOG (2024).
