Goodbye Mr. Octopus
On her 16th birthday, Stella and father Leonard get into a big fight when he refuses to let her participate in the final soccer championship with her team in Australia. Upset, she blames her overprotective father, saying he is the reason her mother, a star anthropologist who lives on the other side of the world, left them. But a letter from her mom will shift Stella’s perspective. Heartfelt and illuminating, follow Stella as she learns so much more about herself, her family, and what it means to grow up.
About the Director
Amaury is a motion designer specialized in 2D and animated virtual reality, freelance spatialization in Paris. He is the founder of Studio Geppetto. After training as a telecommunications engineer specializing in Audiovisual and Multimedia Projects at Télécom Sud-Paris, he then immersed himself in the world of animation, making Snowball, the first short film in traditional animation with spatialized sound in 360 video. Amaury creates in the tradition where the idea, the movement and the design (sound and visual) are as important as listening, flexibility and collaboration.