The World, Naked as a Jaybird

DIRECTOR: Tiina Treasure
NARRATOR: Bryan Hayes
TOTAL RUN TIME: 7:30
DATE OF COMPLETION: 05/2006

I've always been interested in extremes. When you strip away all the padding- what's left? When you put humanity in the worst possible situation- what do we become? Are we good or evil? What is our truth?

I made this film because I wanted to experiment with this idea in story and style. I wanted a film that was true to me and my creative vision above all else. With just me, a bolex, and an awful lot of scrap paper what would I make? What would I tell?

I'd been frustrated with the filmmaking process because I felt that so often our creative visions get mucked up along the way by not so creative part of the creative process. By taking an incredibly minimalistic approach to filmmaking The World, Naked as a Jaybird was my attempt to make a film that was mine. It is my success, or my failure; there are absolutely no scapegoats here. I am proud, and wholly responsible for this film. Of course the odd part of working in such extremes is that the film evolved into a bizarre collaged grown-up fairytale, however that's just how life, and the creative process, works some times.

So what are the results of my experiment? What do you get when you strip it all away from me? Apparently a story of a little girl made out of paper searching for home in a hostile world. Read into it what you will.

- Director Tiina Treasure

Festivals, Screenings, and Awards

• St. John's International Women's Film Festival (2006)
• 2007 Macon Georgia Film & Video Festival (Winner - Animation Award)
• 2006 Brouhaha Film & Video Showcase
• 2007 Florida Film Festival
• 2007 Houston WorldFest - Gold Remi, Independent, Experimental Film - Animated
• IndieGRITS at the Donen Film Festival (Columbia, SC)
• 2007 Scene First Student Film Festival (Wilmington, NC)
• 2007 Blue Plum Animation Festival (Johnson City, TN)
• 6th Annual Wood's Hole Film Festival (Wood's Hole, MA)
• 9th Annual Seoul International Youth Film Festival
• 2007-2008 NextFrame: UFVA's Touring Festival of International Student Film + Video - 2nd Place, Animation
• 2007 Bluegrass Independent Film Festival (LaGrange, KY)
• 5th Annual Global Peace Film Festival (Orlando, FL)
• Young Cuts FIlm Festival (Montreal)
• Austin Film Festival
• 2007 Tallgrass Film Festival (Kansas)

SYNOPSIS
In the face of nuclear holocaust a young girl searches for home.

SHOOTING FORMAT
16mm

SCREENING FORMATS
Beta SP, DVD

CONSIDER FOR
Short, Fiction, Animation, Drama, Comedy, Alternative, Independent, Post-Apocalyptic, Student, Underground

WEBSITE
www.tiinatreasure.com

CONTACT
rgrula@mail.ucf.edu

STUDENT STATUS
This film was produced as part of a BFA degree at the University of Central Florida School of Film & Digital Media.