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Podcast: Best in Fest
Episode: The Making of ‘Cracked’ and the Power of DIY Filmmaking with Jessica Rizk and Soren Anderson
Description: In this episode of Best in Fest, host Leslie LaPage sits down with Jessica Rizk (director, writer, producer, animator) and Soren Anderson (composer and sound designer) to unpack the creation of Cracked — a haunting, hand-drawn 2D animated short exploring mental health, self-neglect, and emotional collapse.Over the course of a two-year DIY production, Cracked was animated frame-by-frame, scored from scratch, and built without shortcuts — revealing the true scope of independent animation today.In this episode, we explore:🎨 What it really takes to make a hand-drawn animate...