SEAFF III | Hedge

A singularly comical/surreal vision of a family visiting a funeral home.

Amanda Bonaiuto, born 1990, is an animator and artist originally from Massachusetts. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has screened at Ottawa International Animation Festival, Slamdance, Pictoplasma, and more. She is a 2017 Princess Grace Honoraria in Film, a 2013 recipient of the St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award, 2013 finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Film & Video, and a 2010 recipient of the Springborn Fellowship. She graduated with an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2018. Her film Batfish Soup was the jury winner in the second edition of SEAFF.