Zero
- Studio
- Zealous Creative.
In Association With: Screen NSW
Synopsis
Born into a world of numbers, an oppressed zero discovers that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Christopher Kezelos
Producing
- Producer
- Christine Kezelos
Writing
- Writer
- Christopher Kezelos
Animation
- Animator
- David Cox, Christopher Kezelos
Voices
Music
- Music
- Kyls Burtland
Editing
- Editor
- Billy Wychgel
Crew
- Director of Photography
- Matthew Horrex
- Animated by
- David Cox, Christopher Kezelos
- Assistant Animators
- Mark Lagana, Christine Kezelos
- Original Music
- Kyls Burtland
- Matte Painting & Production Design
- Brett Bimson
- Sound Design, Foley & Mix
- Brendan O'Brien
- Visual Effects Supervisor
- Justin Alvarez
- Compositors
- Justin Alvarez, Carlo Monaghan, Brad Roddy, Chris Jackson, Mike Foxall, Heather Galvin, Desmond Waterman, Douglas Njegovan, Kieran Kenny, Darrin Hanley, Bevan Lynch, Erik Fazekas
- 3D Artists
- Robert Mack, Chris Burness, Michael Yates, Bevan Lynch, Jorge Arturo, Hernandez Ruiz
- Online Editor
- Billy Wychgel
- Offline Editor
- Christopher Kezelos
- Edit Consultant
- David Maurer
- Colourist
- Billy Wychgel
- Sculpting & Models
- David Cox
- Credit Roll
- Heather Galvin
- Carpentry
- Jim Kezelos
- Set Design & Construction
- Bonnie Tulloh, Ai Ikeda, Elisabeta Goanta, Jim Kezelos, Ziad Jamal, David Cox, Christine Kezelos, Christopher Kezelos
- Painting
- Olivier Strobel, David Cox
- Props
- David Cox, Bonnie Tulloh, Ai Ikeda, Rueben Carlsen, Olivier Strobel, Ziad Jamal, Susan McClymont, Christine Kezelos, Shelley Hepworth
- Fabrication
- Christine Kezelos, Reina McAndrew
- Costume Designer
- Katie Nimmo
- Children’s Drawings
- Hannah Jamal, Nathan Stewart
- Singer
- Robyne Dunn
- Additional Voices
- Reina McAndrew, Shelley Hepworth, Anthony Clark, Kyls Burtland, Keely O’Brien, Tully O’Brien, Lisa Hill, Brendan O'Brien, Christine Kezlos, Christopher Kezelos
- Recording Studio
- Colony NoFi
- Producer Mentor
- Warwick Burton
- Script Editor
- Christine Kezelos
- Catering
- Mama Kezelos' Kitchen
- Thanks to
- Valerie Allerton, David Cox, Justin Alvarez, Ridwan Hassim, Nick Doherty, Marshall Heald, Margaret Murphy, Brett Bimson, Matthew Horrex, Ziad Jamal, Matt Smith, Andros Walsh, Toby Wilkins
Companies and other credits
- Recording Studio: Linear Studios
- Recording Studio: Love Htz Studio
- Thanks to: Tia & George Gialouris
- Special Thanks to: Jim & Nina Kezelos
Production notes
Stop-motion animation.
Zero was created by Australian husband and wife filmmaking duo, Christopher and Christine Kezelos. This dark fairytale takes place in a world where the inhabitants are born into a numerical class system. Faced with constant prejudice and persecution an oppressed zero walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.
Zero employs innocently cute characterization that directly contrasts the dark themes of racism and intolerance that underlies the story. It shows how love and the ability to see beauty in the darkest of places allows us to transcend our loneliness and despair and find an authentic connection to our world.
Zero was created by Australian husband and wife filmmaking duo, Christopher and Christine Kezelos. This dark fairytale takes place in a world where the inhabitants are born into a numerical class system. Faced with constant prejudice and persecution an oppressed zero walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.
Zero employs innocently cute characterization that directly contrasts the dark themes of racism and intolerance that underlies the story. It shows how love and the ability to see beauty in the darkest of places allows us to transcend our loneliness and despair and find an authentic connection to our world.