ONLY A CHILD

By Simone GIAMPAOLO

AMKA FILMS PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Environmental - Completed 2020

Only a Child is an omnibus animation short that gives shape and colour to Severn Suzuki’s original speech at the UN Summit in Rio (1992): a child’s desperate call to action for our planet’s future.

Festivals
& Awards

Encounters Film Festival 2020
Los Angeles Animation Festival 2020
Best Combination-Mixed Media Award
Solothurn Film Festival 2021
Swiss Prix Award 2021
Nominated as Best animated Film 2021
Silk Road International Film Festival 2021
Animac 2021
Tampere Film Festival 2021
5th Indian World Film Festival 2021
Best director (Animation
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Environmental, Children's, Animation
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 6 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Simone GIAMPAOLO
    • Writer(s)
    • Simone GIAMPAOLO, Severn CULLIS-SUZUKI
    • Producer(s)
    • Tiziana SOUDANI (AMKA FILMS PRODUCTIONS), Gabriella DE GARA (AMKA FILMS PRODUCTIONS)
    • Synopsis
    • Only a Child is a visual poem created by over 20 animation directors under the artistic supervision of Simone Giampaolo, which gives shape and colour to the original words spoken by Severn Suzuki at the UN Summit in Rio in 1992, a child’s desperate call to action for the future of our planet. An omnibus film celebrating the environmental youth movement 30 years in the making.