Drawn to You - Animated Short Film

Young Emily didn’t see anything wrong with her drawing of two girls holding hands, but her mother saw otherwise and tore both the paper and her child’s heart in two. Little did they know, the drawings had come alive and are determined to reunite with one another across the vast bedroom of pages, no matter what risk comes their way. An adventurous and heartwarming tale, “Drawn to You” shows audiences both the struggles and joy that comes with being true to your heart, and not letting others tell you who to be.

Director/Writer: Eleanor Davitt
Production Manager: Chris Tran
Storyboard Lead: Alysa Sotes, Eleanor Davitt
Character Design Lead: Alysa Sotes
Art Director: Jules Nin
Color Script: Jules Nin
Rigging Lead: Chris Tran
Layout Lead: Jules Nin, Felix Mernieks
Animation Lead: Jimmy To, Alysa Sotes
Music Composer/Producer: Thomas Hsu
Compositing: Jimmy To, Eleanor Davitt, Chris Tran
FX: Eleanor Davitt
Editing: Eleanor Davitt

Seneca 2019

Mirror Mountain Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection
Mirror Mountain Film Festival 2019 - Best Film
Alberta International Women's Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection
Alberta International Women's Film Festival 2019 - Audience Choice Award
Hamilton Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection
Toronto Queer Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection
Image+Nation Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection
TAAFI Film Festival 2020 - Official Selection
LGBT Feedback Festival 2020 - Official Selection
Damn These Heels Festival 2020 - Official Selection

Crew Social Media

[drawntoyoufilm]

10M views!!! Wow, what a birthday gift for me for us to hit this benchmark today of all days haha. Thank you so much for all the loving support over the years. I think I speak for my team when I say we never really expected our little student short film to make it this far, but we're so happy our story could reach so many people worldwide. Be sure to keep supporting other LGBTA+ short films out there too! Spread the love ❤
-Eleanor and the Drawn to You team

[cupidboyz]

Everyone's talking about how the stickman got a boyfriend but I'm crying because overtime, the mom began to understand and supported her daughter.

[gumdropbaby]

I love how she didn’t forget about the paper boy I was bout to say “what about him he only wants to be loved!!” And she gave him a boyfriend X3 so adorable 100%

[cosplaydreamer]

I really liked the mother in the credits as she was shown going to pride with her daughter

[KUGSKI]

The drawn boy is so sweet about everything, just "Hii!" the whole time. I love him.

[boonybon]

The adorable naive boy at the start:
*He's a little confused, but he's got the spirit.*

[apphyz]

Stick man at the end was like: Y’ALL WERE TALKING SMACK ABOUT ME BUT NOW I GOT A MAN!!”

[exar]

SHE DREW THE LIL DUDE A BOYFRIEND KDJGLDJSLSLFLDJDKSLDK I'M GONNA CRY THIS WAS SO SWEET

[RandomOliveTree]

This entire video reminds me of a news article I read- “Lesbian woman escapes Russia by boat to be with woman she loves.”

[puppet]

The guy didn’t even act like an antagonist he just didn’t quite get it

[fandima]

At 4:13 the photo of the mom at pride with her daughter is so adorable like it shows that her mom grew past her homophobia and honestly if that isn't the sweetest thing I don't know what is ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[mintgreen]

I'm so glad she drew the guy a lil boyfriend instead of throwing him away.

[venessafugi]

The fact that there was a picture of her and her mom holding abridge flag together and showing that her mom came around in the end was such a touching part of the ending for me

[harpywiththebrownfeathers]

I love how the drawn boy is just all like: Let's be friends!" He seems so innocent.

[soup_lover]

Why is nobody talking about the animation? It’s super smooth and it captures the emotions really well.

[randomstuffs]

Everyone: Stick boy got boyfriend, wowzers.
The girl: Got a girlfriend and went to a pride parade after her mom accepted her

[DDR]

the fact that all the other drawings helped her out

[lxing]

The mom was more the antagonist than the stick man. Stick man seemed like a nice guy!

[ethanwilleaturfeet]

What kinda monster parent rips their child’s drawings¿ Parents should accept and be proud of their kids

[SunnysFilms]

Aw, at first I felt so bad for little stick figure guy getting discarded like that, but at least he got his own little stick bf at the end.