'Francis'

Short Film 7:10
Director: RICHARD HICKEY
Production: NOTTOSCALE

UK-based director/animator/illustrator (and former Süperfad CD) Richard Hickey: "The story of 'Francis' came about interestingly from the famed radio show 'This American Life' out of WBEZ Chicago when broadcaster Ira Glass asked six renowned American writers to create a short story about adventure.

"One of these stories, written by novelist and screenwriter Dave Eggars, was read on the show to much acclaim and praise. From here, we worked with producer Kevin Batten and a team to turn the words into a beautiful short film -- working on the film between paid projects with up to 40 people involved on all elements of the animation. So far the film has been shown as part of Cannes Film Festival and most recently at Raindance." For NotToScale Director: Richard Hickey Producer: Kevin Batten

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[vias]

Every British kid saw this and Alma when in primary 😭💪

[Skoobanflob]

I'm watching this again because I've been scared of it since I watched it when I was younger

[allisonfield]

We watched this in school and I thought it was scary the rest of my classmates thought it wasn’t 😥😊

[Lof]

I had to watch this at school and do descriptive writing about it

[purfume]

At the beginning: cool its all cool
getting nearer to the end: WHAT THE

[potaxies]

I'm at school rn my teacher making me watch this

[catherinejackson]

OMG YES WE WATCHED THIS AT SCHOOL AND WROTE ABOUT IT LOL

[gamingandvlogswitham]

This was so scary I almost dropped my iPad on my face!

[Hayah_]

We watched this in our British primary school and we had to write a story about it a suspense story

[mariarobins]

Oh my Stephen King this video is amazeballs <3 creepy and suspenseful. Love. It.

[grandeboy]

We are literally writing our newspaper on this today lol

[JohanaAngeli]

Me and my class has to create our own endings for francis

[theratintrans]

We got pictures of this in English to guess what happens and straight away the class was like she dies. I guess we all were right

[Jiminybill]

Bro I watched this in primary school today and like a million thoughts came to my mind

Every year six has to had watched it by now

[jolineiscool]

One Question, what did it mean at the end where it said I did Knock first.

[Cheese-q]

I watched this in school and ive just remembered it now

[abbythoreson]

I saw this at the tender age of 5 while my dad was watching it

It messed me up man

[Jamiehicks]

Had to write a school story about it but we couldn't watch the video because of fear and mysterious things which my classmates are petrified of

[Kiki..K]

I watched this in prep and everyone was screaming💀

[novapawss]

We wrpte a diary entry aabout this in primary