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ANIMAL CRACKERS explores the factual and fantasy lives of different air, water, and land animals.This feature-length video blends fact with fantasy, science with fiction, and live action with rotoscoped animation to produce a narrative documentary that promises to edutain audiences ages 9 and greater. Different animal experts reveal the scientific side. Various wildlife characters animate the fictional tales.
ANIMAL CRACKERS is a Telly Award winning feature and was an official selection of the New York Film & Video Festival.
*Representatives from Coyote Point Museum and the Lindsay Wildlife Museum dispel myths about raptors, reptiles, and amphibians as the fictitious members of the International Association of Stereotyped Animals (IASA) speak up and say "Just 'cause we're not hairy, doesn't mean that we are scary!"
*Learn the true meaning of "pecking order" as representatives from the Lindsay Wildlife Museum explain where hybrids are on the totem pole and find out how one duck overcomes adversity by keeping the faith.
*One representative from Coyote Point Museum explains why mustelids are so smelly as a river otter proves that even musky critters have dreams.
*Experts from The Marine Mammal Center explain why they think seals and sea lions can talk as some passionate pinnipeds preach, rap, and predict what the ocean has in store for you.
*Sick of the dating scene? Find out how lemurs select a mate with their own lemurian dating game as a representative from Safari West explain the hardships these endangered primates face.
*Do you think that you are all that and a bag of chips? Do you think that you have what it takes to be a diva? Learn how to be a cheetah diva from two experts as caretakers from Safari West teach audiences about the lesser known facts and talents of these famous fast cats.
Bay Area native, Kamala Appel, filmed and produced ANIMAL CRACKERS entirely in the Bay Area: Berkeley, Oakland, San Mateo, Santa Rosa, Sausalito, Walnut Creek, and Ano Nuevo. "I just love animals and the Bay Area, so I am excited to head up a project that highlights both. Plus this video gave me a chance to go into restricted areas without getting into trouble."
Appel did encounter a spot of trouble inside the cheetah enclosure. "One cheetah, Gijima, bit me in the neck," she describes, "but you know how temperamental felines can be." Appel hopes that ANIMAL CRACKERS will teach, touch, and tickle audiences, proving that learning can be fun(ny).
Find out more about who shares the planet with people as they share their tales about tolerance, hope, dreams, faith, the pursuit of happiness, and life with a tail. For people who are crazy about animals or just plain crazy, you will love ANIMAL CRACKERS.
