Brainy
Brian is on a mission to collect dead animals and launch them up to heaven so they can live again with his grandpa. One day Brian meets Denice.
- New Zealand, Denmark
- 2011, 25 min
- Director: Daniel Joseph Borgman
- Director of photography: Niels Buchholzer
- Editor: Dan Longhin
- Screenplay: Daniel Joseph Borgman, Malou Reymann
- Music: Jonas Colstrup
- Cast: Jacob August Ottensten, Marie Hammer Boda, Lisa Carlehed
- Contacts: New Zealand Film Commission
- Producer: Katja Adomeit
- Production: Zentropa Entertainments
Daniel Joseph Borgman
Daniel Joseph Borgman (1981, New Zealand) moved to Copenhagen, Denmark after graduating in film science from Otago University and has worked as a visual effects artist and film colorist on numerous feature film projects. His first short, The Man & the Albatross (2007), premiered in the Leopards of Tomorrow competition at the Locarno International Film Festival. His second short, Lars and Peter (2009), competed at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for a Robert, the Danish Film Academy’s national film prize. In 2009, he completed three more short films and won the Grand Prix of the Critics’ Week at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, he was admitted to the Cannes Cinéfondation’s The Residence program for talented young filmmakers, where he developed his debut feature film project, The Weight of Elephants.