What’s Up – trailer from Nick Dorra on Vimeo.
What’s Up is a short film written, directed and largely created by Meruan Salim. The logline of the film is “What goes around, comes around” and that’s all we’re going to say about the contents. At 5’36″ more info would just spoil it for you 
Festival circuit
The film premiered on August the 21st at the Espoo Ciné festival in the Méliès d’Argent competition. You can find more info on all coming festival dates on our Facebook page. To request a screener please contact Heidi Ollikainen at heidi@nickdorra.com
Press kit
You can download the press kit for the film here (30MB). It includes stills, synopsis, the director’s filmography and crew info.
“Making of” blog & Freebies
You can read a few “making of” entries through the links on the right. Also check out our Freebies page for free What’s Up stuff!
Info sheet
- Logline: “What goes around, comes around”
Running time: 5′ 36″
Premiere: August 21st 2010
Financiers: Finnish Film Fund, YLE Uusi Kino
Animation studio: Anima Vitae Ltd
Production company: Nick Dorra Production Ltd
- CREW
Script – Meruan Salim
Storyboarding – Meruan Salim
Character design – Meruan Salim
Location design – Meruan Salim, Antti Ripatti, Mikko Pitkänen
Character modeling and rigging – Kustaa Vuori
Location and props modeling – Aki Rissanen, Meruan Salim, Antti Ripatti
Texturing, shading, lighting, rendering, compositing and sfx – Aki Rissanen
Additional rendering – Jani Kuronen
Layout – Antti Ripatti, Meruan Salim
Animation – Antti Ripatti, Meruan Salim
Art director – Mikko Pitkänen
Studio producers – Sini Lindberg, Antti Haikala
Editor – Suvi Ryhänen
Composer – Kaapo Huttunen
Music programming – Toni Kurkimäki
Sound design – Janne Jankeri, Salla Hämäläinen
Foley studio – H5 Film Sound
Foley artist – Heikki Kossi
Foley editor – Tapio Liukkonen
Voice actor – Joonas Saartamo
Colour grading – Post Control / Marko Terävä
Director – Meruan Salim
Producer – Nick Dorra
