Hello, my name is Jacob Frey.
I'm the director of the short film Going Home, and this is take one.
Um, yeah, so, this is a movie slate that I actually built with my father
when I was around five years old,
and I sawed it myself, painted it,
and, uh, this actually was supposed to be a birdhouse at first,
where even here, the drawing on it, on the back.
But I was like, "I don't wanna build a birdhouse,
"I wanna make a movie slate."
I've been living in the United States now for five years.
When I go home to visit my hometown,
I slowly start to see a change in the environment.
Something feels off.
And the more often I actually go home and visit family and friends,
the more stuff changes.
And the sad thing is that it's not just the set that changes and the environment,
but it's also the people.
I'm super thankful that my parents constantly supported me,
starting as a kid.
I mean, I've done my first animation test with them together
while they were staged as actors in my shorts.
In the end, I made it to Disney from a small town in Germany,
which blows my mind, and I get to work with all these talented people.
And, uh, I would have never expected that that's possible.
What's very unique about Short Circuit is that it can be any type of story.
It could be funny, it could be sad. That's such a broad spectrum.
With this program, we're really capable
of pushing the boundaries of what we've known so far.
Thank you so much.
I really hope you enjoy my short, Going Home, and that's it.
(WHISTLING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(CREAKING)
(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
(ENGINE STARTS)