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Detective Muldoon and femme fatale Red are the protagonists of Loontown - a balloon film noir

"I'm not a monster, detective - I'm a balloon!"

LOONTOWN

A SHORT ANIMATED FILM NOIR
BY NIR YANIV & LAVIE TIDHAR

Loontown short film - Official Selection, Independent Shorts Awards

Loontown short film - Oregon Short Film Festival Official Selection Laurel

Loontonw short film - Cannes World Film Festival Finalist Laurel

Loontown short film - Venice Short Film Award Official Selection laurel

Loontown short film - New York International Film Award Winner Laurel

Loontown short film - ONIROS Film Award Winner

When someone pops Mordy the Mouth, balloon detective Muldoon runs into hoppers and gasbags – not to mention one sexy red balloon! – as he tries to solve the mystery of missing helium in Loontown.

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In a dark alley in Loontown, a small-time balloon is being threatened by the gang

LOONTOWN: THE OFFICIAL TRAILER

It's the Citizen Kane of Balloon Noir Films!

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Loontown - A Short Animated Film
Length: 17:55
Language: English
Produced in the US, 2022
Format: 17:9 DCI 4K
Genre: Film-Noir, Animation, Comedy

Directed by Nir Yaniv
Written by Lavie Tidhar
Starring Digger Mesch, Anne Wittman, Kenneth Jay, Nathan Osgood, Al Lubel, Russell Wilcox and Katie Snyder
Original soundtrack by Nir Yaniv
Red's Theme composed and performed by Ruy Folguera
Sound mix by Tal Rom

Film poster for Loontown - a short balloon film noir

Poster design by
Sarah Anne Langton

Detective Muldoon and Red meet at the bar

“Tidhar is one of the great writers of my generation.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, novelist and producer, Mexican Gothic

“I cannot be a man who countenances Tidhar.”
Charlie Kaufman, writer/producer, Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

CREATIVE TEAM

Lavie Tidhar, writer/co-creator
Writer, The Violent Century, Cenrtal Station, By Force Alone, nominated Philip K. Dick Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner World Fantasy Award, Campbell, Neukom, British Fantasy, British SF Award, Jerwood Prize.
Previously in development: The Violent Century (DNA), Adler (Objective Fiction).

Nir Yaniv, director/co-creator
Director, composer and animator of Mars Machines, Addict, Microtime, Liftoff, The Voice Remains. Winner, Paris Independent Film Festival Best Animated Short 2018, Genre Celebration Festival Best Score 2018, LifeArt Festival Best Sound & Vision 2020.
Author of The Love Machine and Other Contraptions, The Good Soldier.

The Dans La Lune is a bar for shady balloons, in Loontown, a balloon film noir

VOICE TALENT

Digger Mesch - Lt. Muldoon
Ultraviolet, Payday

Anne Wittman - Red
Avenue 5, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Kingsman: The Secret Service

Kenneth Jay - Big, Fred, Goon 1
Wonder Woman 1984, Big Nothing, Woman in Gold

Nathan Osgood - Flynn, Bill, Goon2
Mission:Impossible, Criminal, Seven Psychopaths

Russell Wilcox - Tony Bouncy Ball, The Professor
6 Underground, Holmes & Watson

AL Lubel - Mordechai the Mouth
Funny People, Mentally Al

Katie Snyder - Scarlet, Dispatch

The gasbags threaten Detective Muldoon, in this balloon film noir

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