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Kate Renshaw-Lewis's hand-drawn film 'Busy Bodies' wins Slamdance Grand Jury Prize
Published 29 September 2026: the entirely hand-drawn short 'Busy Bodies', made with inkjet and screen-printing techniques, won the Grand Jury Prize for best animated short at Slamdance and was nominated for Best Film at Sundance.

Inspired by Rube Goldberg's overengineered contraptions, the film imagines the creation of red rubber gloves and the packaging of fish products by tiny hat-wearing creatures working like clockwork. Renshaw-Lewis emphasizes 'the mystery and absurdity behind how we get items that are so readily available to us'. The film builds to a climax that abstracts the visuals into shifting colours and outlines, offering an 'under the hood' perspective on the painstakingly manual process.

