A seagull, plastic, and being blinded by love: Radheya Jegatheva and Clare Toonen write about their moving animation, Bird Drone

In Bird Drone, lonely seagull Sammy is unlucky in love – all the birds around him seem to be sharing their foraged snacks, pairing up and leaving him behind. When he encounters an elegant (and interested!) drone, Sammy finally believes he’s found the relationship he’s been looking for. But their sun drenched romance is threatened…

Pixar-inspired Bird Drone takes flight

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Impressive Western Australian emerging filmmaking trio Clare Toonen, Hannah Ngo and Radheya Jegatheva have won $70,000 production funding to produce their Pixar-inspired short film, Bird Drone, thanks to Elevate+, a new iteration of Screenwest’s annual Elevate program. Bird Drone is an…