SPECIAL MENTION RED November 25 - December 6, 2024 Animated Short | 2 min. | 2024 Directed by Elif Boyacıoğlu Sometimes it is the weird little things in life that trip you up...   Selected Festivals and Awards Lucania Film Festival, Pisticci, Italy (2024) Animatica piccolo festival di corti di animazione, Saronno,Italy (2024) Girona Film Festival, Spain (2024) Dublin Animation Film Festival, Ireland (2024) Festival Carton, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2024)   Elif BOYACIOĞLU Elif Boyacıoğlu received her BA in Communication and Design, and MA and PhD in History from Bilkent University. Her graduate studies focused on death in European medieval societies and related supernatural and folkloric beliefs. She completed a second BA in Animation at the Irish School of Animation, BCFE, Dublin. Her animated graduation short The Teacup was screened in over fifty international film festivals, winning seven awards. From 2016 to 2022, she was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Communication at Başkent University. She is currently based in Toronto, “The Teacup” was the recipient of Special Mention at BTF’s 10th Documentary and Short Film Competition in 2015.