Behind the Scenes: The Animation Team on the short film 9-11/9-11

This is a behind-the-scenes featurette about the production of 9-11/9-11 an animated film directed by conceptual artist Mel Chin. American filmmaker Chip Schneider produced and edited. The animation was done by hand, in pencil, by Chilean animation studio Planovisual. In February 2008, the Chilean Arts and Cultural Council honored 9-11/9-11 with the Sienna Award - the "Oscar" of Chile - for Best Animated Short Film. 9-11/9-11 also received awards from FeSanCor - the Santiago International Short Film Festival, and the Southern Appalachian Film Festival. Renowned film critic Roger Ebert declared, "What a sad, angry, beautiful film. I was spellbound."

The terrorist attacks of 9-11-2001 in New York forever scarred the trust of the American people. On the same date, 28 years before, the military overthrow of a democratically elected president ushered in 17 years of autocratic rule under Augusto Pinochet, resulting in the deaths of more than 3,000 people and the torture of tens of thousands. 9-11/9-11 is a tale of two cities and a tragedy of two times... a story of love and hope wrecked by overt - and covert - manipulations of power. Many of the animators who worked on 9-11/9-11 grew up at the time of coup in Chile... and the violence that came with it. 9-11/9-11 premiered on September 11, 2007 with simultaneous screenings in Santiago de Chile and the four largest cities in the US --New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. The music in this video is used with kind permission from the band Explosions in the Sky. Ann W. Harithas and Creative Time, Inc. are Executive Producers.