Fire in Cardboard City

As the trailer makes clear, this award-winning animated short film has a key ingredient for a pulp movie: cardboard. It also features car chases, explosions and a fire brigade fighting to save Cardboard City (including the Beehive and Sky Tower). Director Phil Brough collaborated on the script with fellow Back of the Y alumnus Matt Heath. Leigh Hart and Jeremy Wells are among the voices in the film, which was six years in the making. Fire in Cardboard City was selected for the 2018 Berlin and Tribeca film festivals, and won Best New Zealand Film at the 2017 Show Me Shorts Film Festival.

I tried to put as much action-packed action into seven minutes and just keep it entertaining. I often find you go to short film screenings and they’re really depressing.

– Director Phil Brough in an interview with Flicks website, 18 July 2017

Key Cast & Crew

Phil Brough

Director, Writer, Animator, As: Dad

Orlando Stewart

Producer

Matt Heath

Writer, Producer, As: Helicopter Dude #2

Anna Hall

As: Woman in building

Ella Wilks

As: Deputy

Jeremy Wells

As: Helicopter Dude #1