POLICE BRUTALITY MUST STOP
Animation short film:
“Police Brutality Must Stop” is a personal animated short that came from my homesickness for Greece and the events of 2020. By then I’d been living abroad for eight years, watching from a distance as my country dealt with fear, anger and division.
As an artist, I’m often torn between expressing what I feel and staying out of politics. I’m not against the police, and I’m not on any side. What affected me was the constant stream of violent videos in the media. That feeling needed an outlet, and animation was mine.
The film is my response: a plea for unity and dignity, and for the simple truth that no one is above anyone else, whatever their profession, beliefs or background. Greece has incredible spirit, but also a long history of internal conflict. If we want to grow, we have to choose empathy over hostility. Life is brief, and violence brings nothing but more pain.
Creative Process:
I wanted to act quickly, learn, and say something that mattered. Inspired by a similar piece I had seen, I pushed myself to take on more of the creative process. In Blender, I designed the characters and used Mixamo motion capture to animate the story in just a few days.
The short is raw and unpolished, rendered in Eevee without glossing over the glitches. But that roughness is part of its truth. The urgency of the message mattered more than achieving technical perfection.
Sharing the film with a friend led to festival submissions, and to the realisation that this was my first completed short film. It sparked a desire to keep creating, to direct more stories that come from the heart, and to explore how animation can communicate emotion with immediacy and impact.
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