Short Film: This Way Up

"This Way Up" Directed by Smith & Foulkes of Nexus

This Oscar nominated animated short tells the story of two undertakers who try to deliver a body to a graveyard. Of course, everything that can possibly go wrong does. 

"Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble.

This Oscar Nominated short is directed by Smith & Foulkes and written by Foulkes, Smith, and Christopher O’Reilly, and produced at Nexus by Charlotte Bavasso and Christopher O’Reilly, the film follows two dour unfortunates as they battle a series of misadventures while trying to deliver a coffin to the graveyard.

The animated caper is a series of emotional and literal pitfalls for the pall-bearing team, as their journey and relationship unravel on an epic scale culminating in the pair joining the old lady in a trip through the underworld."

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