FEFE URRESTI
PITICA AND THE PERFECT SANDWICH
ROLES
Executive Production; Story; Music; Editorial; Photography; Costume Design; Character Stop-motion Animation; VFX; Sound Design and Mixing (5.1)
ABOUT
Stop-motion short film. Pitica is a small girl that lives alone in an old war tank. While preparing a sandwich, she realizes there is an ingredient missing: a tomato. Then, she adventures into a dangerous forest in search of the fruit, without a clue of what awaits her.
PERIOD
March 2023 - September 2023. Released in 2024.
GENRE
Comedy, Adventure
SOCIAL
Pitica and the Perfect Sandwich was a short film made for our Stop-Motion class during the 5th term of our Film and Animation major. The idea came from an old concept of Lucca Vendramel's, of a little girl eating a sandwich listening to 60's rock in her radio in front of her house, an abandoned war tank after the apocalypse.
It was a project that I, Babi Astolfi, Ju Hogata, Larissa Penna, and Lucca made unpretentiously but with much care and joy, winning over the hearts of many people, encouraging us to distribute the film as soon we wrapped production. Our debut in festivals, Pitica has traveled all over the world, bringing her message about friendship and our learning about stop-motion.
SOUNDTRACK
Original soundtrack also available at Apple Music, SoundCloud, and other platforms: https://linktr.ee/piticashort
CREDITS & FESTIVALS
Directed by BABI ASTOLFI Story BABI ASTOLFI,
FEFE URRESTI, JU HOGATA, LARISSA PENNA,
LUCCA VENDRAMEL
Starring LARISSA PENNA, FEFE URRESTI,
LUCCA VENDRAMEL
Original idea LUCCA VENDRAMEL
Executive producer FEFE URRESTI
Art director BABI ASTOLFI
Character designers BABI ASTOLFI,
LUCCA VENDRAMEL
Sets BABI ASTOLFI Cinematography FEFE URRESTI Animation director BABI ASTOLFI
Music FEFE URRESTI
Sound design and mixing FEFE URRESTI
Editorial FEFE URRESTI
Post-production BABI ASTOLFI, FEFE URRESTI, JU HOGATA, LUCCA VENDRAMEL
AWARDS
2024
Brazil New Visions International Film Festival (Camaragibe, PE) - Best Animated Short Film Finalist
IV FUNFEST International Video Festival (Ilha da Madeira, Portugal) - 2nd place in Higher Education - Animation category
Madeira Film Festival (Ilha da Madeira, Portugal) - Finalist
16° MacacuCine Festival Internacional de Cinema Escolar (Cachoeiras de Macacu, RJ) - 1st place - Popular Jury Prize of University Short Films
2025
3° Festival de Cinema de Animação Universitária da FAAP (São Paulo, SP) - Best Stop-Motion Animation Winner, Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Voice Acting Nominee
23° NOIA - Festival Internacional do Audiovisual Universitário (Fortaleza, CE) - Best YouTube Engagement - Kids Category
FESTIVALS, AWARDS, SCREENINGS
2024
27a Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes (Tiradentes, MG)
A Royal Chance Festival (Los Angeles, EUA)
3° Cine Arcoverde (Arcoverde, PE)
Yale Student Film Festival (New Haven, EUA)
CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival (Santiago, Chile)
CineHisteria (São Paulo, SP)
Cineclube dos Criadores - Mostra de Cinema Itinerante (Baixada Fluminense, RJ)
FestCine Itaúna (Caruaru, PE)
Festival de Cinema de Itapetininga (Itapetininga, SP)
17a Baixada Animada (Rio de Janeiro, RJ)
streetside cinema/ (Winston-Salem, EUA)
Festival l'Art de Chemin (Trumilly, França)
CineAlter: Festival de Cinema de Alter do Chão (Santarém, PA)
Max Sir International Film Festival (Heredia, Costa Rica)
TrikFilm (Ostrava, República Tcheca)
Calibélula Festival Internacional de Cine Infantil y Juvenil (Cali, Colômbia)
British University International Students Film Festival (Cairo, Egito)
Murucututu - Festival para crianças | Itinerâncias (Conselheiro Pena, MG)
Festival Primeiro Plano (Juiz de Fora, MG)
III Internacional Animation Film Festival Animur (Khabarovsk, Rússia)
Webseries & Film Festival (Lima, Peru)
The Animation Tanzania Film Festival (Dar es salaam, Tanzânia)
Festival de Cinema de Santo André (Santo André, SP)
Zuma International Film Festival (Abuja, Nigéria)
2025
Animatex (Cairo, Egito)
Festival Angaelica (Los Angeles, EUA)
34° Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro - Curta Cinema (Rio de Janeiro, RJ)
Festival Internacional de Audiovisual - FIAfest Comsabana (Cundinamarca, Colômbia)
1a Mostra Universitária de Cinema e Audiovisual - MUCA (São Paulo, SP)
Festival Lagamar de Cinema - FLAC (Cananéia, SP)
Zinetxiki Zinmaldia - Festival Internacional de Cine Infantil y Juvenil (Bilbao, Espanha)
Fest Cine Itaúna (Caruaru, PE)
VIII Curta Lages (Lages, SC)
Chaniartoon (Chania, Grécia)
Tianjin International Academic FIlm Festival (Tianjin, China)
Curta Santos (Santos, SP)
5º Festival Cortos para Tiempos Largos (Pereira, Colômbia)
Muğla Zeytin Çiçeği International Short Film Competition (Muğla, Turquia)
2026
First Films Fest Animation Festival (Mumbai, Índia)
11° Cine Caos (Cuiabá, MT)
International Student Film Festival in Tirana (Tirana, Albânia)
Last Update: July 24th of 2026