'Yearbook' Trailer from The Playlist on Vimeo. For Bernardo Britto, the road to Sundance was paved with 2,000 drawings, by hand, pencil on paper - a rarity these days for animators. It paid off. The South Florida native’s animated short film - produced by the Knight-funded Borscht Corp. - just won Sundance’s Short Film Jury Award: Animation. The festival has shown Borscht’s work for four consecutive years, a rare distinction, but this is its first win. It’s further proof that Miami’s film community is gaining national recognition. Britto’s “Yearbook” is about a man assigned to document the history of human existence before Earth is destroyed. It’s a bit dark, but also comical. Britto said he got the germ of the idea last year after reading the words on a pencil handed out at the opening of another Borscht short, Lucas Leyva and Jillian Mayer’s “#PostModem.” The inscription read, “Everything you do will be forgotten.” “It was very depressing … especially as I was getting ready to do a new movie - to make one knowing that it probably wouldn’t be around in the future. So the only way I could make another movie was to address that,” Britto, 24, said.
