O'o: The Last Voice of Kauai
O'o: The Last Voice of Kauai is an award-winning environmental film about human-caused extinction featuring a bird known as the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, which was once endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i. This film was created as my 2022 senior thesis film at Lesley University.
This film was animated in Adobe Animate and edited in Premiere Pro with additional experimental animation done in TVPaint and Dragonframe. The backgrounds were designed in Clip Studio Paint EX, and the extinct species portraits were illustrated in Procreate by Carolyn Doremus.
Created & Narrated by: Hanah Cincotta
Extinct Species Illustrations & Clean Up: Carolyn Doremus
Animation Clean Up: Owen Flores, Emma Mercier, & Eman Umaiya
Music: Vincent Fasano
Sound Design: Nils Randers-Pehrson
Awards:
2022 | O’o: The Last Voice of Kauai, Best Animated Short, Emerging Artists Film Festival,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2022 | O’o: The Last Voice of Kauai, Best Scenario, Festival International Nature Namur,
Namur, Belgium
2022 | O’o: The Last Voice of Kauai, Audience Choice Student Film Winner, Friday Harbor Film Festival,
Friday Harbor, Washington, United States
2022 | O’o: The Last Voice of Kauai, Best Animation, TMFF - The Monthly Film Festival,
Glasgow, United Kingdom
2022 | O’o: The Last Voice of Kauai, Best Non-Documentary, CINECO Festival,
Elche, Alicante, Spain
2022 | O’o: The Last Voice of Kauai, Best Animation Golden Winner, Tokyo Film Awards,
Toshima City, Tokyo, Japan
2023 | O’o: The Last Voice of Kauai, Best Student Film, Anmtn! - Online animation awards,
Ukraine
