5 Must-Watch Animated Shorts On Amazon Video

I’ve had Amazon Prime for a while now (If you’re a student like me get that discount!) but have only recently started taking advantage of shows and films that are available to watch on Amazon Video. Using my new Amazon Fire TV Stick I started to watch programming on the “big screen” — my television. One day while taking a break from writing papers this busy semester I found a slew of animated films, most no longer than ten minutes long. I made an evening of it, watching a mini marathon of them. Here’s my list of favorites. 5.) Uyir (2015) Directed by: Danan Thilakanathan / Duration: 10 minutes / Thilakanathan Studios “Uyir is an emotional 3D animated short film about a loving grandfather and granddaughter. Things take a nasty turn when masked men enter his house and take him away to an unknown place. He must find his way back to his granddaughter but all is not what it seems!” This is one of the few shorts I found on Amazon Video that feature people of color AND a POC director. Uyir is a gorgeous short that features an adorable loving grandpa and his young granddaughter. It masterfully tells a touching and ultimately much-layeryed story in a impressive ten-minute time frame. There are detailed interior and exteriors shots. The music works well and there is a great element of suspense that complements the film as well. The single flaw is the jerkiness of the camera — a sort of stop-start, buffering like motion that I’m guessing was supposed to add to the dream-like quality o…