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About the short film

Memories from the Holocaust have been portrayed in almost every medium, but rarely animation -- and never before by a child animator. Animated short film "INGRID PITT: BEYOND THE FOREST" is a cross-generational collaboration between a world-class animation master, two-time Academy Award-nominated Bill Plympton, and a first-time animator, 11-year-old artist Perry Chen. It is narrated by Ingrid Pitt herself.

Starting with Ingrid Pitt's poignant narration and Bill Plympton's 23 traditional pencil sketches as storyboard, award-winning artist and film critic Perry Chen brings this moving story and its contemporary implications alive. Read more

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Theodora Michaels
Executive Producer

Theodora Michaels speaking at the New York City Bar Association on March 10, 2011

Theodora K. Michaels has been working in the music industry since 1987, and as an attorney at one of the world's largest independent music publishers, Carlin America, Inc., since 1998. Since 2005, she has also been working in partnership with her husband, Kevin Sean Michaels, for their independent film production company VAMP Productions. In this role, she did all the paperwork for independent documentaries including "The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels" narrated by John Waters, and "Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest," a depiction of actress Ingrid Pitt's childhood escape from a concentration camp, animated by Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton and child artist Perry Chen.

Ms. Michaels is a graduate of Hunter College (B.A., magna cum laude with a triple major of music, psychology and the Thomas Hunter Honors Program, 1991) and The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1997). Ms. Michaels has extensive experience in researching copyright law issues, and has actively participated in Copyright Office proceedings both in writing and in person. She has also lectured and participated in panel discussions on copyright and licensing issues at the New York City Bar Association and before lay audiences at the immense pop-culture convention Dragon*Con. She is especially interested in fair use, the interplay of older laws with modern technologies, and the internet's potential for mass collaboration. Ms. Michaels currently serves on the Copyright and Literary Property Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

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