THE LITTLE

CHRISTMAS TREE

 

FILM/TV | FEATURE ANIMATION

THE LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE

Project Status: FINANCING

THE LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE is the tale of a tiny noble fir named Sticks, who is cut down way before his time and thrown out with the other reject trees. His dream, to get his star — the magical gift that transforms ordinary trees into true Christmas trees — seems lost forever as he sits discarded at the back of a local tree lot.

Against all odds, Sticks finds a friend and kindred spirit, a lonely little boy named Jasper, who promises to do whatever it takes to get Sticks his star. But their efforts are thwarted by Buck Dollar, the obsessed mastermind of Wonder-Faux, an enterprise of go-go gadgety “faux” Christmas Trees!

Buck is hell bent on eradicating all the natural Christmas trees and sabotaging the town’s beloved holiday tradition. This leads the pair on a magical adventure where they must enlist the help of the other misfit trees as they fine a way to save the town’s Christmas tradition before it’s ruined forever.

 
 

TEASER/TRAILER

LXT - DEVELOPMENT REEL

 
 
 

 

VIRAL MARKETING | YOUTUBE SERIES

CONFESSIONS OF AN INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER

CONFESSIONS OF AN INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER is the behind-the-scenes social media ampaign behind The Little Christmas Tree, an “edutainment” Youtube series for all ages that follows CIFGUY as he seeks financing for his animated holiday feature film. F or five years and 60 videos, CIFGUY updates his viewers with heart and insight for a first-person perspective of getting investors for a movie, an endeavor he never completes, but leaves him with a greater legacy — the YouTube series.

The Youtube series disappears unannounced taking with it all the subscribers and comments that made the series viral. The entire series has recently been re-uploaded to Youtube, this time with the reflections of CIFGUY written in the description of each video as he revisits the beloved series backwards, a journey from who he is now to where he began, as he prepares another push to produce this unfinished fan-favorite endeavor.