2026 WINNER – BEST ANIMATED FILM
- Animated Film Competition
Year: 2025
Length: 8 mins
Country: United States
Language: English
Premiere: NYC Premiere
Directed by: Taryn Stickrath-Hutt, Dan Lund
Produced by: Taryn Stickrath-Hutt, Dan Lund
Starring: Kellie Hoover (Betty), Taryn Stickrath-Hutt (The Wife), Bruce Wright (The Husband), Carlos Luna (The Doctor)
SEE THE FILM
THE FINGER WIFE is a domestic horror story with a delicious sense of humor – part 2D hand-drawn animation, part stop-motion, and all bizarro feminist propaganda! It’s 1975. A smart, ambitious woman (The Wife) is stuck in the kitchen. When feisty, martini-drinking Betty steps out of a 1950s cookbook, The Wife is confronted with what she really wants out of life (it’s not to make another meatloaf). Faced with Betty’s tough love and in a desperate effort to find one goddamn minute for herself, The Wife takes matters into her own hands, with gleefully horrific results.
About the Directors
Taryn Stickrath-Hutt is a writer, director, queer feminist and exhausted mother based in Chicago. Dan Lund is a longtime Disney animator known for his effects work on high-profile animated films like FROZEN and MOANA, as well as his own offbeat, independent shorts. Taryn and Dan met while working on projects with Walt Disney Imagineering. The duo has been collaborating for nearly a decade.
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