A Japanese woman called Satsuki Tendo lives in an alternative 1960s San Francisco and she owns a one-of-a-kind zoo: it doesn’t house traditional creatures but mythological beasts stalked by arm dealers who hunt them in order to sell them to the militia fighting Vietnam War. Satsuki, who as a child was visited by a Baku, an entity that ate all of her nightmares, is now desperately trying to save this creature that fell into the wrong hands. Helping her there’s also Phoebe, a gorgon wearing contact lenses and a weave. The two women will try to stop the Baku from being used to eat the hopes and dreams of the pacifist, psychedelic generation of the 60s…
Dash Saw’s second animated work, The Cryptozoo Debut is an omage to Winsor McCay, father of fantasy animation in the the early 1900s. Produced by Kyle Martin for Electric Chinoland, it’s one of the projects selected for the Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum. To find out more about this and other projects, click here.
