Snowy: A Short Film About One Pet Turtle's Pursuit of Happiness
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Filmmakers Kaitlyn Schwalje and Alex Wolf Lewis decided to make a film about Snowy the pet turtle after spending Thanksgiving with him one year. Their short documentary is both an investigation into animal happiness and an intervention to improve one turtle’s life.
Director / Writer: Kaitlyn Schwalje
Director / Cinematographer: Alex Wolf Lewis
Editors: Katharina Stroh & Alexander Heringer
Producers: Rebecca Stern & Justin Levy
Executive Producers: Meryl Goldsmith, Cheryl Dillard Staurulakis & Dana Nachman
Supervising Producer for Time: Justine Simons
Consulting Producer for Time Studios: Alexandra Johnes
Sound Design: Luciano Vignola
Color & VFX: Filipp V. Kotsishevskiy
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How funny!!!! My husband, Mark, and I fell in love with this documentary when we saw it at the Oxford Film Festival in March 2021. We were Dying to get out to movies during COVID-19 and discovered that OxfordFF figured out a way to make that happen. So we drove from Dallas to Mississippi and were some of the only people at some of the screenings. That set the stage for seeing this in a tent outside. We CRACKED up and have told people ever since that we saw this cute documentary about how your turtle hates you. I don't think they once said that in the actual film, but that was our total takeaway. And it would crack us up whenever we heard someone we were talking to had a turtle. We'd say: "You have to see the documentary: 'Your Turtle Hates You!"" I had this very conversation with a friend's daughter who was caring for her sibling's turtle! I'm going to send this to her now! It still cracks me up having seen it now 3 years later!! Thank you for making this delightful film!! I LOVE it!!!
Just saw it on Pattrn. My second time. I forgot a bunch of it. LOL crazy good. Love the ending....
How sweet! I have 3 box turtles-one I’ve had over 30 years. The last 5 years she got to roam freely a part of our home. I got to see her personality more. I saw the difference how she acted versus the newer less domestic ones. It’s so sweet. It IS hard to know if they’re happy. But when I see them eat and drink water and sit underneath the lamp I feel like they are happy. Thanks for the short film
Sweet, yet so sad. Our Russian tortoise is in a large terrarium that is heated with rocks, logs & plants that he can explore. He can leave the terrarium at any time to wander the house our walk outside in the garden. He scampers across the kitchen for dandelion greens, cucumbers & carrots. He sits on our feet to stay warm & follows us around the house. I’m sad that Snowy spent 25 years in a glass aquarium in the basement but am hopeful that he’ll enjoy many more years of sunshine in the backyard.
Wonderful short, dad reminds me a bit of Toby on The Office. Sweet film.
Loved this story❤
Saw this at a film festival. So cute!!! ❤️
Great film really sweet! I hope this film opens peoples eyes to not keep living beings in cages.
Qué lindo!, como nos falta a los humanos ser mas conscientes de conectar con nuestro planeta y sus habitantes. Very nice!
Awwww what a great film!
So cute!
Excellent video!!!
Take care and have a great day!!!
So in conclusion, turtles need big, green spaces :)
This reminds me to my european quail, Woolie.. I was still in primary school, more than 2 decades ago.
I believe he had senses to recognize me. I kept saying to him abt living outside his cage was dangerous esp when I was not around but he seemed didnt trust me, he did trials to feel how freedom was like..
I spent good years with him, later, time went by, he grew old and started to feel unhealthy and he was depressed abt himself. He tried to show me to kill him slowly by refusing the food with gloomy eyes. I felt that but I kept taking care of him til one day he had chance to go outside his cage, he jumped from our 3rd floor house (to suicide) I didnt know that until my grandma buried him and told me later.. I cried for weeks and it hurts me til this time each time I see or listen anything abt quails
5:30 awww
Once i saved a lizard that was out in the cold starving, just a little baby anole! kept it and raised it in a 5 gal. I always looked at him and thought... he just never seemed to be happy so i released him in my front yard and he dissapeared. I was scared he died but then after a month the same small lizard i once had came as a giant 7 inch full grown male! he had multiple other female lizards hanging around just for him, i felt he was finally ttruly happy :)