Mel Xiao’s poem “We Were Seven” was selected as a winner of the 2017 Moving Words Contest, an international project that transforms written works into three-minute films. A unique collaboration among artists of prose, poetry, voice acting, and animation, Moving Words intersects the individual voices of American writers with the creative vision of animators in Israel.
Mel’s poem will be voice acted and recorded by Drew University theater students. Both the audio and written pieces will then be sent to Israel where art animation students will subsequently use the written and oral pieces to complete a short film combining all three art forms. Mel’s resulting film will be shown at a festival at Drew University’s Ehinger Center in September 2018. If you wish to submit to next year’s contest, submissions are due by June 30, 2018.