Directed by Jose Bello Sanchez
When Captain Gnash leads his crew of pirates to hunt down a giant crab behemoth, the youngest of the crew, Maggie, must use her magical powers to fight in her own unique way.
Jose Bello Sanchez
Jose Bello Sanchez is a writer, director, and animator based in New York City and the Tampa Bay area studying film and television at New York University. As a fan of animated television and motivational stories, her films take emotional characters and heighten them with action-packed visuals driven by "the rule of cool". As the director of the award winning animated short, "Mad Tide", she was able to break the limits of her school's animation department and teach several students along the way. She intends to one day run her own children's animated television show and inspire the next generation of animators.
National Board of Review New York Student Grant 2026 United States
