Help Me Tom

Production Country: China
Running Time: 14mins
Year: 2024

Set in a small town in the future, a military robot is transformed into a human service robot Tom, but the war is still coming, and the robot Tom must make a choice.

FILM CREW:
Director: Jiahang Yang
Producer: Baoling Chang, Xiaoguang Chen, Lili Shen, Hanxia
Exec Producer: Lv Yi
Original Story: Shibo Qi, Jiahang Yang
Writer: Bo Wang, Philip Gelatt
Editor: Jiahang Yang
Sound Design: Gary Zacuto, Chris Pinkston
Composer: Robert Cairns
Production Design: Beijing Xiangxin Co. Ltd
Animation Director: Jiaxing Lu
VFX: Tao Peng, Xiaoming Chen, Xiaokai Tang, Zhounghua Wang, Xiaobo Dou, Qian Cheng
Animation: Jiaxing Lu, Zhiyong Dai, Denghui Liu, Yuru Cai, Jiang Li, Jinyue Song
Art Team: Tingting Mo, Shuai Liu, Haomin Zhang
Layout Team: Jiaxing Lu, Zhiyong Dai, Denghui Liu, Yuru Cai, Delong Zhang, Jiang Li, Jinyue Song
Modeling Team: Fuquan Hu, Lianghui Zhang, Jiaxin Li, Fengjiao Long, Chaofei Fang, Weijie Lin, Chonghui Luo, Yanghua Qin, Shizhao Cai
Environment Effects Team: Rongsheng Li, Jin Li, Yang Wang
Lighting Team: Xiao Yang, Bo Dai, Shuting Gui, Jing Zhao
Compositing Team: Yihao Zhang, Zhibin Feng


FESTIVALS:
Savoy Lumière May 2026
The Lake County Film FestivalMarch 2026
Winter Film Festival NYCFebruary 2026
Cambria Film FestivalFebruary 2026
The Bay International Film FestivalJanuary 2026
CineSol Film FestivalDecember 2025
Astrophobia Science Fiction and Horror Film FestivalOctober 2025
Newport Beach Film Festival October 2025
Show Me Shorts Film FestivalOctober 2025
FilmQuestOctober 2025
Cordillera International Film FestivalSeptember 2025
Drama International Short Film FestivalSeptember 2025
HollyShorts Film FestivalAugust 2025
Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & TechnologyAugust 2025
Indy Shorts Film FestivalJuly 2025
Cleveland International Film FestivalMarch 2025