‘Daughters of the Late Colonel’ qualifies for 2027 Oscar consideration

Cartoon Brew reports that Lizzy Hobbs’ adaptation of Katherine Mansfield’s 1921 story qualified for 2027 Oscar consideration by winning best animated short at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Made with ink and paint on paper, it follows two middle-aged sisters imagining life after their overbearing father’s death. Hobbs says the film stays close to Mansfield’s dialogue and uses loops of household tasks to show the sisters’ routines.