- (whimpering emotionally)
Oh!
(sadly) Oh.
- (tearfully) Wow, that was so powerful.
♪ (ragtime music) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we're gonna show you a short animated film
by Beth David and Esteban Bravo that has gone very viral
and has already been selected for several film festivals
and won several awards. - Oh, good, good.
(silence)
- "Ringling College of Art."
♪ (soft music) ♪
- "In a Heartbeat."
- I already like the name.
- It must be about love.
- (sighing) Is this gonna be sad?
- (boy panting)
(bushes rustling) - Looks innocent enough.
♪ (lighthearted music) ♪
- Aww.
- I think this young man likes this other young man.
- Oh, he's got a crush on that guy.
(heart thumping rapidly)
- (boy gasping) - He likes him or something?
♪ (anxious music) ♪
- Anxiety, anxiety.
♪ (music fluttering) ♪
- It's his heart. Aah! Oh!
♪ (lighthearted music) ♪
- Oh, you see?
You cannot control your heart.
(heart squeaking happily)
- So he's playing with his heart?
- Awww. (heart puckering up)
I love this.
- I can see why it went viral. It's nice.
(heart giggling and squeaking)
- Uh-oh. (ding)
(laughing)
(heart giggling and squeaking)
- (laughing) (ding)
(sighing) A little awkward there.
- (boy gasping frantically)
(door opening)
- Oh, how cute is that?
♪ (music building frantically) ♪
- Uh-oh.
(students whispering amongst themselves)
Other kids are watching.
- Haters. Haters. Stop it!
♪ (sad music) ♪
(heart cracking)
- Amazing what they can do with the eyes.
(heart stretching apart)
- No!
- Oh dear. And his heart just broke.
♪ (sad music) ♪ - (whimpering emotionally)
Oh! (heart breaking)
(sadly) Oh!
(door creaking shut) - Oh.
- Hmmm, a broken heart.
♪ (tender music) ♪
- (sighing emotionally)
♪ (hopeful music) ♪
- Oh, it just got put back together, yay.
(laughing)
- (sniffling)
(weeping softly)
- Empowered!
Awww.
(heart thumping) - Nice ending.
(heart thumping)
- Oh, that's really sweet.
- That was just beautiful. Oh, that was wonderful.
(sniffling) Oh my goodness.
(laughing)
- (tearfully) Wow, that was so powerful.
(sniffling)
(sighing deeply)
Academy Award. (laughing)
- I've always liked the animation,
and this was very well done, and it's a happy one.
- It would make a little boy who feels
warmly about another little boy feel better to see this.
Make him feel like it's not something terrible.
- It was very honest because, you know,
you make a decision-- you're ruled by your head
or you're ruled by your heart.
And if you want to be happy, you let it be your heart.
- (FBE) Okay, so the creators of this video
were still in college when they started this project
and only really relied on a handful of others
to help create the entire video.
So how do you think they did with this short film?
- So they were students when they did it,
and they've done really good with it.
It's very charming. It's very well done.
It looks very professional.
- They did a fabulous job. I really liked it because it's happy
and I always liked the animation anyway.
- The whole process of what they did was very, very good.
Professional, if I may say.
- Well, it's pretty artistic.
I mean, it wasn't cheaply made, you know?
The cartoon, the color, the editing,
the flow of the script, I think it's well done.
- My daughter's an animator, so I know how much work,
especially computer animation, how much work is in every second
of footage-- it takes forever.
That's amazing. That was beautiful.
- This should be up for an Oscar.
I mean, it's just wonderful.
It's done beautifully.
If I saw that at a theatre, I wouldn't even question
the professionalism capability of these young people.
- (FBE) So do you think a short film with this subject matter
would have been something possible to not only be made
but be so popular and be praised back when you were growing up
or earlier in life? - No. (laughing)
I'm sure there were little boys who felt like that,
but it was just completely unacceptable.
That's when your sexuality just starts developing,
and if you don't develop it the way the other kids
have developed, it's probably a very strange
bad feeling, and this would validate
the fact that you're okay.
- Today, it would be different, obviously,
but in those days, I don't think it would be
accepted in any way.
- Something coming in out of the norm so much
wasn't looked at positively.
- It wouldn't have been praised.
It would've been-- what's wrong with you people?
You know, that you're a pervert.
- I don't even know if we even realized that
relationships like that were going on,
and if they were, they were pretty hidden.
- Gay people stayed in the closet.
10, 15 years ago, I had a gay student
who was just distraught.
He was distraught because, basically,
what was happening is his parents were telling him
he was going to roast in hell, and it was very hard to deal with
because there was so little-- there was very little out there,
and I think that within the last decade, it's improved.
- You know, the young generation now,
they accept so many things that the older could not
and would not open their minds to accept,
so because of that, you know, it's a new day now.
- (FBE) So, finally, if the creators Beth and Esteban
ever see this episode, what would be your message
to them about their film? - Um, it's beautiful.
Keep it up.
- These guys did a great job with this,
and I accepted it. I'm not that young,
but I accepted it.
- Good for you for putting it out there
because it's something that's really needed.
We do need to remember that love is love,
and our heart needs to rule, so kudos to you.
- I think you did a very nice thing that validates
a lot of feelings for boys that they can't express
and they feel uneasy and unhappy about it.
I think it's a very positive message you're sending out
and it was beautifully done.
- Thank you, thank you, thank you for making
such a sweet, loving, compassionate realistic view
of what's really going on in the world,
and for people to really understand what your message was,
and it's so appreciated. I would say keep going.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders React.
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- Bye, everybody, I love you.
- Hey, everybody, Ethan here from FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode of Elders React.
Be sure to go support the film In a Heartbeat.
All the information you're gonna need
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and go support the film.
Bye, guys.