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Everything Will Be OK is a 2006 animated short film by Don Hertzfeldt. It is the first chapter of a planned three-part story about Bill, the main character. The character and a few of the film's scenarios were developed from short comics and sketches Don did in 1999-2000 for his website while working on other film projects. Hertzfeldt is currently in production on the second film in the series, due for theatrical release in 2008.
Everything Will Be OK won the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Jury Award in Short Filmmaking, a prize rarely bestowed on an animated film. To date it has won 35 awards, including the Grand Jury Award for Best Film at the London International Animation Festival, the Lawrence Kasdan Award for Best Narrative Film from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Award for Animated Film from the Florida Film Festival.
Despite being a short film, "Variety" film critic Robert Koehler named Everything Will Be OK one of the "Best Films of 2007".
Outside of theaters, the movie is currently available as a limited edition DVD "single", exclusively from Hertzfeldt's website, http://www.bitterfilms.com . The DVD features an extensive archival area of deleted scenes, Don's production notes, sketches, and layouts, as well as a hidden Easter Egg that plays an alternate, narration-free version of the film.
Almost every scene in the short splits the screen up into multiple moving "windows". The whole movie and all of its special effects were photographed and carefully composited "in camera" - no CG was used in the production.




