Screen Arts Animation/Mark Stansberry, Director

Lots of things are sold in the NYC subway system. Bootleg movies, salvation from Satan, candy and my personal favorite, unsolicited live entertainment, but I came across a first that got me to spend a dollar — animation. Yes, while riding the train a filmmaker was selling his reel for a dollar, and I could not resist. I’m very rarely shocked but someone selling there homemade cartoons on the D train — that is different enough to get me to bite.
When he gave me the DVD I secretly wished I had just bought some porn and maybe «cartoon» was the new underground code word for it and clearly I just was not cool enough to know it, but no — it was a cartoon. And it was cute. Most of the segments featured an adorable little girl named Puddin and her city adventures with her friend Ling. The animation was charming and it made up for cinematic pacing that was rather slow and stories that were fine, but not very inventive (except for a laugh out loud aside from Batman and Robin).
Overall, I certainly have spent a dollar on worse and if Mark Stansberry, the Director, has the passion, courage and belief in his work enough to busker it on the trains, well then I am happy to support his effort.