An interesting-sounding new short film from Jeremy Lutter and Ben Rollo, Joanna Makes a Friend…

“when Joanna, a lonely nine-year-old girl, is ostracized by the other kids at school due to her love of the macabre and a fascination with Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, she ends up making a robot friend out of spare VCR parts in her father’s garage.”

Funded by a $115,000 award from the Motion Picture Production Industry Association, and also IndieGoGo crowd-funding.