The Chihuahua Shake
Experience this musical comedy where a Parisian dachshund is tasked with painting a portrait of a chihuahua who just won't stop shaking. Only a local band can help the chihuahua explain that there's more to his shake than meets the eye.
The Chihuahua Shake
Made by an 18-year-old filmmaker, this project is told with beautiful scenery, an enchanting score, and knee-slapping visual gags throughout.
The film will Premiere at Dances With Films at the TCL Chinese Theatre on June 23, 2024
The Characters
Shaky and Gianni’s relationship is the core of the story, so I wanted to ensure they had an equal amount of time to both be the protagonists and antagonists of their own worlds. Gianni’s backstory is that his owner recently passed away, so he took over his paint shop and became an independent business dog and world-famous painter. Shaky on the other hand, is a lost puppy who’s a bit more mysterious. One gets easily angered while the other seems relatively carefree. That is, besides it’s constant shaking. Gianni thinks they couldn’t be more different than one another, but they’re really both just dogs in a human world.
There were a lot of factors that eventually culminated in the final film. My grandmother rescues and fosters a lot of dogs, and I would notice that the dachshunds were always very prim and proper while the chihuahuas would just sit there watching and shaking. But the sprout for the story originally came from my father’s friend who has since passed away. She wanted to write a story about a shaking chihuahua and my father wrote a few measures of a song for her. A few years later, I wanted to make an animation inspired by the song and I figured that a shaking chihuahua would be a good obstacle for a painter. It all grew from there and the song was fully fleshed out as the finale to the movie.
The music all stemmed from the song my father had started writing years ago. We then fleshed it out and gave it a main chorus with new lyrics. It’s extremely catchy. The rest of the soundtrack is equally amazing. It’s full of Parisian accordion, jazzy big bands, saxophone solos, sad violins, and soaring cinematic themes. When he was finished composing everything we were able to get real musicians to play the parts! So when you watch, know that everything you hear is authentic.
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