A Holiday Dream • A Niceshit & Lobulo Shortfilm
Three Easy Steps to Recover from Chronic Pain by Dave Moen
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Client
Permission to move
Production & Direction
Niceshit
Creative Direction
Carmen Angelillo, Guido Lambertini & Rodier Kidmann
Executive Producer
Agusta Timotea
Art Direction
Rodier Kidmann & Carmen Angelillo
Animation Direction
Guido Lambertini
Design & Illustration
Fede Kanno, Cesar Pelizer, Juan Molinet, Martín Salfity, Carmen Angelillo & Rodier Kidmann
Animation & Clean Up
Erik Righetti, Leo Campasso, Sebastian Baptista, Margarita Rojas, Martin Salfity, Cesar Pelizer, Carmen Angelillo, Guido Lambertini & Rodier Kidmann
Puppets & Set Construction
Gacy Sarubbi
DOP & Camera
Agus Verrastro & Pablo Alfieri
Music & Sound Design
Aimar Molero
BTS Photography
Agusta Timotea
Camera Assistant & BTS Edit
Bruno Cosoli
Compositing & Color Correction
Matías Mastrogiano & Agus Verrastro
Special thanks
Ingi Guðjónsson & Hamill Industries
STORY
A meditative yet humorous look at the world of chronic pain — and how to live and recover from it day by day.
Dave Moen, Australian physiotherapist and author, contacted us to collaborate on what instantly felt like a dream project. He had previously written Permission to Move, a book structured around a three-step process that bridges pain science with everyday practice. His goal was simple but powerful: to help people integrate modern pain science into their daily lives.
Dave wanted to turn those ideas into a short film — something human, hopeful, and visually engaging — where he could narrate and explain how to live and recover from chronic pain.
To capture his humanist approach, we embraced a wide mix of techniques and styles: 2D, 3D, and even some live-action puppetry.
Pain is complex — different for everyone — so working with such a variety of techniques and styles felt like the perfect way to tell this story. We loved having the creative freedom to carefully choose how each concept would be expressed visually, finding the best approach for every step along the way.
IMPACT
With this film, we wanted to give people living with chronic pain a quick glimpse of what recovery can look like — a light, hopeful entry point into a topic that’s often heavy and misunderstood.
By combining humor, empathy, and clear visual storytelling, we hope this piece reaches viewers who recognized themselves in it and found a sense of relief and curiosity to learn more.