The Academy Award (OSCAR) Winning and Annie Award winning film ‘WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko’ is an anti-war story by Sean Lennon and Dave Mullins that features John & Yoko’s iconic anti-war holiday song ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’.
Directed by Dave Mullins, produced by Brad Booker and exec produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon with music by Thomas Newman, the film has been created as a co-production of Lenono Music, ElectroLeague, WetaFX and Epic Games.
STORY
WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko is an 11-minute animated film, set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers’ chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.