We use the tools of 2026 and the rules of a picture book. One world, one problem, one door. No words on screen until the one that matters.
The postpartum period is officially six weeks. We extended ours to the rest of our lives. The name is also our names: Fomin, Fomin, Petrov & Petrova.
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Grisha and his robot friend VOLLI have four minutes to reach the rocket for Iva's birthday on the Moon, and only one of them can almost read.
We are two fathers. We wanted to make things with our kids that were better than the things we could buy them, and we wanted a name for it so that it would keep happening after the first weekend.
Fast-forward is the button you press when you know what you are looking for. We do.
We make short films with the kids, about things the kids care about, for kids and for the adults who read to them. The first one is START: four minutes and forty-four seconds about a boy who saves a launch by reading one word. It was made in a week of evenings, one shot at a time, by a studio that had never made a film.
The studio is the kitchen table. New films arrive every few weeks, on a Saturday evening, for as long as the kids want to keep making them.
Home movies, fast-forwarded.
Two dads and their kids make short films with the tools of 2026 and the rules of a picture book.
FFPP Pictures, whose full name is Fast-Forward Post-Partum, is a small film studio run by two fathers and their two children. It makes short films for children and for the adults who read to them, using generative video tools shot by shot and the rules of a picture book: one world, one problem, one door. Its first film, START, is a four-minute animated short about a boy who saves a rocket launch by reading one word.
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