The first animated film on the Liberation War is about to be 'Surviving 71.' A short film with the name will be released next year by its director the Hollywood animator Wahid Ibn Reza. Ahead of the Independence Day today the first teaser of the film was released yesterday on YouTube channel of Wahid's WIR Films. He is expecting that he can reach out to the wider audience through the teaser to fund for his fifteen minute long 2D short film. The teaser is one minute and thirty-nine seconds long.

The teaser shows Pakistani Military transporting a group of what appears to be Freedom Fighters on a train over a river with a view to shoot them and cast them into the river. In the film two friends survive many ordeals before the Pakistani eyes during the Liberation War.

The film is inspired by Wahid Ibn Reza's father and former Minister Rezaul Karim as he miraculously escaped Pakistani Military confinement during the war. He was captured from the Mymensingh Teachers' Training College.

Voice artistes of the film have already been selected and the team includes-Joya Ahsan, Meher Afroz Shawon, Tanzir Tuhin, Gausul Alam Shaon, Onik Khan and Wahid Ibn Reza himself. Recording of Meher Afroz Shawon's voice has already completed and those of others will be recorded by August this year.

Wahid Ibn Reza is known for working in the visual effects teams of Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange and more. Doctor Strange was nominated for visual effects in Oscar in 2017.