Stoned for Christmas is a multimedia whirlwind and a love letter to weed. Built like a blunt rotation, Stoned for Christmas cycles through a weed courier’s Christmastime deliveries with each vignette in a different style of animation. The result is a delightfully surrealist trip, one that represents the chaos of NYC, the ups and downs of a high, and the unique unpredictability of navigating the world while trans.
As a writer-director-producer-stoner-puppeteer, much of Morgan Young's work exists in the intersections of film, theatre, and music. Excess, drag, arts and crafts, and clown were all present in the media that raised Morgan, and now they celebrate each of those whimsies in their own multi-genre production company, Talking Cat Productions.
Stoned for Christmas is Morgan's debut animated short as writer, director, and producer. The short has been awarded such accolades as the Jury Award at Hollywood New Directors, and is part of the official selection of Big Apple Film Festival and Dumbo Film Festival. It lives on the High Times Magazine YouTube channel, and High Times and Morgan are currently working on a Stoned for Christmas spinoff microshort series.
Outside of Talking Cat, Morgan’s past credits include: Production Coordinator at Brown Bag Films and Disney Jr.’s RoboGobo and Associate Producer at Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines.