Contanimation TV · Issue 02 · 2026
Too much reality? We've got just the thing.
Synopsis
In a small desert neighborhood, Chumbo makes his living selling Chumbo Drops door to door. Friendly, punctual, and always welcome, he's become an essential part of everyone's daily routine. Every morning, his neighbors wait for him. Everyone wants what he's selling. And no one seems particularly interested in facing reality without it.
But for Chumbo, there's more to life than making his daily rounds. His last stop is always Bizney's house. He's been secretly in love with her for as long as he can remember. There's just one problem: she's married. Or at least, she was. Her husband, William, disappeared months ago. Nobody knows where he went, and Bizney is the only one who still believes he'll come back.
In a neighborhood where everyone has found a way to escape reality, some things are harder to leave behind.
Characters
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Chumbo
Door-to-door seller of Chumbo Drops. Kind, punctual and loved by the whole neighbourhood. He is in love with Bizney and has never told her.
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Bizney
Chumbo's neighbour and customer. She has spent months waiting for her husband to come home. She is the only one in the neighbourhood who doesn't believe he's dead.
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William
Bizney's husband. He disappeared a few months ago and nobody knows where he is.
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Chumbo Drops
Psychedelic drops taken with a dropper. One drop on the tongue and you live your dreams, travelling through the lives you wish you had. The whole neighbourhood takes them, and only Chumbo sells them.
Frames
Making of sneak peek
A 13-minute, dialogue-free dark comedy set in a surreal desert neighborhood where escaping reality has become part of everyday life. Blending absurd humor, surreal imagery, and a twisted sense of everyday normality, CHUMBO explores our complicated relationship with desire, illusion, and the realities we'd rather avoid.
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The meteorite: Chumbo free-falls, his body comes apart and his brain burns up like a meteor before landing in the desert as a single drop.
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The kiss: the car floats through a universe of cacti while they bloom.
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Credits
- Directed by
- Javier De la Chica Soriano & Guillermo Miranda
- Written by
- Javier De la Chica Soriano
- Executive Producers
- Joaquin Cuenca Abela, Jose Florido & Ángela Sarria
- Director of Operations
- Mercedes Santalla
- Art Director
- Javier De la Chica Soriano
- Editor
- Guillermo Miranda
- Colorist
- Miguel Galván
- Soundtrack
- Carlos Bonito
- Original Song “Imprescindible”
- Choley
- Voice Production
- Dobla Que Te Dobla
- Voice Cast
- Juan Rabadán Valls & Mercedes Santalla
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