Imagine if Project Runway met Jurassic Park but everyone's broke and the dinosaur is a bird.
A group of undergraduate students at UC San Diego learn the difficulties of creating an audio animatronic. Faced with budget and time constraints, these students embark on a journey filled with comedic moments, setbacks, and betrayal to get their animatronic named “Taro” to talk.
Direction
TEA at UCSD captures genuine student meltdown in real-time.
Editing
Tight 48 minutes—no fat, just escalating catastrophe.
Director
TEA at UCSD
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire documentary was shot, edited, and produced by the same sleep-deprived students building Taro—no professional crew, just pure academic masochism.
Taro represents a growing trend of 'process documentaries' celebrating failure-as-entertainment, but the genuine friendships here elevate it above pure cringe content.
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