"Moonfish", the debut animated feature from first-time filmmaker Daniel Zvereff, premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 6 September 2026 after receiving a grant from Biennale College Cinema. The independently made, black-and-white 2D film features the voices of Lucy Liu and "The Gilded Age" star Morgan Spector as two astronauts sent on an isolating lunar mission, and is being framed by its creators as an allegory for modern disconnection despite constant digital connectivity.

The story follows the pair as they must meet a corporate quota to earn their return home, working alongside a talking fish, also voiced by Liu, which Zvereff compares to the canaries miners once used to detect danger. Spector describes the "moon people" in the film as an exploited underclass in a world where corporations have merged with computers to form an authoritarian system. Zvereff, who built the film so he could complete it alone if necessary, ultimately brought on two additional animators, Hoss Wheeler and Devin Grover, over nine months of production, and says he wanted the finished work to end on a hopeful note about humanity's future.