Tonko House, the Berkeley, California-based animation studio founded by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, has new plans for the feature film based on their Oscar-nominated short The Dam Keeper (2014).

The Dam Keeper feature had been in development at Fox Animation since 2016, but with the impending sale of Fox to Disney, Kondo and Tsutsumi have decided to bring the project back into Tonko House’s hands. The duo are currently seeking a new studio partner. Like the original short, Kondo and Tsutsumi will serve as directors on the feature. Kane Lee will produce.

“We were partnered with Fox and everyone there was truly amazing,” Kondo told Variety. “But with all the big changes that are happening over there and also as we evolved as a company, it felt like the right time to actually pull The Dam Keeper back into our world of Tonko House.”