AnizMazSpot announces the 2012 festival winners, led by Michaela Copikova's animated short, "Dust and Glitter."
AniMazSpot 2012 closed out its festival week on Sunday, September 16, the Dust has now cleared, so to speak, and lo & behold the Best of Festival winner was Dust and Glitter, here’s a complete list of the winners of AniMazSpot 2012:
Best of Festival: Dust and Glitter
by Michaela Copikova, from Pietany, Slovakia
2nd Best of Festival: Legacy
by Adam Floeck, from Metuchen, New Jersey
3rd Best of Festival: Party in the CIA
by Roque Ballesteros, from San Francisco, California
Best Story: Being Bradford Dillman
by Emma Burch, from London, United Kingdom
Best Humor: Nest
by Michael J. Ruocco, from East Rockaway, New York
Best Character Design: Fisher
by Yoram Benz, from Milton, Georgia
Best Overall Design: Threadbare
by Brett Underhill, from Brooklyn, New York
Best of Foreign Short: Jack and the Beanstalk b
y Fish Wang, from Chung-Ho City, Taiepi, Taiwan
Best First Short: Chased
by Emily Quinn, from Burbank, California
Best Student Short: Libidinis
by Rosa Peris Medina & Mercedes Peris, from Valencia, Spain School: Universidad Plotécnica de Valencia
Best Short for Children: Backstage by Pierce Davison, from Mount Lawley, Western Australia
Non-Narrative (experimental): Ballpit by Kyle Mowat, from London, ON, Canada
Besides the Awards Ceremony where clips from all 54 nominees were shown, other highlights of the week long festival, depending on who you talked to, included any one of the ten Studio and School Tours, the gorgeous 35mm prints of 20 UPA shorts at the Alex Theatre, the new Educational Animation Forum at Woodbury University, the look back at Three Years of AniMazSpot Shorts, or the engaging panel conversation between Tom Sito, Bob Kurtz, and Fred Crippen, on the influences of UPA Pictures. So, after a few weeks rest, planning will begin on the next AniMazSpot Festival Week.
Source: AniMazSpot
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
