Winners are announced for the sixth edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, including the prize for Best Animated Short, presented to Poland’s Zbigniew Czapla for Toto.
The sixth edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival wrapped up over the weekend with a shower of awards, including the prize for Best Animated Short, presented to Poland’s Zbigniew Czapla for Toto.
The Toon Boom Young Audience Award went to Michael Visser’s short film, Forever Mime, (The Netherlands), and Hungary’s Péter Vacz took home the Toon Boom Audience Award for Rabbit and Deer.
With expanded dates and venues, this year’s international competition received more than 1,300 submissions from 75 different countries, and saw even more visitors than last year. Jury members for the Student, For Hire, 3D and Political Shorts categories included Guillaume Catagné, Kirsten Ruber and Ryan Honey. The jury for the Best Animated Short category included Kees Driessen, Vanja Hraste and Sylvain Quément.
The full list of winners is shown below:
KLIK! Award for Best Animated Short
KLIK! Award + €1000
Toto, Zbigniew Czapla, Poland, 2013
KLIK! Award for Best Animated Student Short
KLIK! Award + €750
Harmony Stand Alone Software Package (€2000) provided by Toon Boom
Helpiman, Aisha Madu, The Netherlands, 2011
Special Mention for Student Film
I Love You So Hard, Ross Butter, UK, 2013
KLIK! Award for Best Commissioned Animation
KLIK! Award + €500
Vitra Silent Wall, Dustin Rees, Switzerland, 2012
KLIK! Award for Best Political Animated Short Film
KLIK! Award + €500
Live // Love // Like & Share, Enno Swinnen, Belgium, 2013
KLIK! Award for Best 3-D Stereoscopic Animated Short
KLIK! Award + €500
Endtrip, Olivier Ballast, The Netherlands, 2013
Toon Boom Audience Award
Storyboard Pro Software Package (€1000) provided by Toon Boom
Rabbit and Deer, Péter Vacz, Hungary, 2013
Toon Boom Young Audience Award
Storyboard Pro Software Package (€1000) provided by Toon Boom
Forever Mime, Michael Visser, The Netherlands, 2013
KLICK! returns next year November 4-9, 2014.
Source: KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival
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.
