Wrapping up its run on June 19, 2004, Zagreb: 16th World Festival of Animated Films awarded its Grand Prix to Koji Yamamura's Oscar-nominated short, MT. HEAD. Virgil Widrich's FAST FILM was a three-time winner, taking home the Zagreb Award, Jury Of The Croatian Filmmakers Guild (Animation Section) Grand Competition and Jury Of The Croatian Film Critics prizes. The top audience award went to WARD 13 by Peter Cornwell.
Below is complete list of winners:Grand Prix ATAMA YAMA (MT. HEAD) by Koji Yamamura, Yamamura Animation
Zagreb Award FAST FILM by Virgil Widrich, Virgil Widrich Filmproduktion, Amour Fou, Minotaurus Film Luxembourg
Best First Film Zlatko Grgic Award ALLERLEIRAUH (WHISPER OF THE FUR-CONES) by Anja Struck, Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln
Awards For Films With Outstanding Qualities At The Discretion Of The Jury THE FINAL SOLUTION by Phil Mulloy, Studio Film Bilder CAR CRAZE by Evert de Beijer, Ciné Té Filmproductie BV, ARTE France & RNTV LHOMME SANS OMBRE (THE MAN WITHOUT SHADOW) by Georges Schwitzgebel, Studio GDS, NFB , TSR IN-SAENG (THE LIFE) by Jun Ki Kim KARL JA MARILYN (KARL AND MARILYN) by Priit Pärn, Eesti Jonisfilm Studio
Grand Competition Special Distinctions CHELOVEK S LUNYI (A MAN FROM THE MOON) by Oxana Cherkassova, School Studio "Shar"CIGANJSKA by Marko Mestrovic, Davor Meurecan, Fade In Kreativni sindikat ANGELI by Lejf Marcussen, Zentropa Real ApS, National Film Board
Best Film According To The Childrens Jury ALWAYS TAKE THE WEATHER WITH YOU by Brent Dawes, Sunrise Productions
Childrens Jury Special DistinctionsO-NU-RI by Sung-gang Lee SOUTH OF THE NORTH by Andrey Sokolov, Pilot-Moscow Animation Studio I WANT A DOG by Sheldon Cohen, NFB
Best Student Film International Jury ASCIO by Mathilde Philippon-Aginski, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
Student Special DistinctionsBOXED IN by Will Becher, Edinburgh College of Art NA TU SVATBU (ON THE WEDDING) by Václav Blín, Vysokáskola umelecko prumyslová v Praze PRO DEVOCHKU (ABOUT A GIRL) by Lena Chernova, Pilot-Moscow Animation Studio / School Studio SHAR WUNDERWERK by Michael Sieber, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg THE TOWN OF THE ONE HANDED by Helli Ellis, Surrey Institute of Art and Design
Audience Awards Mr. M Bronze Sculpture -- Grand Competition WARD 13 by Peter Cornwell, Trephine Productions
Audience Awards Mr. M Bronze Sculpture -- Student Competition RITTERSCHLAG (KNIGHT GAMES) by Sven Martin, Filmakademie Baden Württemberg
ASIFA Croatia Competition For Children HERBERT INDIANERFROSCH (HERBERT APACHE FROG)by Jochen Ehmann, EH-MANN
Zagreb Animation Students -- Students Competition BOXED IN by Will Becher, Edinburgh College of Art
Jury Of The Partner Festival KROK -- Grand Competition LHOMME SANS OMBRE (THE MAN WITHOUT SHADOW) by Georges Schwitzgebel, Studio GDS, NFB, TSR
Jury Of The Croatian Filmmakers Guild (Animation Section) Grand CompetitionFAST FILM by Virgil Widrich, Virgil Widrich Filmproduktion, Amour Fou, Minotaurus Film Luxembourg
Jury Of The Croatian Film Critics FAST FILM by Virgil Widrich, Virgil Widrich Filmproduktion, Amour Fou, Minotaurus Film Luxembourg
Zagreb is an ASIFA sanctioned competitive festival, formed in 1969 to encouraging creativity, which eschews pre-set patterns and ideas/notions/conceptions, and finds new ways of exploring the possibilities of film animation. It is accepting all animation works completed in 2002 or after. Awards with cash prizes will be given as follows: grand prize, best first production, best student film, plus five special prizes and three special distinctions. For more information, visit http://www.animafest.hr.
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