EuropaCinema's Two Toon Winners

files/pictures/picture-35.jpgEuropaCinema & TV, held in Viareggio, Italy, announced their two animation
short winners. FOREVER AND EVER, by Michaela Pavlatova and Pavel Koutecky
(Czech Republic) and SUBURBANITES by Stefan Vermeulen (Belgium) took home
the prize. The international jury of Enzo D'Alo, Georges Wolinski, Marjut
Rimminen, Rastko Ciric and Sergio Staino said FOREVER AND EVER is "a film
that gives us an unconventional interpretation of love, dramatic and at the
same time ironically surrealistic. A film that also reveals a remarkable
knowledge of the form and various technical possibilities of the means of
communication." The jury commented that SUBURBANITES is "another film of
love completely different from anything previous. The beautiful story has a
Kafka-like atmosphere full of poetry. The graphic quality is excellent and
rigorous. It is a noteworthy animation on human nature."