Stuttgart. With prize-money totalling a new all-time high of DM
170,000 and a huge variety of animated films, the 8th International Festival
of Animated Film (ITF) and the 2nd Film and Media Exchange, to be held in
Stuttgart, Germany, from 29 March to 3 April 1996, look set to improve on
their own excellent track record. The festival will include a rich choice
of films following a record number of entries. The two ITF selection boards
for the "International Competition" and "Young Animation"
had to decide on a short-list from more than 750 films. The ITF has therefore
clearly established itself as one of the largest independent events of its
kind.
At the end of March, film makers, producers, experts and journalists from
around the globe will be joining fans of animation from Stuttgart in the
Alte Reithalle (adjacent to Hotel Maritim), in the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum
Liederhalle (concert hall and conference centre) and in Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz.
In addition, the three-day Film and Media Exchange will commence at the
nearby Haus der Wirtschaft on 1 April. The central location of all events
has proven highly popular in the past and shall remain a feature of the
ITF in future as well.
A particular attraction of the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated
Film is the Scholarship Award, worth DM 40,000 and financed by the main
festival sponsor, Mercedes-Benz. The Mercedes-Benz Scholarship Award, to
be presented for the third time, is not a cash prize per se, but linked
to the opportunity to produce an animated film. Philip Hunt, who won the
first Mercedes-Benz Award in 1992, was able to finance "Ah Pook is
here", which has since been screened at 30 festivals and has won many
further prizes. The winner in 1994, An Vrombaut, will also be showing her
film "When I grow up I want to be a Tiger", which was also financed
by means of the award.
The 8th ITF sees the launch of the "Viewers' Favourite Award".
TV broadcaster SDR will be showing selected films on channel Südwest
3 and viewers will have the opportunity to decide on the award of three
cash prizes totalling DM 30,000 by calling in to register their votes.
Other prizes at the ITF: DM 15,000 from the City of Stuttgart and the State
of Baden-Württemberg, DM 6,000 from Landeskreditbank, DM
3,000 from Landesgirokasse, DM 2,000 from EuroArts and a judges' award of
DM 1,000. A further new prize, worth DM 40,000, is to be provided by TV
channel Pro Seiben. Other awards will be presented at the 2nd Film and Media
Exchange.
The International Festival of Animated Film would not be possible in this
form without the support of the City of Stuttgart, the State of Baden-Württemberg
and the sponsorship of Mercedes-Benz and S Finanzgruppe, who recognised
the innovative impetus this festival gives to the film industry, television
and new media and to the media industry in Baden-Württemberg as a whole.
The 8th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film 1996 is unquestionably
the most important event of its kind in Germany.
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