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LAST DAY OF ANIMAFEST ZAGREB . . . AND THE WINNER IS . . .

ASIFA Croatia

hosted a lovely brunch for the ASIFA members at the festival. Buba (former head of ANIMAFEST ZAGREB and Vice President of ASIFA Croatia) and Vesna Dovnikovic (Secretary of ASIFA International) brought tasty and powerful traditional Croatian liquors which truly added to the festive air of the party. A good time was had by everyone.

The big event of the day was the awards ceremony and I believe that the juries did an excellent job, so without further ado the winners are . . .

GRAND COMPETITION


Jury: Joanna Quinn (Great Britain), Moustapha Alassane (Niger), Caroline Leaf (USA/Canada/Great Britain), Igor Kovaljov (Russia/USA) and Danijel Suljic (Croatia)

GRAND PRIZE (best short film in the festival) - festival statue, cash award of 2.500 Euros, and honorary presidency at the next festival

THE PEARCE SISTERS - Luis Cook, Great Britain
"For its original and unique graphics and direction which pulls us into the bleak world of two misfit characters."

GOLDEN ZAGREB PRIZE - festival statue and cash award of 2.000 Euros

THE RUNT - Andreas Hykade, Germany

"The jury has given the Golden Zagreb to the film we consider the second film of the festival for it's strong, simple, clear design and direction which delivers a powerful and shocking message.

ZLATKO GRGIC PRIZE (best first production apart from educational institutions)- Festival statue and cash award of 1.500 Euros

HEZURBELZAK,THE COMMON GRAVE - Izibene Onederra, Spain

"For its anarchic stream of consciousness to pursue her stream of vision"

THREE SPECIAL PRIZES AT THE DISCRETION OF THE JURY -

KJFG NO.5 - Aleksei Alekseev, Hungary

"For it's excellent humor"

FORECAST - Adriaan Lokman, The Netherlands

"For best non-narrative film"

MADAM TUTLI-PUTLI - Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, Canada

THREE SPECIAL MENTIONS AT THE DISCRETION OF THE JURY

SONY BRAVIA:PLAY-DOH - Frank Budgen and Darren Walsh, Great Britian

"To a visually surprising commercial"

THE BELOVED ONES - Samantha Moore, Great Britain/Uganda

"For it's message, told in a personal, accessible way"

SHE WHO MEASURES - Veljko Popovic, Croatia

"For using 3D animation in an organic and handcrafted way"

STUDENT COMPETITION

JURY: Regina Pessoa (Portugal), Helena Klakocar Vuksic (The Netherlands/Croatia), Saeed Tavakolian (Iran), Erik van Drunen (The Netherlands), Nedzad Begovic (Bosnia Herzegovina)

"We traveled through an artistic universe in 78 films. We enjoyed the quality and diversity and we are confident about the future of the medium"

DUSAN VUKOTIC PRIZE (Best Student Film) - a Dusan Vukotic Medal and 1.000 Euros

THE IRRESISTIBLE SMILE - Ami Lindholm, Finland

"For it's charming and effective humor and simplicity of design. The pleasure and fressness of the animation with touching dramatic details leaves no spectator indifferent"

3 SPECIAL MENTIONS AT THE JURIES DISCRETION:

BETON - Ariel Belinco, Michael Faust, Israel/The Netherlands

"For the artist's engagement clearly executed, beautifully designed and animated. The film has a strong voice".

CAMERA OBSCURA - Matthieu Buchalski, Jean-Michel Drechsler and Thierry Onillion, France

"For its fresh, outstanding and innovative approach of the medium. It brought the members of the jury in an imaginative world where anything is possible".

CAN YOU GO THROUGH? - Banj Ju-Young, Republic of Korea

"For a strange but intimately intriguing universe, elegantly designed",

FILMS FOR CHILDREN COMPETITION:

Children's Jury: Patrik Horvat, Paloma Quinn Mills, Anja Sever, Anna Sagadin, and Andela Zapcic

BEST CHILDRENS FILM:

MY HAPPY END - Milen Vitanov, Germany

"It was a hard choice, because there were so many great movies and in the end we had to choose only one. After a lot of hard thinking we came to the decision to give the main prize to the movie which had the most origional story, smooth and unusual animation - which all fitted the profile we were looking for."

3 SPECIAL MENTIONS AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHILDREN'S JURY:

ANIMATOU - Claude Luyet, Gerorges Schwizgebel, Dominique Delachaux-Lambert, Claude Barras and Remero Andreani , Switzerland

OKTAPODI - Julien Bocabeille, Francois Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Emund Mokhber and Quetin Marmier, France

KJFG NO. 5 - Alexey Alekseev, Hungary

AUDIENCE AWARD MR. M, FOR BEST FILM IN GRAND AND STUDENT COMPETITION:

KJFG NO. 5 - Aleksei Alekseev - Hungary

BEST FILM - at the discretion of the animation and new media student jury:

SKHIZEIN - Jeremy Clapin, France

OUT OF COMPETITION AWARDS:

LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Priit Parn, Estonia

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN ANIMATION THEORY - Clare Kitson, Great Britian

AKADEMIA SZTUK PIEKNYCH w KRAKOWIE - Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland