The nominations for the Animation Screenplay Award for Animated Film 2008 at Stuttgart have been announced. Thirty-one screenplays for animated feature-length films were submitted. The jury has nominated the following for the award:
DER GOLEM UND DIE ZWEIFACHE WELT by Dominik & Benjamin RedingProduction: Eye! Warning Film production
DER LETZTE NEANDERTALER by John Chambers
DOCTOR DOBLINGERS GESCHMACKVOLLER KASPERLFILM by Richard Oehmann and Josef ParzefallProduction: Stephan Schesch/AnimationX
MARNIES WELT by Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein
Last year's winning screenplay by Heike Sperling and Oliver Huzly has in the meantime found a production company. Sunita Struck of Toons N Tales Filmproduktion will produce the animated film with the working title DER SANGERKRIEG DER HEIDEHASEN (THE SONG CONTEST OF THE HEATHER BUNNIES). This was the title of the original children's musical by James Kruss.
The Screenplay Award will be presented during the festival on Monday, May 5 (7 p.m., in the Rittersaal room at the Dresdner Bank). This will be the second time that the award is presented. As a complement to the award, four screenplay workshops for animated filmmakers will be held on May 4 and 5. They have been organized in cooperation with the MFG Filmforderung and the Heinrich Boll Foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg and will feature top-class professionals such as Michel Ocelot.
The deadline for accreditation applications for professionals (filmmakers/representatives from the industry/film students) ends April 28, 2008. Send the completed accreditation form or apply for accreditation online at www.itfs.de (English version) before this date. Call the hotline for any questions: +49-711-92546123.
The third Animation Production Day (APD) will take place on May 5-6, 2008. More than 40 international producers, distributors, world sales groups and banks will take part. Participants will negotiate feature films with a financing volume of around 180 million Euros. Ninteeen selected animated film projects with international potential will be discussed in intensive individual meetings at the APD.
More than 40 participants from Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Denmark, Hungary, Israel and Bosnia-Herzegovina will be present, including scopas medien, MotionWorks, MovieCompany, Les Armateurs, Films Action, the U.S.-American Exodus Film Group and the Danish A.Film.
The APD is hosted by the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film and the fmx - International Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Digital Media. The APD is organized by the Film and Medienfestival and the Institute for Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Film Academy Baden Wurttemberg in cooperation with Michael Schmetz Mediaconsult.
