The grand prix for shorts went to Paul Mas’s
Precious, a stop-motion film about a misfit schoolkid. It has already picked up several awards, including at Estonia’s PÖFF Shorts, and has now qualified for an Oscar run. The jury said:
Tackling subjects familiar to all of us, that of being othered and misunderstood, of bullying and of friendship,
Precious skilfully handles the sensitive narrative with subtlety and a gentleness of expression. The story presents complex layers of social forces in a seemingly simple narrative …
Precious is a timeless animation that touched us all and kept us thinking.
With awards season over, we at Cartoon Brew are casting our eyes to this year’s short films. Over the coming months, we’ll be profiling the most interesting new shorts on the festival circuit and speaking to the people who made them, up-and-coming talent and established masters alike.
Our latest interviewee falls squarely into the latter camp. Since bursting onto the scene with her graduation film
Girls Night Out (1987), which vacuumed up three awards at Annecy Festival, Joanna Quinn has remained a major presence on the indie animation scene. Her traditionally animated shorts, which include
Body Beautiul, Famous Fred, The Wife of Bath, and
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The Kids Kino Industry Talks meet the creators of new productions
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Kids Kino Industry (KKI) is continuing its series of monthly Industry Talks with two webinars in the upcoming weeks that will feature conversations with creators of new content for young audiences, both for live-action and animated films, that are ready to be released. Kids Kino Industry is inviting not only filmmakers, but also distributors, marketing experts and other industry professionals to follow these discussions.
The first KKI Talks entitled “GROWING UP – new CEE Productions for a young audience” will be held on Monday 26 April from 15:00-16:00 CEST. Three projects hailing from Lithuania, Serbia and Poland will feature as case studies for this discussion that will explore the growth of productions for younger audiences in the region. More precisely, during the talk, the attendees will have access to exclusive previews of the live-action films
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