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Diversity, democracy and freedom become the center of Stuttgart
Diversity, democracy and freedom become the center of Stuttgart
The opening of the Stuttgart Film Festival was less than a month before the European elections, so topics such as diversity, democracy, and freedom came to the minds of many people. This is a thought-provoking holiday. It is appropriate for the 26th film festival to have Europe as the theme.
The EU Ministry of Justice and the Film Festival have launched a film festival competition called "European Animation". The winner, Ode of Shadi Adib, was screened at the opening ceremony. In the film, three independent fishermen try to cope and survive the rough sea. Finally, they realized that if they worked together, they would achieve greater success. The three fishermen made a net with their fishing line and threw it into the sea to catch a big fish. The carol is an advertising spot for European elections, describing the moment when the idea of a common Europe emerged.
Shadi was born in Iran and completed a master's degree at Tehran University of Arts. She attended the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, Germany, where she produced her previous film "Fuse", a hand-painted black comedy about a group of people trying to decide on the market The story of how to kill a little mouse in the box. One by one they tried to break each other's sadistic fantasies. As the terrible game unfolds and goes out of control, both the victim and the tormentor suffer the same fate.
The very creative Shadi even managed to get Nick Cave to voice her Fuse, but because she was not an EU citizen and only had a resident permit at the time, she could not travel from Germany to London to record his own voice. She had to send a classmate.
The festival was officially opened by Evelyne Gebhardt, Vice President of the European Parliament, and then screened the first six films in competition, including Jonathan Hodgson's film "Roughhouse". This 15-minute hand-drawn film set in Liverpool is an extremely cruel portrayal of bullying that is completely out of control. This is one of my favorite movies at the film festival.
In the director's conversation, Jonathan said that the film was based roughly on the incident of sharing rent with friends during his own school days. One of the students was in financial trouble and was unable to pay his share of the rent. Jonathan said that he and others were angry with him because they had to pay his rent, and he did not return anything. It started out as naughty violence, but then turned into psychological torture, leading to a tragic ending. "Roughhouse" is an animated short film that won the BAFTA Award in 2019.
Another movie that caught my attention on the opening night was "Syria in Four Acts" by Waref Abu Quba and Kevork Mourad. For centuries, Syria’s history has been multicultural. This 15-minute film traces the madness of Syrian culture to the present day, and conveys a message of peace and hope to the Syrian people from two exiled filmmakers. . In 2016, Waref and Kevork won the Robert Bosh Foundation International Cooperation Award in recognition of young filmmakers from Germany and the Arab world, which enabled them to produce four acts for Syria.
I am a big fan of Signe Baumane movies, so I am very happy to see "Mother Song" participating in the competition. This is a two-and-a-half minute excerpt from the adult feature film "My Love in Marriage" that Signe is making. Signe said that the first complete segment of the film was self-sufficient, almost a music video. My Love Affair With Marriage is Signe's personal story about love, gender, and marriage, incorporating the mythical siren song and the neuroscience of falling in love and falling in love.
Throughout the feature film, the protagonist Zelma has become more and more aware of her status as a woman in the world. In the song of mother, thirteen-year-old Zelma found blood on the sheets on the night of the full moon. Her mother and the three mythical sirens are eager to teach her what it means to be a woman.
You can watch the new trailer for "My Love with Marriage" on YouTube: https:youtu.be/qNEL44XuRWQ or Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/329002938
Visit Signe's website to get the latest information on the progress of the movie, and view photos of their work in the studio. Signe is still seeking funding to complete this film, so you can also be a supporter of the project. No amount of money can be donated. The website is: myloveaffairwithmarriage.com
At the festival, Signe and producer Sturgis Warner introduced their production to industry professionals at the Work In Progress conference. They showed film clips, studio photos, and talked about their film making process.
It’s not common for a movie to disgust me, make me sick, but at the same time make me laugh so hard, but Animals, the 6-minute graduation movie of Tue Sanggaard Animation Studio does just that. This is a black comedy about the worst society, full of vulgar tastes that pregnant women get beaten up, but it is a very interesting movie.
The plot revolves around what happens when nine people are trapped on a speeding train. When the train door cannot be opened at the railway station, passengers will be a little worried. When it happens again at the next stop and the next stop, panic, chaos, and the worst human behavior will appear.
This year, instead of the usual five competitions, there are six. This means that there will be 20 hours (8pm) of screenings on Saturday night, followed by 22 hours (10pm) of the final show. I think there are too many international competitions one after another. I need time to think about the movies I just watched and process them in my mind. I watched the sixth episode, but unfortunately I failed to give it the attention it deserves. I hope that in the future the film will save energy and return to five game screenings.
The 2019 Art Festival focuses on Hong Kong. The autonomous territory of southeastern China is not known for feature films, but it makes up for this with a wealth of short films and experimental animation output. The seven films of "Moving Stories of Hong Kong Animation" show different aspects of Hong Kong's daily life. The screening began in 2005 with the film "Tired City" by John Chan and Pam Hung, composed of Hong Kong Postgal Workshop. This nine-minute movie depicts life in a big city that is getting faster and faster.
I especially like the cut marks. The 2015 film starring Lin Hao De, Guo Wenlong and Wu Qizhong focuses on the era of Hong Kong's immigration and memories of the past. When Chi saw the lines marked on the lamppost and his parents recorded his height as he was growing up, all his childhood memories emerged in the lives of his former neighbors.
Philip Kwok and Vincent Yip used a graphic novel style in their 2016 "Chill and Shiver", about a boy, Ashai, who believes that his life is complete. He is obsessed with his toys and has lived in his own world since he was a child. When he grew up and moved into his apartment, he found that his late mother had been bothering him. Their relationship is not good. At her funeral, he was barely energetic and kept on the phone. Now, his mother's soul followed him to his new home, demanding to heal her broken heart. Ah Zhai finally had to face his own guilt.
The second show, "Relentless Melt No. 11: Hong Kong International" is curated by Hong Kong-based German video artist and experimental filmmaker Max Hattler. The movies in the show showcase various techniques from drawing and stop motion to mechanical and machine learning. Topics range from social pressures to the pressures of interpersonal relationships and urban life.
Max is the chairman of Relentless Melt, a film experimentation association headquartered in Hong Kong, which screens regularly. He is a member of the Youth Animation Jury of the Film Festival and showed his work.
Wong Ping and Kong Kee are the two most exciting young animators in Hong Kong. Huang Ping’s animation was commissioned by M, Nowness, and Prada. He also won the Prospectives 40 Under 40 award. His pornographic and politically incorrect animations, such as Huang Ping's Fables 1 and 2, brought his extremely stylized animal characters into it through a series of intense violence and market sex. Inspired by Aesop's fables, each short episode ends with a moral that is far from moral.
Huangping's fertile mind uses strong, bold colors to introduce us to characters such as the tortoise dating a one-eyed elephant. When the elephant was checking her sister's underwear, the tortoise was dumped by the elephant. Wong Ping is also a member of the Youth Animation Jury of the Film Festival.
The second part of the screening is devoted to the work of comic book artist and animator Kong Ji. His publications include the popular comic series Pandaren and Tintin. In 2015, he was invited to write the comic book Travel To Hong Kong With Blur for the British band Blur.
He co-directed "Dragon's Delusion" with Li Guowei and Xu Jiaxi Yin Haze. This film attempts to expand our imagination of the future, beyond the limits of our own time. It won the HK2017 Regional Gold Award and Digi Con 6 ASIA Gold Award. KongKee is a member of the Trickfilm international jury in Stuttgart.
From opera to science, Trickfilm Festival is for everyone. The six projects under She Blinded Me With Science were planned by Dr. Dorothea Kaufmann of Heidelberg University and Andre Eckardt of the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. The five programs of the short film range from all-seeing eyes to cells, cells, and cells.
She Blinded Me With Science also includes 63 minutes Max Reichmann gem Das Blumenwunder. This German silent film visualizes the movement of plants on a large scale for the first time. The basic material for the time-lapse movies produced between 1922 and 1925 was originally for fertilizer promotion. Combined with dance performances and allegorical scenes from the Berlin State Opera Dance Company, the short commercial was subsequently adapted into a cultural film. The dancer imitates the growth of plants.
The film premiered at the Piccadilly Theatre in Berlin on February 25, 1926. Das Blumenwunder received rave reviews at the time and was celebrated as a huge success by the audience, and is now considered a gem of silent history rediscovery.
This year, the annual opera and animation screening pays tribute to the Dutch animator Rens Groot and his exquisite interpretation of "The Magic Flute" in 1991. Groot created this film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Mozart's opera. He spent four years alone drawing and animating 165 minutes of film in soft colors under the lens. In addition to the two animated performances of the opera, a short documentary about filmmaking produced by Lens' grandson Daan Groot (Daan Groot) was also screened.
To prevent you from thinking that this festival becomes too serious, here is Chris Shepherd's very humorous Brexicuted – Bye Bye British. Chris is a film and television screenwriter and director nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. His work combines comedy and social commentary on the dark side of human nature. His program does this.
The screening kicked off with Chris's 6-minute Brexicuted movie. The satirical animation considers the reasons for Brexit. The day after the British vote to leave the European Union, many British citizens were interviewed and asked what prompted them to vote in this way. The results are interesting, but also disturbing.
Joanna Quinn's 1993 "Britania" tells us the history of the British Empire in six minutes. Without a very dark, wicked and humorous movie by Phil Malloy, this show would not be complete. In this case, you must not covet the wife of a neighbor in his Ten Commandments series.
The project ended with the birthday of Oscar winner Bob in 1993. If Britain is going through a crisis, so is Bob. When his wife Margaret prepared a surprise birthday party for Bob, she underestimated his midlife crisis. Just like Britain and Brexit.
The game area has become an important part of the festival. This year's area is larger than ever, with 2,000 square meters, dedicated to computer games, VR experiences and interactive installations. In the talent area of the game zone, selected universities are invited to showcase the newly developed games of students. My favorite project is Deep Portrait, an interactive installation created by Ute Orner of the Stuttgart University of Media (HDM). You can take pictures of yourself with a camera connected to your computer. Then, you choose a portrait of a famous artist such as Picasso, Munch, or Van Gogh, and watch your image transform into a painting in the style of the artist of your choice.
The five most innovative German games were nominated for the German Animation Game Awards. In addition to being able to play all five games in the gaming area, one of the nominated games will be played live in the Games Flash event on the large open-air screen every night.
The winning game, Truberbrook, developed by Florian Kohne, received a prize of 5.000 Euros. The game takes place in the village of Truberbrook, a run-down health resort somewhere in the German countryside. The next story may or may not include crazy scientists, underground laboratories, dinosaurs, aliens, sea monsters, secret agents, ghosts, and of course many strange villagers, depending on your choice. Florian said that part of his games were inspired by TV series such as "X-Files", "Twin Peaks" and "Star Trek".
This year, the famous Stuttgart animation studio Film Bilder held three events at the film festival to celebrate its 30th birthday. In addition to animated short films, music videos, TV series and feature films, the studio is also known for successful children’s series such as "Tom and Strawberry Jam and Honey Bread directed by Andreas Hykade) "This series has been broadcast on German television for many years. At present, Angela Steffen is a patchwork series for young children. The 26 episodes of Julia Ocker's Animanimals won more than 50 awards at the film festival and won the prestigious German TV Award Grimme Preis in the children and youth category. Animanimals feature animals with little quirks, such as zebra stripes all mixed together. In trying to find a solution to the problem, every animal learned a lesson about life. The movie is really pleasing to the eye. At the screening of the movie "Children's Pictures", three series of episodes were screened together with other works they created for young people.
The Film Bilder For Adults show shows some of my favorite movies, such as The Runt by Andreas Hykade. This ten-minute animation tells the story of a boy being given a litter of rabbits by his uncle rabbit breeder, on the condition that he takes care of it and then kills it within a year.
Another of my favorite shows was Rubicon in 1997. Gil Alkabetz tried to solve this old problem: "How can you let a wolf, a sheep, and a cabbage cross the river at a time without letting them eat each other?" This extremely funny movie has won numerous awards.
The celebration ended with a local party where we enjoyed drinks such as Patchwork Mules and Animanimanhattan, as well as beer and wine. There are also dancing until the wee hours.
There are so many screenings and events at the film festival that it is impossible to write all the content. At the press brunch with Managing Director Dieter Kraub (Organization and Finance) and Professor Ulrich Wegenast (Project), I learned that the 2019 festival set a new record of attendance, and the total number of attendance at all events exceeded 80,000. Sold 15,000 tickets for the cinema. I also found that the 2020 music festival will feature France as the guest country. It will be held from May 5th to 10th, 20020.
You can learn more about the festival at: www.ITFS.de
The FMX conference and forum was held concurrently with the film festival from April 30th to May 3rd, with more than 280 lectures, seminars, master classes and screenings, and a market. This year's theme Bridging the Gap highlights the worldview and workflow that stimulates communication in the fields of animation, effects, games, and immersive media. Andreas Hykade, Chairman of the FMX Conference, said, “We especially want to explore how to combine artistic expression and technological invention, link humans and artificial intelligence, from independence to IP, create social awareness through pop culture, leap from education to industry and bridge from The gap between people and projects around the world".
For me, one of the highlights of FMX is the three lectures on the history of animation by John Canemaker. Comic strip and animation pioneer Windsor McKay was the subject of the first conference. The second lecture focused on the works of two masters of the golden age of American studio animation, Vladimir Tytla and Milt Kahl.
Tytla was an animator at Disney Studios in the 1930s and 1940s. In "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", he and Fred Moore are responsible for the animation of the seven dwarfs. He also produced animations for Stromboli in "Pinocchio", Yen Sid and Chernabog in "Fantasia" and Dumbo in the movie of the same name.
Milt Carr is one of Disney's nine old people. He is considered the best draftsman in the studio. Over the years, the final appearances of the characters in studio films, such as Mickey Mouse, Pinocchio and Peter Pan, were designed by Kahl.
In his third class, Canemaker cited his book "The Lost Notebook: The Secrets of Herman Schultes and Walt Disney Movie Magic". Schultheis is a photographer and technician in the special effects department of Disney, famous for his works on Fantasia, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi. He recorded the advanced special techniques used in Disney movies in a notebook called "Special Effects".
On the other hand, Jeanette Bonds, director of the Glas Animation Festival, had separate conversations with four different independent animators on her Wild and Strange show. The first is Swiss animator and game designer Michael Frei. He collaborated with game designer Mario von Rickenbach to turn his first movie plug and play into a game. Now, his latest movie "Kids" tells about the crowd and their coexistence, which can be watched on PC, iPhone and Android. In their conversation, Janet and Michael talked about the process of turning an animated film into a game.
Boris Labbe's film La Chute (The Fall) has won numerous awards. If Breughel can see the Labbe version of heaven and hell, I believe he will resonate with it. This film is a discordant experimental vision of the disintegration of the world order. In the conversation with Bonds, he talked about his creative method, the title is Boris Rabe's audiovisual trajectory: between animation, video art and experimental film.
British animator Sophie Koko Gate's latest movie "Slug Life" has attracted much attention. This 6-minute animation tells a day in Tanya's life. She is a curious woman who is interested in non-human lovers. On FMX, Sophie screened Slug Life. She also paid attention to the origin of the project, how the film was designed and animated, and how she hoped that the audience would respond to her self-proclaimed "ugly filmmaking style."
Tomek Popakul's "Acid Rain" won numerous awards at this year's Glas Grand Prix and other film festivals, so Jeanette Bonds ended up with a conversation with the Polish animator. His previous film "Black" tells the story of a pair of astronauts trapped in an orbiting space station due to a nuclear war that broke out on the earth, using bright black and white tones. In contrast, Acid Rain has bright colors, with the basic crappy purple and green accentuated. The center of the story is a young girl who runs away from home and meets the wrong nasty man. The soundtrack plays a very important role in the movie, adding just the right weird notes.
Virtual reality, as a weird way of fighting or climbing Mount Everest, has made great strides from the very beginning. It has entered the realm of serious storytelling. India-born, Berlin-based Gayatri Parameswaran is a VR/360-degree creator, documentary filmmaker, and journalist. She is known for themes such as slavery in Iraq and intimate partner violence in India. On FMX, she talked about her interactive VR experience, a post-war home, the story of an Iraqi father returning to Fallujah facing the threat of an improvised explosive device (IED). Through Gayatr's VR experience, you will return to his home with him and discover the occurrence of tragic events. This is a very intense experience. You can also try 16 other VR projects in VR Space.
Four days and ten rooms were packed with speakers. It is impossible to see and hear all this except to believe my words, from Jan Pinkava's keynote speech bridging the gap between art and technology to the highlights and four of Siggraph In this section, everyone has something about sound design. In addition to the speakers, the market also showcased more than 30 experienced and aspiring hardware and software companies and projects. It is a display platform and network center for displaying and discussing current industry trends.
Young and experienced professionals have the opportunity to meet employers from all over the world in the recruitment center. More than two dozen companies from the fields of animation, visual effects, design and games are looking for new talents to work on their latest projects.
In the recruitment speech, the companies in the recruitment center talked about their recent and upcoming projects, and introduced their facilities and work advantages. They also showed excerpts of their work. This is an excellent opportunity for job seekers to fully understand potential employers.
Media design and technical facilities and projects from all over the world displayed their courses and facilities in the school corner. Potential students get first-hand information about each school from lecturers, alumni, and current students. This year, FMX is open to prospective students on Wednesday and Thursday for the first time. This gives young people an opportunity to learn about jobs in the industry and discuss training and learning opportunities with universities.
You can learn more about FMX at: www.fmx.de
Whether you want to watch wonderful animations or immerse yourself in the world of technology, Stuttgart is a great place to go in May and 6th. Thank you very much to everyone in the Trickfilm office for being so helpful when I need to know anything, and also to Nora Hieronymus, FMX Public Relations and Press Liaison, for his special kindness.
Baden-Württemberg and Stuttgart Animation Film Awards, cash prize of 15,000 euros
"The friendship story between the two young girls takes us back to our childhood journey and makes us almost relive our memories physically. The director's unusual use of materials (which is an essential part of storytelling) and subtle design It evokes the intimacy that all of us feel. The film is pure and honest, creating a magical atmosphere that only a film can achieve in the best way."
"I want to go out to smoke" ("Je sors acheter des cigarettes")
"With a new combination of bold graphics, absurd humor and touching growth stories, we are brought into the life of contemporary families through surprising scenes. The director asked us to sympathize with an attempt to cope in an expressive and avant-garde way. The empty little boy of the missing father. We would love to see more movies by this director."
Lotte Reiniger Animation Film Promotion Award
The Best Graduation Film Award, a cash prize of 10,000 Euros, sponsored by MFG Film Funding Baden-Wuerttemberg
"We are placed in a social observation scene, which prompts us to face potentially animal-like behaviors, which challenge our daily lives in a controlled civic environment. Vivid character design and animation help to protect primitive humans Instinctively accurate analysis."
The cash prize is 6,000 Euros, sponsored by SWR.
Production: Film Studio, Fabrique Fantastique, Curious Wolf
The Best Student Film Award, a cash prize of 2,500 Euros, was donated by the Baden-Württemberg State Assembly and the Baden-Württemberg Film Foundation
Producer: Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn
"Art exhibitions, mushrooms, and prosperity operations are a unique combination, even animation. Sounds Good explores the underrated topics in a fun and experimental way. This sound-driven film will have a fascinating rhythm. Montage is linked to unconventional perspectives and simple graphic styles and color schemes. To us, it sounds good. It looks good. It feels good."
"Wet!" (Ça mouille!!!)
Director: Alexis Godard, Huang Nan
Producers: Alexis Godard, Huang Nan
Best Animated Feature Film Award-"Future Future" (Mirai – Das Mädchen aus der Zukunft)
Producers: Saito Yuichiro, Ito Takuya, Adachi Yuichi, Kawamura Motoki, Takahashi Nozomi
"We want to thank everyone who participated in the festival for inviting the three of us to work on this jury. First of all, we want to thank every filmmaker who submitted films for consideration, especially the ten films we have seen in the past week. Everyone is a labor of love, obviously out of a strong desire to tell their stories. We chose the movie "Mirai No Mirai". We are very grateful to the filmmakers for inviting us to this home and giving us the opportunity to witness this family Grow together and help us understand the deep interpersonal relationship between us and our predecessors."
The FANtastic prize, the cash prize is 1,000 Euros. Donated by the animation family, he is the most loyal fan of ITFS.
Director and producer: Daphne Avadis
"The important thing is the little things. Daily life, small rituals after hard work, and walking around the lake. These little things are of great significance, especially if they can’t be enjoyed every day. Our award-winning film tells these miniature stories in the most authentic way. The method emphasizes the experience of immigration and points out that home is where the heart lies. We are very happy to award the FAN-tastic price to "Bear with me" and welcome Daphna Awadish to join the animation family!"
Best Children's Animation Film Award, cash prize of 4,000 Euros, sponsored by Studio 100 Media | m4e
"...Because it is beautiful. We like the way to present the theme of aging and death. This movie is sad, but it also gives people the courage to show that the beloved has never really left us, but continues to live through our memories... Maybe above the clouds, maybe there is a dragon."
The German Animation Screenplay Award for the best German animation film screenplay. The cash prize is 2,500 Euros, donated by the Stuttgart Animation Media Cluster
"Aisha's Light" from Xavier Romero and Llorenç Español
"The Light of Aisha is a classic story about friendship and the fusion of different religions and traditions. It is also a very popular story. It is also an action-packed adventure that aims to illuminate the screen with "fireworks of enlightenment"-we are very Looking forward to seeing it!"
German Voice Actor Award for Best Animated Feature Film
Otto Volks in "The Grinch"
"Usually in animated films, people look forward to a series of gimmicks and overwhelming images-and "The Grinch" can certainly provide this-but here, because of Otto's language art, community and common life are common and basic Questions have been raised, and we have lost more and more recently."
Germany's next animation talent
Creative and innovative project award donated by Studio 100 Media GmbH. The total cash prize for nominees and winners is 35,000 Euros | m4e AG
"Juli auf dem Zauberberg" by Elisabeth Jakobi
"Juli auf dem Zauberberg" is full of humorous details and interesting visual solutions. The series attracts us in a way that is close to reality and far away from reality. Even more shocking is that the weird character has nothing to do with the family environment of the writer Elizabeth Jacobi! The visual style of "Juli auf dem Zauberberg", the first batch of graffiti and emotional pictures let us understand its international potential, and the created life world can be used as a blueprint for any German patchwork family. With its subtle humor, sometimes ridiculous storyline and comical cast of characters, the series never makes people feel patronizing or tiring. Every moment, new adventures and surprises await us, fascinating both men and women, young and old. When Julie can also overcome her fear of spiders while in a series of courses, it will have wonderful teaching side effects. But, like everything else in "Juli auf dem Zauberberg", this is completely coincidental.
Innovative business concept award in the field of animation, cash prize of 7,500 euros, donated by Verband Region Stuttgart
"CoboStories is an app and physical scaffolding that allows teachers and teachers to make stop-motion animation films and digital books with children and students. The tool supports teaching in the creative process, based on 21st century learning skills and "4 Cs": Creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication. CoboStories developed by the Danish media company Copenhagen Mumbai not only impressed us with its exceptionally developed and scalable business model, but also has a great value worth promoting and supporting Products. We particularly appreciate the mission of CoboStories, which is to provide children with a fun way of digital media to solve social-related problems, and encourage creativity through a unique combination of digital and physical tools. There is no doubt that Sarita Christensen and Her team will lead CoboStories to the successful future it deserves."
"Smosh Mosh" von Kinky Udders
The Best Animated German Computer Game Award, which features the best visual design and aesthetics. The cash prize is 5,000 Euros, donated by MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg
"Trüberbrook" (Developer: btf GmbH, Florian Köhne, Publisher: Headup GmbH)
Special mention: Studio Seufz GbR and Anselm Pyta's "desire"
"The degree of innovation in the design is outstanding. The warm handmade background invites you to explore and stay. Most importantly, the handmade quality of the background used makes Trüberbrook* the best game of the year."
Arab Animation Forum Pitching Award
"Traitor of the Eyes" from Abdelrahman Dnewar and Saad Dnewar
"The jury was impressed by the high standards of all projects. We were moved by all the stadiums and stories the world needed to see. It was a difficult choice, but there was a story that really touched us. "The Eye of the Traitor" is about The story of loss, identity and secrets, a personal but universal exploration, tells many stories about families around the world. It uses a strong symbolic meaning to convey a moving message. We know how much this will be for creators Challenging, but we believe their story needs to be told."
Crazy Horse Conference – 48 Hours of Jam
The Chinese team (Kaneko Yi, Zhao Ziqian) and the "horse".
Special mention: Team Libanon (Noura Kabbani, Louay Daoust) and "TR1-X1".
"All the films in this year's competition are equally impressive. It is always a pity that there is only one winner. First of all, let me mention Lebanon's Noura and Louay's film "TR1-X1".
This year's winner comes from the team in Beijing, China. The power of the story matches the artist's skill. The film is rich in content, beautiful animations are made within the allowed time, the camera, timing and overall storytelling are really outstanding. Congratulations to Jin and Zhao! "
Both Nik Phelps and Nancy Denney-Phelps are deeply involved in the animation world. Nik composes film and holds film music and composition seminars, and Nancy writes articles about animation, animation events, and animators. They travel the world looking for the freshest, most interesting, and most unusual animation works.
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