Drawing on paper
Moving through a world filled with scanners and surveillance algorithms, while frivolously using different social networks, online forms and credit cards, the man of today gives away his privacy voluntarily. A decent citizen has nothing to hide. Only criminals do.
Credits
Director: Daniel Šuljić
Producer: Igor Grubić
Storyboard-animation-music-editing: Daniel Šuljić
Espresso Doppio, Mika Koskinen (FINLAND, 2015), 3’ 54”
Drawing on paper
Two different people, two distinct stories and a cup of coffee. Are we ready to encounter each other as individuals after all?
Credits
Director: Mika Koskinen
Producer: Eija Saarinen
Storyboard-animation: Mika Koskinen
Music: Iida-Alina Poijärvi
Editing: Mika Koskinen
Festival screenings / Awards
2015: Lyhäriklubi, Bar Kuka, Turku/Finland; Animfest 2015, Athens, Greece; Animatricks IAFF, Helsinki, Finland; Golden Kuker IAFF, Sofia, Bulgaria; Opasvký Pá; International Student Film festival, Opava, Czech Republic.
Rainbow: A Story About Life, Eduardo Wahrhaftig (BRAZIL/USA, 2015), 2’ 47
2D computer animation
The last moments of a couple told through the colors of the rainbow.
Credits
Director: Eduardo Wahrhaftig
Producer: Eduardo Wahrhaftig
Storyboard: Eduardo Wahrhaftig
Animation: Eduardo Wahrhaftig
Music: Beethoven, Haydn
Editing: Eduardo Wahrhaftig
Festival screenings / Awards
2015: Athens Animfest; Anima Mundi; Tres Court Brasil - Festival Internacional de Filmes Curtíssimos. Anima Mundi; Cartón - Festival Internacional de Cortos de Animación La Tribu; Croq'Anime - Le Festival du Film d'Animation de Paris; Festival Internacional de Animación - FIA; Milano Film Festival; Animasyros; Bucheon International Animation Festival; Dia Internacional da Animação.
Different Kinds of People, Michaela Pavlatova (CZECH REPUBLIC/SLOVAKIA, 2015) 3’ 15”
2D computer animation
There are different kinds of people, someone wakes up in the morning and someone falls asleep. There are different kinds of people, someone is terribly bored, someone is playing with the life.
Credits
Director: Michaela Pavlatova
Producer: Michaela Pavlatova Dominika Fricova
Storyboard: Michaela Pavlatova
Artistic Direction: Michaela Pavlatova
Animation: Michaela Pavlatova
Music: Dominika Fricova
Editing: Marie Jarosova
Graphics: Michaela Pavlatova
Black Tape, Michelle/Uri Kranot (DENMARK/ISRAEL, 2014), 3’
Drawing on paper, Photos
In an entangled tango, the victim and victimiser dance, occupying the frame and the space between brushstrokes.
Credits
Director: Michelle & Uri Kranot
Producer: Michelle Kranot
Storyboard: Michelle & Uri Kranot
Artistic Direction: Michelle & Uri Kranot
Animation: Michelle & Uri Kranot
Music: Uri Kranot
Editing: Michelle & Uri Kranot
Festival screenings / Awards
Annecy, Ottawa, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Interfilm Berlin, Odense, Valladolid, Leeds (special mention), Monstra (Special mention)
Soot, David Doutel & Vasco Sá (PORTUGAL, 2014), 14’
2D computer animation
It's like soot that rests on the walls of our head. We can’t see it. It belongs there already. After all the time that was left behind one question remained:
"Why didn’t the trains stop there?"
Credits
Director: David Doutel & Vasco Sá
Producer: Rodrigo Areias - BANDO À PARTE
Storyboard: David Doutel, Pedro Bastos, Vasco Sá
Animation: Alexandra Ramires, Diana Peixoto, Laura Gonçalves, Vitor Hugo Rocha, Paulo D’Alva, André English, David Doutel, Vasco Sá
Music: Rita Red Shoes, The Legendary Tigerman
Editing: David Doutel, Vasco Sá
Festival screenings / Awards
ANIMA, Brussels International Animation Film Festival, Belgium; Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France; Best Portuguese Filme SPA/Vasco Granja Jury Special Prize Audience Award; International Film Festival in Gaudalajara, Mexico; Córtex - Festival de Curtas Metragens de Sintra, Portugal; Holland Animation Film Festival, Netherlands; Annecy - International Animation Film Festival, France; Cinanima, Portugal (Antonio Gaio Award) ; Animatou - International Animation Film Festival, Switzerland; Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal; Audience Award “SPA – Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores” Prize for the best portuguese director.
Conversation, Ana Horvat (CROATIA, 2015), 5’ 45”
2D computer animation
Etta spends a monotonous and tiring evening at home. On TV she sees a story that will change her view of her own world, a film in which Milena lives a beautiful life with Djuro the giant. Unfortunately, he becomes depressed and remains lying on the floor of their apartment. His condition remains unchanged.
Credits
Director: Ana Horvat
Producer: Masha Udovicic
Storyboard: Ana Horvat
Artistic Direction: Ana Horvat
Animation: Ana Horvat
Music: Hrvoje Stefotic
Editing: Ana Horvat
Festival screenings / Awards
2015: AFI - International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival Varazdin; Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film.
Accordion, Kayhan Anwar (IRAQ, 2014), 2’ 05”
2D computer animation, Drawing on paper
It talk about an ants’ biography after a big try and difficulties in order to deliver the grains to its babies, but someone who is blind and he is a beggar.
Credits
Director: Kayhan Anwar
Producer: Kayhan Anwar
Storyboard: Kayhan Anwar
Animation: Kayhan Anwar
Music: Shalaw Raza
Editing: Mehrdad Solymani
Festival screenings / Awards
Ferfilm; Witney film festival; Kazan film festival; Linoleum film festival.
Life with Herman H. Rott, Chintis Lundgren (ESTONIA/CROATIA/DENMARK, 2015), 11’ 06”
Drawing on paper
Herman is a rat who enjoys heavy drinking, loud grind music and chess. He doesn't care much for cleaning and the disorder in his apartment only makes him feel more at home. One day a very tidy cat who has a weakness for messy macho-men, decides to move in. She also brings a vacuum cleaner, a piano, and what's worse - a collection of classical music records.
Credits
Director: Chintis Lundgren
Producer: Draško Ivezić
Storyboard: Chintis Lundgren
Artistic Direction: Chintis Lundgren
Animation: Chintis Lundgren
Music: Various
Editing: Chintis Lundgren, Ivor Ivezić
Festival screenings / Awards
Days of Croatia Film (award-Best Animation); Krakow Film Festival; Animafest Zagreb (award-Best Croatian Animation); Annecy; Fest Anca; Anima Mundi.
The Meek, Joe Brumm (AUSTRALIA, 2015), 7’ 26”
2D computer animation
The Meek, an original animated short created by StudioJoho’s Joe Brumm, Mark Paterson and Laura DiMaio, follows the story of a very small person trying to quit a very big bad habit.
When her cold, lonely existence is changed forever by the arrival of a huge comet and a smouldering stranger, our heroine thinks her luck has changed.
Credits
Director: Joe Brumm
Producer: Laura DiMaio
Storyboard: Joe Brumm
Artistic Direction: Joe Brumm, Mark Paterson
Animation: Joe Brumm, Mark Paterson, Alexis Dean-Jones
Music: Ollie McGill
Editing-graphics: Joe Brumm
The Sleepwalker, Theodore Ushev (CANADA, 2015), 4’ 22”
Drawing on paper
With the shade around her waist / she dreams on her balcony, […] Under the gypsy moon, / all things are watching her / and she cannot see them.
A surrealist journey through colours and shapes inspired by the poem Romance Sonámbulo by Federico García Lorca. Visual poetry in the rhythm of fantastic dreams and passionate nights.
Credits
Director: Theodore Ushev
Producer: Theodore Ushev, Dominique Noujeim
Storyboard-Artistic Direction-animation-editing: Theodore Ushev
Music: Nikola Gruev / Kottarashky
Festival screenings / Awards
2015: Holland Animation Film Festival; IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival; Vienna Independent Shorts; Annecy International Animation Festival; Melbourne International Animation Festival.
Ernie Biscuit, Adam Elliot (AUSTRALIA, 2015), 21’
Clay
The clayography of a lonely Deaf Parisian Taxidermist whose life is turned upside down and back to front when a dead pigeon arrives on his doorstep.
Credits
Director: Adam Elliot
Producer: Adam Elliot
Storyboard-aristic direction-animation-music-editing: Adam Elliot