The Kaboom Animation Competition (kaboomfestival.nl) held its 2023 awards ceremony on Saturday evening in Amsterdam, closing out one other energetic, colourful and artistic version. Award-winning shorts, options and pupil movies walked away with Kaboom Awards and money prizes to assist gas their subsequent explosive initiatives.
Taking the highest prize for Greatest Brief Movie is the haunting and highly effective stop-motion piece Skinned (Écorchée), from French director Joachim Hérissé and Komadoli studio (gross sales by Miyu Distribution). The movie has picked up quite a lot of worldwide prizes from festivals comparable to Clermont-Ferrand, Sitges, Hiroshima Animation Season Competition and Animafest Zagreb.
In an previous constructing, misplaced in the midst of the swamp, dwell two unusual ladies, Siamese twins by one leg. At evening, the Flayed has terrifying nightmares by which she sees her sister’s flesh protecting her personal physique.
Kaboom described the movie’s an exploration of an abusive relationship “that deeply impacts the boundaries between the opposite and the self,” with “echoes of Cronenberg and Julia Ducournau.”
Kaboom Awards 2023 Winners
Greatest Brief – Skinned by Joachim Hérissé (France; Komadoli)
Greatest Pupil Brief – Goodbye Jérôme! by Adam Sillard, Gabrielle Selnet & Chloé Farr (France; Gobelins)
Greatest Documentary – The Heights by Alejandro Salgado (Spain; La Maleta Movies)
Greatest Dutch Brief – Questbound: Forbidden Ventures of the Undead Soul by Owen Buckley & Alexander Bierling (Netherlands; HKU College of the Arts Utrecht)
Greatest Music Video – “How Many” – Mathieu Boogaerts by Bianca Scali (Germany; Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg Animationinstitut)
Greatest VR – From the Fundamental Sq. by Pedro Harres (Germany; Filmuniversitat Babelsburg Konrad Wolf)
Jamie Bolio Award – Ice Retailers by João Gonzalez (Portugal, France, U.Ok.; COLA, Wildstream, RCA)
Viewers Award for Greatest Brief – Freedom Swimmer by Olivia Martin-McGuire (Australia, France; No Factor Manufacturing, Sacrebleu Manufacturing)
Viewers Award for Greatest Experimental Brief – Fur by Zhen Li (U.S.; CalArts)
Viewers Award for Greatest Commissioned Brief – An Finish to Conflict Sufficient by Simone Massi (Italy; Emergency ONG Onlus)
Viewers Award for Greatest Kids’s Movie – Momo by Erik Verkerk & Joost van den Bosch (China, The Netherlands; iQIYI, Ka-Ching Cartoon)
Viewers Award for Greatest Characteristic – Blind Willow, Sleeping Lady by Pierre Földes (France; Cinéma Defacto, Miyu Productions)
Nancy Award – Garrano by David Doutel & Vasco Sá (Portugal, Lithuania; Sq. Eyes)
