After every week of screenings, panels, pitches, studio shows, and high-profile masterclasses, the Annecy Pageant held its closing ceremony tonight, awarding the most effective quick movies, options, television productions, scholar movies, and VR works that screened over the previous week.
The pageant’s high prize, the Annecy Cristal for an animated characteristic, went to Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s Hen for Linda!, which additionally gained the Gan Basis Award for Distribution. Annecy regulars, the husband-and-wife workforce of Laudenbach and Malta have labored collectively often over time on each live-action and animation tasks. Hen for Linda! was eventually 12 months’s pageant for a sold-out work-in-progress presentation.
This 12 months’s Contrechamp high honors went to Pablo Berger’s Robotic Goals. The movie premiered at Cannes final month and was a favourite amongst critics and audiences on the pageant. Berger’s animation debut, the movie is a kid-friendly characteristic with a bittersweet tone that appeals to adults as nicely.
Flóra Anna Buda’s 27 beat out live-action competitors to win the quick movie Palme d’Or at Cannes final month and has adopted that up by profitable the quick movie Annecy Cristal. It additionally rating the Annecy particular award for finest music in an animated quick, handed out on Friday. The movie is an expertly crafted story a couple of 27-year-old lady who often escapes into daydreams as a result of she feels trapped residing along with her mother and father and youthful brother. After a celebration, she is concerned in a severe accident that forces her to reevaluate the alternatives she’s making.
This 12 months’s Cristal for a television manufacturing went to Marjolaine Perreten’s Pebble Hill, a half-hour story a couple of small household of shrews that lives on the banks of a stream. Sooner or later, very heavy rainfall washes away the village. Fortunately, the household escapes the worst, however their home is destroyed. The particular’s storybook-like animation is completely charming and its earth-toned palette makes for straightforward, relaxed looking forward to any fan of autumn.
Tamerlan Bekmurzayev gained the commissioned movie Cristal for his music video for November Extremely’s breathtaking “come into my arms.” The video makes use of comfortable lighting and heat pastels to create a springtime dreamscape that includes a playful younger lady on a unbelievable prepare voyage.
Martina Generali, Simone Pratola, and Francesca Rosso’s La notte gained the Cristal for a commencement movie. Primarily based on Vivaldi’s “La Notte,” the festively coloured second quick unspools throughout Carnival in Venice. There, a costumed man tries to sneak right into a VIP social gathering however fails terribly.
On the closing night time gala, it was additionally revealed that in 2024, the pageant will highlight Portuguese animation. Regina Pessoa, (2006 Annecy Cristal quick movie winner Tragic Story with Pleased Ending) and José Miguel Ribeiro (2022 Annecy competitors characteristic Nayola) appeared in a video announcement alongside Isabel Corte-Actual, cultural councilor of the Portuguese Embassy in France, to share the information.
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📣 La réalisatrice Regina Pessoa, Cristal du court docket métrage en 2006 avec “Histoire tragique avec fin heureuse” annonce que l’animation portugaise sera à l’honneur lors de la prochaine édition d’#AnnecyFestival, du 9 au 15 juin 2024.
👉 https://t.co/P9wmbL1652 pic.twitter.com/2BhOul6App— Annecy Pageant (@annecyfestival) June 17, 2023
Annecy 2023 was the biggest version within the pageant’s historical past, and by an unimaginable margin. In whole, 15,820 accredited visitors attended this 12 months’s occasion, up 19% from final 12 months’s document attendance of 13,248.
Mickaël Marin, CEO of Annecy Pageant organizer CITIA, stated of this 12 months’s occasion:
Greater than ever, Annecy deserves its standing because the world capital of animation movie. This new attendance document symbolizes the acknowledgment and belief of trade professionals. It’s a neighborhood that couldn’t think about lacking this gathering and who confirmed their dedication, just a few days after the occasions that shook our metropolis. It additionally highlights the dynamism of an trade and the artists’ creativity. CITIA is immensely proud to be a mainstay in such an admirable sector. Thanks all.
2023 Annecy Pageant Award Winners
Characteristic Movies
Cristal for a Characteristic Movie
Hen for Linda!, Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach (Dolce Vita Movies, Miyu Productions, Dorje Movie/France, Italy)
Jury Award
4 Souls of Coyote, Áron Gauder (Cinemon Leisure/Hungary)
Paul Grimault Award
The Tunnel to Summer season, the Exit of Goodbyes, Tomohisa Taguchi (Clap/Japan)
Gan Basis Award for Distribution
Hen for Linda!, Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach (Dolce Vita Movies, Miyu Productions, Dorje Movie/France, Italy)
Contrechamp Grand Prix
Robotic Goals, Pablo Berger (Les movies du Worso, Arcadia Movement Footage, Noodles Manufacturing/Spain, France)
Contrechamp Jury Award
Tony, Shelly and the Magic Gentle, Filip Pošivač (Filmfabriq, Nutprodukcia, Nutprodukce/Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Viewers Award
Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, Benoît Chieux (Sacrebleu Productions/Belgium, France)
Quick Movies
Cristal for a Quick Movie
27, Flóra Anna Buda (Boddah, Miyu Productions/France)
Jury Award
Drijf, Levi Stoops (Lunanime BVBA/Belgium)
Alexeïeff – Parker Award
Eeva, Morten Tsinakov, Lucija Mrzljak (Adriatic Animation, Eesti Joonisfilm/Croatia, Estonia)
Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Movie
Our Uniform, Yegane Moghaddam (Iran)
Off-Limits Award
Is Heaven Blue? #2 – Menno De Nooijer, Paul De Nooijer (Trollfilm AS/Norway, Netherlands)
Viewers Award
Nun or By no means! – Heta Jäälinoja (Böhle Studios/Finland)
TV Movies
Cristal for a TV Manufacturing
Pebble Hill – Marjolaine Perreten (Les Movies Du Nord, Nadasdy Movie Sarl/Belgium, France, Switzerland)
First Jury Award for a TV Sequence
Form Island “Sq.’s Large Prank” – Drew Hodges (Apple TV+/U.S.A.)
Second Jury Award for a TV Sequence
Scavengers Reign “The Wall” – Vincent Tsui (Titmouse Inc./U.S.A.)
Commissioned Movies
Cristal for a Commissioned Movie
November Extremely “Come Into My Arms” – Tamerlan Bekmurzayev (Remembers/France)
Jury Award for a Commissioned Movie
The Beatles “I’m Solely Sleeping” – Em Cooper (Jelly London/U.Ok.)
Commencement Movies
Cristal for a Commencement Movie
La notte – Martina Generali, Simone Pratola, Francesca Rosso (Experimental Cinematography Heart, Scuola Nazionale di Cinema/Italy)
Jury Award
The Harbormaster – Mia L. Henriksen, Konrad Hjemli (Volda College Faculty/Norway)
Lotte Reiniger Award
Mano – Toke Madsen (The Animation Workshop, VIA College Faculty/Denmark)
VR Works
Cristal for a VR Work
Purple Tail – Fish Wang (Zero One Movie Co., Funique VR, PTS Public Tv Service/Taiwan)
Particular Prizes
Metropolis of Annecy Award
Island – Michael Faust (Studio Potemkin/Israel)
Festivals Connexion VR Award
From the Essential Sq. – Pedro Harres (Movie College Babelsberg Konrad Wolf/Germany)
Festivals Connexion Award
Maurice’s Bar – Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery (Sacrebleu Productions/France, Israel)
André Martin Award for a French Quick Movie
The Purple Season – Clémence Bouchereau (Bandini Movies/France)
Finest Authentic Music Award for a Characteristic Movie
The Siren – Erik Truffaz (Les Movies d’Ici, Katuh Studio, BAC Cinema, Lunanime, Trickstudio Lutterbeck/Germany, Belgium, France, Luxembourg)
Finest Authentic Music Award for a Quick Movie
27 – Committee, Mári Mákó & Rozi Mákó (Boddah, Miyu Productions/France, Hungary)
Younger Viewers Award
To Be Sisters – Clément Céart & Anne-Sophie Gousset (Folimage, Les Armateurs/France)
Canal+ Junior Jury Award
Pete – Bret Parker (Artfarm Productions/U.S.)
France TV Award for a Quick Movie
Nun or By no means! – Heta Jäälinoja (Böhle Studios/Finland)
