Animac, Worldwide Animation Movie Competition of Catalonia, has revealed its official alternatives to be screened on the twenty seventh version, operating onsite in Lleida February 23-26 and on-line by the Filmin platform March 3-12. The quick alternatives are led by The Flying Sailor (Shorts 1), from Canadian animators Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis, not too long ago nominated for an Oscar for Finest Animated Brief Movie.
This 12 months, the shorts’ official part will current 40 productions from 22 international locations over 5 classes. Along with The Flying Sailor, notable movies on this part embody stop-motion Salvation Has No Title (Shorts 2), directed by Joseph Wallace; Amarradas (Shorts 2), a movie by Spanish filmmaker Carmen Córdoba (nominated for a Goya award); Sierra (Shorts 4), by Estonian filmmaker Sander Joon; and O Homem do Lixo (The Rubbish Man – Shorts 4), by Portuguese filmmaker Laura Gonçalves.
Additionally, screening is the winner of the Annecy Competition Cristal Award Amok (Shorts 3) by Balázs Turai, and Babičino seksualno življenje (Granny’s Sexual Life – Shorts 3), by Urška Djukić and Émilie Pigeard – nominated for the César Award of the French Academy.
The official part for narrative and visible experiments – Shorts 5 White Dice contains:
- The Hour Coat, by Amy Kravitz
- Backflip, by Nikita Diakur
- Boca, by Frederic Amat
- Intermission, by Réka Bucsi, amongst others.
The part Future Expertise, devoted to shorts obtained from animation colleges, will embody three classes with a complete of 37 shorts chosen from 14 international locations, together with:
- À bicyclette, by Océane Lavergne, Benjamin Langagne, Lucas Durot, Pierre Cilluffo, Marine Beuvain, and Kerrian Detay
- Slouch, by Michael Bohnenstingl
- An Ostrich Advised Me the World Is Pretend and I Suppose I Imagine It by Lachlan Pendragon.
The pageant part, Little Animac, programming for youngsters and their households, will embody 48 movies from 18 international locations in six completely different classes.
- Našeprasátko (Little Animac 1 Brief & Candy), by Jaromír Plachý, creator of the journey videogame Botanicula
- Invoice i Janet (The Smeds and the Smoos – Little Animac 2), by Daniel Snaddon and Samantha Cutler, the tenth adaptation of the ebook by the author Julia Donaldson
- Operación Frankenstein (Little Animac 3), by José María Fernández de Vega
- Les astres immobiles (Little Animac 4), by Noémi Gruner and Séléna Picque
- La joya del pantano (Little Animac 5), by Camilo Ayala Nieto.
The movies within the official sections Shorts, Future Expertise and Little Animac are eligible for the pageant viewers award.
The part, Expertise.cat, brings collectively animation movies from college students in Catalan-speaking territories. This 12 months 14 colleges participated with 16 movie submissions, together with:
- Let’s Dance; Past the Fringe; La Cucharada; Half-Canine; Pank con chocolate; Candy Aspect; Jidai (次代); Period del presente; Ventanas; Items of Us; Chimborazo; Sully; Sunburned; Vestigis; Proceso Psychological; and Papirola
This 12 months’s occasion celebrates the creativity of Latin American animation beneath the motto “LatAm Increase!”
The occasion options the presentation of animated cinema with monographic and retrospective classes, in addition to a handpicked number of not too long ago created quick and have movies, exhibitions, talks, and masterclasses. Go to the ANIMAC web site for updates.
Supply: Animac 2023
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
