Studios, distributors and people from 11 European international locations have been nominated for the 2023 Cartoon Tributes, which acknowledge essentially the most excellent achievements of European movie animation within the earlier 12 months.
The winners of those awards in three classes — Director, Distributor/Gross sales Agent and Producer of the Yr — can be voted for by the professionals attending Cartoon Film, the pitching and co-production occasion for European animated movies that can have a good time its twenty fifth anniversary within the French metropolis of Bordeaux from March 7-9. Extra information accessible at cartoon-media.eu/film.
The most important contributions by the nominees of their respective fields have considerably impacted the European animation trade, enhancing the dynamism and creativity it at present enjoys. Winners can be introduced within the Bordeaux Congress Centre on March 9 at midday.
Cartoon Tributes 2023 Nominees
European Director of the Yr
Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre for Little Nicholas: Glad as Can Be (France)
Awarded with the Annecy Cristal for a Function Movie in 2022, Little Nicholas: Glad as Can Be is Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre’s first movie as administrators. An adaptation from a preferred kids’s e book collection created by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé, the movie has been hailed as “an ode to the thrill of childhood.” Fredon has beforehand directed tv collection, whereas Massoubre has primarily labored as an editor (Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary; I Misplaced My Physique).
Áron Gauder for 4 Souls of Coyote (Hungary)
Graduated from Moholy-Nagy College in Budapest and the Universität der Künste in Berlin, movie director and scriptwriter Áron Gauder has gained quite a few awards, together with the Annecy Cristal Award in 2005 together with his characteristic animated movie The District!. To be offered at Cartoon Film 2023 as sneak preview, 4 Souls of Coyote is billed as an epic journey story of the Native American creation delusion.
Mascha Halberstad for OINK (Netherlands)
Dutch filmmaker and illustrator Mascha Halberstad first movie OINK is one other contender for this class. With a Roald Dahl environment to it, this stop-motion movie was chosen on the Berlinale in 2022. Halberstad can be presenting her subsequent movie at Cartoon Film: Fox and Hare Save the Forest, primarily based on Sylvia Vanden Heede’s books.
José Miguel Ribeiro for Nayola (Portugal)
José Miguel Ribeiro’s first characteristic movie tells the story of three generations of ladies in the course of the 25-year Angolan civil struggle. Graduated from the Lisbon Artwork Faculty, Ribeiro has beforehand directed a number of brief movies, together with Cartoon d’Or winner A Suspeita in 2000. Nayola was first offered at Cartoon Film as an in-development undertaking in 2016, and 6 years later had its sneak preview on the occasion.
European Distributor of the Yr
I Surprise Footage (Italy)
Bologna-based I Surprise Footage distributes theatrically and digitally “the perfect biopics, docs and have movies from all around the world.” Flee, Ernest & Celestine, Little Nicholas: Glad as Can Be and Unicorn Wars are a few of the firm’s most up-to-date movies distributed in Italy.
KMBO (France)
Animation is on the coronary heart of the KMBO, a movie distribution firm created in 2007. Primarily based in Paris, the corporate releases round 10 movies every year, and works with each auteur and industrial animation movies. The Wonderful Maurice, Moonbound, Simply Tremendous and The Elfkins: Baking a Distinction are a few of the titles distributed by the corporate just lately.
Pink Parrot Media (Spain)
Pink Parrot Media is a global gross sales firm targeted on animation and live-action household leisure. Primarily based in Madrid, the corporate’s core enterprise lays in CGI animated options, nevertheless it additionally distributes 2D animation, animated TV collection and live-action household options. Pink Parrot’s catalog contains movies corresponding to Valentina and Trash, and initiatives in manufacturing corresponding to Butterfly Story, which can be offered at Cartoon Film 2023.
Rosebud.21 (Greece)
Rounding out the nominees on this class is Athens-based Rosebud.21, a boutique distribution firm with greater than 500 titles distributed in Greece and Cyprus, together with main European animated movies corresponding to Ooops! Noah Is Gone…, The place Is Anne Frank? and My Life as a Courgette.
European Producer of the Yr
No Canines or Italians Allowed is a co-production between France’s Les Movies du Tambour de Soie, Vivement Lundi ! and Foliascope along with Italy’s Graffiti Movie, Switzerland’s Nadasdy Movie, Portugal’s Ocidental Filmes and Belgium’s Lux Fugit Movie. Directed by Alain Ughetto (Jasmine), this stop-motion movie gained each the Jury Prize at Annecy and the European Movie Award for Finest European Animated Movie in 2022.
A co-production between Germany’s Ulysses Filmproduktion and U.Ok.’s Cantilever Media, 3D animation movie The Wonderful Maurice is co-directed by Toby Genkel & Florian Westermann. Chosen at Sundance Movie Competition 2023, the movie relies on a e book by British creator Terry Pratchett.
Titina by Kajsa Næss is a co-production between Norway’s Mikrofilm and Belgium’s Vivi Movie. Oslo’s Mikrofilm gained the Oscar for Finest Animated Quick Movie in 2007 with The Danish Poet. Primarily based in Brussels, Vivi Movie has participated as co-producer in extremely famend movies corresponding to The Triplets of Belleville and The Secret of Kells, and can be presenting The Legend of Lune at Cartoon Film 2023.
Unicorn Wars,a incredible anti-war fable by Alberto Vázquez, rounds up the nominations for this class. The movie is a co-production by Spain’s Abano Producións and UniKo, along with Academy-awarded animation studio Autour de Minuit and Schmuby/Borderline Movies in France. The movie has additionally earned a double nomination for 2023 Spain’s prestigious Goya Movie Awards. Abano Producións and UniKo have just lately labored collectively on Sultana’s Dream. UniKo and Autour de Minuit have already coproduced two of Vázquez’ brief movies: Decorado (2016) and Homeless Dwelling (2020).
