+++ Focus animation+++
eDIT 9. Filmmaker‘s Festival sets a focus on animation once more. international speakers offer insights of the different aspects of technology. Highlights include:
Steve May, Effects Supervisor of Pixar's new animated feature film Cars, Carlos Grangel is responsible for the Character design of the corpse bride and the other dolls in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Animation legend Ray Harryhausen is honored with the Festival Honors for outstanding contributions to film creating. With Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker an excelent animated short film is introduced. Author, director and animator Stefan Müller will explain why he did the film like that. 

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COMING FESTIVALS: 

London Film Festival

AFI-Fest/ LA

Festival International du Film d`Amiens

Festival de filmets de Badalona

Curtacinema/ Rio

Frankfurt Filmfestival

Flanders/ Ghent

Interfilm Berlin

Zürich Filmfest

Dokumentar & Animationsfestival Leipzig

Umea International Film Festival 2006 /Sweden

Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest

PISAF/ Korea

Fantastic Film Festival/ Sweden

5th International Film & Video Festival Beijing/ Korea

Lyon german filmweek

Buenos Aires festival de escuelas de cine

SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya

Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent

Festival des deutschen Kinos/ Mainz

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AWARDS:

Ottawa International Animation Festival:

GRAND PRIZE FOR BEST STUDENT ANIMATION

1st Prize GRADUATE ANIMATION

 

Animamundi - Rio:

1.Prize BEST FIRST FILM

3.Prize BEST SHORT FILM

 

Animamundi - Sao Paulo:

1. Prize BEST SOUNDTRACK

1. Prize BEST FIRST FILM

2. Prize BEST SCREENPLAY

3. Prize BEST SHORT FILM

 

Cannes:

2. Prize CINEFONDATION

 

Dresden Filmfestival

1. Prize BEST ANIMATION - nat competition

1. Prize BEST SOUND

 

Milan Film Festival

Stuff Award

 

Filmfest Go-east:

1. Prize BEST ANIMATION

 

1. Prize Wiesbaden special

 

Just for laughts Festival - Montreal:

1. Prize Best ANIMATION

 

First Sundays Film Festival – New York

Audience Award

 

ITVA- Award

1st Prize VIDEO ART

 

Shorts at moonlight

3. Prize

 

Videofestival - Wien

3. Prize ANIMATION

 

First steps

Nominated short-film award

 

Sehsuechte

Nominated producer´s award