Schlagwort-Archive: Animation

Frog

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German Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, March 25, 2006, 12:30 and Sunday, March 26, 2006, 17:30 (UMAMI)

frog

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 4′
Category: Animation

Director: Christopher Conforti
Screenplay: Christopher Conforti
Animation: Christopher Conforti
Cast: Marc Tatti, Garrett Koeppicus, Melissa Jordan, Christopher Conforti

Synopsis: In an attempt to escape the heat of the sun, a frog get himself in even more trouble.

Festivals & Awards: Student Academy Awards (2nd place), Television Academy Student Competition (2nd Place), ASIFA East Animation Awards (Best Student Film), Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival (1st Place Student), Marco Island Film Festival (Best Student Film), World Fest Houston (Platnium Remmi Award), Kalamazoon Animation Festival (Bronze), Brooklyn International Film Festival (Audience Award), Texas Film Festival (Audience Award), Spike & Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, Annecy (Avoid Eye Contact), Cannes (Kodak Student Filmaker Showcase), Los Angeles Film Festival, KROK, Woodstock Film Festival

Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher

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German Premiere

Screenings: Friday, March 24, 2006, 20:30 and Saturday, March 25, 2006, 15:00 (SALTY)

rexsteelenazismasher

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 10’30“
Category: Animation

Director: Alexander Woo
Story: Bill Presing, Matt Peters
Screenplay: Alexander Woo, Matt Peters, Dan Blank
Editor: Alexander Woo
Music: Ryan Shore
Producer: Alexander Woo
Cast: Dan Blank, Nicola Russell, Lolita Shawany

Synopsis: It is the height of World War II, and the United States is at war with Nazi Germany. The U.S. Government has just been informed that Eval Schnitzler has occupied a remote location near the mysterious source of the Amazon River. Convinced that his motives are more than leisurely, the United States sends Rex Steele, Nazi smasher extraordinaire, to find and foil Eval’s evil plans. Rex flies into the Amazon with his sidekick, Miss Penny Thimble, and the two embark on a journey full of action, adventure, and of course, Nazi smashing galore!.

Festivals & Awards: Student Academy Award 2004 (Gold in the Animation Category), Directors Guild of America Student Filmmaker Award (1st Prize), Student Emmy Award (Third Place Animation Traditional Category), CINEME 2004 (GRAND PRIZE Best of the Fest Award), HDFEST 2004 (Winner Best Animation), Savannah Film Festival 2004 (Winner Best Animation), Hollywood International Student Film Festival 2004 (Winner Best Animation), Hamptons International Film Festival 2004 (Best Student Animated Short), Motor City Internaional Film Festival 2004 (Winner Best Animation), Forest Film Fest 2004 (Winner Best Animation), First Look Student Film Festival 2004 (1st Place Animated Short), Westchester Film Festival 2004 (Best Student Film), Zoie Film Festival 2004 (Best Student Animation), Worldfest Houston 2004 (Platinum Award for Best College Production), NYU First Run Film Festival 2004 (Craft Award for Original Score), Internaional Family Film Festival 2004 (Best Student Animation Classic), 35th Annual ASIFA EAST Awards (1st Honorable Mention – Student Films Category), Angelus Awards 2004, USA Film Festival, HDFEST 2004

Weblink: www.woohoopictures.com

The Bus – The Yellow Bus (A Busz – A Sárgabusz)

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Bavarian Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, March 25, 2006, 20:00 and Sunday, March 26, 2006, 15:00 (BITTER)

theyellowbus

Country of Origin: Hungary
Year of Production: 2003
Duration: 9’20“
Category: Animation / Documentary

Director: Pálfi Szabolcs
Screenplay: Pálfi Szabolcs
Cinematographer: Pálfi Szabolcs
Editor: Pálfi Szabolcs
Music: Melis László
Cast: Panyok Village, Horvath Lajos, Pálfi Szabolcs

Synopsis: This film is a documentary film. In Hungary, 1999/2000 one bus is disappeared, then it change a phantombus. Nobody drives it, nobody voyages. And the village peoples talk much, for example from Ferenc Rákóczi II., a hero of the Hungarian history… The voices and sounds of film are real voices and sounds, the director recorded in 1999-2001 with DAT and MD. This film talk about the life of the Hungarian village, where the young village people move to the city and the older people stay in the village and… The bus doesn’t transport the village people, because they voyage nowhere. The yellowbus (in Hungary the bus on country are yellow) are empty in North Hungary and in Pányok too.

Festivals & Awards: Anifest – Animation Student Film Festival 2003 (First Prize), SLEEPWALKERS STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2003, Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart 2004, Mediawave Film Festival Gyor 2004 (Jameson Award), SNIFF Short Film Festival Novo Mesto Slovenija 2004, Hiroshima Stars of Students Special Program 2004, PISAF World Amazing Special Program 2004, DARKLIGHT Digital FilmFestival 2004, Fiatal Filmesek Fesztivalja 2004 (Special Prize), ALTER-NATIVE 2004 (Special Prize of Hungarian Filmlabs)

Weblink: www.mie.hu

9

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German Premiere

Screenings: Saturday, March 25, 2006, 12:30 and Sunday, March 26, 2006, 17:30 (UMAMI)

9

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2004
Duration: 11′
Category: Animation

Director: Shane Acker
Screenplay: Shane Acker
Animation: Shane Acker
Sound Design: Dave Steinwedel
Music: Earganic

Synopsis: In the shadow of urban desolation, a rag doll must face a monster that is hunting his brethren and stealing their souls.

Festivals & Awards: Ion International Short Film Festival 2004, Zinebi International Festival of Documentary and Short Film 2004, Sundance Film Festival 2005, Animex International Festival of Animation 2005 (3D CHARACTER ANIMATION AWARD – 1st Prize), Anima International Animation Festival 2005, Cinequest Film Festival 2005, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation College Awards 2005 (1st Place NON-TRADITIONAL ANIMATION), Philadelphia Film Festival 2005 (2nd Place – FESTIVAL FAVORITE), Florida Film Festival 2005 (Grand Jury Award for BEST ANIMATED SHORT), Indianapolis International Film Festival 2005 (Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Animation ), Newport Beach Film Festival 2005 (Best Animated Short Film), Coachella Independent Film Festival 2005, Maryland Film Festival 2005, Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2005 (Junior Jury Award for Best Student Animation), Student Academy Awards 2005 (Gold Medal), Short Shorts Film Festival Burma 2005, Melbourne International Animation Festival MIAF 2005 (Best CGI and Audience award for best CGI), SIGGRAPH 2005 (Best of Show), George Lindsey UNA Film Festival 2005 (Best College Animation / Student Best of Show), BENDFilm 2005 (Best Animated Short), Next Reel Film Festival 2005 (Best Animation), ArtFutura 2005 (First Prize), Beijing Film Academy International Student Film Festival 2005 (Gold Award), Academy Award Nominee for Best Animated Short 2006

Weblink: www.shaneacker.com