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Slovak films awarded at the Animateka festival in Slovenia

Slovak animation films were very successful at the 8th Animateka International Festival of Animation Films (5. - 18. 12. 2011), taking place in Ljubljana and Maribor, Slovenia, during the weekend.

Two Slovak films were selected for the Competition Section: The Last Bus (2011, by Ivana Laučíková, Martin Snopek) and the student film  tWINs (2011, by Peter Budinský). The Slovak film Who's There (2010, by Vanda Raýmanová) was presented within the Elephant Compeatition of Children Films.

The International Jury gave the Grand Prix Maestro to The Last Bus, considering it "an original and refreshing film, which despite its surreal nature allowed the jury to connect with the subject matter on many levels. The jury were particularly impressed by the art direction and the characterisation, which gave the film a strong and rich narrative as well as that all important sense of emotional engagement.". The Award For The Elephant Children's Programme went to the film Who's There?. The members of the children jury explained their decision with these words: We have watched 34 animated films for children and youth. We wished to award at least half of the films, but we had to select only one. Our criteria in the selection were humour, colourfulness, understandability, originality in the use of animation techniques, fairy-tale qualities, beauty of the image, quality of the music and sound effects as well as suspense. Some of us preferred The Monster of Nix, others Ben Hora. We eventually decided to award a film that everybody really liked, and that is Who’s there?.

More information at:
www.poslednyautobus.sk
www.vsmu.sk

Related AIC articles:
Slovak films at 19. Art Film Fest 2011

published: 12.12.2011
updated: 13.12.2011