‘Memoir Of A Snail,’ ‘Percebes,’ ‘Circulate’ Lead Listing Of Winners At 2024 Annecy Competition

Whereas Hollywood glitz and glamour has taken over France’s Annecy’s Int’l Animation Movie Competition in recent times, the center of the 64-year-old competition stays its movie competitors packages, which honor productions which might be typically far faraway from industrial sensibilities.

The winners of this 12 months’s competition had been revealed tonight in Annecy, France. In each the characteristic and brief classes, the prize-earning movies mirror the breadth and variety of world animation manufacturing that takes place outdoors of the mainstream animation trade.

The highest winner of the Cristal within the characteristic class was Adam Elliot’s Australian stop-motion movie Memoir of a Snail, which world premiered at Annecy. Elliot is greatest identified for his festival-fave Harvie Krumpet (2003), which gained dozens of honors together with the Academy Award for animated brief. His first characteristic Mary and Max launched on the Sundance Movie Competition in 2009.