‘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.
IFC Movies just lately acquired the rights to Elliot’s newest for North American distribution.
One other massive winner on the characteristic facet was Gints Zilbalodis’s cg entry Circulate, which picked up 4 awards, greater than another title tonight: the characteristic movie jury award, viewers award, Gan Basis Award for Distribution, and greatest authentic music for a characteristic movie. The $4.1 million Belgium/France/Latvia co-production premiered final month within the Un Sure Regard sidebar of the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition and has already been acquired for North American distribution by Sideshow and Janus Movies.
On the brief movie facet, the highest Cristal was offered to Percebes by Laura Gonçalves and Alexandra Ramires. The movie follows the life cycle of a goose barnacle, aka percebes, a preferred delicacy in Spain and Portugal. In our preview of Annecy 2024 shorts, Chris Robinson wrote of the movie, “With stunning watercolor designs and a chill soundtrack dominated by the ambient sounds of the ocean and the passing voices of locals and vacationers, Percepes is a meditation on native tradition, the conflicting nature of tourism, and the countless pleasure of a life by the ocean.”
Fittingly, the movie was produced in Portugal, which was additionally the nation of honor at this 12 months’s competition. Gonçalves’s final movie, The Rubbish Man, gained the grand prize at Zagreb in 2022 and was shortlisted for the Oscars.
4 different brief movies that featured in our Annecy shorts preview had been among the many award winners tonight: The Automotive that Got here Again from the Sea by Jadwiga Kowalska, Hurikán by Jan Saska, Papillon by Florence Miailhe, and Stunning Males by Nicolas Keppens. You may study extra about these movies HERE.
On the closing night time gala, the competition organizers revealed that Hungary would be the nation of honor at subsequent 12 months’s version of Annecy, which is able to happen from June 8-14, 2025.
The competition, which is already the world’s largest worldwide animation occasion, continues to develop at a dizzying tempo. This 12 months’s competition recorded over 17,400 accredited attendees from 103 international locations, up practically 10% from final 12 months’s report attendance of 15,820.
A full listing of winners from this 12 months’s competition is under:
2023 Annecy Competition Award Winners
Characteristic Movies
Cristal for a Characteristic Movie
Memoir of a Snail, Adam Elliot (Arenamedia, Australia)
Jury Award
Circulate, Gints Zilbalodis (Dream Nicely Studio, Take 5, Sacrebleu Productions, Belgium/France/Latvia)
Paul Grimault Award
Totto-Chan: The Little Lady on the Window, Shinnosuke Yakuwa (Shin-Ei Animation Co. Ltd/Japan)
Gan Basis Award for Distribution
Circulate, Gints Zilbalodis (UFO Distribution, Belgium/France/Latvia)
Contrechamp Grand Prix
Sultana’s Dream, Isabel Herguera (Abano Producións, El Gatoverde Producciones Sultana Movies, Uniko, Fabian&Fred, Spain/Germany)
Contrechamp Jury Award
Residing Massive, Kristina Dufková (Barletta Productions, Novinski, Novanima, Czech Republic/Slovakia/France)
Viewers Award
Circulate, Gints Zilbalodis (Dream Nicely Studio, Take 5, Sacrebleu Productions, Belgium/France/Latvia)
Brief Movies
Cristal for a Brief Movie
Percebes, Laura Gonçalves, Alexandra Ramires (BAP Animation Studio, Ikki Movies, Portugal/France)
Jury Award
The Automotive That Got here Again from the Sea, Jadwiga Kowalska (Switzerland)
Alexeïeff – Parker Award
Stunning Males, Nicolas Keppens (Animal Tank, Miyu Productions, Ka-Ching Cartoons, Belgium/France/Netherlands)
Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Movie
[S],, Mario Radev (United Kingdom)
Off-Limits Award
Glass Home Boris Labbé (France)
Viewers Award
Hurikán Jan Saska (Final Movies, Maur Movie, Laïdak Movies, Artichoke, Aeon Manufacturing, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Czech Republic/France/Slovakia)
TV Movies
Cristal for a TV Manufacturing
The Drifting Guitar, Sophie Roze (JPL Movies, Nadasdy Movie, France/Switzerland)
Jury Award for a TV Sequence
My Life in Versailles “Versailles Ghost,” Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat, Nathaniel H’limi (Movies Grand Huit, Melusine Productions/Studio 352, Movie Fund Luxembourg, France/Luxembourg)
Jury Award for a TV Particular
Lola et le Piano à bruits, Augusto Zanovello (Komadoli Studio, Folimage, Momakin, Nadasdy Movie, France/Poland/Switzerland)
Viewers Award
The Drifting Guitar, Sophie Roze (JPL Movies, Nadasdy Movie, France/Switzerland)
Commissioned Movies
Cristal for a Commissioned Movie
Pictoplasma “Opener 2023,” Will Anderson (United Kingdom)
Jury Award for a Commissioned Movie
TED-Ed “How Did South African Apartheid Occur, and How Did It Lastly Finish?,” Aya Marzouk (TED-ED, Egypt South Africa, United States)
Commencement Movies
Cristal for a Commencement Movie
Carrotica Daniel Sterlin-Altman (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany)
Jury Award
Pubert Jimbob Quirijn Dees (KASK & Conservatorium/College of Arts Gent, Belgium)
Lotte Reiniger Award
Maatitel Govinda Sao (NID – Nationwide Institute of Design Goia, India)
VR Works
Cristal for a VR Work
Gargoyle Doyle, Ethan Shaftel (Detona Cultura, Easyaction Ltd, Amilux Movie, Austria/Argentina/United States)
Particular Prizes
Metropolis of Annecy Award
The Meatseller, Margherita Giusti (Frenesy Movie Firm, Italy)
Festivals Connexion Award
Stunning Males, Nicolas Keppens (Animal Tank, Miyu Productions, Ka-Ching Cartoons, Belgium/France/Netherlands)
Festivals Connexion VR Award
Emperor, Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen (Reynard Movies, France Télévisions, Atlas V, France/Germany)
André Martin Award for a French Brief Movie
Butterfly Florence Miailhe (Sacrebleu Productions, XBO Movies, France)
Greatest Unique Music Award for a Characteristic Movie
Circulate Rihards Zalupe, Gints Zilbalodis (Dream Nicely Studio, Take 5, Sacrebleu Productions, Belgium/France/Latvia)
Greatest Unique Music Award for a Brief Movie
Joko, Aliaksandr Yasinski (Animoon, Las Sztuki Basis, Clay Traces, Maur Movie, Czech Republic/Germany/Poland)
Younger Viewers Award
Good day Summer season, Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová (Studio Bororo, Maur Movie, Final Movies, Vivement Lundi, Czech Republic/France/Slovakia)
Canal+ Junior Jury Award
Noodles au Naturel, Matteo Salanave Piazza (La Poudrière, France)
France TV Award for a Brief Movie
The Automotive That Got here Again from the Sea, Jadwiga Kowalska (Switzerland)