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Twelve European Companies Nominated for Cartoon Tributes 2011

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Twelve animation companies from 7 countries among the finalists for Broadcaster, Investor/Distributor and Producer of the Year

The Cartoon Tributes 2011 will be awarded in Sopot, Poland on 16th Sept.

The European animation industry is set to honour outstanding contributors to the sector at the sixth edition of Cartoon Tributes, the annual awards organised by CARTOON – European Association of Animation Film. Some 700 professionals from across Europe will select the companies that have supported the industry’s growth over the past year. Companies from France, Ireland, Britain, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland and The Netherlands are among this year’s nominees, underscoring the growing interest in animation from countries across the continent.

Turner Broadcasting’s preschool channel Cartoonito, France’s M6 Kid, Ireland’s pubcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) and French speaking Swiss broadcaster Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) have been nominated for Broadcaster of the Year for giving animation a top spot in their programming schedule.

The nominees for Investor/Distributor of the Year are awol animation from France, Beta Film from Germany, KidsPlant Distribution from The Netherlands and Zodiak Kids from Britain.

Meanwhile, Planet Nemo Animation and Tele Images Productions from France, LuxAnimation from Luxembourg and Monster Animation from Ireland will compete for Producer of the Year after creating some of European animation’s most recent hits.

The winners will be announced at the next edition of Cartoon Forum, to be held from 13-16 September in the Polish city of Sopot, where the nominated companies will also have an active presence. In this new edition the European forum for co-productions of animated series will showcase 66 new projects with a global investment of 214.5 million EUR and 467 hours of production.

Cartoon Tributes 2011 nominees are:

Broadcaster of the Year
- Cartoonito (TBS) (UK / France)
- M6 Kid (France)
- Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) (Ireland)
- Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) (Switzerland)

Investor/Distributor of the Year
- awol animation (France)
- Beta Film (Germany)
- KidsPlant Distribution (The Netherlands)
- Zodiak Kids (UK)

Producer of the Year
- LuxAnimation (Luxembourg)
- Monster Animation (Ireland)
- Planet Nemo Animation (France)
- Tele Images Productions (France)

Cartoon Forum Organisation
Annick Maes – annick.maes@cartoon-media.eu – Tel: (32) (2) 242 93 43

International Press
Gerardo Michelin – gerardo@latindie.com – Tel: (34) 630 57 22 68

List of the selected projects.

About CARTOON FORUM
Created in 1990 to boost the co-production and distribution of European animation for television and new media platforms, Cartoon Forum has helped 470 animation series obtain financing to the tune of over 1.6 billion EUR. For three days each year, European producers have the opportunity to pitch their animation project in front of all decision-makers, buyers and investors in order to speed up financing and find cross-border partners.

Cartoon Forum Polska is organised by CARTOON with the support of MEDIA – a Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and the City of Sopot, in collaboration with Studio Miniatur Filmowych (SMF). Cartoon Forum Polska is one of the events under the patronage of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council.

About CARTOON
CARTOON is an international non-profit association based in Brussels that organises Cartoon Forum, together with Cartoon Movie, a co-production forum for feature-length animation, Cartoon Master training seminars and Cartoon Connection, a new programme intended to explore ways of reinforcing cooperation between EU and non EU animation professionals.

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Berlinale Shorts: Green Crayons by Kazik Radwanski

Monday, February 14th, 2011

It’s a moral tale of two children that begins with them gobbing giant wads of spit into each other’s faces. It’s slightly comic but also slightly cosmic. While the film may seem like a simple story set on a schoolyard it’s really about much more than that. It’s about everything.

Interview with Kazik Radwanski:

What is your short film about?

It’s a moral tale of two children that begins with them gobbing giant wads of spit into each other’s faces. It’s slightly comic but also slightly cosmic. While the film may seem like a simple story set on a schoolyard it’s really about much more than that. It’s about everything.

What kind of approach to the story was important for you as a director?

My main approach was to try and forget my response to the material and try to remember that of the children. I was eager to work with kids because I wanted the chaos. I wanted to ground the film in the spontaneity that they would bring to the shoot.

What is the financial background of the film? Was it easy to get it?

The film was funded by the Ontario Arts Council and produced by Medium Density Fiberboard Films. I had the good fortune of having longtime collaborator Daniel Montgomery as producer on this project. We’re getting to a point where we’ve worked together so much that there is an inherent trust. This helps us worry less about the finances and focus on what’s really important, the film.

How was the shooting of the film? (A nice story?)

We did over thirty takes of the boys spitting at each other to get the perfect shot. When we finished they went outside and continued to spit. It’s amazing how much kids love spitting at each other.

What do you expect from the Berlinale?

Nothing but the best.

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Call for Entries: GRAND OFF World Off Film Awards

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
GRAND OFF World Off Film Awards invited filmmakers to submit their films for its 4th edition which will run 26-28 November at Poland.
The call for entries for GRAND OFF is open to independent filmmakers, with up to 45 minutes of total running time.
Each year, world independent films receive nominations in 9 categories: directing, scriptwriting, editing, cinematography, best actor, best actress, fiction, documentary and animation.
During the Awards Ceremony the authors of the awarded films receive the honorable Grand Off statuettes and diplomas.
The deadline for submission is 15th of August 2010 and for regulations and entry form visit GRAND OFF’s website: http://www.grandoff.eu

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Golden Era in Wroclaw

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Wroclaw Era New Horizons film festival presents a special programme prepared by Hungarian film critics and presenting the achievements of the Hungarian New Wave of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including a mini-retrospective of Miklós Jancsó and Balázs Béla Studio’s shorts.

Poland’s biggest summer film event – The 9th International Film Festival ERA NEW HORIZONS, being held in Wrocław between 23rd July and 2nd August 2009 will present original works which reach beyond the borders of conventional cinema – as every year. The Festival’s goal is to present uncompromising, creative and extraordinary films from all over the world, made by artists who search for a new film language and original forms, who address issues missing from mainstream cinema.

Hungarian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s

The review is organised in cooperation with the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw. The selection will present 20 of the most interesting films of the time when the Hungarian cinema was outstanding in comparison not only to other European works but to the entire world cinema. An important part of this section will be a mini-retrospective of Miklós Jancsó – the greatest visionary among the artist of this trend, whose trilogy of terror drew international critics’ attention to Hungarian cinema. Besides this, we will present 15 films by other directors who created the so-called Hungarian new wave: Zoltán Fábri, István Szabó, Ference Kardos, András Kovács, Károly Makk, Márta Mészáros and others. The works will be selected together by Hungarian film critics and the festival’s organisers.
The late 1950s and the 1960s saw several fascinating film trends developing in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This artistic upheaval was initiated by the Polish Film School, followed by the triumphs of the Czech School and the Hungarian New Wave, with cinemas finally screening works by Mikhail Romm’s students and the Yugoslavs of the ‘black wave’.

Golden Era of Hungarian Cinema – film list with screening schedule

http://www.enh.pl/lista.do?typ=cykl&idCyklu=212

The Golden age of Hungarian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s was an extraordinary time for cinema. Andrzej Werner describes a situation we can hardly imagine now: crowds of people going to see a film almost exclusively for its aesthetical value, without tempting advertisements or posters. Very often, there were simply no advertisements or posters. In the planned book the fascinating phenomenon of Hungarian films of those times is discussed by critics of the young and middle-aged generation: Lorant Stohr (about the documentary trend), Balazs Varga (about the Hungarian new wave of the 1960s and new generation of the 1970s), Gabor Gelencser (about the Hungarian original and creative cinema) and Gyorgy Baron (about the leading representative of the “golden age” of the Hungarian cinema – Miklos Janco). The critical essays are matched by two historical descriptions of how Hungarian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s was perceived in Poland and in the former Czechoslovakia, written by Andrzej Werner and Radim Valak.

http://www.enh.pl/artykul.do?id=351

Discussion with the Hungarians

moderated by Paweł T. Felis, film critic of Gazeta Wyborcza at 16:00 in Cafe Teatr Lalek on 30 July
Golden Era of Hungarian Cinema – guests: Éva Vezér, Loránt Stőhr, Lívia Gyarmathy, Pál Sándor, András Kovács, Sándor Sára, Sebestyén Kodolányi, Rafał Syska, Jan Topolski and others.

via Magyar Filmunió

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