Okay,
so I'm back from my
judgeship at the
Riverrun Film Festival
in beautiful
Winston Salem,
North Carolina!
I'm used to going to
animation-only
festivals where I know,
(or at least know of)
most of the filmmakers
and attendees.
But Riverrun is primarily a
live-action festival so I didn't
know many people.
Fortunately I had my fellow
animated shorts jurors:
That's
New York
animator/director
Celia Bullwinkel
in the middle.
And that's
animator
illustrator
designer
and
Nickelodeon
development coordinator
Joanna Leitch
on the right.
They kick butt
and we had a great time
wandering around Winston Salem,
eating Southern food
and
drinkin' root beers,
But the real reason we were there was
to watch lots of films,
pass mad judgement
and declare some
winners!
So I present to you
our pick for the
Best Student Animated Short:
The Present
by
Jacob Frey
from
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttenberg,
Germany
And the winner of
Best Animated Short:
Bear Story
by
Gabrielle Osorio Vargas
Here's what we had to say about it:
“With its mechanical tin toy aesthetic and clever
take on narrative vs. reality, we and the audience enjoyed
the film’s tale of a bears tragic and ultimately heroic life story.”
Both are wonderful films.
Definitely check them out if you get a chance!
I'll tell you a little more about
the festival in my next post.
So stay right where you are, okay?
1 comment:
old man on the street with a box he wants me to look inside of? Reminds me of that Justine Timberlake SNL sketch.
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