12/03/2018

Cartoon Movie 2018: Winners list

Closed few days ago the 20th edition of Cartoon Movie, the annual European feature animation industry event, held in Bordeaux. Below the winner list.

An event with over 800 producers, artists, directors, writers, distributors and more, financing about 60 feature animated projects from 22 countries in different stages of development and production. Projects that we've presended in our pages [part 1] [part 2]. Here the list:

Kara wins Eurimages Co-production Development prize , a stop-motion movie by turkish filmmaker Sinem Sakaoglu co-produced by Visual Distractions (Germany) and Beast Productions (Belgium). A 20.000 euro cash prize described as "visual poetic approach based on the cultural identity of the director".

The Director of the Year prize goes to Dorota Kobiela (Poland) and Hugh Welchman (U.K.) for their masterpiece Loving Vincent. Other nominees in the same section were Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner), Arthur de Pins and Alexis Ducord (Zombillenium) and Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert (The Big Bad Fox And Other Tales).

The prize Distributor of the Year goes to Spanish company Latido Films, based in Madrid for the titles Buñuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles and Memorias De Un Hombre En Pijama.

The prize Producer of the Year goes to Platige Films (Poland), Kanaki Films (Spain), Walking the Dog (Belgium), Wüste Film (Germany), Animationsfabrik (Germany) and Puppetworks (Hungary) for their movie Another Day of Life, directed by Raul de la Fuente and Damian Nenow that follows a veteran Polish journalist who is sent to write about the 1975 Angola civil war.

Here featurette and trailer for the winners:

[ Fra - source AnimationMagazine ]

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