18/06/2018
Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2018 - Winners List
Yesterday ended the 2018 edition of the well-known Annecy Festival, with new records, prizes and much more and, above all, the announcement of the 2019 edition with Japan as a host country.
The 2018 Annecy International Animation Film Festival award with the Cristal for a Feature Films the movie Funan by Danis Do, co-prodution between Belgium, Cambodia, France and Luxembourg created with classic 2D animations tells the semi-autobiographical story of a woman (mother of the director) to find her other son who disappeared during a forced march in a labor camp during the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975.
Here the trailer of the movie:
Jury Award, Audience Award and Best Original Music for a feature film The Breadwinner by Nora Twomey, co-production between studios in Canada, Ireland and Luxembourg.
Jury Distinction di La Casa Lobo, a Chilean feature by Cristóbal Leon and Joaquín Cocina.
In the Short Film section:
- Cristal Award to Bloeistraat 11 by Nienke Deutz (Belgium, Netherlands)
- Jury Award and Audience Award to Weekends by Trevor Jimenez (USA)
- "Jean-Luc Xiberras" Award for a First Film to Egg by Martina Scarpelli (France, Denmark)
- Jury Distinction to Biciklisti by Veljko Popovic (Croatia, France)
- Off-Limits Award (tied) to Garoto transcodificado a partir de fosfeno by Rodrigo Faustini (Brazil) and to An Excavation of Us by Shirley Bruno (France, Greece, Haiti)
TV productions:
- Cristal Award for a TV production to PIG: The Dam Keeper Poems "Yellow Flower", "Hello Nice to Meet You" directed by Erick Oh (USA, Japan)
- Jury Award for a TV special to The Robot Chicken Walking Dead Special: Look Who's Walking directed by Thomas Sheppard (USA)
- Jury Award for a TV series to We Bare Bears "Panda's Art" directed by Daniel Chong (USA)
- Cristal Award for a Commissioned Film to Leica "Everything in Black and White" directed by Mateus De Paula Santos (Brazil)
- Jury Award for a Commissioned Film to Mark Lotterman "Happy" directed by Alice Saey (France, Netherlands)
Graduation film:
- Cristal Award to Barbeque by Jenny Jokela (UK)
- Jury Award to Inanimate by Lucia Bulgheroni (UK)
- Distinction Award to Hybrids by Florian Brauch, Matthieu Pujol, Kim Tailhades, Yohan Thireau, Romain Thirion (France)
Special Prizes:
- City of Annecy Award to Mariposas by Andrés Gomez Isaza, Mauricio Leiva Cock (Colombia)
- Special Distinction Award to La Chute by Boris Labbè (France)
- André-Martin Special Distinction for a French Short Film to Ce magnifique gâteau! by Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef (Belgium, France, Netherlands)
- André-Martin Award for a French Feature Film to Le Grand Méchant Renard et autres contes (The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales) by Benjamin Renner, Patrick Imbert
- Canal+ Creative Aid Award to Happiness by Steve Cutts (UK)
- Gan Foundation Award to Les Hirondelles de Kaboul by Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec, Zabou Breitman (France, Luxembourg, Switzerland)
- Best Original Music Award for a Short Film to Cadavre exquis by Stéphanie Lansaque, François Leroy (France)
- FIPRESCI Award to La Chute by Boris Labbé (France)
- Young Audience Award to Vivat musketeers! by Anton Dyakov (Russia)
- Junior Jury Award for a Short Film La Mort, père & fils by Denis Walgenwitz, Vincent Paronnaud (France)
- Junior Jury Award for a Graduation Film to Inanimate by Lucia Bulgheroni (UK)
- Festival Connexion Award to Bloeistraat 11 by Nienke Deutz (Belgium, Netherlands)
See you at the 2019 edition from 10 to 15 June.
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