In Annecy’s new Contrechamps category for feature film, Gints Zilbalodis’ one-man cg feature Away walked away with the prize.
There was also a two-time award winner on the shorts side: Bruno Collet’s Mémorable, which won both the Cristal for Short Film and the Audience Award. The 12-minute stop-motion film, produced for France Televisions, takes the viewer into the world of a painter struggling with Alzheimer’s disease.
Other key awards were presented to Daria Kashcheeva’s Daughter (Cristal for Graduation Film), Regina Pessoa’s Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days (Jury Award for Short Film), Robertino Zambrano’s TED-Ed piece “Accents” (Cristal for a Commissioned Film), “The County Fair” episode of Panic in the Village (Cristal for a TV Production), and Gloomy Eyes (Cristal for a VR Work).
Annecy is a festival for the entire animation world, but when it comes to their awards, the juries definitely prefer European content. Nineteen out of the twenty awards presented tonight were to productions that were either European or had a European production partner. The sole exception was Zambrano’s TED-piece produced between Australia and the United States.
A complete list of winners is below:
Feature Films
Cristal for a Feature Film
I Lost My Body
Jeremy Clapin – Xilam Animation – France
Jury Distinction
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Salvador Simo – Sygnatia Films, Submarine – Spain/Netherlands
Feature Films Contrechamp Award
Away
Gints Zilbalodis – Bilibaba- Latvia
Audience Award / Premiere
I Lost My Body
Jeremy Clapin – Xilam Animation – France
Short Films
Cristal for a Short Film
Mémorable
Bruno Collet – Vivement Lundi – France
Jury Award
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
Regina Pessoa – NFB, Les Armateurs, Ciclope Films – Canada/France/Portugal
Jury Distinction for its social significance
My Generation
Ludovic Houplain – H5 – France
Jury Distinction for its powerful storytelling
Drive
Pedro Casavecchia – Atlas V – Argentina/France
Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for a First Film
Deszcz
Piotr Milczarek – Fumi – Poland
Audience Award
Mémorable
Bruno Collet – Vivement Lundi – France
TV and Commissioned Films
Cristal for a Commissioned Film
TED-Ed “Accents”
Robertino Zambrano – Australia/USA – Kapwa Studioworks, TED-Ed
Jury Award
#TakeOnHistory “Wimbledon”
Smith & Foulkes – Nexus Studios – U.K.
Cristal for a TV Production
Panic in the Village “The County Fair”
Vincent Patar, Stephane Aubier – Autour de Minuit, Panique SPRL, Beast Animation – Belgium
Jury Award for a TV Series
Le Parfum d’Irak “Le Cowboy de Fallujah”
Leonard Cohen – Nova Production – France
Jury Award for a TV Special
My Life in Versailles
Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat, Nathaniel H’limi – Films Grand Huit, Miyu Productions – France
Graduation Films
Cristal for a Graduation Film
Daughter
Daria Kashcheeva – FAMU/Maur Film Company – Czech Republic
Jury Award
Rules of Play
Merlin Flügel – HFG Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main – Germany
Jury Distinction
These Things in My Head – Side A
Luke Bourne – Birmingham City University – U.K.
Animation Off-Limits
Off-Limits Award – Short Film
Don’t Know What
Thomas Renoldner – Austria
VR
Cristal for a VR Work
Gloomy Eyes
Jorge Tereso, Fernando Maldonado – Atlas V, 3DAR, Arte France – Argentina/France
