Animanima 2007

Golden Peg Bar – Grand Prix

The Tale of How

The Blackheart Gang (South Africa)

Explanation: This beautifuly movable story about disappearance of Dodo birds is actually the story about extermination and rebirth. A metaphor given in unusual form of animated opera.

Best film in category of running time up to 5 minutes

Apnée

Claude Chabot (France)

Explanation: In this story about freezed moment, the camera is the only moving character. Made with remarkable skill, this film presents inovative use of movie language.

Best film in category of running time up to 15 minutes

The Memories of Dogs

Simone Massi from (Italy)

Explanation: Gentle and poetic film with impressive and wonderful design is about a little boy who meets life for the very first time. This is a story about life and death seen through a boy’s eyes.

Best Directing

Ark

Grzegorz Jonkajtys (Poland)

Explanation: This film in an unusual and provident way tells story about despondency and salvation of human kind.

Best Screenplay

Leftovers

Igor Ćorić (Serbia)

Explanation: This is a funny and elegant story about great and desirable dreams, as well as man’s hopes remain unfullfiled.  Cleverly written script allow things to happened in front of our eyes as well as in it’s background.

Best Animation

Shuteye Hotel

Bill Plympton from (USA)

Explanation: This master of animation has surprised us again. Shuteye Hotel is masterpiece distinguished by precision, adjusted but always fresh animation.

SPECIAL MENTIONS OF THE JURY

Forecast

Adriaan Lokman (Netherlands)

Explanation: An abstract film, and in the same time defined in its subject. Poetic in its atmosphere, this is a film about atmospheric variation.

SPECIAL MENTIONS OF THE JURY

Leviathan

Simon Bogojević-Narath (Croatia)

Explanation: Impressive antiwar story tells about collective activity against enemies. The film is telling about consequences of war, which is always caused by humans.

Best achievement in the category of animated music videos and commercials

Love Sport: Paintball

Grant Orchard (UK)  

Explanation: The commercial responds to the subject in funny and charming way and is going – no doubt – to make you love sport!

Selection Jury’s special mention

Fog

Emilio Ramos (Mexico)

Explanation: This remarkable film of an exceptional visual beauty is a story about phantasmagoric event in the life of the poor inhabitans of a litle village told by Ramos in marquezian way.

Special ANIMANIMA 2007 Prize for the contribution to the art of animation

Borivoj Dovniković-Bordo (Hrvatska)