The Winners of 2008 edition

Heart of Amos Klein
by Michal Pfeffer & Uri Kranot

 Animated drawing

"For the perfect use of the technique of animated drawing, for the excellent screenplay, for the sorrowful and penetrating compassion used to denounce every armed conflict, every recourse to violence, every exploitable indoctrination, and for the appeal to peace, running through the recent Israeli history and roots"


Albert, Al&Bart e la relatività speciale
by Francesco La Regina
The winner of digital session

"For the 3D digital technique used and the spreading of complex knowledge with animation movies, entertaining and teaching".

 
Special mention

Veterinarian
(ANIMATED DRAWING) by Signe Baumane

"For the high quality of this animated film and for its theme, which, with irony and an incisive chain of situations, gets us to consider the actual impending risk of losing our human nature".

Nascita
(computer-art) by Ida Gerosa

"For the astonishing and innovative technical knowledge, for the rendering of the theme relied to grafic effects, of light, and involved poem, A pioneer of italian computer art in the world, whose works are showed in the most important exhibitions in the world".

In the award ceremony of animated shorts of two sections of the Prize (animated design and digital one) for the scholar to artificial intelligence applied to cinema, are shown a selection film participants and winners. Are also screened a retrospective of rarity of animated films of the past and major authors of animated films are invited to present their films. The guest of honour will be the French director Caouissin Hoël.

Corti in Concorso

International Animation Day:
7th In EUROPE

http://www.afca.asso.fr/IMG/pdf/ang_EUROPE.pdf