NEW FORM CINEMA COMPETITION
What If
Year: 2013
Directed by Kamil Wójcik
5 min.
STORYLINE:
As an old dictum tells us, it's better to be safe than sorry, but is it true indeed? For sure we all had our moments of reflection about what we could have done differently, but does differently mean better? Can those reflections help to foreseen the consequences of a flimsy decision? What if.... during one day we could visualize situations created by our own minds? What if you could see what could have happened? Is analyzing and imagining helpful, or it doesn't lead to anything good?
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Kamil Wójcik is a student at the Art Academy in Wrocław, course Media Arts. The creator of many films and animations. He's experiments balances on the edge of a grotesque , dark humor and pastiche.
What happens if the children don't want to eat their soup?
Year: 2011
Directed by Paweł Prewencki
8 min.
STORYLINE:
It's a dark story about two kids and their grandfather. Naughty kids don't want to eat their soup and they are running away from the table. The grandfather magically creates a big wind and traps them. They will stay trapped in the soup forever. Disobedient children must suffer. As a writer Heinrich Hoffman wrote " Those who don't eat their soup must die".
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Paweł Prewencki - animator and graphic designer. Graduated from and Art University in Poznań ,faculty animated films. In 2010 he worked as an assistant in design institute in Koszalin. In 2011-2012 he made his own animation workshops in Gorzów. Currently he is running Fifne - studio.
„The City Rythm” 2006
„Night express” 2006
„Cultiwation” 2007
„Bird’s song” 2007
“What happens if the children don't want to eat their soup" 2011
„Game” - film mad at the workshops 2011
„Beach” - 2013
additional information:
Type of a new form : Animation
DISPLAYS AT OTHER FESTIVALS:
The young and the movie in Koszalin 2011 (honourable) aribor Stoptrik, Slovenia, 2012 (display) Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Japan, 2012 (display) Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy, France, 2012 (display) International Film Festival 2-in-1, Russia, 2012 (display) PRIMANIMA World Festival of First Animations, Hungary, 2012 (display) Anilogue 2012, Hungary, 2012 (display) Castres Animation Short Film Festival, France, 2013 (display) Animafest Zagreb 2012, Croatia, 2012 (contest) MIAF Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia, 2012 (display) Fest-International Film Festival, Portugal, 2012 (Best Animation) Odense International Film Festival, Denmark, 2012 (contest) 10th Fantoche Animated Film Festival, Switzerland, 2012 (Best Visual) 7th Vilnius Short Film Festival, Lithuania, 2012 (contest) Sedicicorto International Film Festival, Italy, 2012 (contest) 9th Balkanima Animation Film Festival, Serbia, 2012 (contest) 41st Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Canada, 2012 (contest) 10th International Animated Film Festival TINDIRINDIS, Lithuania, 2012 (contest) Banjaluka International Animated Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012 (contest ) DOK Leipzig, Germany, 2012 (contest) interfilm 28th International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2012 (contest)
AWARDS AND HONOURALBLES:
the young and the movie in Koszalin 2011 (honourable), 10th Fantoche Animated Film Festival, Switzerland, 2012 (Best Visual), 9th Animateka, Slovenia, 2012 (Maestroź Jury Grand Prix), Fest-International Film Festival, Portugal, 2012 (Best Animation)
Quieter and quieter
Year: 2011
Directed by Kamila Grzybowska-Sosnowska
8 min.
STORYLINE:
Film tells a story about the little girl's lonely journey taken in her dreams. she attempts to find a special bird which is supposed to make another, sick from sadness, human being happy which and as it turns out it is she herself. Animated film created using stop-motion method.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Kamila Grzybowska-Sosnowska was born in 1987 in Opole. She graduated from Art Academy in Opole (2006) and also from Art Academy in Kraków, faculty scenography (2011). Currently post-graduate student at the same faculty. During her master studies she collaborated as a set designer at WRiTV in Katowice and PWSFTViT in ŁódĽ. She was helping to create school and degree studys, among others Marcin Maziarzewski's " Bad Words" or Mariusza Grzegorzka's "Twilight". In 2010 she was an assistant of a scenograph Ryszard Melliwa at the Jacek Bromski movie " uwikłanie". Three years ago she took an interest in stop motion animation and she began to produce a doll movie based on the motives of Yukio Mishima's drama „fan” in which you could hear a voice of Krystyna Zachwatowicz-Wajda ( The final cut was released two years later). The next film "quieter and quieter" came into being as her her master's thesis and was based on her own script inspired by " the blue bird" ” by M. Meaterlinck. Film was honored at the nationwide exhibition " the best degrees of the Art Academy"2011. It was displayed at many festiwals, among others such as: 2 Se-Ma-For festival and 3 International Animated Film Festival „Tofuzi” at which it has won an honourable. Lately realized with her husband Mirek Sosnowski animated films has won the first prizes at the " Show us your horizon" contest during 12. International Film Festival " T-mobile New Horizons
DISPLAYS AT OTHER FESTIVALS:
-„guieter and quieter” and „fan” at the third Kamera Akcja festival in ŁódĽ 22-25 march 2012. prizewinner -„guieter and quieter” at 2. Se-ma-for Film Festival September 2011/Contest for the best polish animation. „guieter and quieter" participated in Flip Animation Festival in UK/ Film display 28 october 2011. at the 3rd International Festival of Animated Films „TOFUZI” –Batumi 2-5 November 2011 Nomination for the best debut / film “Quieter and Quieter” was special mentioned by Jury and got diploma “Lyrical Film and Poetical Atmosphere” at Festival TOFUZI 2011. - „guieter and quieter” at Animateka International Animation Film Festival, Ljubljana/Slovenia. 5-11 December 2011. Contest„Central and Eastern European Short Animated Film Competition Program “.
AWARDS AND HONOURALBLES:
-Special honourable at the 3rd International Festival of Animated Films „TOFUZI” for „guieter and quieter” / 2011 -Best diplomas of an Art School 2011 /Gdańsk/Distinguished honourable for animated film „guieter and quieter” / 2011
GOOD, BEAUTY AND TRUTH
Year: 2011
Directed by Balbina Bruszewska
7 min.
STORYLINE:
"Good, beauty and the truth" is a story about our modern world in which people take more interest in cheap sensation, dramas, bombs, and shootings than in good, beauty and truth. This is a story of a man who carries inside idealized vision of the world, who take up fight to defend his values and tries to spread them among others. Title good man fails in his naive struggle to make the world better, but in the end there comes a glimmer of hope.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Director, scenographer, visual artist, currently living and creating in Los Angeles. She graduated from Film School in ŁódĽ and for 5 years she worked there for oscar winning studio Se-Ma-For. Author of many prizewinning films and videoclips at festivals in Poland but as well abroad. Laureate of such prizes as Golden Line (Kraków), 2 statuettes YACH (Gdańsk), Grand Prix Łodzi± po Wi¶le, Żubroffka, little FeFe, oraz Polish Filmmakers Association prize for the best polish film "Reanimation" 2010. Prestident of Lucid Life foundation, which promotes young polish culture in the USAGuest lecturer at CalArts CA i Collegium Civitas.
DISPLAYS AT OTHER FESTIVALS:
2011/ Poland/ Animator 4th International Animated Film Festival 2011/ Ukraine/ International Animated Films Festival KROK 2011/ Mexico/ CutOut Fest – Festival Internacional de Animacion 2011/ Poland/ International Film Festival - Etiuda & Anima 2011/ France/ 26th Brest European Short Film Festival - panorama 2011/ Estonia/ Animated Dreams – panorama 2011/ Russia/ International Festival of Animation Arts – Multivision - panorama 2011/ Slovenia/ Animateka 2011/ Turkey/ Istanbul Animation Festival 2012/ Italy/ 23rd Trieste Film Festival 2012/ Poland/ Prowincjonalia
AWARDS AND HONOURALBLES:
2011/ Poland/ 6th Int’l Short Film Festival – ŻubrOFFKa/ First prize in polish competition 2012/ Poland/ OFAFA/ special mention
