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This year, around 80,000 animation and animated-film fans attended ITFS 2015 – despite the rail strike. Visitors experienced more than 1,000 films in around 200 individual events. The livestreaming produced for two events for the first time was additionally used by approximately 5,000 people.
This year, the following projects were allowed to take home the ITFS Awards, the Trickstars:
International Competition
Grand Prix
15,000 euros, donated by the state of Baden-Württemberg and the city of Stuttgart
“Le sens du toucher” / “The Sense of Touch“
France 2014
Director: Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo
Production: Folimage Studio, La Fabrique Production, Nadasdy Film
Lotte Reiniger Promotion Award for Animated Film
10,000 euros, donated by MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg
“The Bigger Picture”
Great Britain 2013
Director: Daisy Jacobs
Animation: Daisy Jacobs & Christophe Wilder
Production: NFTS – National Film and Television School
SWR Audience Award
6,000 euros
“One of a Kind”
Great Britain 2014
Director: Rok Predin
Special Mentions
“Light Motif”
France 2014
Director: Frédéric Bonpapa
“Pul de Somn” / “Babynap”
Romania 2014
Director: Paul Muresan
Young Animation – Award for the Best Student Film
2,500 euros, donated by the Baden-Württemberg State Institute for Communications (LfK) and MFG
Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg
“Cup no naka no koushi” / “My Milk Cup Cow“
Japan 2014
Director: Yantong Zhu
Production: Tokyo University of the Arts
AniMovie – Award for the Best Animated Feature Film
“Resan till Fjäderkungens Rike” / “Beyond Beyond“
Sweden / Denmark 2014
Director: Esben Toft Jacobsen
Production: Copenhagen Bombay
Special Mention
“Song of the Sea”
Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Denmark 2014
Director: Tomm Moore
Tricks for Kids – Award for the Best Short Film for Children
4,000 euros, supported by Studio 100 Media GmbH
“Neige” / “Snow”
France 2014
Directors: Antoine Lanciaux & Sophie Roze
Production: Folimage Studio
Tricks for Kids – Award for the Best Animated Series for Children
“Cleo“
Spain 2013
Director: Ana Sánchez-Gijón
German Animation Screenplay Award
2,500 euros donated by Telepool GmbH
“Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt“ by Jan Berger
German Animation Voice Award
Ralf Schmitz as dwarf Sunny in “Der 7bte Zwerg” (Germany, 2014)
Tele 5 “Leider Geil” Award
5,000 euros, donated by TELE 5
“Light Motif”
France 2014
Director: Frédéric Bonpapa
Animated Com Award
donated by Animation Media Cluster Region Stuttgart, Daimler AG, U.I. Lapp GmbH
Main Prize
2,500 euros, donated by Animation Media Cluster Region Stuttgart
Passion Pictures “League of Legends: Warriors”
France 2013
Directors: Arnaud & Jérôme
Advertising Category
ManvsMachine “Nike Mercurial Superfly IV“
Great Britain 2014
Director: ManvsMachine
Technology Category
NVA “Ghost Peloton”
Great Britain, 2014
Director: Mark Huskisson
Spatial Communication Category
Bigfish Filmproduktionen GmbH “smart – Ampelmännchen”
Germany, 2014
Director: Mike Marten Persiel
Special Award Category “The Future Needs Heritage – Individual Mobility”
2,500 euros, donated by Daimler AG
“Driving”
USA, 2014
Director: Nate Theis
Special Lapp Connected Award Category
2,500 euros, prize donor: U. I. Lapp GmbH
“Pass It On“
Portugal, 2014
Director: Teresa Cruz
48h Animation Jam – Crazy Horse Session
Team 4: Victor Collado, Maria Torregrosa Domenech (Spain)
In cooperation with M.A.R.K. 13, supported by the Baden-Württemberg State Institute for Communications (LFK)
Arab Animation Forum 2015 in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Stiftung
Waref Abu Quba and Kevork Mourad, “Four Acts for Syria”, Syria
You can find all further information about the ITFS in Stuttgart here.
