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THE ORPHANAGE wins 7 Goyas

Juan Antonio Bayona’s thriller received awards in Madrid last night in the following categories: Best New Director: Juan Antonio Bayona, Best Original Screenplay: Sergio G. Sánchez, Best Production Design: Sandra Hermida, Best Music: Xavi Mas, Marc Orts y Oriol Tárrago, Best Special Effects: David Martí, Montse Ribé, Pau Costa, Enric Masip, Lluis Castells y Jordi San Agustín, Best Makeup: Lola López e Icíar Arrieta, Best Art Direction: Joseph Rosell.
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06.02.2008
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Kabel Digital Home live at the anniversary ceremony

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has now announced its nominations for the 80th Academy Awards. The western thriller “No Country for Old Men” enters this year’s Oscar race as the favourite. Joel and Ethan Coen’s work received eight nominations when they were announced. Close behind are the British film “Atonement” with seven nominations and the oil-prospecting drama “There Will Be Blood” with six.
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23.01.2008
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Rabenstark Wins Serious Games Award

The computer learning game “I Have a Friend Who Is a Policewoman” from Rabenstark.de won third place in the “Best Serious Game for the Target Group Under 12” category at the Hessian Minister of Economic Affairs' “Serious Games Award 2007”.
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19.12.2007
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Graduates Win Gamesload Newcomer Award

A graduate team from Games Academy GmbH prevailed at this year's German Developer Award in Essen and won first prize in Deutsche Telekom's Gamesload Newcomer Award. In addition, the jury honoured the achievements of Games Academy with the Special Prize 2007.
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17.12.2007
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Red Herring 100 Global Award: And the Winner Is… ACTIMAGINE

Actimagine Corp. is among the “Red Herring 100 Global Award” winners in 2007. The “Red Herring 100” winners and finalists of the last three years from North America, Europe and Asia were eligible for the 2007 Global Award. Actimagine made it into the finalists on the basis of its major successes to date. The Red Herring Magazine distinction is one of the most important in the technology industry.
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13.12.2007
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Michel Ocelot on the Jury

The juries at the 2008 Animation Film Festival are once again top-class. One of the most renowed animation filmmakers has already agreed to join the jury of the “AniMovie” feature film competition: Michel Ocelot.
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27.11.2007
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Awards Presented at up-and-coming 2007

On Sunday morning, the 'German Young Film Award 2007', the 'BDK Student Film Award' (Professional Association for Art Education), the 'Flying Camera' and the 'International Young Film Makers Award' were presented in Hanover. The 9th Hanover International Film Festival comes to an end with the award ceremony.
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26.11.2007
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18th Lünen Film Festival Concludes With More Visitors

The Lünen Film Festival celebrated its coming of age with an all-round successful festival. Around 7.700 visitors, more than ever before, found their way into the cinemas over the four days of the festival. Particularly popular were the films “The Three Robbers”, “Jacob's Brother” and “We Say You! Darling”, some of which sold out in several screenings, the latter alone meeting nearly 800 enthusiastic spectators at the opening gala.
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21.11.2007
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Good start for the first digital creation days with many photos

The first digital creation days, which took place from November 8 to 9, focused on computer-generated images for film, Internet, advertising, computer games, industry and architecture. 1,400 professional visitors from all over Germany met at the networking event at the Karlsruhe Convention Center to learn about and exchange views on trends in computer graphics and animation. In around 50 workshops and presentations, industry experts primarily examined developments in the German-speaking region. The most important prize for computer graphics and animation, the animago AWARD, was presented for the first time as part of a ceremonial evening event on the occasion of the digital creation days.
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13.11.2007
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German websites win “World Summit Award 2007”

Two German websites were honored this week in Venice with the “World Summit Award” (WSA). Both the German Bundestag website (e-Government category) and the Hessischer Rundfunk topic website about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials “End of Silence” (e-Culture category) are thus among the best websites in the world.
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12.11.2007
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9th International Eyes & Ears Awards

Around 700 guests celebrated the 32 prize winners and 96 finalists of the International Eyes & Ears Awards last Thursday. For the ninth time, industry association Eyes & Ears of Europe presented the distinction as part of Medientage München. The two special prizes "Innovation" and "Effectiveness" went to 20th Century Fox and ProSieben respectively. Robert Wilson received the Eyes & Excellence Award.
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12.11.2007
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digital creation days 2007 final report

Around 1,400 professional visitors came to Karlsruhe / animago AWARD presented in Karlsruhe for the first time / Nearly 50 workshops examined trends in computer graphics and animation / 25 companies presented their digital solutions and products
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12.11.2007
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Acht Frankfurt honored for ZDF Sport sports design

As part of Medientage München 2007, Eyes & Ears of Europe, the European association for design, promotion and marketing of audiovisual media, honored the best production achievements of the year in 32 categories for the ninth time with the international ‚Eyes & Ears Awards’.
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12.11.2007
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XXS – Dortmund Short Film Festival

The Dortmund Short Film Festival is organised by students of the Advertising and Media Academy Marquardt (WAM) in cooperation with the Dortmund Agency and CineStar Dortmund. A selection of 10 short films will be screened from all submissions from German-speaking countries. An expert jury will select the three best short films and award them the "Dortmund Short Film Prize" in bronze, silver and gold, which are endowed with 500, 1,000 and 1,500 euros respectively. The Audience Award will also be presented again this year.
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10.11.2007
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animago AWARD

The most important competition for Digital Content Creation (DCC) in the German-speaking region is launching with a new concept. This year, the main prize for “Best Production” will be awarded for the first time, and the winner of the “Best University Production” category will be rewarded with a sponsorship prize. The submission deadline is June 30, 2007. The animago EVENT 2007 with a festive awards ceremony takes place as part of the digital creation days – the networking event of the German-speaking DCC industry – at the Congress Center in Karlsruhe. On November 8 and 9,2007, the digital creation days offer, as part of an integrated congress and exhibition concept, the opportunity to get to know new trends and developments in the German-speaking DCC industry. The animago Awards will be officially presented on the evening of November 8 as part of an exciting Award Ceremony.
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08.11.2007
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Meeting point Karlsruhe

The animago AWARD 2007 will be presented for the first time in Karlsruhe as part of the digital creation days. DP staff member Sabine Hatzfeld spoke with Gerald Böse, Managing Director of Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH.
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07.11.2007
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dc days: Mega event

The digital creation days will become the German networking event for the digital creation industry. When the digital creation days take place in Karlsruhe on November 8 and 9, the German-speaking community will finally have its own event. At a press conference at ZKM Karlsruhe at the end of September, positions were stated once again.
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07.11.2007
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Live streaming of the animago AWARDS

For everyone stuck at home: The animago AWARD will be presented on November 8 in Karlsruhe at the digital creation days. But even those who will not make it to the DCC industry’s most important award can still follow the presentation live on their own computer.
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07.11.2007
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Two successes at “kurzundschön” for students

Two awards from the renowned “kurzundschön” film competition went this year to design students at Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences – Nuremberg University of Applied Sciences. They study “Film and Animation” under Prof. Jürgen Schopper and accepted the coveted awards at a gala in Cologne. The Europe-wide “kurzundschön” competition for young talent took place for the 10th time and attracted entrants in various competition categories with cash and material prizes worth 21,000 euros.
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06.11.2007
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Livestreaming of the animago AWARD

For everyone staying at home: The animago AWARD will be presented at the digital creation days in Karlsruhe on November 8. But even if one will not make it to the most important award in the DCC industry, one can nevertheless follow the presentation live on one’s own computer.
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05.11.2007
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Prizewinners of kurzundschön selected

On October 31 at 8:00 p.m., the 13 best films of the young talent competition kurzundschön were honored in Cologne. In addition, the juries handed out 10 honorable mentions to young talents and their films.
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05.11.2007
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NDR films sweep the North German Film Award

"The Art of Negative Thinking" by Bråd Breien was honored with the NDR Film Award at the 49th Nordic Film Days in Lübeck. The festival’s highest award, worth 12,500 euros, was presented by the NDR Director of Television, Volker Herres, on Saturday evening (November 3) at the film award night in Lübeck’s Music and Congress Hall.
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04.11.2007
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King.com one of the fastest-growing companies in Great Britain

With a revenue increase of 184 percent compared with the previous year and annual revenue of more than 13 million pounds in 2006 (19 million euros), King.com has been included in the list of British TECH TRACK 100 companies for the first time. Innovative game ideas as well as the constantly growing popularity of online games are reasons for the record revenue.
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19.10.2007
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3rd SAE Alumni Convention/SAE Alumni Award 2007

Exhibitors from all areas of media present their products, and visitors can obtain information on current technical and scientific topics in specialist lectures as well as panel discussions. On the first evening of the convention, the Alumni Awards will be presented in the following categories: best audio production, best multimedia production, best short film, best 3D visual FX project, best business idea.
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18.10.2007
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Programme of the 18th Lünen Film Festival

From November 15 to 18, 2007, the Lünen Film Festival celebrates its 18th birthday with a total of 53 short and long German productions. 29 of them will be shown in the competitions, 24 in the special programmes. For the first time this year, the Lünen Film Festival is awarding the prize for best film music, endowed with 2,500 euros; two further one-time prizes will be presented in the FUTURE extra and the SPORT extra. The Lünen Film Festival 2007 is thus awarding ten prizes endowed with a total of 25,000 euros and various support services.
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18.10.2007
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Emmy nomination for “Everyone Loves Jimmy”

Another Emmy nomination for a production by the Bavaria Film Group: “Everyone Loves Jimmy”, the sitcom produced by Bavaria Film on behalf of RTL (producer 1st season: Stephan Bechtle/producer 2nd season: Peter Fröhlich), must now hold its own in the “Comedy” category against competition from Brazil (“The Amateurs”/TV Globo), England (“Little Britain Abroad”/BBC Comedy/Little Britain Productions), Japan (“NEO – Office Chuckles”/NHK) and South Africa (“Sorted”/TOM Pictures).
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15.10.2007
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animago Trailer 2006 Online

The trailer for the animago AWARD 2006 has gone online and whets the appetite for this year's most important German-language 3D award. We have put the 2006 trailer online again.
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08.10.2007
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Festival Initiates Prize for Film Music

Animated film and music will be one of the focal points of the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film 2008. With “Music for Animation”, the festival, in cooperation with the GEMA Foundation, is awarding a prize for the best music for the first time.
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22.09.2007
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NVIDIA Sponsors the International Mobile Gaming Awards

The best games for mobile consoles and cell phones are honored with the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA). The fourth edition of the IMGA is now also supported by NVIDIA. Other sponsors include Adobe, Nokia, AMD, Movida, Qualcomm and the Belle de Mai Media Park in Marseille, France.
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01.09.2007
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Short Films About the Beer Crate

That is exactly what the video clip competition by the company adduce is about. Unconventional short films are being sought on the subject: “How can the function of a beer crate be expanded?” The competition takes place on the CRAZY AWARD portal.
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21.08.2007
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