Once concluded the On-line and off-line competition of
the Audience Awards for Best Director and Best Film in Animacam 2012, the
organizers of the Festival are pleased to highlight the large amount of
short-listed works made by women in this Animacam Edition.
Thus one out of three works of a total of 77 finalist
films have been directed and performed by women animators. And these have not
only received a great review by the audience, but also have shined brightly in
the voting phase of the V Festival Edition.
As usual in a framework in which renowned artists of
animation like Joanna Lurie, Isabel Herguera, Svetlana Filippova, Marina
Moshkova, Paola Luciani and Karla Castañeda have taken part once more, novel
female directors of animation have chosen Animacam to present their early works
to the international public too.
Within an Edition featured by the high level of the
competing works -some of them
nominated for an Oscar and a Goya-, new female directors such as Belén Sousa,
Silvia Carpizo, Annu Laura Tuttelberg and Mariana Ramirez have excelled in the
voting phase with their first Animated works; creations such as Only You
(Bethlehem Sousa), Alienation (Silvia Carpizo), Fly Mill (Anu Laura Tuttelberg)
and Pardesi (Mariana Ramirez) have achieved a well-deserved place in the Top
Ten of Animacam 2012.
Other films that have been outlined by the votes of
the audience in the competition for Best Animated Film are: Bajo la Almohada
(Isabel Herguera), with a creditable third place; the Iranian film Tunnel
(Maryam Kashkoolina), in sixth place; and Where Dogs Die (Svetlana Filippova),
in eighth position.
And when choosing the Best Director of Animation and
within a Top Ten list of strong female
nature, the following have been highlighted: Eight Minutes Deadline of Zina
Papadopoulou, second in the voting; the already named Alienation of Silvia
Carpizo, in third place; the co-direction of Raquel Diana Rodriguez Lago in The End, with a fourth place; the debut of Mariana Ramirez with Pardesi, in sixth
position; the co-direction of Helene Marschall in the awarded French film De
Riz ou D´armenie, in seventh place; the Galician Belén Sousa with her
first animation work Only You, in Eighth place; the Latvian Annu Laura Tuttelberg with Fly Mill, in ninth position; and the co-direction of the German Caroline
Reucker in Perpetuum, positioned in
tenth place.
All in all, once more the women's presence in the Festival
has been reinforced in an Edition clearly featured by the high quality of the
films presented; from the organization it is unavoidable to mention such
essential contributions, being these indispensible and prominent works that
form part of the idiosyncrasy of Animacam.
You can enjoy many of them on the festival website byclicking here.
Thank you very much to all participants
The Animacam Team 2012
