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Encounters Festival 2014 award winners
The 20th anniversary Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival has dished out their prizes to filmmakers from Croatia to Kazakhstan.
The Grand Prix awards went to A Million Miles Away (above) directed by Jennifer Reeder, about the emotions of students in an American high school and their supply teacher; and in the animated category Padre (below) by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso, a bleak animation looking at the theme of the “disappeared” in Argentina.
Festival director Debbi Lander said: We are very proud of the award winning short films selected by our international juries this year from a very diverse selection of highly regarded short films.
“The standard and quality of this year’s award winners is exceptionally high. Each one serves to remind us of the power of short film to inspire us, move us and change the way we think about the world.”
Here is the full list of award-winners:
Encounters Animated Grand Prix: Padre/Father by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso (Argentina)
Grand Prix Special Mention: Subconscious Password by Chris Landreth (Canada)
Encounters Brief Grand Prix: A Million Miles Away by Jennifer Reeder (US)
British Council 20:20 Hitchcock Award: Man in my life by Darya Belkina (Kazakhstan)
Channel 4 Best of British Animation Award: Marilyn Miller by Mikey Please (UK)
Channel 4 Best of British Short Film Award: Crocodile by Gaëlle Denis (UK)
European Film Academy Nomination: The Chicken by Una Gunjak (Germany/Croatia)
Cartoon D’Or Nomination: Through the Hawthorn by Anna Benner, Gemma Burditt and Pia Borg (UK)
UWE European New Talent Animation Award: The Dewberry Empire by Christian Schlaeffer (UK)
UWE European New Talent Short Film Award: Patterns by Miklos Keleti (Belgium)
Children’s Award: The Planets by Andy Martin (UK)
Encounter’s Audience Award: Drive Home by Jess Cope (UK)
Music Video Award: All the Same (tout les memes) by Henry Scholfield (Belgium)
Documentary Award: Notes on Blindness by Peter Middleton and James Spinney (UK)
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