As a matter of background, Canterbury Anifest is now in its seventh year, and has welcomed speakers from Aardman, Double Negative, DreamWorks, Pixar, and The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, to name but a few. Each year, Anifest also hosts an Awards Gala to recognise outstanding achievement in short form animation. As this is a celebratory time of year I thought I would share with you this year’s Canterbury Anifest Award winners…

 

2013 International Animated Short Film

Le Vagabond de St Marcel – Rony Hotin (winner)

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Shortlisted Nominees

Ootee-Ootee– Igor Zotov

Christmas Day – Richard O’Connor

My…..My – Lei Lei

Hanen Tilanne – When One Stops – Jenni Rahkonen

Uterus – Anna Kosinska

Nackt – Luise Omar

Strange Wonderful – Stephanie Swart

Swarming – Joni Mannisto

Impersonation – Boyoung Kim

Exposure – Greg Doble

Batz – Max Maleo

 

2013 British Animated Short Film

Jamon – Iria Lopez (winner)

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Shortlisted Nominees

The Age of Curious – Luca Toth

Oh well – Michael Price

Things Don’t Fit – Tim Divall

Gelato Go Home – Alasdair Brotherson & Jock Mooney

The Ballard of Julio – Michael Wilde, Leo Blackmur, James Brown, Zan Flaker

Espero? – Simone Giampaolo

Back in the Day – Rok Predin

The Shirley Temple – Daniela Sherer

Four Years From Now Walking With My Daughter – Liam Owen

The Thing Under The Tree – Lily Fang

The I of the Other – Alice de Barrau

 

2013 Best British Up and Coming Talent Award

Four Years From Now Walking With My Daughter – Liam Owen (winner)

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2013 Smallfilms Youth Award

Mushroom Racing – Matthew Thomas (winner)

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2013 Audience Choice Award

The Ballard of Julio – Michael Wilde, Leo Blackmur, James Brown, Zan Flaker (winner)

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Dr Chris Pallant is Senior Lecturer in Film and Digital Media at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is the author of Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation (New York: Continuum, 2011). His research interests include animation, filmmaking production practices and technologies, and video games. He has also published in book chapter and journal form on a range of topics, including Disney feature animation, the ‘cartoonism’ of Quentin Tarantino’s live-action films, performance capture technology, and the work of Rockstar Games. He is currently completing a book on storyboard history with Steven Price for Palgrave and is also in the early stages of putting an edited collection together on the subject of animated landscapes. You can follow him on Twitter: @cjpallant