Encounters 2016: Animated Award Winners
The 22nd edition of the Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival drew to a close last night with the announcement of this year’s winners. Those who took home prizes from the animation side are as follows:
Animated Grand Prix
Analysis Paralysis (Dir. Anete Melece, Latvia/Switzerland)
Have a listen to our interview with Anete Melece below:
Animated European New Talent Award
Don’t Lose Your Head – (Dir. Karolina Specht, Poland)
YellowDog Best of British Animation Award
Stems – (Dir. Ainslie Henderson, UK)
Children’s Award
Cats & Dogs (Dir. Jesús Pérez/Gerd Gockell, Switzerland/Germany)
Main DepicT! Award + Random Acts Special Mention Award
Impacts (Dir. Petra Balekic, Croatia)
DepicT! British Special Mention Award
Pig Dream (Dir. Lee Charlish, UK)
DepicT! Shooting People Audience Award
Run Boy (Dir. Meg Bagadion, Philippines)
Encounters/Show Me The Animation Anijam Award
Tiny Encounters (Dani Abram/Lauren Orme/Michael Ostrolenk/Chris Wright, UK)
Cartoon d’Or Nominee 2016
Balcony (Dir. David Dell’Edera, Hungary)
Congrats to all filmmakers involved in this year’s edition and keep your eyes on Skwigly this coming week for more filmmaker Q&As and festival coverage!