ITFS – Nominees Animated Com Award | Theme day Animation and Advertisement

The nominees for the Animated Com Award at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film have been selected!

With more than 80,000 visitors and 2.500 professionals each year, the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) is one of the biggest and most important animation festivals worldwide. In addition to the competition categories International Competition, Young Animation, Tricks for Kids, Teens and Tricks for AniMovie, the ITFS presents, since 2011, the Animated Com Award, with prizes for applied animation in the categories of advertising, spatial communication and technology.

The jury has chosen 50 high class films, from 137 submitted international productions, for this year's shortlist of the Animated Com Award. Twelve of them were nominated for the three prize categories. The selection shows the whole spectrum of applied animation ranging from classic puppet animation to CGI productions. The clients are as diverse: nominated are, inter alia, spots from Honda, Vodafone and Audi, the BBC trailer for the Winter Olympics and the campaign for more regulation in the international arms trade by Amnesty International. The Shortlist program of the Animated Com Award is shown on April 24, in the Gloria 2 cinema, Stuttgart.

Here you can find the list of the nominees.

The award ceremony will take place as a gala event with show acts and invited guests from business, culture and politics at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on April 25, 2014.

This years partner are: Daimler AG, U. I. Lapp GmbH, ADC Deutschland and Animation Media Cluster Region Stuttgart. Also the Special Awards “Future needs Derivation – Individual Mobility” offered by the Daimler AG and the “Lapp connected Award” by U. I. Lapp GmbH are given.

For the first time, the entire April 25 falls under the slogan animation and advertising. Prior to the awards show, the ITFS presents in cooperation with ADC Deutschland the theme day"Animated Com".

The theme day will be opened by a talk with Max Howard (former president of Warner Bros. Feature Animation and vice president of Walt Disney Feature Animation), who is also a member of this year’s ITFS AniMovie jury and presents a screenplay workshop. ADC Member Dominique Schuchmann (M.A.R.K. 13) will host the talk. This is followed by presentations of the innovative animation studios Sehsucht (Berlin), presented by CEO Mate Steinforth, who already has directed commercials for Mercedes-Benz or Audi, and Polynoid/Woodblock (Ludwigsburg, Berlin), presented by the animation filmmakers Regina Welker and Ilija Brunck. The day ends with the awards ceremony at the Mercedes-Benz Museum.

Curator of the Animated Com Award 2014 is animation director Kathi Kaeppel, who will also be part of this year’s jury. Further members of the Animated Com Award Jury are: Lisa Heiland (Spokeswoman for the board German Producers Alliance - Film & Television, Berlin), Michael Preiswerk (Creative Director, Consultant), Prof. Thomas Hundt (CEO Jangled Nerves, Stuttgart), Joachim Lincke (CEO/Creative Director Mackevision, Stuttgart) and Mate Steinforth (CEO Sehsucht, Berlin).

For more information to the Animated Com Award click here.
 

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