2016 Neum Animated Film Festival
(Neum 25.06.2016. - 01.07.2016.)
Five-member jury including; mr. Goran Milić, mr. Thomas Stellmach, ms. Maja Lasić, mr. Mirsad Purivatra and mr. Ramon Lopez Seco de Herrera have made their verdict about the winners of the festival according to the following categories:
1. The best music award goes to „ARIADNE'S THREAD“ by a swiss author Claude Luyet. We are pleased to have mr.
2. The award for the best film in the graphic design and art category goes to film THE BEARD by Sofiko Badalova .
3. The award for the best student film goes to France for the film Anna by Alexie Rubod.
4. The award for the best film in the category 'other techniques/kolaž' goes to film The MEEK by an australian author Joe Brumma.
5. The best 3D film award goes to SHIFT by an american author duo Cecilie Puglesi i Yijun Liu. The award for ms.
6. The best 2D film award goes to film BINGO by Patrick Shoenmaker from Netherlands.
7. Being a partner of NAFF, OSCE mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina started a separate award category for promotion of human rights last year. This year this award goes to film THINGS I WANT TO DO by a spanish author Gerardo, de la Fuente López
GRAND PRIX winner of NAFF 2016 goes to Beard by Sofiko Badalove!
1. The best music award goes to „ARIADNE'S THREAD“ by a swiss author Claude Luyet. We are pleased to have mr.
2. The award for the best film in the graphic design and art category goes to film THE BEARD by Sofiko Badalova .
3. The award for the best student film goes to France for the film Anna by Alexie Rubod.
4. The award for the best film in the category 'other techniques/kolaž' goes to film The MEEK by an australian author Joe Brumma.
5. The best 3D film award goes to SHIFT by an american author duo Cecilie Puglesi i Yijun Liu. The award for ms.
6. The best 2D film award goes to film BINGO by Patrick Shoenmaker from Netherlands.
7. Being a partner of NAFF, OSCE mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina started a separate award category for promotion of human rights last year. This year this award goes to film THINGS I WANT TO DO by a spanish author Gerardo, de la Fuente López
GRAND PRIX winner of NAFF 2016 goes to Beard by Sofiko Badalove!
Members of international expert jury
2016 Neum Animated Film Festival
Goran Milić (Croatia)
, is director of news and programs on Al Jazeera, a long time journalist, editor and director of numerous media outlets, including TV Belgrade, YUTEL, Mreža, VIN, HTV. He has also presented edited more than a thousand TV programs and is the author of over 120 documentaries and travel shows. He was also working as a NY reporter for the RadioTV Belgrade and has also worked as a professor at the University of Belgrade from 1985 to 1988. He had been working as an editor and a presenter for the TV diary Yutel after which he worked as an editor of a journalist center of the war government of B&H and the spokesperson of Olimpic delegation to B&H in Barcelona. Since 1997 he has been working as an editor and presenter at the Croatian radio-tv . Since 2011 he has been working as the news director and program editor at Al Jazeera Balkans. Speaks several foreign languages: English, French, Spanish and Italian. He was named a winner journalist of 2007. Sixth-april award of Sarajevo in 1992, and a Svetozar Marković award in Serbia in 1984.
Maja Lasić (BiH) , born in 1973. in Mostar where she graduated from the following universities: Faculty of philosophy in Mostar(Croatian language and literature department) and humanist sciences(department of dramatic arts-acting) at the university of Džemal Bijedić in Mostar where she played over hundred performances. She directed several shows for children. She has been the executive director of the manifestation for the festival ‘Days of film’ in Mostar since 2007. until today. She has been working as an assistant for the following classes at the University for natural sciences and mathematics in Mostar: ‘Puppetry and performing culture’ and ‘Film, TV and radio culture’.
Mirsad Purivatra (BiH) , born in Sarajevo in 1958. Was a member and director of Soros Fond Open Society BiH (1994-1996) as well as the director of BHRTV, and a general director of BiH marketing agency MacCann Erickson (2000-2004). Today he is permanently working as a director of Sarajevo Film Festival. He was also a member of jury on many other festivals like Tribeca Film Festival, Berlinale Panorama, Taormina Film Festival. Currently teaching production at the Academy of performing arts in Sarajevo.He received a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres from the Republic of France in May 2008. Producer of many short films within the SARAJEVO THE CITY OF FILM project from 2009-20013.
Ramon Lopez Seco De Herrera (Spain) , graduate in History (Archaeology and Medieval History), University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain,Photography classes in Badajoz, Spain,Drawing and painting classes in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Theatre classes in Cuarta Pared/ Madrid. He was a Modeling Artist at Blue Sky Studios, I’ve worked in several cg movies: Thesis Advisor at School of Visual Arts (SVA), for Cecilia Puglesi and Yijun Liu: short-film Shift (2015) finalist in 2015 Annie Awards. He also worked as a freelance for Blur Studio, for the project Skylanders (2014) He did a lot of 3D work as freelance and living classes of Photoshop, Maya and 3DMax. Used to work as freelance photographer and drawing artist.
Thomas Stellmach (Germany) , bor 1965, Straubing, Germany. Directed, animated and produced several independent films, that received many international awards, under which the following is the most outstanding: The Oscar® 1997 granted for the puppet animation film Quest. Thomas STELLMACH studied at the Department of Animation at the Art College of Kassel in Germany, being taught by the well-known artist Paul Driessen. Having received his Degree of Arts in 1999 Stellmach founded the animation studio “Lichthof, Film & Animation” with two partners in Kassel and produced animation films for television and advertising. In 2009 he has left his company to focus on artistic animation projects. His newest animated experimental film Virtuoso Virtual(Virtuoso Virtual) which was co-directed by Maja Oschmann and finished in 2013. Stellmachs fields of experience contains 3D computer animation, stop-motion, cartoon and pixilation. So far Stellmach held workshops at various academies, e.g.
Maja Lasić (BiH) , born in 1973. in Mostar where she graduated from the following universities: Faculty of philosophy in Mostar(Croatian language and literature department) and humanist sciences(department of dramatic arts-acting) at the university of Džemal Bijedić in Mostar where she played over hundred performances. She directed several shows for children. She has been the executive director of the manifestation for the festival ‘Days of film’ in Mostar since 2007. until today. She has been working as an assistant for the following classes at the University for natural sciences and mathematics in Mostar: ‘Puppetry and performing culture’ and ‘Film, TV and radio culture’.
Mirsad Purivatra (BiH) , born in Sarajevo in 1958. Was a member and director of Soros Fond Open Society BiH (1994-1996) as well as the director of BHRTV, and a general director of BiH marketing agency MacCann Erickson (2000-2004). Today he is permanently working as a director of Sarajevo Film Festival. He was also a member of jury on many other festivals like Tribeca Film Festival, Berlinale Panorama, Taormina Film Festival. Currently teaching production at the Academy of performing arts in Sarajevo.He received a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres from the Republic of France in May 2008. Producer of many short films within the SARAJEVO THE CITY OF FILM project from 2009-20013.
Ramon Lopez Seco De Herrera (Spain) , graduate in History (Archaeology and Medieval History), University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain,Photography classes in Badajoz, Spain,Drawing and painting classes in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Theatre classes in Cuarta Pared/ Madrid. He was a Modeling Artist at Blue Sky Studios, I’ve worked in several cg movies: Thesis Advisor at School of Visual Arts (SVA), for Cecilia Puglesi and Yijun Liu: short-film Shift (2015) finalist in 2015 Annie Awards. He also worked as a freelance for Blur Studio, for the project Skylanders (2014) He did a lot of 3D work as freelance and living classes of Photoshop, Maya and 3DMax. Used to work as freelance photographer and drawing artist.
Thomas Stellmach (Germany) , bor 1965, Straubing, Germany. Directed, animated and produced several independent films, that received many international awards, under which the following is the most outstanding: The Oscar® 1997 granted for the puppet animation film Quest. Thomas STELLMACH studied at the Department of Animation at the Art College of Kassel in Germany, being taught by the well-known artist Paul Driessen. Having received his Degree of Arts in 1999 Stellmach founded the animation studio “Lichthof, Film & Animation” with two partners in Kassel and produced animation films for television and advertising. In 2009 he has left his company to focus on artistic animation projects. His newest animated experimental film Virtuoso Virtual(Virtuoso Virtual) which was co-directed by Maja Oschmann and finished in 2013. Stellmachs fields of experience contains 3D computer animation, stop-motion, cartoon and pixilation. So far Stellmach held workshops at various academies, e.g.
Films in competition
2016 Neum Animated Film Festival
| 25.06.2016. | |||
| MOVIE | DIRECTOR | DURATION | COUNTRY |
| SAND CASTLE | Paul Bar, Marion Demaret, Nadège Forner, Pierre-Baptiste Marty, Julien Robyn, Jordan Soler | 6:14 | France |
| LADY AND THE FROG | Tina T. Hsu | 3:12 | SAD |
| VIOLET | Maurice Joyce | 7:58 | Ireland |
| BEND DON´T BREAK | Pia Djukic | 3:27 | Germany |
| THE BEARD | Sofika Badalova | 7:03 | Russia |
| FULL FEATHER JACKET | Liz el Saadany | 3:00 | Netherlands |
| 14 | Amélie Graffet, Cyril Flous, Roxane Martinez, David Jurine, Juliette Coutellier, Charlotte Da-Ros | 6:52 | France |
| SHIFT | Cecilia Puglesi, Yijun Liu | 5:23 | SAD |
| MISHIMASAIKO | Aude Danset | 14:00 | France |
| BINGO! | Patrick Schoenmaker | 3:00 | Netherland |
26.06.2016. |
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| MOVIE | DIRECTOR | DURATION | COUNTRY |
| ARID | Charl Van Der Merwe | 4:10 | South Africa |
| CHILD DREAM | Claude Luyet | 10:18 | France |
| THE WHISPER | Kai-Huei Li | 4:00 | Taiwan |
| CROWDED | Broersma Freark | 16:00 | Netherland |
| PRIMAL FLUX | Joan C. Gratz | 3:11 | USA |
| THE SHORT STORY OF A FOX AND A MOUSE | Camille CHAIX, Hugo JEAN, Juliette Jourdan, Marie Pillier, Kevin Roger | 6:14 | France |
| SEESAW | Mina Cvetinović | 7:10 | Serbia |
| A TASTE OF REIGN | Stefan Katanić | 4:29 | Serbia |
| ANNA | Alexia RUBOD, Antoine POYARD, Jordann JACOBÉ, Alexis CHOQUARD, Sophie BRACMARD, Yunhan LIU | 6:52 | France |
| MY GRANDFATHER WAS A CHERRY TREE | Olga Poliektova, Tatiana Poliektova | 12:30 | Russia |
| MUSICIDIO | Ferriol Tugues | 5:56 | Spain |
27.06.2016. |
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| MOVIE | DIRECTOR | DURATION | COUNTRY |
| CATCH IT | Paul BAR, Marion DEMARET, Nadège FORNER, Pierre-Baptiste MARTY, Julien ROBYN, Jordan SOLER | 5:14 | France |
| THE EAR OF VAN GOGH | Thiago Franco | 10:50 | Brasil |
| DON'T FORGET ABOUT MORI | Shiryaeva Maria | 8:30 | Russia |
| OFTEN THE NIGHT COMES | Paola Luciani | 5:37 | Italy |
| BYLY AND BUD | Gaëtan Jayle, Guillaume Zaouche, Matthieu Morice, Matéo Ravot,Valentin Panisset | 6:49 | France |
| DROPART | Monika Rogalska | 2:45 | Poland |
| CHIMERA | Clément Holvoet | 11:03 | France |
| THE MEEK | Joe Brumm | 7:26 | Austarlia |
| MIRIAM`S STRAY DOG | Andres Tenusaar | 5:00 | Estonia |
| TRANSPARENCY | Daniel Šuljić | 6:30 | Croatia |
| THEY LIVE BY NIGHT | Goran Trbuljak | 8:18 | Croatia |
28.06.2016. |
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| MOVIE | DIRECTOR | DURATION | COUNTRY |
| THE HEAD VANHISES | Franck Dion | 6:16 | France |
| THAT'S MINE! | Maryam Kashkoolinia | 6:00 | Iran |
| JUTI | Hathaichanok Chiengthong | 7:13 | Thailand |
| EMELYA THE HUNTER | Yuliya Mikushina | 13:00 | Russia |
| JAILBREAK | Aaron Sorenson | 1:20 | USA |
| ISLANDER'S REST | Claudius Gentinetta,Frank Braun | 15:00 | Switzerland |
| WITNESS | Hugo Rizzon, Christ Ibovy, Alexandre Berger | 5:14 | France |
| MIDNIGHT SINS | Marino Guarnieri | 3:40 | Italy |
| THE SCAPE | Douglas Alves Ferreira | 11:00 | Brasil |
| OTHER | Jeffig Le Bars | 4:30 | France |
| ARIADNE’S THREAD | Claude Luyet | 13:00 | France |
29.06.2016. |
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| MOVIE | DIRECTOR | DURATION | COUNTRY |
| THINGS I WANT TO DO | Ferriol Tugues | 4:00 | Spain |
| SLOW WAVE | Andy Kennedy | 3:33 | USA |
| VOLTAIRE | Jan Snoekx | 12:00 | Belgium |
| NORTH | Juan José Zanoletty Aguilera | 6:00 | Spain |
| COPYCAT | Aviv Tal | 7:00 | Israel |
| SPRING IN AUTUMN | Tatiana Koublitskaja | 10:00 | Belarus |
| AROMANTIC TEA | Danielle Bethel | 3:36 | UK |
| MYCROFT | Clément Holvoet | 8:24 | France |
| RESSAC | Gaëtan Jayle, Guillaume Zaouche, Matthieu Morice, Matéo Ravot,Valentin Panisset | 5:48 | France |
| OFF BELAY | Siniša Mataić | 10:00 | Croatia |
| BIT BY BIT | Yasser Haidar | 6:30 | Canada |
| A SWAN HAS A PLAN | Thomas Schneider-Trumpp | 6:22 | Germany |
Panoram
2016 Neum Animated Film Festival
| Panorama 1. | |||
| MOVIE | DIRECTOR | DURATION | COUNTRY |
| THE BOY WHO COULD FLY | Douglas Alves Ferreira | 10:00 | Brasil |
| MASTERCAT | Margaux Rosiau, Geoffrey Bourrissoux, Camille Aubé, Maud Biscay | 7:13 | Tailand |
| CONTE ORIENTAL | Mélanie Le Forban, Marjorie Jarnigon, Camille Fache, Charly Boyer | 6:54 | France |
| MORNING SONG | Matias Carrizo | 2:51 | UK |
| FIVE SHEEP | Stepanova Maria | 900 | Russia |
| PERFECT HOUSEGUEST | Matias Carrizo | 2:00 | US |
| BELLS | Nadav Nachmany | 3:55 | Israel |
| CLOUDY GOATS | Hamid Karimian | 5:00 | Iran |
| PUTSCH | Julie Artigny, Claire Courrier, Florent Bossoutrot, Camille Savary, Lisa Bouët | 6:10 | France |
| HUNTING | Chun-Hao Chen | 2:30 | Taiwan |
Panorama 2. |
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| MOVIE | DIRECTOR | DURATION | COUNTRY |
| NEILA | Audrey Bellot, Laurene Desoutter, Amandine Fernandes, Ludivine Lahaeye, Lucas Langou, David Tabar, Guillaume Vezzoli Et Eline Zhang | 9:07 | France |
| A LITTLE STAR | Svetlana Andrianova | 5:30 | Russia |
| MADAMA BUTTERFLY | Andreas Kessler | 5:00 | Germany |
| SWITCH MAN | Shao-Kuei Tung | 3:38 | Taiwan |
| DAVE | Garry J. Marshall, Chris Watson | 13:42 | UK |
| TINY POWER | Chen Chang | 2:10 | USA |
| DELIVERY | Leslie Belot, Thibaut Scalesse, Sophie Blayrat, Kai Huang Loan Torres | 6:30 | France |
| THE ADVENTURES OF PHYLLIS Y ROC | Iwan Jones-Roberts | 3:15 | UK |
| TIME TO BED | Ya-Hsuan Hsiao | 2:51 | Taiwan |
Panorama 3. |
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| MOVIE | DIRECTOR | DURATION | COUNTRY |
| HALABUDKA | Depoyan Manuk | 11:00 | Ukraine |
| LIMA | Vahid Jafari, Afshin Roshanbakht | 14:15 | Iran |
| SAVE AS | Arthur Bourdot, Maxime Dupuy, Luc Giraud, Mathieu Paggi | 6:00 | France |
| MOROSHKA | Polina Minchenok | 7:46 | Russia |
| HUNTER | Hossein Banna Razavi | 5:30 | Iran |
| WITHIN THY WALLS | Omer Sharon, Daniella Scnitzer | 7:17 | Israel |
| HOLY CITY | Mor Galperin,Inbal Benzur | 2:01 | Israel |
| JUNK | Walter Tournier | 5:00 | Uruguay |
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