14th International Film Festiwal ”Etiuda&Anima 2007”, 16.11 – 22.11.2007, Cracow, Poland
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Organized since 1994, the „Etiuda” Festival (since 2005 „Etiuda&Anima”) is dedicated to the works of students from film and art schools from Europe and around the world. Each year their final graduation film projects and short studies compete for individual awards: Gold, Silver, and Bronze Dinosaurs.
Besides individual awards there is also the Special Golden Dinosaur Award given to the best film school in Europe and the Special Golden Dinosaur for an outstanding teacher who successfully combines his/her own artistic output with educational work at art schools. Among the awarded filmmakere there were: Jerzy Kucia from the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts; Kazimierz Karabasz from the Lodz Film School; Paul Driessen from the German Kunsthochschule in Kassel and Wojciech Marczewski, co-founder of Andrzej Wajda Masters School of Directing in Warsaw.
The „Etiuda&Anima” Festival is also an opportunity to present the output of masters of the short subject film format, and creators of documentaries, narrative, experimental, and animated films. Since 1996 (the first edition of the Krakow Animated Film Workshop, which ran alongside the Etiuda Festival) there appeared at the Festival world renowned creators of animation: Raoul Servais, Oksana Czerkassowa, Marjut Rimminen, Caroline Leaf, Kirsten Winter, Bärbel Neubauer, Phil Mulloy, Koji Yamamura and many others. The establishing of contacts with outstanding artists and important schools of animation led in 2005 into the organization of a world competition of professional, independent animation schools.
After the Festival, now for the fifth time, „Etiuda&Anima” will embark on a travelling presentation of the awarded films in order to present them to dozens of cities in Poland and abroad.
More information is available on the Festival's site.