Purpleboy Wins ANIMA Festival 2020 Grand Prix – View All Winners
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Alexandre Siqueira’s Purpleboy
The international jury – made up of Jonathan Hodgson, Sébastien Laudenbach and Karolina Specht – decided to reward Alexandre Siqueira’s short film Purpleboy, with the Anima 2020 Grand Prix, along with a prize of 2,500 euros given by the Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.
The jury also awarded its special prize to Luca Tóth for her film Mr. Mare and gave the Creative Revelation prize, offered by the Korean Cultural Centre for the best student short film, to Sh_t Happens by David Stumpf and Michaela Mihalyi.
The last international prize, this time from the junior jury, made up of representatives from the webtv Ceci n’est pas un Buzz, chose Carol Freeman’s The Bird and the Whale as their best short film for a young audience.
The national competition jury – made up of Juan Antin, Alex Dudok de Wit and Sarah Van Den Boom – awarded the prize for best Belgian short film, offered by the Sabam, to On n’est pas près d’être des super héros by Lia Bertels while the Federation Wallonia-Brussels Grand Prix for best film went to Saigon sur Marne by Aude Ha Leplège.
The short Hello, Are We in the Show ? (Simona Denicolai, Ivo Provoost) won the SACD prize, and the best Belgian student short film prize, offered by Amplo, went to Gaspar Chabaud for Tête de linotte !
The VR competition jury – made up of Victor Lecomte, Elisabeth Meur-Poniris and Leen Segers – chose Songbird by Lucy Greenwell, Michelle and Uri Kranot, as best virtual reality short.
And finally, the public chose to reward Old Man Cartoon Movie by Oskar Lehemaa and Mikk Mägi as best feature film and Physique de la Tristesse by Theodore Ushev best short film. The young spectators voted for the feature SamSam by Tanguy De Kermel and the short L’Odyssée de Choum by Julien Bisaro to take away the prizes. And finally, Wild West Compressed by Christian Kaufmann won the vote for the best (and craziest!) Animated Night short.
You can check out the full list of Prizewinners and photos of the awarded films on animafestival.be
The 40th Anima Festival will take place from 12 to 21 February 2021, in Brussels.