T-Short Animated film Online Festival 2022 – Categories & Jury Announced
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From March 10 till March 27, 2022, the next T-Short Animated Short Film Online Festival will take place.
Slightly more than 1600 animation works were submitted to the selection of the festival. In all programs of the festival, 296 animation creations from 52 countries of the world will be shown. Films participating in the competition programs of the festival are not freely available on the Internet. The only exception is music videos in the competition program of musical motives.
This year, films will be judged in 8 categories:
- The Best Film of Festival
- The Best Storyline Film
- The Best Bizarre Animation
- The Best Debut
- The Best Student Film
- The Best Musical Motive
- The Best Humorous Short
- The Best Gripping Story
There are 16 programs in total at the festival. 8 competitive programs, 4 panoramas (films not included in the competition for various reasons, but worthy of attention), 1 program of films by Steven Subotnick from USA (the jury member of the festival), 3 programs provided by educational institutions from France, Estonia and Taiwan.
- Roze Stiebra (Latvia)
- Steven Subotnick (USA)
- Mira Yankova (Bulgaria)
- Hossein Moradizadeh (Iran)
- Eric Leiser (USA)
In addition to awarding prizes by the jury members to the winners of the festival, one prize will be awarded at its discretion by the Artist and Magister of Ceramics – Vita Valdmane (Latvia).
Each prize is unique , exquisite and very valuable as it is handcrafted by Vita. Creating a prize for the festival, as Vita herself confessed, was the most difficult task for the master in his entire creative life. Vita is a fan of animated films and that’s why she took on the task of making this most difficult prize. None of the participants have the same prize, as the prizes are handmade and each prize has small differences. This year the prizes are single-colored and, as always, unique.
Vita was also the creator of prizes for the International Animation Festival in Riga, Latvia, organized by the organizer of the current online festival – Marat Barsky. The current festival is organized from Germany and is the eighth festival in a row.
About the Festival
After a long 13-year pause, in April 2021 the 7th International Animated Film Festival and the 1st online festival took place. The festival has undergone significant changes in the name, concept and venue. The old name of the festival was BIMINI, in honor of the short-animated film of the same name “Bimini” by the master of Latvian animation Arnold Burov, festival showed films for both children and adult audiences and of any length, as well was held in Riga, Latvia. The new name of the festival is T-Short this is a kind of wordplay: T-Shirt is a well-known item of clothing and the word Short here means a short film. Similarly, a project logo emphasizes a wordplay in the title – a film shaped like T-Shirt. The festival platform was created in Germany and festival was organized in Germany too, however, the festival is held online only. The festival showcases only animated short films and is aimed at an adult audience.
We are very grateful to everyone who remembered the BIMINI festival, and who submitted their works to the first online T-Short festival. We could not imagine that after such a long break, we would receive almost 1500 applications for selection. We thank our wonderful Jury – Koji Yamamura (Japan), Roze Stiebra (Latvia), Juan Pablo Zaramella (Argentina) and Kwok Fung Lam (UK) – for their work and for their difficult choice of the festival winners. All members of the jury also took part, one way or another, at the BIMINI festival in Latvia and gladly agreed to be members of the jury at the renewed festival. Thanks again to everyone and see you soon!
Marat Barsky, Founder and Organizer of BIMINI and T-Short Festivals
Learn more about the last festival here.