Encounters 2012 Award Winners
Many congratulations to all the filmmakers who were selected for this year's Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival. It’s been a fantastic year and the level of talent was extraordinarily high. A big thanks to all of our guests, supporters, staff, volunteers - and of course our audiences - for helping us make our 18th edition one to remember.
Encounters is delighted to announce its 2012 Award Winners, presented by our distinguished juries after careful deliberations.
Many thanks to our jury members:
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS JURY
Caroline Cooper-Charles (Senior Talent Executive, Creative England), Alexandra Heneka (Sales Department, Kurtzfilmagentur Hamburg), Katarzyna Klimkiewicz (Film Director), Jukka-Pekka Laakso (Festival Director and Board Director, Tampere Film Festival), Jan Naszewski (CEO New Europe Film Sales).
ANIMATED ENCOUNTERS JURY
Paul Bush (Animation Director), Peter Lord (Creative Director, Aardman Animations), Marjut Rimmenen (Animation Director).
DEPICT! JURY
Karen Alexander (Senior Tutor, Royal College of Art), Ravi Amaratunga (Media Project Manager, Creative Diversity Editor, Random Acts, Channel 4), Karni Arieli (Filmmaker, Photographer), Chris Auty (Head of Producing, NFTS), Sarah Chorley (Operations Director, Shooting People), Will Massa (Film Advisor, British Council), David Sproxton (Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Aardman Animations).
DOCUMENTARY JURY
Owen Gay (Icon Films), Kim Longinotto (Documentary Filmmaker), James Mullighan (Arts and Film Consultant).
SOUTH WEST JURY
Bristol mayoral candidates Geoff Gollop, representing the Conservative Party and Daniella Radice, representing the Green Party.
Here is the full list of award winners (drumroll):
Cartoon d’Or Nomination
Winning film: HEAD OVER HEELS by Timothy Reckart, UK
Audience Award
Winning film: WHEN RABBITS FLY by Halldor Ragnar Halldorsson and Helgi Johannsson, Iceland
DepicT! '12 Random Acts Special Mention Award
Winning film: BIG SIGNAL by Evelien Lohbeck, Netherlands
DepicT! '12 British Special Mention Award
Winning film: LIVING WITH DEPRESSION by Anna Ginsburg, UK
Shooting People '12 DepicT! Audience Award
Winning film: HEY by Scott Coello, UK
DepicT! '12 Award
Winning film: THE FAT CAT by Mole Hill, UK
University of the West of England European New Talent Award - Animation
Winning film: KUHINA (SWARMING) by Joni Mannisto, Finland
University of the West of England European New Talent Award – Live Action
Winning film: DURA LEX by Anke Blonde, Belgium
Documentary Award - Supported by Icon Films
Special Mention: PARAISO (PARADISE) by Nadav Kurtz, USA
Winning film: CUTTING LOOSE by Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall, UK
Best of South West Award
Special Mention: A HIDING PLACE by Fergus Colville and PLAIN SONG by Nick Park
Winning film: KLOVESTEINEN by Anders Furevik from Bournemouth University
Best of British Jury Award Animation - Supported by the British Council
Winning film: I AM TOM MOODY by Ainslie Henderson
Best of British Jury Award Live Action - Supported by the NFTS, the British Council and Directors UK
Special Mention: UNRAVEL by Meghna Gupta
Winning film: ON THIS ISLAND by Matthew Knott
Animated Grand Prix
Winning film: OH WILLY... by Emma de Swaef and Marc James, Belgium/France/Netherlands
Brief Grand Prix
Special Mention: LES MEUTES (THE HOUNDS) by Manuel Schapira, France
Winning film: PREMATUR (PREMATURE) by Gunhild Enger, Norway