CEE Animation Forum announces the winners of the presentation

After a seven-day virtual exploration of the most promising animated projects to emerge from Central and Eastern Europe and sharing the wisdom of film professionals, the 9th EEC Animation Forum revealed the winners of its 2021 pitching competition in five categories, as well as audience, workshop and partner awards.

In addition to the cash prizes, all the winners of the contest sworn together with the project awarded by the public will be presented at the special presentation of the CEE Animation pitching, which will be part of the official MIFA 2021 program.

Feature Films
Winner: Birds don't look back (director Nadia Nackle, producer Sebastien Onomo, Special Touch Studios, France)
Special mention: Dreamworld (d. Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic, p. Milivoj Popovic, Veljko Popovic, Prime Render doo, Croatia)
Special mention: Senior Crush (d. Orsolya Richolm, p. Andrea Ausztrics, ULab Kft, Hungary)

Watch the feature film presentations here.

TV Series
Winner: The bunch of olives (d. Magnus Kravik, p. Maria Pavlou, Giant Pixels, Cyprus)
Special mention: Starting with hope (d. Sonia Velvien, p. Kèota Dengmanara, Moukda Production, France)
Special mention: What the old moon says (d. Eliza Plocieniak-Alvarez, Fr Carol Ratajczak, Blaue Pampelmuse, Germany)

Watch the shoots of the TV series.

Short films
Winner: Ibis. (d. Maria Burgues, Enric Sant, p. Maria Burgues, BLISS PICTURES, Spain)
Special mention: Patrick in town (d. Eszter Sandor, Valentina Huckova, p. Valentina Huckova, Young Glass Noodle, Slovakia)

Watch the presentations of the short films.

XR
Winner: In search of Frida (d. Hilde Kristin Kjøs, p. Bjørn-Morten Nerland, Stargate Media AS, Norway)

Watch the XR shots.

Rising stars
Winner: Desire to win (d. Michaela Rezova, p. Zuzana Bukovinska, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic)
Special mention: The last straw (d. Anna Tokes, p. Jozsef Fulop, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest - MOME, Hungary)

Watch the presentations of the Rising Stars.

Audience Award
Vast blue Antarctica (d. Christos Panagos, p. Charalambos Margaritis, Kimonos Animation Studio, Cyprus)
EEC animation laboratory
Dreamworld (d. Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic, p. Milivoj Popovic, Veljko Popovic, Prime Render doo, Croatia)

Dreamworld

Partner awards
Animation without borders: Manager Miha Reja, Kurent (p. Bostjan Potokar, School of Arts - University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia)
Cartoon movie: Dreamworld (d. Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic, p. Milivoj Popovic, Veljko Popovic, Prime Render doo, Croatia)
Vast blue Antarctica (d. Christos Panagos, p. Charalambos Margaritis, Kimonos Animation Studio, Cyprus)
Cartoon Forum: Robots and the Martians (d. Tomasz Niedzwiedz, p. Tomasz Paziewski, Badi Badi, Poland)
Cartoon Springboard: Rosie and Sapphire (d. Anna Katalin Lovrity, p. Balint Gelley, CUB Animation, Hungary)
Senior Crush (d. Orsolya Richolm, p. Andrea Ausztrics, ULab Kft, Hungary)
Ciclic Award: Electra. A poem (d. Daria Kashcheeva, p. Zuzana Krivkova, FAMU, MAUR film, Czech Republic)
Animond Award: The bunch of olives (d. Magnus Kravik, p. Maria Pavlou, Giant Pixels, Cyprus)
Kids Kino Industry Award: The bunch of olives (d. Magnus Kravik, p. Maria Pavlou, Giant Pixels, Cyprus)
Animarkt Award: Desire to win (d. Michaela Rezova, p. Zuzana Bukovinska, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic)
The icebreakers (d. Ignas Meilūnas, p. Justė Beniušytė, Kadru Skyrius, Lithuania)

See all pitches in the 2021 CEE Animation Forum catalog. Find out more about the event on ceeanimation.eu.