REANIMANIA ANIMATION FESTIVAL IN YEREVAN FEATURES 5 FULL-LENGTH AND 100 SHORT-LENGTH FILMS

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
09.09.2009 17:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ October 3-6, ReAnimania the first international
animation festival will take place in Yerevan. The festival will
host representatives of over 31 countries of the world, including
France, Russia, Armenia, USA, Italy, Mali, Ukraine. Festival program
features 5 full-length and 100 short-length films to be nominated in
the following categories: "Best short-length film", "Best full-length
film", "Best degree work", "Best TV script", "Audience sympathy prize",
"RA Ministry of Culture prize", "Children’s prize".

The festival will also present special projects, entitled "Festivals,
organizations and schools" and "Animation masters’ retrospectives".

ReAnimania will premiere the following works: Waltz with Bashir
by Israeli animator Ari Folman, Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley
(USA), Idiots and Angels by Bill Plympton (USA), Persepolis by Marjane
Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (France).

The festival is collaborating with Annecy international animation film
festival, Stuttgart film festival, Aardman Studio, Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Golden Apricot international film festival. The festival
is dedicated to 3D animation founder Alexander Shirinyan