Thursday, September 16, 2010

Sweet stories mixed with tragedy in Animacam releases!

We continue premiering a frenetic rythm, five animations daily, while still getting new movies to the Official Festival with five days to the deadline for submitting entries for competition in Animacam. On this occasion, are mixed sweet and nostalgic stories based on everyday life, along with real historical events and on the other hand, the war against fear humor over time and death. Variety of themes from different parts of the globe such as Iran, Spain, Croatia and Italy.

Maryam Khalilzade shows us a sweet and touching story called Photo. Iranian author focuses on leadership in an accordionist who plays every day to liven up the streets and sweeten the lives of pedestrians as they imagine their own book of life. Antonio Caeiro heading a new clip from A volta dos nove. This application of an animation by Pablo Millán and Ana Lombao to illustrate the commentary we witnessed the execution of nine Baredo in place that gives its name to the documentary. Escargot is a work of the author Manuel Šumberac, produced by the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, which tells the story of two armies of snails that are fighting for the same purpose, against the latest outbreak of the stem.

Francisco J. Calvo Sánchez
presents his work in clay Tiempo Sombra. This short began really makes a whopping 10 years, whose decor and much of the doll are then. A story about the monsters that creates darkness when the time runs out. Finally, Federico Anastasi repeats participation in Animacam, presenting his video "Carbone Papier" - Arman Méliès, produced by Undicidecimi.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Last Wednesday of Animacam releases!

Again, we are pleased to renew the billboard of Animacam with five new animation works with different styles, subjects and techniques. In the absence of only six days to the deadline for submit films to the Official Competition, and given the huge number of animated projects that have reached the Official Section of Festival, we reported that every day, will release five new animated movies, and get ready for the next 23rd of September to start the voting time of the Festival. Today, new releases come from Spain, United States, Israel and Argentina.

On Line is a funny satire on the internet connection and the use made of it by young people of nowadays through social networks, instant messenger programs, chat and forums. You never know how close we can be of a "virtual" persoal, we are seeing on the network. Federico Santillana, from Argentina, presents this short film made in clay. The Israelian animator Matan Kidrony presents his work Little Longings, a surreal journey that shows the relationship between the creator and his creations, expressed through the eyes of the creator. Norwegian Brothers of Tanjets Films, Runne and Erik Eriksson presented a new multimedia video in the Festival: Survival of nicest, where we see that life in the forest is not always a struggle for survive.

Molly Allis
repeats participation in this Third Edition of Animacam with Seahorse, a music video in which a girl drawn on paper travels through a world of cardboard. After participating with her acclaimed movie Pilgrim, Your heart is a ball of fire, Allis presents this stop-motion fantasy in which we embarked on a journey into the unknown. Finally, David Andreu participates with his animation El camino del exceso, a work conceived as an expression, a cry, a metaphor for social inequality and hypocrisy of our world.

Secunde

A dance animation to pacify the goddess Abeguwo who lives in heaven, but makes it rain on earth when she urinates.

Directed by the Dutch Guusje Kaayk, participates in Animacam, showing through music, a divine animation dedicated to the gods.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Now and then

Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "Now and Then". Created for the Sundance Channel.

The Korean-born American artist Eun-Ha Paek, Animacam repeated participation in this Third Edition. After presenting last week Hunger like the wolf, shows Now and Then, a poem by Billy Collins, with successful traditional animation with rhythmic verses American poet.

Flesh color

Japanese tattoo is very beautiful and very traditional culture. By using Japanese tattoo, representing the beauty of a human being's skin,"flesh color" in the animation.

Masahiko Adachi, from Japan, presents the traditional Japan tattoo culture, representing the "flesh color" art and beauty that represents this fine tradition.

Lightstealer

Respect the nature - Make light without turn off the nature.

The Italian
Federico Anastasi presents a beautiful and demanding 2D animation talking about by respect for nature, illuminating without contaminate in Lightstealer.

The tower of time

Amazing and fantastic adventure where the time and the death are vigilant.

The Tower of Time is a great 3D fantasy adventure directed by José Luis Quirós that mixes real image with 3D animation, using a similar aesthetic to the famous game Final Fantasy, tells a metaphor between time and death, their similarities and differences.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Urgent press release: Animacam in Facebook

Dear friends of Animacam Festival:

It is our duty to inform you that we have a serious problem when attempting to access our Facebook account, which user is Festi. Animacam, those problems appears six days ago. After three years of attendance of the Festival where its was active, sharing all information relating to it through the social network, we are not able to offer you all the information about it from our original account, created from the First Edition of the Festival in June 2008.

After trying to solve the problem, contacting the administrators of the social network Facebook, whose representatives have ignored our demands, and consulting advice to various experts in social computing and networking, we do not understand what is the real reason for the impossibility to accest to the account, because we have the user profile opened to the Internet, but can not access the account to continue reporting the news about Animacam. Therefore, we suspect that this is a computer attack to the Facebook´s user of Animacam, ignoring the reasons and motives that have led to cause him/her to do it.

We apologize to all our supporters and friends of the Festival, as it is a bug outside the Organization and impossible to be sorted out through it, which has always done a strictly professional and informative work to share with you our business, played with all our affection and encouragement. However, our alternative is to create a new user of the festival to continue transmitting the news to the public regarding the same.

Please accept our apologies and call upon this social network managers to rectify, explain and argue the disadvantages that have arisen when the access to social network profile, motives and reasons unknown and as users, we have the right to be informed.

Thank you very much for your time and attention

Best regards

ANIMACAM TEAM
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