THE OSCARS KNOW THEIR WINNERS. AND WE TOO! WINNERS OF THE 3RD ANNUAL A-FILMTEENSFEST
We couldn't have planned better. Just a few hours after the Oscar Academy Awards were announced, we have an announcement as well. So who won the prizes in our festival?
WINNERS OF THE 3RD A-FILMTEENSFEST
CATEGORIES UNDER 10 YEARS ACROSS GENRES (12 films in competition)
Jurors: Antonie Formanová, Tomáš Hanák
Best Film of the Category:
Teddy, tell us a story – Czech republic
Members of the ANIDĚTI group of children based in Prague
Honourable mentions in the category:
Hoover - Estonia
Children from the CREATIVE SPACE group in Tallinn
Magic school - Italy
A group of children led by Rafaella Traniello from Corti di Ponte in Padua
Mega mega mega mega party – Belgium
CAMERA-ETC. workshop participants from Liége
FEATURE FILMS (39 films in competition)
Jurors: Antonie Formanová, Tomáš Hanák
11 - 14 years
Honorable mention:
Big Two – Czech republic
Directed by Helena Gabriela Ondráčková, Ema Janečková, Karolína Buťáková, Julie Ramšáková (ZUŠ Mikulov)
15 - 17 years
Award for 1stplace in the category:
Beth – Great Britain
Directed by Ava Bounds
Award for 2nd place in the category:
Death by Handshake - USA
Directed by Hudson Flynn
Honorable mention:
Escape from the Children´s Home – Czech republic
directed by teenagers from the Kašperské Hory Children's Home (under the direction of Barbara Chalupová and Maria Magdalena Kochová)
18 - 20 years
Award for 1stplace in the category:
Distance and Longing - Denmark
Directed by Mikkel Warren
Award for 2ndplace in the category:
Light Carousel- Austria
Directed by Alex Lazarov
Award for 3rdplace in the category:
Valera - Ukraine
Directed by Olga Artushevska
Honorable mention:
Bon Voyage – Czech republic
Directed by Mariam Mansuryan
DOCUMENTARIES (23 films in competition)
Jurors: Alena Müllerová, František Svěrák
11 - 14 years
Best Film of the Category:
Viktoria – Czech republic
Members of the group ANIDĚTI from Prague
15 - 17 years
Best Film of the Category:
The Rock Pool Waltz - Australia
Directed by Marlon Denning
Honorable mention:
Our Dreams- Czech republic
directed by: teenagers from the Duchcov Children's Home under the direction of Veronika Korčáková and Karel Čtveráček
18 - 20 years
Best Film of the Category:
Paint and Pain- Iran
Directed by Mohammad Sajad Aghajani
Honorable mention:
Dad, the poet of life – Czech republic
Directed by Antonín Korb
ANIMATED MOVIES (49 films in competition)
Jurors: Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Martin Stýblo
11 - 14 years
Best Film of the Category:
Nameless Island - Belgium
Children from the CAMERA-ETC. workshop in Liége
Honorable mention:
Mosquito Fish - USA
Directed by Bryn Wright
15 - 17 years
Best Film of the Category:
System Error – Poland
Directed by Piotr Kaźmierczak
Honorable mention:
The Oubliette - Ireland
Directed by Max Hendrickson
18 - 20 years
Best Film of the Category:
Walking at Knight - USA
Directed by Faye Thomas
Honorable mention:
Good Night – South Korea
Directed by Jung-seo Lee, Seo-bin Lee, Ji-yeon Yoon
EXPERIMENTAL MOVIES (20 films in competition)
Jurors: František Svěrák, Jakub Šmíd
11 - 14 years
Best Film of the Category:
Dada poetry – Czech republic
Twenty-one pupils from ZUŠ Ledeč and Sázavou
15 - 17 years
Best Film of the Category:
A Complete Man – Greece
Directed by Antonis Goumas
18 - 20 let
Best Film of the Category:
Caterpillar Kisses - USA
Directed by Ella Fields
OTHERS (18 films in competition)
Jurors: Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Martin Stýblo
11 - 14 years
Best Film of the Category:
Spring – Czech republic
Seventeen pupils from ZUŠ Ledeč and Sázavou
Honorable mention:
The Journey of the Book - Spain
Directed by Carlos Tafur
15 - 17 years
Best Film of the Category:
Liam Butler And His Friends: New Kid On The Block- USA
Directed by Liam Butler
Honorable mention:
World Views in One Song- Germany
Directed by Ole Kjartan Schreier
18 - 20 years
Best Film of the Category:
Smoking is a bad habit – Czech republic
Directed by Ondřej Brýna
Honorable mention:
Your Latest Crush - Flower Lover- Ukraine
Directed by Dmitriy Guk
SPECIAL AWARDS
Prize of the younger children jury (9-13 years): Teddy, tell us a story (members of the group ANIDĚTI, Czech Republic)
Senior Children's Jury Prize (14-18 years): Over the Moon (directed by Ella Fields, USA)
Best Foreign Film: Fishing, directed by Andreas Duerr (Germany)
Best Czech Out-of-School Film: Robots (directed by Ondřej Brýna)
Best Czech School Film: Good Morning, Vera (directed by Matouš Kaleta, student of the Secondary School of Art in Ostrava)
Best sustainability-themed film: Ragworld + Walking Through a Hundred Year old Paradise Garden of Bobbin Lace and Needle Lace (directed by Marko Horáček, Czech republic)
Audience Award: Pyromeownicat (directed by Klara Ljung, Sweden)
VOJTĚCH JASNÝ'S AWARD for long-term systematic contribution in the field of audiovisual education of Czech children: Jean G. Deburau and many other films on the YT channel of the Primary School Kolín V.)
BEN BARENHOLTZ AWARD for outstanding and unconventional enrichment of international animation with children and young people: Creative Space Studio, Estonia.
(Mermaid, Farm by Aleksander Krims and Landscape with church by Konrad Mägi, Cowboys and Astronauts, The Hoover, Winter Fairy Tale, Suur Tõll)
Congratulations to the creators of all these works!
