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Feb 14, 2008, 8:04 PM
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Global roster of winners take 2nd Aniboom Awards
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Aniboom (www.aniboom.com), the premier animation network, has unveiled the winners for its Second Annual Aniboom Awards, the leading online animation festival.
Choosing from more than 1600 entries from over 60 countries, millions of online viewers and an esteemed panel of judges have granted top spot to Jungle Jail, a humorous short by French animator Aymeric Palermo.
"Congratulations to all of these talented artists from around the world," said Aniboom founder and president Uri Shinar. "After the successful launch of our awards program last year, it is a pleasure to see that the Aniboom Awards have truly become a showcase for our mission: inspiring and bringing together untapped talent worldwide, highlighting their work for a mass audience to see and partnering with these preeminent creators to develop original animated brands for multi-platform distribution."
In addition to the significant cash prizes, winners of the Aniboom Awards will benefit from substantial exposure across Aniboom's multi-platform network and will be considered for original series development deals. The category winners are:
Grand Prize and Funny Category
Jungle Jail (Palermo Aymeric, France)
www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=119216
A small and timid inmate runs through the motions of finding a place within the social jungle behind bars; from new school neophyte to big house kingpin, this convict has something up his sleeve.
Drama Category
Tonnellage (Ivan Maximov, Russia)
www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=128417
In an interpretation of the Russian parable about two frogs, two prisoners live out their lives in a cold jail cell as one religiously struggles to escape and one remains the idle watcher.
Unpolished Category
Esperando a morte chegar (Waiting for Death to Come) (Luis Guilherme Campos, Brazil)
www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=1189
One dog tries to escape his destiny and the consequence of a life of consumption as he confronts the face of Death at a bus stop.
Music Video Category
Red Ocean (Kenny Frankland, Great Britain)
www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=62995
Deep beneath the ocean, a strange new life form comes to be as it makes its journey to the surface. A CG animated music video created for the band Audio Mainline.
Experimental Category
Illuminations (Itai Froumin, Israel)
www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=56268
A color-rich sequence of interpretive dance and transformation highlighting the contrast between line and form within nature and the human body, based on an original musical score from Itai Foumin and Jonathan Albalak.
The panel of judges was made up of Paul Driessen, known for his work on The Yellow Submarine (1967) and winner of more than 70 international awards, including the ASIFA-International Lifetime Achievement Award; George Sifianos, filmmaker and professor of animation at the acclaimed Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris; Rony Oren, current head of the animation department at the award-winning Bezalel Art and Design Academy in Israel, and the producer of over 500 critically-acclaimed animated films as head of independent animation studio Claytoons since 1978; Aarno Simpson, Cold Hard Flash founder and Emmy-nominated producer of Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island; Daniel Paul, vice-president for content acquisition and strategy at JOOST; and Barbara Corday, a top American television executive, writer and producer best known for co-creating the series Cagney and Lacey.
Aniboom aims to meet the exploding demand for state-of-the-art animation for primetime television and feature films, digital gaming, the Web and mobile broadband platforms at an unprecedented cost-efficiency by creating a new production and distribution pipeline. This pipeline identifies and mobilizes the thousands of professional independent animators all over the world with the talent, the passion, and the same toolsets utilized by the large animation studios -- but no meaningful access to the markets that need them.
Aniboom's Creators Studio allows animators of all levels to pitch, produce and monetize high-quality original animated content spanning a variety of genres for worldwide channels of distribution, all year round. Animators are able to earn money based on the popularity of their creation within both the Aniboom community and other distribution platforms.
Aniboom is a premier multi-platform animation network that teams up with untapped talent around the world to create, produce and distribute compelling high-quality animation brands at unusual speed and cost efficiencies to Web, mobile, gaming and TV media industries worldwide.
At Aniboom.com, the company has brought together a vibrant community of world-class animators and animation enthusiasts to create, watch and share a growing library of original independent cartoons and animations that crosses multiple genres and interests. Users can easily create and showcase their work using the site's dynamic features including a robust DIY tool set called Animachines. Throughout the year, Aniboom also engages its community with a variety of creative contests offering prizes of up to $50,000 each.
The company is based in Israel, with its United States headquarters in San Francisco.
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