VAF Best Graduation Film

VAF Best Graduation film fejrer unge animationsfilmskabere fra kunst- og animationsskoler i hele verden.Programmet er fyldt med sprælske ideer, tankevækkende temaer, lækker energi og en masse mod og lyst til at skabe og fortælle.

Filmene viser en bred vifte af stilarter og teknikker, hvor fortælling og opfindsomhed skaber unikke ideer og visioner fra unge filmskabere, som er klar til at drage ud i verden med deres tankevækkende og nyskabende film.

VAF Best Graduation Film modtager film fra kunst- og animationsskoler i hele verden. Mix af teknikker, inklusiv live action accepteres. Filmens længde må max være 15 minutter inklusive credits.

Vinderen modtager € 700

Awarden er sponsoreret af BoligViborg

Vinderen af VAF Best Graduation Film 2022 er: “Night of the living dread” af Ida Melum

Special mention går til: “Eyeshroom” af Malgorzata Wowczak

… is headmaster and managing director at CADA Truemax.
Before starting in his current position Christian Ballund taught directing and producing at The National Film School of Denmark’s Animation Director education, where he is still an associated teacher. At the latter he put a strong focus on a more free and enabling curriculum matching current trends in production and formats. Prior to working in education, he has worked as a director, producer, and creative director on various formats mainly within commercials, interactive media, and TV, both in Denmark and abroad with several years spent working in the west Balkan region.
Christian’s many years of work within the field of new technology has made him a firm, but conservative believer in the disruptive power of new technologies and recently he was a co-creator of the VIPROS project, a cross European research project focusing on Virtual Production. He has also been a board member at the Danish Film Workers association and a consultant and teacher at The Norwegian Film School’s Master program in Production.

Efter næsten 25 års opbygning af et internt reklamebureau hos LEGO og dermed har været med til at udvikle LEGO Koncernens indhold til en global titan, arbejder Torsten i dag hos porduktion selskabet ​​M2 med fokus på at vækste forretningen, styrke kreative kompetencer og på at bygge egne IP’er.

Julie Herdichek Baltzer graduated from The Animation Workshop in 2017 as a character animator having directed her graduation film Nachthexen.
Since her graduation Julie has spearheaded, directed, written, and managed various animation projects and earned a MA in script writing from the University of Southern Denmark.

VAF Best Graduation Film – Program 1

I Want To Be Bored – Magda Kreps – 2021 – Germany

The soloists – Mehrnaz Abdollahinia, Feben Woldehawariat, Razahk Issaka, Celeste Jamneck, Yi Liu – 2021 – France

Curiosa – Tessa Moult-Milewska – 2022- UK

Eyeshroom – Małgorzata Wowczak – 2022 – Poland

Pentola – Leo Černic – 2022 – Italy

We are not there tomorrow – Olga Kłyszewicz – 2022 – Poland

Red Giant – Anne Verbeure– 2021 – Belgium

The child and the Goose – Jade Chastan, Alice Failla, , Justine Hermetz, Sophie Lafleur, Vincent Lenn – 2021 – France

Sauna – Anna Lena Spring, Lara Perren – 2021 – Switzerland

Night of the living dread – Ida Melum – 2021 – UK

Lamina – Throstur “Bibi” Soring – 2021 – Sweden

Downfall – Rona Fayad – 2021 – Lebanon

My Grandmother is an egg – Wu-Ching Chang – 2021 – UK

Lament – Anne Sineád Hodgers – 2022 – Denmark

The frolic – Jhao Yi-Han – 2021 – Taiwan

VAF Best Graduation Film – Program 2

Orange Peel – Isidora Vulic – 2021 – Serbia

Press(ed) – Senne Driesen – 2022 – Belgium

Wind whisperer – Fernanda Caicedo – 2022 – Germany/Ecuador

The immoral – Ekin Koca, Annick Teninge – 2021 – France

Laika & Nemo – Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow, Konrad Wolf – 2022 – Germany

Cufufu – Bruno Quast– 2021 – Estonia

This is Only getting worse – Michael Negari, Eran Luzon – 2021 – Israel

The luggage room – Daniela Cuenca – 2021 – Spain

Misophonia Orchestra – Daniela Hýbnerová – 2022 – Czech Republic

La Chambre Du General – Georges Marion – 2021 – Denmark

Dinner with Turkey – Hleb Kuftseryn Kuftseryn – 2021 – Estonia

I dreamed of – Piotr Tokarz – 2021 – Poland