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
Jury
Christian Ballund
… 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.
Torsten Jakobsen
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
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.
Nominated films
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