ANIM’EST FILM FESTIVAL

The biggest film festival in Bucharest and the only animation film festival in Romania, found-
ed over 12 years ago:

OVER OVER

400 20.000
FILMS SCREENED PEOPLE ATTENDING
EACH YEAR EACH EDITION

The Making of Anim’est 2017 film can be viewed at:

https://youtu.be/gnY6Nw-ctEU

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WHY ANIMATED FILMS?
Romania has a tradition in the animated film:

• The first award won by the Romanian filmmakers at the famous Cannes Film Festi-
val was the Palme d’Or (1956) for A Brief History, an animated film directed by Ion
Popescu Gopo

• The Romanian audience is active and faithful to this film genre. The people who at-
tend the festival have good knowledge in the field of film and animation, they have
expectations from the festival, and the young artists are enthusiastic and eager to be
known and successful.

Anim'est was created for them!

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THE ANIM’EST CONCEPT
Anim’est has had well defined aims ever since its creation:

• SCREEN THE BEST AND MOST ANTICIPATED FILMS OF THE YEAR

• BRING TO BUCHAREST THE STRONGEST NAMES IN THE ANIMATION INDUSTRY

WORLDWIDE

• RE-ANIMATE ROMANIAN ANIMATION

Besides screenings, concerts and exhibitions, the festival also includes workshops, master-
classes, presentations and debates meant to activate Romanian animators and put them in
contact with the international scene.

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ANIMATION WORKSHOPS
We had in mind to create an educational platform, which should fill the gap
of an absolutely necessary animation school, which does not exist in our country.

Up to now, we have organised:

OVER

50 TENS
WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN OF MASTER-CLASSES PRESENTED BY
AND TEENAGERS BIG NAMES OF INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION

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ANIMATION WORKSHEEP
Since 2011, Anim’est has been organizing the ANIMATION WORKSHEEP, a bi-annual intensive animation workshop

lasting for three weeks, tutored by important names of Romanian and foreign animation industry.

During the spring edition of 2018 the participants explored the phenomenon of street art in Bucharest. The 11th

edition of Animation Worksheep is to start in September

Some of the products of Animation Worksheep:

Music Video for COMA

https://youtu.be/UgagSdZWmPo

Music video for Subcarpaţi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWyfSwNh8bM

Music video for Robin and the Backstabbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfrTts_Lws4

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• AS A RESULT, IF IN 2007 ONLY 2 ROMANIAN ANIMATED FILMS HAD BEEN SUBMITTED
TO THE FESTIVAL, IN 2018 WE RECEIVED

OVER

60

And more than half of the students attending the Animation Worksheep now work in
important animation studios in Romania and in other countries.

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ANIM’EST SPECIAL GUESTS
Anim’est has impressive echoes abroad. Among over 200 filmmakers who have been festival
guests, we mention:

• DANIEL MCCOY (VISUAL EFFECTS FOR TOY STORY 2 AND 3, INCREDIBLES, FINDING NEMO, RATATOUILLE,

MONSTERS INC.)

• MARK SHAPIRO (MARKETING DIRECTOR OF LAIKA, THE STUDIO THAT PRODUCED CORALINE AND
PARANORMAN)

• SHANE ACKER (VISUAL EFFECTS OF LORD OF THE RINGS; DIRECTOR OF FILM “9”, PRODUCED BY TIM
BURTON)

• JOAN C. GRATZ, TÓTH M. GÉZA (OSCAR WINNERS)

• JOHN DILWORTH ŞI BILL PLYMPTON (OSCAR NOMINEES)
• MIKE REISS (SCREENWRITER FOR THE SIMPSONS)
• ALBERT LOZANO (CHARACTER DESIGNER LA THE INCREDIBLES, MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, INSIDE OUT)

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ANIM’EST AUDIENCE

Active urban attendees, mainly 16-35 years old, higher education, cinephiles and fans of cultural events, as well as

important people of the cinema industry and representatives of cultural institutes and institutions in Romania.

It is worth mentioning that, along the years, the audience of the festival has grown, from film lovers to a more

numerous active community, who generally attend important events all over the country, who are interested in a

variety of domains, and who have high expectations when attending an event.

The MINIMEST section of the festival is dedicated to our young audiences, from very young children to teenagers,

aged 3 to 16.

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WHAT DOES ANIM'EST 2018 LOOK LIKE?

• Anim’est = Academy Award Qualifying Festival

• Starting with the 2017, Anim’est enters the list of international film festivals whose winning films are automatically

on the list of Oscar® nominees, to be viewed and voted on by the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts

and Sciences.

• Anim’est is the only festival in Romania to receive this status, thus joining prestigious film festivals such as:

• Annecy International Animation Film Festival;

• Cannes Film Festival;

• Sundance Film Festival;

• Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival;

• ITFS, Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film

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What does the OSCAR® qualifying festival status mean?

Starting with the 12th edition of the festival, the best

short film of each edition, awarded the Anim’est Trophy,

will be automatically among the films eligible for the

short list of Academy Award® for Best Animated Short

Film.

The Spanish short "Dead Horses" , directed by Marc Riba

and Anna Solanas, the winner of the trophy in 2017, was

the Anim'est proposal for the Oscars®.

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Opening Screening: ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE (2018)
by Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nenow

A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter

Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola ravaged by a war in which the front lines
shifted like a kaleidoscope from one day to the next.

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Here are a few titles that will be screened at the 2018 edition:

• THE BREADWINNER, 2017, directed by Nora Twomey, Academy Award® Nominee, winner of Best Animated

Feature at Annie Awards

• ISLE OF DOGS, 2018, directed by Wes Anderson, winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin

International Film Festival

• TEHRAN TABOO, 2017, directed by Ali Shoozandeh, official selection Cannes Critic's Week, FIPRESCI Prize for

best debut at Jerusalem Film Festival

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CONTACT

Vlad Ilicevici Laurenţiu Brătan

Executive Director Anim'est President of Asociaţia Este’n’est
0721.601.434 0723.503.245
vlad@estenest.ro laurentiu.bratan@estenest.ro

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