Rise & Shine awards!

08.12.2024

Rise & Shine awards!

The second edition of the Rise & Shine Animation Lab for young talents and their short films hosted 11 amazing projects. Among them four awards were given out.

Rise & Shine is a project development and pitching lab for first and second-time professional filmmakers with their short films (up to 20 minutes), organized by Animafest Zagreb and Animateka in collaboration with CEE Animation in three modules: focus on script, project follow-up, focus on pitch. The mentors of the third edition were director and animator Michael Dudok De Wit (NL), director and scriptwriter Pedro Rivero (ES), producer Jelena Popović (NFB, CA) and producer Anna Vašova (13ka, CZ).

 

The winning projects are:

 

CEE Animation Forum 2025 direct access award

The Molepire

Marek Čermák, Karolína Fránková, Films & Chips, Češka

 

Rise & Shine 2025 Audience Award

The Foolish Fish Fable

Yiyang Sun, ChiaHui Lei, Kitajska, Estonia Academy of Arts, Kitajska, Estonija

 

Film Centre of Montenegro Award of EUR 1500

Of Words and Waves

Valène De Valck, Bastien Martin, Camera-etc, Belgija

 

 

Attendance of the Short Film Market Clermont-Ferrand 2025

Countergrowth

Mackenzie Fincham, Peter Lindhout, Spotted Bird, Nizozemska

 

Mrs. Monster

Sofija Kruglikova, Maja Zupanc, Invida, Slovenija

 

Margareth

Vivien Hárshegyi, Bella Szederkényi, CUB Animation, Madžarska

 

Telegrams to the Tree

Julia Benedyktowicz, Grzegorz Waclavek, Animoon, Poljska

 

The Shoebox

Cristina Pîrvu, Helga Fodorean, Susana António, Safe Frame, COLA Animation, Romunija, Portugalska