Rise & Shine awards!

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