[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1604432445271{margin-right: 5px !important;margin-left: 5px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”4\/6″][vc_custom_heading source=”post_title” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image source=”featured_image” img_size=”full”][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This year’s edition of the Rise & Shine workshop for young talents and their short films hosted 11 amazing projects. The awards were given out tonight.<\/p>\n
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, Animateka and CEE Animation in three modules: focus on script, project follow-up, focus on pitch. The mentors of the fourth edition were director and scriptwriter Pedro Rivero (ES), producer Jelena Popovi\u0107 (NFB, CA), and producer Anna Va\u0161ova (13ka, CZ).<\/p>\n
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The winning projects are:<\/p>\n
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Cinefila Festival Distribution Award <\/strong><\/p>\n Stormsurge<\/p>\n Anna T\u0151k\u00e9s, Balint Gelley, CUB Animation, Hungary<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Film Centre of Montenegro Award <\/strong><\/p>\n Runaway Heart<\/p>\n Mery Gobec, Nata\u0161a Vugrinec, Studio Virc, Slovenia<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CEE Animation Forum 2026 Award <\/strong><\/p>\n Family Recipe<\/p>\n Lou-Anne G\u00e9rard, Titouan Tillier, Frigo Films, France<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Selection to International Short Film Market Clermont-Ferrand 2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n Runaway Heart<\/p>\n Mery Gobec, Nata\u0161a Vugrinec, Studio Virc, Slovenia<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lovers in a Dangerous Time<\/p>\n Daniel Sterlin-Altman, Alexandre de Paillerets, Une bo\u00eete de plus, France, Germany<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Redefining Island<\/p>\n Julie \u010cern\u00e1, Michaela Re\u017eov\u00e1, Pure Shore, Czechia<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Daylight<\/p>\n Ayala Shoshana Guy, Fabian Driehorst, Fabian&Fred, Germany, Denmark<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stormsurge<\/p>\n Anna T\u0151k\u00e9s, Balint Gelley, CUB Animation, Hungary<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rise & Shine Audience Award 2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n Redefining Island<\/p>\n Julie \u010cern\u00e1, Michaela Re\u017eov\u00e1, Pure Shore, Czechia[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”Back” style=”classic” shape=”square” color=”black” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.animateka.si%2F2026%2Fen%2F|title:Latest%20News|”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/6″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_basic_grid post_type=”post” max_items=”10″ element_width=”12″ gap=”0″ item=”791″ initial_loading_animation=”none” grid_id=”vc_gid:1765057890455-172d125c-0682-4″ taxonomies=”1″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year’s edition of the Rise & Shine workshop for young talents and their short films hosted 11 amazing projects. The awards were given out tonight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-templates\/post_full.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28036,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28030\/revisions\/28036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2026\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}News<\/h3>\n