Animation Is Film 2024 Winners Include Flow, Memoir of a Snail, and The Colors Within

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It’s already proven to everyone that animation is film. Yet, animated films are pushing the boundaries in both animation and storytelling.

At the Animation Is Film 2024, the film festival announced the winners of its seventh annual gathering.

Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow won the top honor with the Grand Prize. The stop-motion animated film Memoir of a Snail took home The Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award, tied with the Japanese animated film The Colors Within.

On the short film side, Wander to Wonder won the Grand Prize, and A Crab in the Pool got the Special Jury Prize.

“Without a word of dialogue, Gints Zilbalodis weaves sound, music and immersive animation to show how powerful the medium can be when coupled with the right story. Flow seriously considers how human actions are impacting the environment, and what effect that has on animals, centering their perspective in a way that only animation can,” wrote the Animation Is Film jury.

Flow was also the winner of the Jury Award at the 2024 Annecy International Animation Film Festival earlier this year.

For the Special Jury Prize winner, Memoir of a Snail, Adam Elliot captured the storytelling of hardships through his “clayography.”

“The distinctive personality of Adam Elliot’s stop-motion feat flows directly from its well-crafted screenplay. Wobbly lines and endearingly odd character designs work in concert with the film’s dark (but never despondent) sensibility, which embraces human imperfection and finds beauty in unlikely forms,” said the jury.

Other feature film competitors included Boys Go to Jupiter, The Colors Within, Ghost Cat Anzu, and Sultana’s Dream. The centerpiece film The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie was not eligible for any prize considerations.

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On the short film side, Wander to Wonder is directed by Nina Gantz that took the Grand Prize. It takes place in the 1980s with Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton starring in the children’s program Wander to Wonder. But, they are left alone in the studio after the show’s originator passed away.

The shorts jury pool wrote, “Bonkers in the best way possible, Nina Gantz’s profound meditation on grief won this jury over with its unique visual style and a sense of hope.”

As for the Special Jury Prize for Shorts, Jean-Sebastien Hamel and Alexandra Myottedirected A Crab in a Pool about family and loss.

The 2024 features jury included Kambole Campbell (journalist), Peter Debruge (head film critic of Variety), Carolyn Giardina (senior entertainment technology & crafts editor for Variety), Karen Ryan (producer of Nimona), and Drew Tayler (senior writer for The Wrap).

On the shorts jury side, they included Tom Caulfield (filmmaker), Nic West (chair of the John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts), and Ramin Zahed (editor-in-chief for Animation Magazine).

Source: Animation Is Film 2024

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