Japan Wildlife Film Festival 2011

I love wildlife film festivals, they always have many awards and gifts! Today I received a 3,3 kg package from the Japan Wildlife Film Festival with all kinds of cool things inside..

The black object on the right is a wooden box!

A poster for my film in japanese!

This is Ludvig.. he's a bit confused..

Ludvig with the award..

It says "Best Children's award"

There was also a nice letter and a report including a list all the winners.. Looking at the cover of this report I see now that the award also has a practical side and can be used as a vase.. hee :)

 The Great Grey Shrike with japanese subtitles!

The box on a confusingly black backround..

 

Ottawa International Animation Festival 2011

Chintis happened to visit Canada just recently. Some sort of festival and-so-on.. Canada is on the other side of the planet.. so it makes a lot of sense that everything around there is just strange and without much logic. I didn't get to meet the famous killer-squirrels but I did see some local people:

So this is one of those really important architectural pictures every tourist should take.. with some people in the foreground as an extra.. The person on the left is Pierre and the strange boy on the right is Frederick. Frederick won the award for best narrative short. 

These are the awards..

Also I happened to ride a bus one day.. It was nice and green inside. The girl at the front of the bus is Desiree Stavracos.. 

Some more people I met at the festival.. I think they're all americans.. 

Carolyn London

Shami and Stephan.. 

Adam Fisher.. He made this:

Jerry Beck from Cartoon Brew

Joan Gratz

Chintis, Joanna Priestly, Joan Gratz and some silly barn swallows..

Joannas film from the festival:

Mati Kütt. Americans for some reason are not able to pronounce the letter "ü".. so most of the time he was just Mati Kutt..

The trailer for his most recent film:

Benjamin.. and in front of him was sitting a little girl called Stephanie Delazeri who's animation was one of my big favourites from the festival. Sadly it's not online.. yet. But here's a picture at least..

Desiree again..

Ashley.. our driver.. She also makes soap

Madi Piller and some other funky ladies I met at the festival..

In the foreground: Hildegard.. 

And here's someone I didn't meet..

and some more of strange canadians..

And now some really superluks films that I saw at the festival:

"My MY" by Lei Lei. It's pure awsomeness.. It's worth also taking a look at his other works.

Heliotropes by Michael Langan

One day a Man Bought a House by Pjotr Sapegin.. It's from 1998

Paint Showers by Miguel Jiron

Bout by Malcolm Sutherland

I'm sure I forgot to mention something important.. So you should check back for a vol 2 of this post..

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Leevikeste poksimatš - Bullfinch boxing

Leevike-must toonekurg-hüüp-tuumafüüsika

Esimesel septembril Märzis / On the first of september at März

Esimesel septembril, mis on täiesti juhtumisi neljapäev, kell seitse õhtul on absoluutselt võimalik vaadata ära ühe korraga terve hunnik Chintise animatsioone ning pärast kuulata bla-bla-bla-d teemal kuidas sattus Chintis animatsioonimaailma ja miks ta joonistab just seda mida ta joonistab ja well.. sa võid tulla ja ise küsida tähtsaid küsimusi.

Skriining ja artist talk toimuvad März projektiruumis.. Olevimägi 7, Tallinnas loomulikult.. allpool on ka visuaalne informatsioon tänava ja ruumide asetsemise osas.

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See on ilmselgelt karp.. It's clearly a box..

Müstiline sinisevärviline karp..

Mysterious blue box..

Karbi sisevaade..

Inside-view of the box..

Tegemist on märkimisväärselt vajaliku karbiga..

It's clearly a very useful box..

...Vahepealseid tähtsaid uudiseid..

Jaapanist peaks loodetavasti juba üsna varsti Chintiseni jõudma trofee.. trofee on ütlemata jabura kõlaga sõna..  Nimelt võitis Hallõgija Jaapani Loodusfilmide Festivalil auhinna parima lastefilmi eest. Olen täiesti täheldanud, et loodusfilmilistel festivalidel on tavaks välja anda kohutavalt palju auhindu.. Justmainitud festivalil näiteks anti kolmekümne viie filmi kohta välja kolmkümmend viis auhinda.. heh.. :)   ja Matsalus kestis auhinnatseremoonia kaks tundi, mille käigus anti välja 20 auhinda ja lugematu hulk osavõtudiplomeid.. ja Slovakkias anti viimati välja 19 auhinda ja kindlasti on vahepeal toimunud veel hulgaliselt loodusfilmide festivale kus on antud välja isegi rohkem auhindu..

Ja teine uudis on, et Sünnipäev valiti Ottawasse ja Ottawa Animation Festival on üks üsna suur ja tähtis festival.. nii suur ja tähtis, et Chintisel ei jää muud üle kui sinna kohale lennata kuigi üle ookeani lendamine võtab aega kaheksa tundi ja enne ookeani ületamist tuleb lennata veel risti-rästi igale poole ja kohale jõudes on Kanadas alles keskpäev kuigi vahepeal on möödunud kohutav arv tunde ja kindlasti on kohutav uni aga festivali alguses ei või ju ometi hotellis voodi all norsata.



Kolmas uudis on, et süntersaatori taga istus viimati juba kolm suitsupääsukest, kellest nüüdseks on kaks (Manfred ja Eugen) jälle kaduma läinud..

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...The latest in the category of important news...

A trophy from Japan should reach Chintis really soon.. the word trophy has a strangely nice ring to it.. The Great Grey Shrike won an award for the best childrens film at the Japan Wildlife Film Festival. The thing I really like about wildlife and nature film festivals is that they tend to give out massive amounts of awards. The Japan Wildlife Film Festival had 35 finalists and also 35 awards.. how great is that! :)   Also the Matsalu Nature Film Festival last year had an award ceremony that lasted for two hours and they handed out 20 awards and countless of participation-diplomas. In Slovakia they gave out 19 awards this year.. and I bet that in the meantime there were also many more nature film festivals out there that gave out even more awards..

Another big news is that Birthday was selected to the Ottawa Animation Festival which is a really big and important festival.. well in fact so big and important that Chintis absolutely has to fly over there.. even though it takes about eight hours to cross the ocean and a lot more hours to fly from one place to another before that and well.. it seems that strangely.. after all that flying it still will be only noon in Canada by the time I reach it and I will definitely be totally exhausted and sleepy by then but no way you can spend the beginning of the festival sleeping under a bed in a hotel..

And thirdly.. the last time I happened to pass the cheap synthesizer standing in the next room already three barn swallows had shown up to play it.. but two of them, named Manfred and Eugen, have since then disappeared..