2nd Open Russian Festival of Animated Films

Open Russian Festival of Animated Film
Open Russian Festival of Animated Film
Date	1997
Location	Tarusa
Country	Russia
Website	http://www.suzdalfest.ru
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The 2nd Open Russian Festival of Animated Films was held in 1997 at a boarding house called "Birch Grove" near the town of Tarusa, Russia. Animated works from the past three years from the Russian Federation were accepted.

The prizes were handed out according to profession, and any member or guest of the festival was able to vote for their favourite film.

Despite the growing economic crisis in the country, it marked an artistic high point in the Russian animation field in the 1990s, and the high quality of the films attracted the attention of the national mainstream media.^[1]

Jury

English	Profession(s)
Fyodor Khitruk	director, animator
Nikolai Izvolov	cinematologist, film historian
Eduard Nazarov	director, artist, animator
Yuriy Norshteyn	director, artist, animator, teacher
Aleksandr Florenskiy	artist

Prizes of the Jury

Award	Recipient(s)	Film(s)	Links
Best Direction (shared)	Mikhail Aldashin Михаил Алдашин	The Nativity Рождество (Rozhdestvo)	[1]
Best Direction (shared)	Yuriy Cherenkov Юрий Черенков	The Great Migration Большая миграция (Bolshaya migratsiya)	[2]
Best Scenario	Nadezhda Kuzhushanaya Надежда Кожушаная	Grandmother Бабушка (Babushka) The Pink Doll Розовая кукла (Rozovaya kukla)	[3], [4]
Best Art Direction	Zoya Trofimova Зоя Трофимова	The Nativity Рождество (Rozhdestvo)	[5]
Best Animator of a Drawn Film	Aleksandr Petrov Александр Петров	The Mermaid Русалка (Rusalka)	[6]
Best Animator of a Puppet Film	Olga Panokina Ольга Панокина	Abraham Авраам (Avraam) Joseph Иосиф (Iosif)	[7], [8]
Best Camera Operator	Aleksandr Vikhanskiy Александр Виханский	Abraham Авраам (Avraam)	[9]
Best Character	Igor Oleynikov Игорь Олейников for the character "Iona"	Iona Иона	[10]
Best Debut	Andrey Zolotukhin Андрей Золотухин	Grandmother Бабушка (Babushka)	[11]
"Breakthrough" Prize	Valentin Olshvang	The Pink Doll Розовая кукла (Rozovaya kukla)
Best Commercial	Andrey Karpenko	The Dragonfly Стрекоза (Strekoza) The Sausage is Late Колбаса опаздывает (Kolbasa opazdyvayet)	[12], [13]

Rating (by audience vote)

Position	Film	Director	Points
1	The Nativity Рождество (Rozhdestvo)	Mikhail Aldashin	433
2	The Great Migration Большая миграция (Bolshaya migratsiya)	Yuriy Cherenkov	323
3	The Mermaid Русалка (Rusalka)	Aleksandr Petrov	228
4	The Pink Doll Розовая кукла (Rozovaya kukla)	Valentin Olshvang	218
5	Grandmother Бабушка (Babushka)	Andrey Zolotukhin	128
6	Joseph Иосиф (Iosif)	Aida Zyablikova	121
7	The Song About Unrequited Love to the Motherland Песня о безответной любви к родине (Pesnya o bezotvetnoy lyubvi k rodine)	?	50
8	Kings and Cabbage [14] Короли и капуста (Koroli i kapusta)	Mariya Muat	46
9	The Pilot Brothers Cook Macaroni[15] Братья Пилоты готовят макарончики (Bratya Piloty gotovyat makaronchiki)	Aleksandr Tatarskiy	44
10	The Life of a Grey Bear[16] Жизнь серого медведя (Zhizn serovo medvedya)	Eduard Belyayev	31

References

^ Malyukova, Larisa. Сверхкино. 2013, p.301. (Viewable version of the book available here or here): "In 1997 at the second Open Russian Festival for Animated Film in Tarusa, it was unexpectedly discovered that animation not only had not disappeared from the face of the Russian land (there had even been the idea to stage its national funeral), but, on the contrary, had found the remarkable strength for the strongest creative leap. The festival turned into an unforgettable fireworks display of movie events, new names, genres and styles and visions that would determine the future vectors of development of the art. Against the background of a clearly bewildered and pale [Russian] live-action cinema, sunken in the grip of economic and political turmoil, the animators attracted unprecedented attention. The contemporary animated films were talked about not only on the pages of specialist publications, but on TV as well. Newspapers and magazines of the widest circulation started talking about animation, such as "Kommersant", "Izvestia", "Matador", which had not previously been noted connoisseurs of this soulful art."

External links

Full list of submissions (some can be watched online)
Official website with the results

[1] Malyukova, Larisa. Сверхкино. 2013, p.301. (Viewable version of the book available here or here): "In 1997 at the second Open Russian Festival for Animated Film in Tarusa, it was unexpectedly discovered that animation not only had not disappeared from the face of the Russian land (there had even been the idea to stage its national funeral), but, on the contrary, had found the remarkable strength for the strongest creative leap. The festival turned into an unforgettable fireworks display of movie events, new names, genres and styles and visions that would determine the future vectors of development of the art. Against the background of a clearly bewildered and pale [Russian] live-action cinema, sunken in the grip of economic and political turmoil, the animators attracted unprecedented attention. The contemporary animated films were talked about not only on the pages of specialist publications, but on TV as well. Newspapers and magazines of the widest circulation started talking about animation, such as "Kommersant", "Izvestia", "Matador", which had not previously been noted connoisseurs of this soulful art."

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