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Wood Child & Hidden Forest Mother won two awards at the London International Animation Festival. Thanks to Nag and the team, and the jury Sophie Koko-Gate, Chris Shepherd and Max Hattler.
"The festival juries (several of the world most prestigious members of the animation community) locked horns over 10 days of screenings as they battled it out to decide which films were chosen as the Best of the Festival. For the first time in the history of LIAF a film won both the best British film and the best film of the festival. That was Stephen Irwin's Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother."
Jury statements:
"Nature in technicolour, a savage, who is savaged by their own kin. We loved this wild unpredictable storyline full of colour and darkness. Survival, motherhood, death and beyond to alternate dimensions, parallel lives – we’ve never seen anything like it before, truly unique. Think twice before shooting a rainbow goblin in the woods."
"This film confused and delighted us in equal amounts. Propelled by a triumphant orchestral score it takes us into the depths of weirdness where birth and death meet in an endless cycle of rainbows, blood and breast-milk."
My thank you message, screened at the awards ceremony...
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"The Grand Prix went to Wood Child & Hidden Forest Mother by Stephen Irwin (UK). The award includes a 1 million yen prize (US$9600).
The festival received 2,174 entries from 91 countries this year. From that, 100 short films and 5 features were selected. The international jury - Naohiro Ukawa, Hiroko Tasaka and AC-Bu - also presented numerous other awards, including those for new talent and Japan competition categories."
BIG thanks to Rooftop Films who awarded Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother one of their filmmaker grants.
"The Kayla Thomas Filmmaker grant, in commemoration of our dear friend
and teammate, will be rewarded every year to one or more Rooftop Films
alumni filmmakers to help them to complete a short or feature film that
communicates the power of hope, collaboration and togetherness to make
positive change. As we were creating this grant we knew we wanted to
help new films get made, and particularly to support films that we
thought would make Kayla happy."
Full list of awards in this Variety article.
They gave The Obvious Child a grant a few years back, helping get the film finished and out there. Now they've done it again with Wood Child. Great bunch!