Entry no. 23
SANTA’S CAMELS
U.S.A.
Short

2005 / Beta / Col / English / 6 mins / Animation

Caught in a desert sandstorm, Santa must enlist the aid of camels to deliver toys to the children of the Middle East.

First in a series of 3D animated cartoons, Santa’s Camels is non-religious holiday take on crosscultural cooperation.

STEVE GRAY is an award-winning illustrator and is recognized worldwide for his signature style - a wacky yet sly sense of humour and an uncanny eye for detail. His cartoon characters and designs have been published across the world in numerous print publications as well as in Beta media format for both web and broadcast. His commercial portfolio includes advertising work for Disney, Warner Brothers, American Express, MGM, AT&T, McDonald’s and Coca Cola among others.

Enquiries: Auntie Ra Productions, 2700 Cahuenga Blvd. no. 4321, Los Angeles, CA 90068, U.S.A.
Tel.: +1-323-8749658 Fax: +1-323-8742964
Email: attyrkent@aol.com

Direction: Steve Gray
Screenplay: Rahel Kent
Director of Photography: Tom Knight
Animation: Tom Knight
Editing: Maria Villarreal
Music: Heratch Touresian
Sound: Bruce M. Williams
Voice: Wesley Staples
Producer: Rahel Kent

Entry no. 30
DONKEYGIRL
THE NETHERLANDS
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / Dutch / EST / 13 mins 36 secs / Fiction

Twelve-year old Farouzi, a Dutch-Arabic girl is daydreaming while working at a fishery. She isn’t interested in the boys at the fishery; the only one that really means something to her is her donkey Soufiane, who always follows her. One day a girl comes by the fishery on a scooter. The arrival of this self-willed girl makes Farouzi jump on her donkey.

TIES SCHENK graduated in 2005 from the Dutch Film Academy having directed her dream project Docklands. She than developed a youth series which was broadcast on the national television channel VPRO. Earlier, she has also worked as an art director for several music videos and as an assistant director for the youth series Baasjes. She is currently developing a 9-episode television series.

Enquiries: Lemming Film, Kromme Mijdrechtstraat 110-3, 1079 LD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel.: +31-20-6610424 Fax: +31-20-6610979
Email: info@lemmingfilm.com
Website: www.lemmingfilm.com

Direction: Ties Schenk
Screenplay: Roslin Prager
Director of Photography: Diderik Evers
Editing: Peter Alderliesten
Music: David Dramm, Anne La Berge
Sound: Hein Verhoeven
Cast: Diula Rietveld Franken, Alomai Huisman
Producers: Matthijs ten Berge, Leontine Petit & Joost de Vries

Entry no. 40
FACING THE WIND
Margish et haruch
ISRAEL
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / Hebrew / EST / 50 mins / Documentary

During a family meal at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, ten-year old Oran Almog gets injured in an explosion caused by a suicide bomber. He loses his father, his brother, his grandparents, his cousin, and his eyesight. He now faces a new life as he begins to adapt to the sudden and terrible changes in his life. Oran inherited the love for the sea from his grandfather, and he dreams of establishing a sailing centre in his memory, a centre that will allow him to keep developing as a blind mariner. Many difficulties pile up on his way to adulthood, but Oran is not a quitter.

This is the story of a young teenager whose life was diverted from its course, as he tries to find a way to make his dreams come true and live a normal lie. The movie captures Oran's daily life and illustrates the way he deals with the world that surrounds him.

GILAD RESHEF completed his film studies from the Beit Berl Film School and is a cinematographer and director of various short films and documentaries. Some of his notable films include Closed Circle (2000), Driving to Tel Aviv is not Funny (2000), Back Yard (2003) and Release (2005).

Enquiries: NOA – International Film Marketing, 146/10 Arlozorov St., Tel Aviv, 62098, Israel
Tel.: +972-3-5233678 Fax: +972-9-9505416
Email: noaroll@bezeqint.net

Director: Gilad Reshef
Script: Gadi Aisen, Gilad Reshef
Directors of Photography: Tulik Galon, Gilad Reshef
Editing: Sharon Brook
Music: Ran Bagno
Sound: Idan Shemesh
Producer: Gadi Aisen

Entry no. 41
COLOURS
SINGAPORE
Short

2007 / Beta / Col / English / 9 mins / Fiction

To Megan, the world seems to be meaningless. She cannot tell the sky from the ground, the flowers from the leaves, the dull from the lively. She is colour-blind. Until one day, she chances upon a magical pair of glasses, which lets her see more colours than she ever imagined. This is a contemporary fairytale about a colour-blind girl’s struggle to find colours in her life, and when she does get more than she has hoped for, she learns that too much of a good thing is not really good either.

DERRICK LUI graduated with high distinctions in Media Studies from Murdoch University, Australia. He started his career at MTV Asia as a producer. He now works for the Singapore Ministry of Education, producing various corporate videos, dramas and documentaries for educational purposes.

LEE CHEE TIAN is an active freelance theatre practitioner. He is a versatile writer, director and actor in various stage and television productions.

Enquiries: Lee Chee Tian, Blk 336 Clementi Ave 2, #06-30, Singapore 120336
Tel.: +65-96440228 Fax: +65-67754394
Email: klctlee@singnet.com.sg

Direction: Derrick Lui, Lee Chee Tian
Screenplay: Lee Chee Tian
Director of Photography: Lim Beng Huat
Editing: Lawrence Ong
Music: Allen Lee
Sound: Arnold Dominik San Juan
Cast: Elise Delos Santos, Eunice Chew, Quek Yen Ling, J. F. Koh etc.
Producer: Lee Chee Tian

Entry no. 42
GARLIC BOY
U.S.A.
Short

2007 / DVD / Col / English / 6 mins 40 secs / Animation

A boy who is also a stalk of garlic! He goes out into the world to “do good for others”. Garlic Boy’s mother gives him a case of her special “garlic tonic” and the boy uses this tonic to cure folks of what ails them!

JOHN R. DILWORTH is a New York-based animation director and designer whose work has appeared on HBO, FOX, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, MTV, Canal +, and Arte, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. He has produced thirteen award-winning independent and sponsored films, which have been screened around the world, including The Dirdy Birdy, The Chicken From Outer Space, and Life in Transition. Dilworth is also the creator of the top-rated Cartoon Network series, Courage, the Cowardly Dog.

Enquiries: Stretch Films Inc., 464 Hudson Street no.184 NYC, NY 10014-2867, U.S.A.
Tel.: +1-212-6919969 Fax: +1-212-6477025
Email: john.dilworth@stretchfilms.com

Direction: John R. Dilworth
Screenplay: John R. Dilworth
Animation: John R. Dilworth
Sound: Michael Geisler
Producers: Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Random Cartoons, Stretch Films

Entry no. 44
THE TALLEST STORY COMPETITION
Farpais nan sgeul fuadain
INDIA / SCOTLAND
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / Scottish Gaelic / EST / 30 mins / Puppet Animation

This unique animated programme features well-known Gaelic mimic and comedian Norman MacLean as an animated puppet introducing five tall tales from the remote heartlands of tribal India. Not content with merely introducing the cartoons he also plays a number of parts in the stories – these include a raucous jackdaw, an underworld shaman, the humble House-Bonga and even the carnivorous Head-Bonga himself. So which is the tallest story? It is not an easy choice. Each film is made in a different and evocative Tribal Artwork style.

LESLIE MACKENZIE has been working as an animation artist since 1984; in 1988 she founded ‘West Highland Animation’ and has been directing and producing Gaelic animation films since then.

TARA DOUGLAS was born in Almora, India in 1969. In the early 1990s, she studied Animation at Farnham under Roger Noakes. She has produced several short 3D films and has also collaborated as an animator in several other projects.

NITIN DONDE is the Head of Department, Beta Heritage Lab, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has set up his own animation company called AAVS and has produced many animation shorts.

JIM STIRK was born in 1974 and lives in Edinburgh. He has been working as an animator since the last seven years and has been involved in all the levels of production from concept to post production.

Enquiries: West Highland Animation, Tuarach, Balquhidder by Lochearnhead, Perthshire, FK19 8PQ, Scotland
Tel. / Fax: +44-(0)1877384362
Email: lesmac@westhighlandanimation.co.uk

Direction: Leslie MacKenzie, Tara Douglas, Nitin Donde, Jim Stirk
Screenplay: Peter Hynes (Based on Tribal Stories)
Director of Photography: Leslie MacKenzie
Editing: Jim Sink
Music: Tribal musicians et al.
Producer: Leslie MacKenzie

Entry no. 70
GEORGE GROWS
Georg wachst
GERMANY
Short

2007 / Beta / Col / No Dialogue / 2 mins 24 secs / Animation

Little George is about one year old, when he experiences the shock of his life!

MARTIN SCHMIDT was born in the town of Fritzlar in Germany in 1983. In 2003, he commenced his studies in Visual Communication at the University of Art and Design in Kassel, Germany. His debut animation short Noise (2006) has been shown in film festivals worldwide. In December 2005, he produced the Sucking Loop at a semester workshop focusing on animated loops. Sucking Loop which went on to win the audience award at the Trickreich Exhibition (Caricatura Kassel).

Enquiries: Martin Schmidt, Philosophenweg 61, 34121 Kassel, Germany
Tel.: +49-561-2077859
Email: info@herrschmidt.tv Website: www.herrschmidt.tv

Direction: Martin Schmidt
Screenplay: Martin Schmidt
Director of Photography: Martin Schmidt
Animation: Martin Schmidt
Editing: Martin Schmidt
Sound: Martin Schmidt
Music: Martin Schmidt
Producer: Martin Schmidt

Entry no. 80
MECHANISM
Mehanisms
LATVIA
Short

2007 / Beta / Col / No Dialogue / 10 mins / Animation

A film about an astronaut’s experience in dream time and about a human being’s loneliness. After a spaceship crashes, some astronauts fall on a mysterious metal planet. But inside all metal planets there exists a mechanical clock – a heart of space. And it has stopped…

KARLIS VITOLS was born in 1979 in Riga. Some of his award-winning short animation films include The Red Glove (1998), Kloijhi (2000), The Trophy (2004), The Garden of Fetish (2006) etc. In the realm of painting and visual art, he has several group and solo exhibitions to his credit.

Enquiries: URGA, Annas 2, Riga, LV1001, Latvia
Tel.: +371-2-9597712
Email: 2annas@inbox.lv
Website: www.re-lab.lv/2annas

Direction: Karlis Vitols
Screenplay: Karlis Vitols
Art Direction: Karlis Vitols
Animation: Karlis Vitols, Ilze Ruska
Editing: Olegs Aleksejevs
Music: TOTEM & Ivars Vigners
Sound: Peteris Tenisons
Producer: Viesturs Graždanovicš

Entry no. 90
WHEREVER I GO THE SKY IS MINE
Har koja beravam asseman maal man haast
IRAN
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / Persian / EST / 20 mins / Documentary

The film depicts the leisure time of Afghan and Iraqi children who live as refugees in host cities of Iran.

MEHDI JAFARI was born in 1969. He studied filmmaking at the Art University and began his artistic career as a cinematographer and director. He has made several short films including Pilgrimage (1999), A Little Bit Higher, All Good Days (2006) etc.

Enquiries: Hejab St., Fatemi Ave., Tehran 14156, Iran
Tel.: +98-21-8967392 Fax: +98-21-8821121
Email: intl_affairs@jamejam.net
Website: http://kanoonnord.com

Direction: Mehdi Jafari
Script: Mehdi Jafari
Poetry: Sohrab Sepehri
Director of Photography: Mehdi Jafari
Editing: Mehdi Jafari
Sound recordist: Shahram Motevalibashi
Narration: S. Rezaei
Producer: KANOON (Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults)

Entry no. 119
THE MAGIC TREE: THE BROTHERS
Magiczne drzewo: Bracia
POLAND
Feature

2007 / Beta / Col / Polish / EST / 26 mins / Fiction

Somewhere in Europe there grew a huge tree, a Magic Tree! One day it was cut down and its wood was used to make many things: a sledge, furniture, toys and several other objects, each of them retaining some of the magic power. The day they are sent to the shops, amazing things begin to happen. In this instance, two brothers end up exchanging their roles!

ANDRZEJ MALESZKA is a director of over twenty films and television series besides being an author of numerous screenplays and children’s novels. An original trait of Maleszka’s films is his direct cooperation with child actors while preparing screenplays. His films enjoy considerable commercial success and are very popular with young audiences.

Enquiries: TVP S. A., 17 J. P. Woronicza Str., 00-999 Warsaw, Poland
Tel.: +48-22-5478501 Fax: +48-22-5474248
Email: sales@tvp.pl
Website: www.international.tvp.pl

Direction: Andrzej Maleszka
Screenplay: Andrzej Maleszka
Director of Photography: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Editing: Witold Chominski, Bartosz Karczynski
Music: Krzesimir Debski
Producer: TVP Film Agency

Entry no. 47
THE WET FAIRY STORY
Morkra bajeczka
POLAND
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / Polish / EST / 24 mins / Fiction

Story based on the themes related to the Polish Easter customs and traditions. Six-year-old boy, Jas meets a small Water Sprite in the bathroom while preparing for ‘smigus-dyngus’, a traditional day when people sprinkle each other with water commemorating the winter thaw and coming spring. The Water Sprite tells a story of a naughty boy…

WOJCIECH GIERLOWSKI started making films independently from 1991 with PIK-POK and Octopus followed by Alks from the North (parts of the Small Penguin PIK-POK series). He has over ten films to his credit.

Enquiries: TVP S. A., 17 J. P. Woronicza Str., 00-999 Warsaw, Poland
Tel.: +48-22-5478501 Fax: +48-22-5474248
Email: sales@tvp.pl
Website: www.international.tvp.pl

Direction: Wojciech Gierlowski
Screenplay: Antoni Bankowski, Stawomir Grabowski
Director of Photography: Jacek Lechtanski
Animation: Krzysztof Brzozowski, Wojciech Gierlowski
Editing: Jacek Lechtanski
Music: Andrzej Krauze
Sound: Wieslaw Nowak
Producer: Zbigniew Zmudzki

Entry no. 127
SHIP OF HOPE
Ceribu kugis
LATVIA
Short

2007 / Beta / Col / Latvian / EST / 8 mins / Animation

A film on a person’s loneliness amidst a crowd of people. The moment when you enter a crowd in order to be noticed, you become one among the crowd and have to play according to the crowd’s rules. A man tends to search for things which are right next to him. If people are meant for each other they will eventually find each other!

MARIS BRINKMANIS was born in 1975 and is one of the most promising animation filmmakers from Latvia. He has been working as an animator at the film studio “Animacijas Brigade” in Riga since 1997. He was awarded a Special Diploma for his animation short Magician (2001) at the 1st International Festival of Animated Films in Riga, Latvia.

Enquiries: Film studio “Animacijas Brigade” Ltd., 3 Šmerla Street, Riga, LV 1006, Latvia
Tel. / Fax: +371-7542939
Email: ab.studija@apollo.lv
Website: www.studio.lv

Direction: Maris Brinkmanis
Screenplay: Maris Brinkmanis
Camera: Evalds Lacis
Designer: Jolanta Milberga
Animation: Maris Brinkmanis
Music: Kristaps Cukurs
Sound: Normunds Deinats
Producer: Maris Brinkmanis

Entry no. 141
JUMBLE
Méli mes mots
BELGIUM
Short

2005 / Beta / Col / No dialogue / 3 mins 20 secs / Clay Animation

Funny geometrical characters of different colours do not manage to communicate. The situation worsens, a giant crack grows hollow and the various ethnic groups are jumbled up. Only solidarity will enable them to understand one another …

DOMINIQUE VAN HECKE was born in 1957. She studied photography at Saint-Luc High School. For the past twenty-three years, she has been is working at the ‘Camera Enfants Admis’ animation workshop.

Enquiries: Caméra-etc…, Rue de Visé 490, 4020 Liège-Wandre, Belgium Tel.: +32-4-2535997 Fax: +32-4-2525631 Email: info@camera-etc.be Website: www.camera-etc.be

Direction: Dominique Van Hecke and 17 children
Screenplay: 17 children
Art Direction: Dominique Van Hecke
Directors of Photography: Dominique Van Hecke and 17 children
Animation: 17 children
Editing: Dominique Van Hecke
Music: Mathieu Labaye
Sound: David Nelissen
Producer: Jean-Luc Slock

Entry no. 142
MY NEIGHBOUR AND ME
Ma voisine et moi
BELGIUM
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / No dialogue / 8 mins / Animation

A cicada and an ant live in the same building. Whereas the ant is very careful about preserving water and electricity, the cicada is not bothered about its power consumption. One morning, the cicada is left without water and electricity, but her letterbox is full of invoices!

The filmmakers have faced acute problems of power consumption. With the help of Louise-Marie Colon, they wanted to make an animation short in order to inform people about the little things that can easily reduce our energy bills.

LOUISE-MARIE COLON was born in 1976. She obtained her degree as a primary school teacher in 1997. She has received three nominations at the Animation Cinema Department of the National Superior School La Cambre in Brussels. While working as a primary school teacher, she also worked on animation and created puppets for the movie Barbe bleu by the collective workshop Zorobabel. Since October 2002, she has been working at the ‘Camera Enfants Admis’ animation workshop. Her filmography includes Paullette (2000), Tabernacle (2001), Petit (2002), The Broken Doll (2004) etc.

Enquiries: Caméra-etc…, Rue de Visé 490, 4020 Liège-Wandre, Belgium
Tel.: +32-4-2535997 Fax: +32-4-2525631
Email: info@camera-etc.be Website: www.camera-etc.be

Direction: Patricia, Naima, Yvette, Gerda, Marie-Claire and Viviane (with the help of Louise-Marie Colon)
Screenplay: Patricia, Naima, Yvette, Gerda, Marie-Claire and Viviane
Art Direction: Louise-Marie Colonv
Director of Photography: Louise-Marie Colon
Animation: Patricia, Naima, Yvette, Gerda, Marie-Claire and Viaviane
Editing: Louise-Marie Colon
Music: Fernand Troncoso
Sound: David Nelissen
Producer: Jean-Luc Slock

Entry no. 148
PIET AND FRIEDER
Piet und Frieder
GERMANY
Short

2004 / Beta / Col / No Dialogue / 5 mins 30 secs / Animation

Piet and Frieder both wish to build their homes on a mountain-top. But there’s place for only one house…

RUTH WEBER was born in 1976 in Klagenfurt. Having attended the School of Dance and Choreography in Barcelona since 1992, she went on to study at the School of Glassworks, Art and Design in Kramsach during 1996-1998. From 1999 to 2002, she worked as a project manager at New Media Productions in Munich. Since October 2003, she has been pursuing her animation studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

BASTIAN MATTES was born in 1982 in Villingen-Schwenningen and has been studying animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2003. Some of his previous works include Boléro (2000), E.L.F. (2001), Sommertag (2003), Teatime (2003) etc.

Enquiries: Eva Steegmayer, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mathildenstrasse 20, 71638 Ludwigsburg, Germany
Tel.: +49-7141-969103 Fax: +49-7141-96955103
Email: festivals@filmakademie.de
Website: www.filmakademie.de

Direction: Ruth Weber, Bastian Mattes
Screenplay: Ruth Weber
Director of Photography: Bastian Mattes
Animation: Ruth Weber
Editing: Bastian Mattes
Music: Thomas Hinke
Sound: Thomas Hinke, Johannes Kümmel
Producer: Ulrike Kreutzer

Entry no. 154
YOU NEVER LISTEN
U.K.
Short

2005 / Beta / b&w / English / 3 mins / Animation

Eight-year old Shirley decides to escape from her life one afternoon! Frustrated by misunderstandings at home, Shirley sees her chance to flee and quite impetuously, decides to run away from the world that she knows; never looking back.

ALYS HAWKINS was born in the heat wave of 1976 and grew up in Southampton, UK. She pursued her film studies at Northumbria University in Newcastle and completed her MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art, London in 2002. Several of her films have won awards at festivals worldwide. Some of her notable shorts include Bun in the Oven (1999), Hysteria (2001), Crying & Wanking (2002) etc. She is currently working in a railway arch in Southampton, juggling a number of new projects.

Enquiries: Creative Film Productions, 68 Conway Road, London NI4 7BE, U.K.
Tel.: +44-20-84478187
Email: phildavies@creativefilm.co.uk

Direction: Alys Hawkins
Screenplay: Alys Hawkins, Sarah Lewcock
Animation: Elroy Simmons, Alys Hawkins
Editing: Emiliano Battista
Music: Alexis Bennett
Sound: Philippe Ciompi
Voices: Charlotte Hooper, Aidan Stringfellow, Abigail Flynn, Cherrie Clarke, Darius McArdle, Jacob Hutchins
Producer: Phil Davies

Entry no. 155
MAGIC TREE: THE PAIR
Magiczne drzewo: Para
POLAND
Short

2007 / Beta / Col / Polish / EST / 26 mins / Fiction

Another story from the Magic Tree cycle, this time involving a pair of shoes.

ANDRZEJ MALESZKA is a director of over twenty films and television series besides being an author of numerous screenplays and children’s novels. An original trait of Maleszka’s films is his direct cooperation with child actors while preparing screenplays. His films enjoy considerable commercial success and are very popular with young audiences.

Enquiries: TVP S. A., 17 J. P. Woronicza Str., 00-999 Warsaw, Poland
Tel.: +48-22-5478501 Fax: +48-22-5474248
Email: sales@tvp.pl
Website: www.international.tvp.pl

Direction: Andrzej Maleszka
Screenplay: Andrzej Maleszka
Director of Photography: Arkadiusz Tomiak
Editing: Witold Chominski, Bartosz Karczynski
Music: Krzesimir Debski
Producer: TVP Film Agency

Entry no. 157
ORDINARY JOYS
Obycajné radosti
SLOVAKIA
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / Slovak / EST / 19 mins 7 secs / Documentary

Seven year old Veronica regularly goes to school but she is different from her friends. She suffers from the Down’s Syndrome. Ever since she was born, her parents have given her special care and a lot of love. It was maybe in reward for their conscientiousness that they have discovered the girl’s prodigious acting talent. The girl has become the youngest member of a unique drama group – The Theatre from the Passage – comprising of mentally disabled actors. She can make use of her potential and share her incredibly strong theatrical experiences with the people. She can now travel and live in her own world. This documentary is a story of the ordinary joys of this small actress and her family.

KATARÍNA KOCALKOVÁ was born in 1978. In 2004, she studied documentary and feature filmmaking at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. In 2005, she represented the Slovak Republic at the Videus workshop in Germany. One of her notable documentary films is My Aunty Timrava, a film about Slovakia’s most famous female author.

Enquiries: Jana Pupáková, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Horná 94, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Tel: +421-48-4143301 Fax: +421-48-4145109
Email: pupakova@aku.sk / Website: www.aku.sk

Direction: Katarína Kocalková
Script: Katarína Kocalková
Director of Photography: Katarína Kocalková, Vlad’a Hradecká
Editing: Katarína Kocalková
Music: Robert Mankovecký, Peter Vanoucek
Sound: Kost’a
Producer: FDU Akadémia umení, Banská Bystrica

Entry no. 168
DANDELION, BIONICS – TECHNOLOGY FROM NATURE
Löwenzahn, Bionik – Technik aus Natur
GERMANY
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / German / EST / 24 mins 23 secs / Docu-Fiction

Mr Paschulke is disturbed to discover that Fritz’ dog Keks has ruined his freshly painted garage. Now it’s up to Fritz to repaint his neighbour’s property. If only the garage wall could repel the dirt and stay clean, just like the cress leaves that somehow never get dirty. Very clean indeed! A phenomenon of this plant that science has long discovered and applied to wall paint as well. Fritz decides he should get his hands on this type of paint.

Nature provides many such wonders which human beings try to emulate in their inventions. One by one, Fritz discovers Nature’s fascinating bag of tricks.

WOLFGANG EIßLER was born in 1971 in Germany. He has recently been involved in the domain of direction and writing for film and television, his previous works include the short film Boy meets girlS (2002) and more recently, Löwenzahn (2007), a four-part television series.

Enquiries: ZDF, Löwenzahn, 55100 Mainz, Germany
Tel.: +49-61-31702237 Fax: +49-61-31702084
Email: lenssen.m@zdf.de

Direction: Wolfgang Eißler
Screenplay: Kai Rönnau
Director of Photography: Martin Meyer
Editing: Remo Trerotola
Music: Eike Hosenfeld, Moritz Denis
Cast: Guido Hammesfahr, Helmut Krauss etc.
Producer: Studio TV (for ZDF)

Entry no. 169
LITTLE SPACE
INDIA
Short

2007 / DVD / Col / No dialogue / 5 mins / Live Action

The film depicts the experience of a mentally challenged boy while travelling in a train. In this busy world, people hardly find time to show their concern towards under privileged souls. However, some rare positive gestures become infectious. A mentally challenged boy has played the lead role in this film.

GEETA ILANGOVAN is an officer in the Indian Information Service and she is presently working for the Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. In 2005, she had won the Sarojini Naidu Award for Best Reporting on Women and Panchayati Raj. She is an active member of a women’s organization called Koodu. Little Space is her debut film.

Enquiries: B. Ilangovan, 468-A, Vaigai Club Road Railway Colony, Madurai 625020, Tamil Nadu, India
Tel.: +91-9443918808
Email: ilangovaniras@yahoo.co.uk

Direction: Geeta Ilangovan
Director of Photography: Ranganathan
Editing: Anand
Music: Selvaa
Sound: Christopher
Cast: Karthik, Geeta Ilangovan, Anandi, Rose Mugilan
Producer: B. Ilangovan

Entry no. 171
MARTA AND HER FLYING GRANDFATHER
Marta und der fliegende Großvater
GERMANY
Feature

2006 / Beta / Col / German / EST / 60 mins / Fiction

Nine year old Marta is sent to her beloved grandfather's house in the country. Once she arrives, she finds that this once familiar world has become very different. Marta is soon reacquainted with her eccentric grandfather Janosch, but something is wrong. Although he has always been unconventional, Janosch's behaviour becomes extremely worrying when he begins to forget simple things and when he starts to put his clothes on backwards and inside-out!

CHRISTIAN SCHWOCHOW was born in 1978 in Bergen on the German island Ruegen. After graduation, he worked as an author, announcer and reporter for various broadcasting stations in Berlin. Since 2002, Schwochow has been studying Film Direction at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg. Marta and her Flying Grandfather is his debut feature film.

Enquiries: Eva Steegmayer, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mathildenstrasse 20, 71638 Ludwigsburg, Germany
Tel.: +49-7141-969103 Fax: +49-7141-96955103
Email: festivals@filmakademie.de
Website: www.filmakademie.de

Direction: Christian Schwochow
Screenplay: Christian Schwochow, Heide Schwochow
Director of Photography: Frank Lamm
Editing: Frank Brandstetter
Music: Suzanne Piesker
Cast: Malina Schreiber, Hermann Beyer, Frank Jacob, Stephanie Kämmer et al.
Producer: Matthias Adler

Entry no. 174
THE WORLD IS ROUND
Die erde ist rund
SWITZERLAND / POLAND
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / No Dialogue / 4 mins 58 secs / Animation

Not being sure if the world is round, an old man embarks upon a journey full of obstacles and boundaries to overcome.

JADWIGA KRYSTYNA was born in 1982. She studied animation at the University of Applied Sciences of Central Switzerland during 2003-07. Currently, she is working at Cinemagination on the project Max & Co. by the Guillaume Brothers. The World is Round has already been shown in over twenty five international film festivals and has bagged a couple of awards.

Enquiries: Gerd Gockell, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Luzern (HGKL), Baselstrasse 61, CH-6003, Lucerne, Switzerland
Tel.: +41-41-2287584 Fax: +41-41-2287936
Email: ggockell@hgk.fhz.ch
Website: www.hgk.fhz.ch

Direction: Jadwiga Krystyna Kowalska [Inspired by die Erde ist rund by Peter Bichsel]
Title Animation: Miguel Marinheiro
Music: Emmanuel Da Silva, Jean-Louis Murat
Sound: Wolf-Ingo Römer
Producer: Gerd Gockell

Entry no. 179
BONIFÁC AND THE MIRACULOUS ANGEL
Bonifác a zázracný andel
SLOVAKIA
Short

2006 / Beta / Col / Slovak / EST / 40 mins / Fiction

Bonifác experiences a Christmas full of wonderful, funny and enlightening events, after having been visited by a magical angel.

Bonifác and the Miraculous Angel is based on an old Slovak folk-play and attempts to explore the question of whether the magic and meaning of Christmas are hidden. Is it the snow, the frost, the Christmas tree, the nativity scene or the presents that makes the celebration of the birth of the God’s son so special?

IGOR PARGÁC (b. 1970) graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava and teaches religion and ethics at an elementary school in Slovakia. For more than ten years, he has been leading the local Rondo theatre, where he staged the plays Maranatha, The Inspector General, Salome etc. Among his recent accomplishments is the documentary film Skade si chlapce (Where Are You From, Lad?) about the Jewish Holocaust and the camaraderie between Christians and Jews before and during the Second World War.

Enquiries: Igor Pargác, Belince 71, 95612 Presel’any, Slovakia
Email: i.pargac@post.sk

Direction: Igor Pargác
Screenplay: Igor Pargác
Director of Photography: Michal Kondrla
Editing: Juraj Monošík
Music: Juraj Haško
Cast: Daniel Hayden, Marcela Benová, Adela Gáborová, Jozef Dóczy
Producer: Obcianské združenie SIPKA

Entry no.225
POOPY
INDIA
Short

2006 / DVD / Col / Malayalam / EST / 39 mins / Animation

Poopy, the little puppy explores the world out of curiosity. His explorations teach him new lessons about living beings and the social order around him. He is always doubtful and asks questions on each and everything he feels strange. In fact, his questions lead him to great answers that are scientific truths.

Poopy is a metaphorical representation of a curious child who is always eager to learn about the world around him. Through its unique message the animation video intends to inculcate scientific temper among children. Poopy’s explorations of the world teach that science is everywhere and around you. The programme anchored by an animated doll Twinkle includes seven stories and four songs including a title song, two folk songs and a musical.

MADHU K. S. was born in 1970. He has to his credit numerous animation films including several children’s film series. His previous short films include Forbidden Spring (2002), Princess of Persia (2003) etc. His children’s animation series Twinkle Twinkle (2006) won the Best Children’s Programme award at the Kids’ TV Awards instituted by the National Film Academy, Trivandrum. He is also actively associated in several interactive multimedia projects and is the creative director of the Toonz Animation India website.

Enquiries: Hibiscus Design, Evra-109, Elanjimoodu Lane, Edappazhinji, Thiruvananthapuram 695014, Kerala, India
Tel.: +91-471-2321324
Email: info@hibiscusmedia.com

Direction: Madhu K. S.
Screenplay: K. S. Manu
Art Direction: Sunilkumar B.
Animation: Rajesh Amal, Jacob Ooommen
Editing: Sujith Sahadevan
Music: Ronnie Rapahel, Sabu Thomas, Murukesan
Sound: Rajesh V. K.
Voices: Devayani V. K., Kavitha S.
Producer: Hibiscus Design

Entry no. 227
GAAJ… CALL OF THE OCEAN
INDIA
Short

2006 / DVD / Col / Marathi / Dubbed in English / 43 mins / Documentary

A journey with the local school children in an attempt to understand the marine life of the Konkan region. The film attempts to reveal the relationship between the children living on the coast and the sea. Children involved themselves in Olive Ridley turtle conservation. Thrilled upon observing the dolphins and the rich underwater life, they volunteered to launch a Dolphin Club, a first step towards marine conservation.

Besides the rich underwater world of the region, the film captures the scintillating beauty of the dolphins, green turtles, olive ridley turtles, wintering migratory seagulls, sea eagles, swiftlets etc.

ARTI KULKARNI is a wildlife journalist and filmmaker. She has worked with a few social organizations and has also assisted in the editing of the pioneering wildlife publication in Marathi, Shravan. Having worked for the Maharashtra Times and the Marathi news channel TARA, she covered many wildlife conservation issues in Maharashtra. The organization, Shekru, founded by her engages itself with documentation of wildlife in Maharashtra, raising moral and financial support for conservation groups across the state and educating children about environment in a friendly and informal manner.

Enquiries: Arti Kulkarni, B-604 Rajanigandha, Vasantvihar, Pokhran-2, Thane West
Tel.: +91-(0)9869017117
Email: shekru@rediffmail.com

Direction: Arti Kulkarni
Script: Arti Kulkarni
Director of Photography: Dileep Dongre, Shailendra, Aniruddha Joshi
Underwater Camera: Anees Edanwala, Sarang Kulkarni
Editing: Sameer Patil, Anthony Benzreid
Producer: Arti Kulkarni

Entry no.253
KALYANI
INDIA
Feature

2006 / Beta / Col / Malayalam / EST / 89 mins / Fiction

A story about the friendship between a middle-aged woman who is bereaving her husband and a young beggar boy. The boy does not know what it is like to lose someone so close because he has never had any family ties. Kalyani has never known anyone like Baiju, without a home or a family. Yet in some intangible way, both these individuals are able to relate to each other and reach out in compassion. The boy helps Kalyani overcome her mourning and Kalyani endows Baiju with the trust and affection that he has never experienced before.

ANJALI MENON studied film direction, production and editing at the London International Film School, UK. She also has a Masters degree in Communication Studies from the University of Pune. She has worked on numerous documentary, corporate and television programs. In London, she collaborated with Channel 4’s documentary team covering South Asian cultural issues. Her independent ventures include a documentary made for ‘Friends without Borders’, a world peace organization besides several corporate films, commercials etc.

Enquiries: Little Films (India) Pvt. Ltd., Office no. 4, 4th floor, Behramji Mansion, Sir PM Road, Fort, Mumbai 400001, India
Tel. / Fax: +91-22-66338330
Email: info@littlefilmsindia.com
Website: www.littlefilmsindia.com

Direction: Anjali Menon
Screenplay: Anjali Menon
Art Direction: Sulini Nair
Director of Photography: N. Srinivasan
Editing: Amrita A. K.
Music: Palakkad Suryanarayanan
Sound: Manoj
Producer: Anjali Menon

Entry no. 263
DONKEY OLLIE
U.S.A.
Feature

2006 / 35mm / Col / English / 76 mins / Animation

Donkey Ollie is based on a biblical story about a lovable little donkey.

Brian Stewart was born in California in 1942. A plein-air painter, his motto is: A Living Artist Who Paints Like a Dead One.

Enquiries: DQ Entertainment Ltd., 644, Aurora Colony, Road No.3, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500 034, India
Tel.: +91-40-23553726 Fax: +91-40-23552594
Email: dq@dqentertainment.com

Direction: Doug Aberle, Brian Stewart
Screenplay: Brian Stewart
Director of Photography: Doug Aberle
Editor: Matt Gaughn
Animator: Doug Aberle
Executive Producer: Brian Stewart
Producers: Car Angel & Boat Angel