2nd Open Russian Festival of Animated Films

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.

Open Russian Festival of Animated Film
Date1997
LocationTarusa
CountryRussia
Websitehttp://www.suzdalfest.ru

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

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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

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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)

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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

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  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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