LONDON/BUCHAREST/TORONTO, October
10, 2012 – Awards for the 7th edition of Filminute, the international one-minute film
festival, were announced today. UK director Ant Blade's dramatic
and hilarious animation CHOP CHOP took top honours with the
jury, while fellow Brit Ben Jacobson's comic thriller, CANDY CRIME was the favourite selected
by Filminute’s voting public.
The 7-member
international jury which included Prasoon Joshi, Radu Jude, Arjun
Basu, Lenora Hume & Gyorgy Karpati, gave animation its strongest year ever
at the festival with Best Filminute as well as 3 of the 5 Jury Commendations
going to the animations M/W 9/11 (USA), A HERO'S TALE (UK), and Ant Blade’s
second film in the competition, WILDEBEEST (UK). The moving and
beautiful Dutch documentary SARINA and the darkly amusing Lithuanian
film CUT! rounded out the jury-commended
films at Filminute 2012.
The race for the People's
Choice award at Filminute 2012 was close right up to the finish with CANDY CRIME emerging as the winner, followed
by CIUDAD HELSING (Argentina) and THE KEY (Canada). Audiences from more
than 130 countries tuned in to watch this year’s collection.
The Top Rated film for
2012 was won by Georgian director Tamta Gabrichidze. Her stark and provocative film
LADY I received an impressive 4.8 rating
(out of 5) from the public.
“Comedy-driven animations and challenging dramatic works stood out at Filminute 2012,” said Filminute executive director and head of jury, John Ketchum. “It was also exciting to see the festival’s footprint continue to grow with particularly strong gains in the east - including Lithuania, Georgia, Turkey and Russia – as well as in South America, where Argentina, Colombia and Mexico continue to produce more one-minute films and bigger audiences.
The 7th edition
of the popular online-based short film festival saw social media again
demonstrate its power and reach. The festival saw a dramatic increase in the
number of festival mentions, reviews of films, and embeds of films on websites,
blogs and online media around the world. “Increasingly, independent filmmakers
are grasping the power that social media gives them to market their films.
Filminute provides an ideal test ground — arguably what works for a one-minute
film can work for a feature film when it comes to social media. Both the
filmmakers and our festival saw a great return on our social media
investments this year,” said co-executive director Sabaa Quao.
Every year, throughout the
month of September, Filminute presents an extraordinary array of 25 films
online and across a variety of media for festival-goers around the world to
enjoy, share and discuss.
More
information and full details are available at www.filminute.com. You may follow
Filminute on Twitter at http://twitter.com/filminute. On
Facebook, follow via http://www.facebook.com/filminute.
Congratulations
to the winners!
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Filminute press contacts:
John Ketchum: john.ketchum-AT-filminute.com
LIST OF THE 25
FILMS SHORTLISTED AT FILMINUTE 2012
Argentina
CIUDAD HELSING, Gustavo Cordero
Belgium
HOL VS. RUS, Piet Sonck
OEHOE, Ben Gijsemans
Brazil
A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE, Weyner Tristao
Canada
THE KEY, Randy Kelly,
France
COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL, Louise & Jeanne Traon
Georgia
LADY I, Tamta Garbrichidze *** TOP-RATED FILM
Germany
INDIAN MYSTERY, Christian Fischer
Israel
SCHNITZELS, Tal Haring
Lithuania
CUT!, Jonas Velutis *** JURY COMMENDATION
Netherlands
MACROMOUSE, Nicolas Stamboulopoulos
SARINA, Tara Fallaux & Stijn Ghijsen *** JURY COMMENDATION
Russia
BROTHERS, Anton Mironovich
TAKE A REST!, Natalia Mirzoyan
Sweden
BARGIRL, Renzo & Hanna Anerod
Turkey
LIGHT, Munir Dogan
UK
A HERO’S TALE, Nick Black *** JURY COMMENDATION
CANDY CRIME, Ben Jacobson *** PEOPLE’S CHOICE 2012
CHOP CHOP, Ant Blades *** BEST FILMINUTE 2012
FLIP BOOK, Richard Dunford
WILDEBEEST, Ant Blades *** JURY COMMENDATION
USA
FOLKLORE, Charles Yeager
M|W 9|11, James Kelly *** JURY COMMENDATION
STILL HERE, Rafael Morais & Vijessna Ferkic
THE END, Michael Darling
Best Filminute
People’s Choice
