For the first time ever an animated film has been awarded the Grand Prix at the International Short Film Festival Siena in Italy. Described as “heart-breaking and chilling,” Suzie Templeton’s stop-motion short film, Dog, was completed as her MA graduation film from The Royal College of Art in England. It was awarded the Grand Prix by a jury of Gilles Colpart, Abi Feijò, Jerzy Kucia, Paola Starakis, and Maximum Hammerings.
The film has picked up 15 other international awards including the Hiroshima Prize 2002, the Holland Animation Festival Narrative Grand Prix 2002, the Edinburgh Film Festival’s McLaren Award 2001, the Ottawa Student Animation Festival Grand Prize 2001, the Melbourne Animation Festival’s Best Overall Film 2002 (shared with Phil Mulloy’s The Invasion), the British Animation Awards’ Paul Berry Award 2002 and the BAFTA for Short Animation 2002.
Below is a full list of winners at the 7th International Short Film Festival
Siena, Italy, 2002
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Grand Prize for Best Film
Dog
Director: Suzie Templeton (U.K.)
Special Prize for Fiction Film
O gogos (The Hawker)
Director: Panayiotis Fafoutis (Greece)
Special Prize for Animated Film
La funambola (The Tight-Rope Walker)
Director: Roberto Catani (Italy)
Special Prize for Documentary
Comme un seul homme (All for one)
Director: Jean-Louis Gonnet (France)
Public’s Prize
Mashjeta – Matadero (Slaughterhouse)
Director: Xuan Acosta (Spain)
Special Mention for Experimental Film
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Director: Paul Bush (U.K.)
Special Mention for Recitation
A. Lennart Hjulstrom, Gunilla Nyroos
for the film Reparation (Riparazione)
Director: Jens Jonsson (Sweden)
Special Mention for Direction
A. Karim Baker
for the film Malcolm (Sweden)
DIGITAL COMPETITION
Grand Prize for Best Film
(equal winners)
Phobia
Director: Ciro Altabás (U.K. – Spain)
The summer of ’77
Director: Wendy Chandler (Australia)
Special Mention
Mollë (Apples)
Director: Anton Giulio Onofri (Italy)
NATIONAL COMPETITION
CinemAvvenire Award for Best Film
La stretta di Mano (The Handshake)
Director: Davide Marengo
Kodak Prize for Best Photography
Routine
Director: Laura Chiossone
