AWARDS
*CRISTAL FOR A GRADUATION FILM* Annecy (France) *BEST STUDENT ANIMATION* Palm Springs ShortFest (US) *EUROPEAN ANIMATION AWARD* Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival Bristol (UK) *GOLDEN HORSEMAN ANIMATED FILM – National Competition* Filmfest Dresden (Germany) *BEST STUDENT FILM* itfs Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (Germany) *BEST ANIMATED SHORT* RiverRun International Film Festival (USA) *GRAND JURY PRIZE EUROPEAN STUDENT FILMS* Premiers Plans Film Festival (France) *BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT ANIMATION* Flickerfest (Australia) *GRAND PRIX* Primanima World Festival of First Animations (Hungary) *WOLFGANG-LÄNGSFELD-PREIS for the Most Original Film* Filmschoolfest Munich (Germany) *BEST DIRECTION* 8th Animage – International Animation Festival of Pernambuco *FIRST PRICE* in German Competition Interfilm International Short Film Festival Berlin (Germany) *BEST FILM* Animated Dreams Student Competition PÖFF Shorts – (Estonia) *ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT SHORT FILM* GO SHORT – Nijmegen (NL) *BEST INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION* SHORTS MÉXICO- Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes (México) *BEST SHORT FILM AWARD* Two Short Nights (Exeter, UK) *BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM* Sierra International Film Weekend (Bolivia) *BEST ANIMATION* Euroshorts Young Filmmakers Festival (Poland) *BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT ANIMATION* DKF New Wave Festival (India) *BEST ANIMATION AWARD* Artfools International Film Festival (Greece) *BEST ANIMATED FILM* Brussels Independent Film Festival (Belgium) *SPECIAL JURY AWARD* 5th Chennai International Short Film Festival (India) *BABY IMP FOR BEST STUDENT SHORT* 3rd INDIE-LINCS INT’L FILM FESTIVAL (UK) *AUDIENCE AWARD* Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International *BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM* Critics‘ Choice Awards from Hyperfest Intl. Student Film Festival (Romania) *AUDIENCE AWARD* OpenEyes Filmfest (Germany) *BEST OF CATEGORY STUDENT SHORT* Salute Your Shorts Film Festival (USA) *GOLDEN HERCULES* Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest (Germany) *BEST OF ANIMATIONS CORNER* 5th annual Literally Short Film Festival (USA) *GOLDEN POMEGRANATE AWARD* 9. START International Short Film Festival (Azerbaijan) *GOLDEN DONKEY* 17th Concorto Film Festival (Italy) *JURY AWARD* Shortcutz Berlin (Germany) *SPECIAL MENTION* Ekadeshma International Short Film Festival (Nepal) *SPECIAL MENTION* Animateka Intl. Animation Film Festival (Slovenia) *SPECIAL MENTION* 13. Athens Animfest (GREECE) *SPECIAL MENTION* Festival of Animation Berlin (Germany) *SPECIAL MENTION* Festival du Film court d‘Angouleme (France) *OFFICIAL JURY‘S SPECIAL MENTION* 9th Skepto intl. Film Festival 2018 (Italy) *HONOURABLE MENTION* International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima 2017 (Poland)
SCREENINGS (excerpt):
Animafest Zagreb (Croatia) Annecy Intl’ Animation Film Festival (France) Anima Mundi (Brazil) Anibar Intl’ Animation Festival (Kosovo) Ottawa Intl’ Animation Festival (Canada) Viborg Animation Festival (Denmark) KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival (Netherlands) Bucheon Intl’ Animation Film Festival (Korea) BANJALUKA Intl’ Animated Film Festival (Bosnia-Herzegovina) Intl’ Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany) Leeds Intl’ Film Festival (UK) Denver Film Festival (United States) CutOut Fest Intl’ Animation and Digital Art Festival (Mexico) ANIMAGE Intl’ Animation Festival of Pernambuco (Brazil) Poitiers Film Festival (France) Animateka (Slovenia) Pune Intl’ Film Festival (India) FLICKERFEST Intl’ SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Australia) TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL (Italy) Premiers Plans Film Festival (France) Max Ophüls Preis (Germany) Glasgow Short Film Festival (Scotland) ATHENS ANIMFEST (Greece) SXSW (United States) GLAS Animation Festival (USA) 42th ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL (USA) Filmfest Dresden (Germany) itfs Stuttgart Intl’ Festival of Animated Film (Germany) Pictoplasma (Germany)
CREDITS:
directed and animated by Jonatan Schwenk idea/screenplay: Jonatan Schwenk, Merlin Flügel secondary stop motion animation: Marc Rühl secondary 3D animation: Florian Maubach 2D animation: Florian Maubach, Marc Rühl cinematography: Iván Robles Mendoza gaffer: Maximilian Reimann sfx set supervisor: Marc Rühl sfx: Nils Wildegans 3D character modelling / rigging: Jonatan Schwenk 3D environments: Ferdinand Kowalke cave destruction scene vfx: Mikola Debik matchmoves: Valentin Oellers compositing: Jonatan Schwenk, Maximilian Wagener, Daniel Maaß sound: Jonatan Schwenk set builders: Teresa Rinn, Lynn Weyrich, Aleksandar Radan, Marcus Morgenstern mentoring / advice: Prof. Rotraut Pape, Prof. Alex Opperman, Prof. Thomas Meyer-Hermann, Prof. Martina Bramkamp, Erika Surat Andersen, Urte Zintler, Anne Breymann
