The inaugural Palm Springs International Animation Festival (Nov. 9-11, www.psiaf.org) has awarded the Best Animated Feature honor to hand-painted historical drama Loving Vincent, which was one of a diverse offering of features which included Bilal and Tehran Taboo.
The fest also awarded a boatload of specific short film awards, from “Cool Stop-Motion” to “Powerful, Dark & Mysterious 3D” and beyond. Full list of winners below.
Best Animated Feature: Loving Vincent, Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman
Best Hand Drawn Animated Short: The Potato Eaters, Martin Kukal
Best Watercolor Animated Short: Strange Case, Zbigniew Czapla
Best Paper Animated Short: Tis, Chloë Lesueur
Best Classic and Traditional Animated Short: New York City Sketchbook, William Hartland
Best Hand Painted Animated Short: Yellow Rose, Xin Li
Best Amazing Stop-Motion Animated Short: Tokri, Suresh Eriyat
Best LGBT Animated Short: Fishy, Joe Sulsenti
Best 3D Dark Comedy Animated Short: Afterwork, Andres Aguilar
Best Abstract Animated Short: Virtual Actors in Chinese Opera, Tobias Gremmler
Best Sand & Salt Animated Short: Angels of the Seashore, Kseniya Simonova
Best Powerful Dark & Mysterious 3D Animated Short: Citipati, Andreas Feix
Best Global Issues & Socially Relevant Animated Short: The Neverending Wall, Silvia Carpizo
Best 3D Sci-Fi Fantasy Animated Short: Agent Aiden: The Planet of the Slaves, Martin Lambert & Laurent Beghin
Best VFX and Rotoscoped Animated Short: Mosquito: The Bite of Passage, Brian Vincent Rhodes
Best 3D Drama Animated Short: Weeds, Kevin Hudson
Best Music Video Animated Short: Escape, Brandon Oldenburg
Best Academy of Dream Awards Animated Short: Hide & Shriek, Dani Bowman
Best 3D Fantasy Animated Short: Awaken, Emerson Eagp
Best 2D Childrens Animated Short: New Toy, Rogerio Boechat
Best 2D Action Adventure Animated Short: Salesman Pete, Marc Bouyer
Best Fun Stop-Motion Animated Short: No-No Wants to Try a Sport, Auvray Mathieu
Best 3D Drama Adventure Animated Short: Geno, Dato Kiknavelidze
Best 2D Drama Animated Short: New Ariadne’s Thread, Claude Luyet
Best Winter Holiday Animated Short: The Christmas Star, Kok Sen Lai
Best Experimental Animated Short: Bi-Polaroid, John Morena
Best 2D Odd and Twisted Animated Short: Dinner for Few, Nassos Vakalis
Best 3D Heartwarming Animated Short: Adija, Apollonia Thomaier
Best 3D Comedy Animated Short: Voyagers, Gauthier Ammeux, Valentine Baillon, Benjamin Chaumeny
Best TV Series Animated Short: Paper Girls, Tone Thyne
Best 3D Romantic Comedy Animated Short: Tanguito Argentino, Joaquin Braga
Best Cool Stop-Motion Animated Short: Ethnophobia, Joan Zhonga
Best 3D Dark Animated Short: Legacy, Guilhem Carayre
