FANTOCHE INTERNATIONALES FESTIVAL FÜR ANIMATIONSFILM BADEN/SCHWEIZ PRESS KIT FANTOCHE 14th International Animation Film Festival 6 – 11 September 2016 in Baden/ Switzerland www.fantoche.ch Baden, 24th of August 2016 GENERAL INFORMATION FOR MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES 3 Animation Directors, Artists, Game Specialists and other Industry Professionals attending the Festival Information about picture material and media accreditations Screeners and Viewing Room Picture material and further information Fantoche 2016 programme and catalogue Mobile App Media accreditation Media office Social media FESTIVAL PROFILE FANTOCHE 2016 4 FILMMAKERS AND ANIMATION EXPERTS PRESENT AT THE FESTIVAL 5 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW 6 International Competition 6 Swiss Competition 6 Kids Film Competition 7 Hors Concours 7 Latest feature films 7 Humanité Animée 9 For a young audience 10 Animation goes multimedia 10 For a professional audience 11 Fantoche Expanded 11 ... and lots more 11 “Best of Fantoche on Tour 2016” 11 Partners of Fantoche 12 FACTS & FIGURES 12 Venues at Fantoche 2016 12 Festival cinemas 12 Exhibition and event spaces 12 Fantoche management, imprint 12 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 13 2 GENERAL INFORMATION FOR MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES ANIMATION FILMMAKERS, ARTISTS, GAME SPECIALISTS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS PRESENT AT FANTOCHE Numerous experts from the wider field of animation and prominent filmmakers will be available for interviews during the festival, which will be held from 6th – 11th of September 2016. Guests include filmmakers such as Georges Schwizgebel or Kaspar Jancis along with internationally renowned Swiss professionals such as Simon Otto, director and story artist for DreamWorks Animation. Also Claude Barras, director of the opening film will be on site. We also look forward to welcoming many members of the industry to our “Industry Day”, from gaming specialists to producers and advertising experts. Are you interested in having an interview or receiving a guided tour of the exhibitions? Please get in touch with the Fantoche media office. The office can also provide you with a list of all potential interview partners who will be attending the event. SCREENERS AND VIEWING ROOM Fantoche provides media professionals with advanced screeners of some feature films. In addition, approximately the pre-selected 450 short films from our submissions can be viewed throughout the festival in our Fantoche Cinematheque, no registration required. Our media office will be happy to provide you with more details. Opening hours: Wed-Sat 12.00 – 22.00, Sun 12.00 – 19.00 PICTURE MATERIAL AND FURTHER INFORMATION The visual design for Fantoche 2016 and film stills are available to download from our website: http://fantoche.ch/en/2016/downloads/picture-material FANTOCHE 2016 PROGRAMME AND CATALOGUE The festival catalogue is available free of charge for media professionals at the festival centre from 6th of September 2016. MOBILE APP The Fantoche mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android can be downloaded for free from the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store. The Magic Eye function activates teasers with excerpts of the competition programmes or trailers of feature films with the images in the programme brochure. The booklet also contains the entire programme and all important information about the festival. Smartphone owners can compile their personal programme using the bookmark function (even offline). MEDIA ACCREDITATION To receive media accreditations, please register on the Fantoche website. The code allows you to book your preferred admissions and print your tickets in advance. Alternatively, you can collect your tickets from the festival centre as of Tuesday noon (6th of September 2016) or at the counter of the respective cinema as of Wednesday afternoon (7th of September 2016). MEDIA OFFICE Adrian Erni, Spokesman, [email protected], +41 56 290 14 44 / +41 79 464 64 59 Mylène D’Aloia, for french speaking part of Switzerland, [email protected], +41 78 603 90 30 SOCIAL MEDIA twitter.com/fantoche_baden www.facebook.com/fantoche.ch instagram.com/fantoche_festival www.youtube.com/FantocheAnimation vimeo.com/fantoche 3 FESTIVAL PROFILE FANTOCHE 2016 Fantoche 2016 has expanded on several levels, yet it builds on the continuous programming work of the previous years. Fantoche proves to be on solid grounds and stronger than ever. One way in which the format has been expanded is immediately evident in the programme booklet, which now contains all important information in German, English and – for the first time – in French. With this measure Fantoche acknowledges it’s status as the largest animation film festival in Switzerland and strengthens it’s connection with the francophone regions of Switzerland, with the audience as well as with our partner institution. Mylène D’Aloia will be the Fantoche 2016 correspondent for the French speaking part of Switzerland. The first press conference for French-speaking Switzerland will be held at Zinéma Lausanne on 31st of August. Fantoche evaluated it’s 20th anniversary edition of 2015 to recognize it’s audiences preferences. It became clear that the core elements of the festival, i.e. the competition programmes, remain most popular with its visitors. In 2016, Fantoche will be expanding this part of the festival for the first time by adding an “Hors Concours” programme. It will feature short films from the submissions that stood out by merit of their special technical or narrative characteristics, and which Fantoche wishes to share with the festival audience. New prizes will be awarded in the well-established “Swiss Competition”, such as the “Swiss Youth Award”, granted by a newly established Youth jury. Fantoche is proud to announce that 1,394 animated films from 79 countries have been submitted this year – including submissions from countries that are new to Fantoche, such as Madagascar, Mauritius and Burkina Faso. As well as the cosmopolitan, internationally oriented aspect of the festival, Fantoche values its local roots. One of its focal points is to promote the creation of animated films in Switzerland, both by way of the “Swiss Competition” with its international jury and by establishing the festival as a meeting point for different professionals from the Swiss animation industry. The festival's “Industry Day”, whose programme has this year been expanded to incorporate further topics, has enabled Fantoche to put the artistic representatives of the sector in contact with its commercial players. Simon Otto, Head of Character Animation at DreamWorks, will be talking about his work alongside Moritz Zumbühl, CEO of Blindflug Studios AG. They will be joined by representatives of renowned brands such as Swisscom, FREITAG and Stories AG. Georges Schwizgebel, one of last year’s award winners and producer of the 2016 festival trailer, filmmaker Konstantin Bronzit and director Jeanette Bonds will be gracing Baden with their presence as jury members. And if, at some point, you hear Donald Duck’s famous quack at the festival, just remember that voice artist Peter Krause will be joining us to present his solo programme. This year's “Animation goes multimedia” supporting programme is being designed by two curators: Ana Ascencio, jury member at the last festival and curator of Mapping Festival in Geneva, and Manu Weiss, Swiss animation filmmaker, have chosen several of the most exciting projects and works from the worlds of virtual reality and 360º technologies. From 6th to 11th of September, Fantoche will become a meeting point for thousands of visitors from different backgrounds. Visitor numbers have increased continuously between 2012 to 2015, from an initial 20,900 to more than 25,000. With its diverse programme the animated film festival has established itself as a cultural event for animation enthusiasts, experts, inquisitive minds, teenagers and families. The festival is intended to serve as an showcase of an extended notion animation. 4 PRESENT FILMMAKERS AND ANIMATION EXPERTS Fantoche is looking forward to welcome an exceptionally large number of filmmakers and animation experts in Baden. With their talks, their participation at the „Industry Day“ and their presence at the „Artist Brunch“, they make a essential contribution to the festival. Please contact our media office for a detailed list of all the professionals attending the festival. Among others the following filmmakers and animation experts will be present at Fantoche 2016: Jeannette Bonds (US) filmmaker, GLAS Animation Jury Int. Competition Geoffrey Lillemon (NL/US) artist Jury Int. Competition, Coming Soon presentation, 360° work in the Stanzerei exhibition Vullnet Sanaja (HR) Executive Director, Anibar international Jury Int. Competition Animation Festival, Peja, Kosovo Dr. Katja Schmid (D) Professor for Visual Effects and Postproduction Jury Int. Competition at Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart Georges Schwizgebel (CH) filmmaker, prize winner Fantoche 2015, prize Jury Int. Competition, winner Swiss film prize Quarz 2015 categorie Fantoche-Trailer 2016, Animation, numerous international prizes, i.a. Retrospektive Génie 2012 du court métrage d’animation canadien Konstantin Bronzit (RU) filmmaker with multiple Oscar nominationsd, Jury CH Competition, several of his films were awarded with more than Retrospektive, Project Ping 60 international prizes. Pong Julie Charnay (F) Co-manager of Fête d’anim, the international Jury CH Competition short film festival in Lille Mark Shapiro (US) LAIKA-Studio, presented the „BoxTrolls Making Jury CH Competition, Making- of“ at Fantoche 2014