MERLOT

graduation film by Giulia Martinelli & Marta Gennari (2016)
Sound Design by Alessandro Nepote

“In a blue fairy-tale forest, a grumpy granny loses a bottle of wine. This event will give rise to a crescendo of linked events: consequently establishing a dialogue, a funny repartee between frames and characters, which will lead to an unexpected development”

Graduation film from CSC National Film School - Animation Department, Turin, Italy
Distributed by Kurzfilm Agentur, Hamburg

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2017

AWARDS:
- 1st prize at Hamburg Animation Award 2016
- Prize for the Best Graduation/School film at CINANIMA 2016
- Prize for the Best Short Animation at TIFF, Tirana, 2016
- Special Prize of the Jury at KROK 2016
- Grand Prize at KROK Ukraine 2016
- Special Prize at PRINANIMA 2016
- Special Prize YOO Kwang-sun at BIAF, South Korea, 2016
- Audience award at Hamburg Animation Award 2016
- “Honorary Diploma” award at 10th Theran International animation Festival, 2017
- Best International Student Short, Honourable Mention at Dublin Animation Film Festival 2016
- Prize at FESA - Festival of European Student Animation Belgrade as “Experimental animation film”, 2016
- Prize for “best script” at G-Local film festival in Turin, IT, given by Scuola Holden, 2017
- Prize for “best animated short film” at G-Local film festival, Turin, IT, given by the Jury, 2017
- Winner at MONSTRA à Solta, Portugal 2017
- Special mention at ZABUT International Animated Short Film Festival for the originality of sound solution and the ironic development of the storytelling, 2016
- prize “Giuseppe Laganà” for young authors, given by Asifa Italia and Cartoon Italia during Cartoons on the Bay Festival, (Venice, 8th April,2016)
- prize at Visioni Italiane (Bologna, IT), 2017
- Audience award at Future Film Festival, Bologna 2017
- Special Mention for graduation film at Supertoon International Animation Festival, Sebenico -Croatia, 2017

Cast: GIULIA MARTINELLI, MARTA GENNARI and Alessandro Nepote Vesin

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