Award + Special Mentions!

More good news! Last weekend the film won 'Best Student Film' at Animated Dreams in Tallin and got a Special Mention at Sommets du cinéma d'animation in Canada!
Thank you to both Jurys!!


And this weekend it got a Special mention at Animateka by Jury member Chris Robinson, with the motivation: But Milk is not just important, it's good for you too.  Thank you Chris!

We attended the festival and we are really happy for that - it was a super good festival, we had a lot of fun and met both new and old friends! Na zdravje!

New Award - KORT! at KinoKino

"But Milk Is Important" takes its 13th award this weekend. And where? In Eirik's hometown Sandnes!

The film took the "Future Glance" award and we are really happy for that. Big thanks to the jury! We also got a really cool statue, a golden ViewMaster, which you can see the award title when you look inside it.

Both directors attended and it was fun to attend a shortfilm festival, having a film in the programme while staying at Eirik's home.

Thanks to the festival director and voulenteers for a great festival!

Two Audience Awards and new festivals!

Great News! 
But Milk is Important won it's 11th and 12th award this weekend!!
The first one was at Sweaty Eyeballs in Baltimore, US! The film tied with "Futon" for the Audience Choice Award!

The second was at Aesthetica Short Film Festival in UK where the film won People's Choice Award! 

Thank you to both audiences!!!




The Film is also chosen for a couple of new festivals:

Sommets du cinéma d'animation, Montreal and Quebec City, Canada 21 Nov - 1 Dec

Animated Dreams, Tallin, Estonia 27 Nov - 1 Dec 

Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2 - 8 Dec

Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, UK 6 - 21 Nov

Expotoons, Buenos Aires, Argentina 13 - 15 Nov

International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima, Krakow, Poland 22 - 28 Dec

Kort, Sandnes, Norway 14 - 17 Nov


And it was also screened at Images en Vues, Montreal, and
Uppsala International Film Festival, Sweden.

But Milk Is Important TRAILER

Hellloz!
The trailer is done and out on Vimeo. If you have not seen it you should do it now!
We are also doing some changes on the blog here. Trying to organize stuff slightly more

Wiho!

10th Award! - Best Student Film - Semafor Stop Motion Festival

Huzza!

But Milk Is Important takes its 10th award at the 4th Semafor International Stop Motion Film Festival!

A lot of good films where screened and we are proud to come out top of the jury's decision. Thank you! Eirik was present at the festival and also got the chance to meet many nice people.

The festival is held in the city of Łódź, Poland. Here you find the Semafor studio which are responsible for the great Oscar winning short film "Peter and the Wolf"
They are currently working on a childrens series called "Flapper and Friends"

You can read about the rest of the winners here: http://www.festival.se-ma-for.com/

Two new awards in Ottawa!!

We are super happy to get two new awards at Ottawa International Animation Festival, North Americas largest Animation Festival! The awards are: Walt Disney Award for Best Graduate Film  and  Public Price for the festivals Best Short Film!
Thank you to the Jury and to the audience! It makes us very proud and also inspired :)
We also went to visit the festival and we enjoyed it a lot! It was a super good festival and we met so many great people! Thank you!
See the full list of winners HERE

Milano, Adelaide, Bradford and Animated Eden !

A small update about new festivals. We are very happy to have been selected for a couple of new festivals:

The film is selected for a showcase of animation shorts called Animation is my Drug including "some of the best international animated short films going around in a collection that will have you hooked for life" at Adelaide Film Festival 10-20 October in Australia.

It is also part of 'Focus of Animation' of the 18th edition of Milano Film Festival 5-15 September 2013. 'Focus of Animation' is a "screening featuring the most interesting animations produced last couple of years".

But Milk Is Important has also been chosen for the Bradford Animation Festival 2013 official selection, competing in the student category. The festival is from 12-16 November.

AND least but not last, it is selected for the festival Animated Eden 2013, 8th of September, the film is screening in the Artistic Potluck category!

Cheers!