WELCOME TO THE NEW NEWS PAGE – OCTOBER 2006!

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Phew!…..After a long haul and up hill struggle we finally finished our latest Beryl film ‘Dreams and Desires- Family Ties’ in late May this year (2006). It’s doing the festival cicuit right now and we’ve been incredibly lucky to have won 15 awards to date! We are all, of course, absolutely thrilled…it’s so exciting after all that hard work. A huge thanks to all our team for doing such a fantastic job…especially in the time we had!

Here’s a list of all the festival awards we’ve won to date….

2006 Annecy Animation Festival, France – Audience Prize
2006 Annecy Animation Festival, France – FIPRESCI award (critics award)

2006 Annecy Animation Festival, France – Special Jury Award
2006 Zagreb Animation Festival, Croatia – Grand Prix
2006 Zagreb Animation Festival, Croatia – International Critics prize

2006 Anima Mundi, Brazil – Professional Jury-Best Design/Art Directing

2006 Anima Mundi, Brazil – Professional Jury-Best Animation

2006 Palm Springs Short Filmfest USA – Second Place Jury award best animation

2006 Winner European Cartoon D’Or

2006 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada – Grand Prix

2006 3rd China International Animation & Digital Arts Festival, China – Grand Prix Short Film

2006 Animadrid, Spain – First prize, Short Animation

2006 Sitges 06, Spain – Festival International de Cinema de Catalunya – Best Animated Short Movie

2006 Balkanima, Serbia – Diploma 5-10 minute category short film

2006 Woodstock, USA- Best short animated film

If you’re interested here are some articles that have been written about the film..

Annecy 2006 “Dreams and Desires – Family Ties” Women in Power By Dana Duma

http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2006/annecy/dreams_dduma.htm

Annecy 2006: Return of the Brits? By Philippe Moins

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2928

The Animated Winners: Indie Short Filmmakers Speak. By Marisa Materna

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2924

Zagreb Animafest: Friendly DiversityBy Deana Morse

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=2962

In the next post we’ll give a list of where we’ll be going and where the film will be playing next.

Keep tuned for more news

Joanna and Les

  • Fred

    Well done, i always new it would be a success.

  • Bela G.

    You are such an inspiring person! :) I love your work.

  • joanna

    Thanks Bela G!

  • Jonathan

    Wow… Just randomly decided to see what you were up to and I discover this! All fantastic news. Big congrats on the new film, just hope I get to see it soon.

    J. (one of your old studes) (circa 1996 ish…)

  • joanna

    Jonathan Soper? Great to hear from you. What are you doing these days?

  • Linde Faas

    Hi Joanna!
    at the animation festival in Utrecht (the Netherlands) I watched your new film. I absolutely loved it! I’m in my third year at the artacademy Sint Joost (Breda, the Netherlands) studiing animation and I would like to ask if it would be possible (and if you’re interested) to do an internship with you. If you are interested you can contact me by email. I think I could learn so much from you. I really hope to hear from you.
    Linde Faas

  • joanna

    Hi Linde Thanks for the message. I’ve sent you an email regarding internships. Good luck with the studies!

  • http://www.beimanimation.com Nancy Beiman

    Dear Joanna,

    What a lovely website! And how nice to see Beryl in FLASH (literally).

    I hope to see DREAMS AND DESIRES at Tony White’s 2D OR NOT 2D animation festival later this week…if not, I’ll have to just wait and see…

    Is there any plan to release your work on DVD? I’d be one of your first customers.

    Thank you for the inspiring work and for the very lovely site.

  • http://www.beimanimation.com Nancy Beiman

    Congratulations on the lovely website and the well deserved awards for DREAMS AND DESIRES!

    It’s always a pleasure to see your work. I hope that someone sees fit to put out an anthology DVD of your films.

    Best wishes and again, congratulations!

  • jon williams

    Hi Joanna,
    Greetings from another student of the past! Newport (surely not 88!!) Glad to see things are going well. I’m also lecturing now and just finished showing the video of you to the students from the Slate programme from about 6 years ago?
    Would love to get you to visit the college if poss! Anyway will keep in touch, haven’t seen you in Chapter for quite some time.
    Hasta pronto, say hello to Les!
    Jon.

  • joanna

    Hi Jon…Blimey ’88 yikes, I remember you well…I seem to remember city scapes and high rise blocks…and you were very hard working! Are you well? I often wondered what you were doing, where are you teaching? I’d be happy to visit if it all fits in?

    Joanna

  • http://www.johnpersson.com John Persson

    Was listening to ‘Joanna’ by Kool and the Gang on the radio and then you popped into my mind!!! Did a search and here you are! We were at Middlesex together if you remember. I clearly remember Girls Night Out and am not surprised that you have picked up all these awards since. Great job Joanna. So pleased for you!

  • Joanna

    Hi John! Lovely to hear from you. I went to your website and saw all your pictures…you haven’t aged a bit! Great to see that your acting ..I’ll be watching all the credits now, looking out for you. Do you see many people from college? Thanks so much for getting in touch…Isn’t it time we had a middlesex reunion! Where’s Vera and Jane they should be organising it!

  • Dan O’Shannon

    On top of everything else, I hear you’ve been shortlisted this year for the oscars. Congratulations. I’ve been a fan for a long time. (Of your work, not the oscars.) Haven’t seen the new short yet, but I’m looking forward to it. Take care and happy holidays.

  • Joanna

    Hi Dan…Your message only just appeared! How strange only 2 months late! Thanks for the congrats but unfortunatily we never made it to the nominations. Damn it I’ll have to make another film! Anyway hope you had a good Christmas, way back when!