Past Winners

2010 Red Stick International Animation Festival Winners

BATON D’OR – Best Film of the Festival
Lilac Wine directed by Vanessa Marzoli and Chris O’Neill

Best Animated Short Film – Student:
Black Face the Sacred Legend directed by Bertand Carriere, Mohamed Amine Faqir, Nicolas Salsedo, Clement Vitroly

Best Animated Short Film – Professional:
Pigeon Impossible directed by Lucas Martell

Best Music Video:
Lilac Wine directed by Vanessa Marzoli and Chris O’Neill

Best Animation for Young Audiences:
Abby’s Flying Fairy School directed by Jan Carlee

Best Animation for Commercials:
Morningstar Farm ‘Artisst’ directed by Todd Hemker

Best Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Professional:
Awaken Your Senses directed by Gregory De Maria and Gene Nazarov

Best Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Student:
Odd Jobs directed by David Clark

Best Animation for Games:
The Legend directed by Allen Lin

Best Science Visualization:
Ancient Seas directed by Jilli Rose and Lars Fields

2009 Red Stick International Animation Festival Winners

Best Animated Short Film – Student:
Office Noise directed by Mads Johansen, Torben Søttrup, Karsten Madsen, and Lærke Enemark (Denmark)

Best Animated Short Film – Professional:
Hot Dog directed by Bill Plympton (USA)

Best Music Video:
Hey directed by Guy Ben Shetrit (Israel)

Best Animation for Young Audiences:
The Curse of Skull Rock directed by Ben Smith (United Kingdom)

Animation for Commercials:
Virgin Media – Therapy directed by Rob Cazin (USA)

Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Professional:
Escape from the Temple directed by Zhou Xing (China)

Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Professional:
Lost Utopia directed by Mirai Mizue (Japan)

2008 Red Stick International Animation Festival Winners

Best Animated Short Film – Student
Tong by David Cellier, Florent Limouzin, Arnaud Real (France) and Ecole Superieure des metiers Artistiques (ESMA)

Best Animated Short Film – Professional
Une petite histoire de l’image animee by Joris Clerte (France) and Doncvoila & Mikros Image

Best Music Video
Whatcha Got? by Rogier Wieland (Netherlands)

Best Experimental/Abstract
Mercurious by Brett Battey (United States) and deMontfort University (United Kingdom)

2007 Red Stick International Animation Festival Winners

Best 2D – Student Animation
Syncopation by Sefi Gayego – Israel

Best 2D – Professional Animation
Look for me by Laura Helt – United States

Best 3D – Student Animation
Halluci by Goo-shun Wang – United States

Best 3D – Professional Animation
Potapych, The Bear Who Loved Vodka by Darren Price – United Kingdom

Best Stop Motion – Student Animation
Caution, The Doors Are Opening! by Anastasia Zhuravleva – Russia

Best Stop Motion – Professional Animation
La Lupe I en Bruno by Anna Solanas – Spain

Best Experimental/Abstract – Student Animation
Circles by Jonathan Shohet – Israel

Best Experimental/Abstract – Professional Animation
JA05 TBO by Thierry Bonnaud – United Kingdom

Best Animation for Advertising
Miles Flanagan – United States

Best Animated Music Video
Ce Que Je Suis by Joris Clerte’ and Viginia Glachino – France

2006 Red Stick International Animation Festival Winners

Best 2D – Student
The Tell-Tale Heart by Annete Jung & Gregor Dashuber

Best 2D – Professional
Hairy Driving by Jem Roberts

Best 3D – Student
Defective by Rani Naamani

Best 3D – Professional
Ba Yidi by Sylvain Tardiveau

Best Stop Motion – Student
Amusement by Pia Binder & Stefanie Neutzner

Best Stop Motion – Professional
Cartoon Cartoons: hechos a mano en Cartoon Network by Celia Catunda & Kiko Mistrorigo

Best Experimental/Abstract – Student
Life by Angelina Leger

Best Experimental/Abstract – Professional
Sweet Salt by Katerina Athanasopoulou

Best Scientific Visualization
Mesh Subdivision Excerpt by Beau Janzen

2005 Red Stick International Animation Festival Winners

Top Shelf by Marta Tes, winner of the 2005 “Red Baton”