“Rio 2096: A Story of Love & Fury” wins Annecy Animation Fest

PanARMENIAN.Net - Annecy jurors fell in love with Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury, giving the Brazilian film the animation festival’s top prize at its closing ceremony Saturday night. Director Luiz Bolognesi will be taking home the Cristal Award for best feature for the fantastical love story which follows a couple for six centuries as they survive several tumultuous time periods of Brazil’s history and into an imagined future where the country is at war over water, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The Cristal for best short film went to Oscar-winner Chris Landreth (Ryan) for Subconscious Password. The 3-D comedy inspired by the game show Password explores the inner workings of the brain as it tries in vain to remember a long-forgotten name. The main character is prompted by several celebrity guests that make an appearance in his mind game.

Australia’s Julian Frost took home the trophy for best commissioned film for Dumb Ways to Die.

In the television category, Great Britain’s Jean Lachaeur and Max Lang were given the Cristal for the Room on the Broom, an animated film of the popular children’s book that aired on BBC1 as a Christmastime special in 2012.

A special distinction was given to the My Mother is in America, and She Met Buffalo Bill, directed by France’s Marc Boreal and Thibaut Chatel. The hand-drawn feature is based on 2009’s children’s book of the same name.

The audience award went to Spain’s O Apostolo, the stop-motion thriller about an escaped convict that lives in a mysterious village from director Fernando Cortizo Rodriguez.