Winners

Direction
Guillaume Ivernel
Arthur Qwak
Production Company
Futurikon Films
Production
Philippe Delarue
Screenplay
Frédéric Engel - Lenoir
Arthur Qwak
Music
Klaus Badelt

Zoe is a little girl who believes in fairy tales. In order to help her Uncle Lord Arnold get rid of a terrible dragon, she decides she has to find some heroes like the ones she reads about in her book. But instead, she meets Gwizdo and Lian-Chu, two Dragon Hunters whose sole ambition in life is to buy a quiet little farm and hang out…

Guillaume Ivernel
Guillaume Ivernel is a well-known graphic artist and designer. He was involved in Moebius Starwatcher project and has worked on commercials by Jean Pierre Jeunet. He also collaborated on animated TV series and pilots for Japanese and American productions.

Arthur Qwak
François Hemmen aka Arthur Qwak is a talented artist and director. He was the chief storyboarder for the animation feature film Asterix and the Menhir. He has directed several animated series for Canal+, TF1 and M6, and is also the author of graphic novels.

Awads
Animabasauri 08, España: Jury Award for Full-length
Film.

Direction
Manuel Sicilia
Raúl García
Production Company
and Animation
Kandor Graphics, S.L.
Executive Producer
Manuel Cristóbal
Production
M. Almansa
J. Molina
M. Sicilia
Screenplay
Manuel Sicilia
Raúl García
José Enrique Machuca
Art Direction
Oscar Jiménez
Editing
Claudio Hernández
Sound
Federico Pajaro
Music
Sergio De La Puente

The adventures and misadventures of a group of animals trying to get away from a ruthless hunter under orders from an eccentric millionaire. Hunters and prey take each other on in a thrilling game of survival, friendship and heroism.

Manuel Sicilia
Director of Kandor Graphis, a company he founded in 1995. The highlights of his career include his work as producer and art director on The Tell Tale Heart (2005), direction of animation scenes in The Dancer Upstairs (2002), and his work as art director on Estrecho Adventure (1996).

Raúl García
Director and screenwriter on The Tell Tale Heart (2005), Raúl García has worked as an animator and supervisor on several occasions, on films such as The Rugrats in Paris (1999), The Wild Thornberries Movie (2002) and Sian Ka’an: Angel in the Rainforest (2003).

Direction
Maribel Martínez Galindo
Production Company
Televisa SA de CV
Productor
Alejandra Pastrana
Screenplay
Jose Gordon
Alejandra Márquez Abella
Animation
Gerardo Cotera
Oscar Ardito
F.José Hernandez Tapia
Elisa Navarro
Art Direction
Laura Carmona Barreda
Luis Cabrera
Sound and Music
Ezequiel Malbergier

Imaginantes is a cultural offering based on animated short films seeking to awaken one’s ability to be surprised through creativity expressed in literature, art and science.

Maribel Martínez Galindo
Born in Mexico City, she started her career in graphics in the field of editing. She is currently working as a creative director in the animation and TV post-production department within the Image Department of Televisa, where the group she leads has won eighteen Promax Awards (Promotion and Marketing) and BDA (Broadcast Design Association. Her work has been published in several books and magazines about design and creativity.

Direction
Wolf-Ruediger Bloss
Jan Van Rijsselberge
Production Company
Alphanim
Europool
Super RTL
France 3
Production
Christian Davin
Clément Calvet
Screenplay
Peter Saisselin
Jeffreand Paul Kearneand
Animation
Shanghai Cartoon
Editing
Damien Audovin
Music
L.Caandol
F.Monfeuga
J.Bastello
D.Lanneluc
C.Lacrampe

Willow & Constance are just two Hairy & Scary kids having adventures in an “extra-ordinary” world. Like any Hairy worth his salt, Willow greets each day with enthusiasm . Constance, true to her Scary roots, is a bit clumsy girl who loves having a plan.

Wolf-Ruediger Bloss
He was born in Germany and began his career as a storyboarder and character designer in 1995 in France (Little Elvis, Oggy and the Cockroaches). In 1998 he moved to the USA, where he directed, wrote and storyboarded the short film Moving Pyramid. Since then, he has worked as a director on various productions in the United States, such as Fred the Caveman.

Jan Van Rijsselberge
After getting a diploma in Animation Film Directing in Gent (Belgium), Jan Van Rijsselberge began his career as an animator and a supervisor. In 1996 he co-directed Li’l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers and since 1997, he has been the creative director for Alphanim where he created a lot of new series such as X-Duckx, Zombie hotel, Hairy Scary and Santapprentice.

Awards
Trickfilm Festival Stuttgarg 08: Best TV Series Award.
Zlin 08: The Spectator Prize for Most Successful Animated Film.

Direction, Screenplay
Art Direction and
Editing
Jérémand Clapin
Production Company
Dark Prince
Production
Wendand Griffiths
Stéphane Piera
Animation
Jérémand Clapin
Stéphane Piera
Peggand Portal
Sound
Comportements Sonores
Music
Nicolas Martin

Struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living 91cm from himself.

Jérémand Clapin
Since he graduated from Paris’ Arts Décoratifs (1999), he has worked as a graphic artist, illustrator for various publishers, and as an indie advert director. In 2004, he directed his first animated short, A Backbone Tale, which was featured in over sixty festivals worldwide and won more than fifteen prizes. Skhizein is his second film.

Awards
Semana de la crítica, Cannes 08: Kodak Award.
Animafest Zagreb 08: Students Jury Prize.
Annecand 08: Audience Award.

Direction, Screenplay,
Art Direction and
Editing
Franck Dion
Production Company
Papand3d Productions
Production
Richard Van Den Boom
Animation
Studio Traintrain
Sound and Music
Pierre Caillet

Mister COK is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers with sophisticated robots. The workers stare helplessly at the toil of the robotic labourers. But one of them does not accept being discarded so easily...

Franck Dion
Multidisciplinary artist. He took acting lessons, he became passionate about cinema and taught himself to sculpt, draw and paint. He works with editors and magazines, designs theatre sets, and does animations for documentary films. He has worked as a director, writer and animator, and in 2003 he worked on the animation film Phantom Inventory, awarded in Annecy .

Direction, Screenplay
and Editing
Sam
Production
Ignacio Benedeti
Xosé Zapata
Sam
Animation
Julia Peguet
David Caballer
Sam
Art Direction
Ati
Sound and Music
Ramón Giner

Two American tourists who want to go to Benidorm, accidentally head for Galicia. Their lack of manners and hygiene get them kicked out, as luck would have it, into deserts of Castilla. Just when they lose heart, they are taken in by an affectionate elderly couple.

Sam
Sam started animated under the guidance of Pablo Llorens. After different projects such as series and commercials, he created Conflictivos Productions along with Ati where they produce Encarna, Hermético, Semántica... After a period of working with Aardman Animations, Conflictivos joined forces with I.B. Cinema, which brought about El ataque de los Kriters asesinos and now The Werepig. They are currently preparing their first full-length film Ramón.

Direction and
Animation
Rafa Toro
Production Company
Asthmatic Kittand Records
Production
Michael Kauffmann
Music
Mand Brightest Diamond

A girl saves a boy from the clutches of some monsters.

Rafael Toro
Born in Priego de Córdoba in 1978, he has done illustrating for several books and worked as animator and designer on the productions Zacarias Zombie and El Cubo Mágico, in addition to making several animated spots.

Direction, Production,
Screenplay and
Editing
Francisco Antonio Peinado Gaitán
Animation
Raúl Carvajal
Oscar Carámbano
Juan Ledesma
Sound
Arte Sonora Estudios S.L.
Music
Marcos Busatori Montesinos

This film tells the storand of a boand living in a parallel world, where everandthing is in ruins and rubble. From out of the decaand and garbage, he sees a light coming out of a dark and contaminated skand. In his search, he meets up with one of the cruelest beings ever imagined: the humans, who will not rest until theand catch him.

Francisco Antonio Peinado Gaitán
He has freelanced for fifteen andears on more than thirtand films, most notabland such short films as Manipai and La Dama en el Umbral and full-length films such as Los Tres Reandes Magos and El Embrujo del Sur, among others. El Príncipe de las Basuras is his first work.

Awards
Festival de cortometrajes de Málaga: First Prize, Best Project on 35 mm..