Golden Kuker 2011 will be held from 28.09.2011 to 02.10.2011 in Sofia. Expect more details about the upcoming event.
17.10.2010 DECISION OF THE JURY
Today October 17, 2010, we, the undersigned members of the Jury of the International Animation Film Festival Golden Kuker Sofia 2010: Varga Csaba (Hungary), Nadezhda Marinchevska (Bulgaria) and Zlatin Radev (Bulgaria), decided to award the films participating in the Competition Programme of the Festival, as follows:
The Kuker Grand Prize for Best Animated Film is awarded to
Fellinicitta
Director: Andrey Tsvetkov
Producer: TF & P Animation (Bulgaria)
Proyko Proykov Special Prize for Best Children Film is awarded to
Listen to Me
Director: Elena Rogova
Producer: Amix Film Studio Ltd. (Hungary)
The Prize for Best Film to 10 minutes is awarded to
A creative discussion is taking place in Matty Hall of the National Palace of Culture on 15 October 2010, within the festival framework.
Young animators have shared their opinions of this event:
"Gold Kuker Festival is a wonderful opportunity for us to get acquainted with works of colleagues from all over the world. I do hope that it will keep on existing and attracting more and more appreciators of this art, as well as that I will very soon take part in it as an author"
Yoanna Aleksandrova,
student of animation, New Bulgarian University
"Gold Kuker Festival is the expected triumphant revival of the art of animation in Bulgaria. It is a sublime, solemn moment for young talent presenting their production from all over the world.
For me, as a young animator artist and illustrator, it was a privilege and a reality hoped for to experience the beauty of the really difficult, but very satisfying, amazing art of animation!
A meeting of Good, magic, new ideas and the power of free, creative thought is Gold Kuker Festival 2010."
Ivan Bogoev,
student of animation and illustration, New Bulgarian University
"I thank the organizers of and the participants in this festival for making me believe that animation in Bulgaria has not only significant importance but bright future as well, where my colleagues and myself will be very important as creators and authors."
Stoyan Bashalov,
student of animation, New Bulgarian University
14.10.2010 Round Table in the Bulgarian National Radio within the Festival Framework
Today, within the framework of Gold Kuker Festival of animated cartoons, a round table has been carried out on the premises of the Bulgarian National Radio on the topic Using Art for the Purposes of Education. Representatives of various institutions, as well as creators, have discussed the way of combining art with education. During Artefir (Art in the Ether) Broadcast, Beloslava Dimitrova has suggested to us two opinions of the topic: Marieta Radoulova, a representative of Parents Association, has said: We consider art a very important self-expression that children have been demonstrating since their earliest age. We want art to be a large constituent of the syllabi in all subjects, so that children are taught to think and create. We have presented at the round table a method we have developed. It includes art-related topics we enter school with. We discuss together with children, thus extracting their potential. Our idea is that children should realize the fact that they can be creators. The role of animation is substantial. However, parents should look out for the epistles of the films their children watch. Nadya Petrova, author of childrens stories: I am convinced of that raising children in the spirit of art should start as early as they are at home. The most precise way of doing this is by means of the story. It makes the child enter the scene of the particular action, thus sympathizing with what is going on with the characters. In this way, children also learn a lot of details about art. This is a long but useful and necessary process.
Catalogue of the festival is printed already. It presents information about the participating films and their creators. You can see it here:
There are posters too:
30.09.2010 Press conference
15.09.2010 Award statuette projects
Award statuette "The Kuker" is created by famous sculptor Lyudmil Blajev, who presented the two projects.
23.08.2010 Letter from Paul Driessen
Dear organizers of The Golden Kuker Festival,
I'm delighted to hear that Kaj's and my film "The 7 Brothers" will be shown
in your competition program.
Wishing you a very animated festival (and hoping that "The 7 Brothers" do
well, of course),
Sincerely,
Paul Driessen
16.08.2010 The Selection
The Selection Committee made its choice:
Competition programme: 80 films from 26 countries
Films to 10 minutes: 20 Films from 10 to 25 minutes: 13 Films from 25 to 50 minutes: 1 Films over 50 minutes (feature films): 2 Episodes from TV series: 8 Children films: 13 First films: 17 Commercial films (advertising or music videos): 6
Out of Competition (Information programme): 28 films
Films to 10 minutes: 13
Films from 10 to 25 minutes: 2
Episodes from TV series: 3
Children films: 3
First films: 5
Commercial films (advertising or music videos): 2
Members of the Selection Committee:
Prof. Alexander Grozev - Bulgaria
Turgut Akacik - Turkey
Vitko Boyanov - Bulgaria
