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Red Stick Fest Names Award Finalists

Source: Animation Magazine

The Red Stick International Animation Festival has announced the finalists for its 2009 Best of the Fest Awards.

The festival, set for April 22-25 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, chose the nominees from more than 400 entries and will announce the winners on the last day of the festival.

The finalists are:

Animated Short Film – Student:
Chroma Chameleon directed by Laura Citron (USA)
Divers directed by Paris Mavroidis (USA)
Office Noise directed by Mads Johansen, Torben Søttrup, Karsten Madsen, and Lærke Enemark (Denmark)

Animated Short Film – Professional:
E.T.A. directed by Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen (Denmark)
Hot Dog directed by Bill Plympton (USA)
Jeremy and the Yellow Monster directed by Jorge Hernandez (Mexico)

Animation for Commercials:
ITFS: Billsticker directed by Conrad Tambour (Germany)
Virgin Media – Therapy directed by Rob Cazin (USA)

Animation for Young Audiences:
The Curse of Skull Rock directed by Ben Smith (United Kingdom)
MuMuHug – Newborn Sea Turtle directed by Vance Yang (Taiwan)
MuMuHug – Goodbye, Balloon Fish directed by Vick Wang (Taiwan)

Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Professional:
Escape from the Temple directed by Zhou Xing (China)
Jazz Line directed by Predrag Novakovic (Serbia)
2 directed by Zhi Jin (South Korea)

Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Professional:
Lost Utopia directed by Mirai Mizue (Japan)
Sensorium directed by Karen Aqua and Ken Field (USA)
2B Textures directed by Bonnie Mitchell and Elainie Lillios (USA)

Music Video:
Hey directed by Guy Ben Shetrit (Israel)
Mexican Standoff directed by Bill Plympton (USA)
Sleigh Ride directed by Rob Corley and Tom Bancroft (USA)

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