Animation feature ‘Tripura‘ based on India’s mythic past, developed by Animagic and ACK Media is one among the 10 films in the pre-selection for the Prize for Feature Films in International Competition in the 35th Edition of CINANIMA – International Animated Film Festival. The production of the feature film was done by Inspidea, a Malaysian Studio. The film aired on Cartoon Network in India on 30th January 2011.
The Selection Jury for Feature Films, constituted by André Marques (Portugal), Germano Campos (Portugal) and Katelijn Smissaert (Belgium). CINANIMA 2011 will be held in the city of Espinho, Portugal, from the 7th to the 13th of November 2011. Its main purpose is the promotion of the animation cinema, aiming to conquer new audiences, encouraging the exchange of experiences between the professionals and the audience and call the distributors’ and TV networks’ attention towards the animation cinema.
TRIPURA: THE THREE CITIES OF MAYA is an epic tale from the ancient pages of India’s mythic past! There is a constant struggle for control of the universe between the God-like Devas and their stepbrothers the Asuras symbolizing light and dark forces.
The other selected films include THE FLYING MACHINE, THE UGLY DUCKLING and GEORGE, THE HEDGEHOG.
THE FLYING MACHINE, by Martin Clapp and Geoff Lindsey (Poland) is a live action/ animation family feature film about a stressed out business-woman, georgie, who takes her two children to see the animation film “Magic Piano”, which is being performed live by the world famous pianist Lang Lang. A magical event occurs and Georgie’s kids get transported inside the animation world, and Georgie has to pursue them, with a little help from Maestro Lang Lang.
THE UGLY DUCKLING, by Garri Bardin (Russia) tells the story of a misfit duckling is rejected and bullied everywhere he goes as he is not resembling the others. Outside, he sees a flock of migrating wild swans; he is excited but he cannot join them. Winter arrives. Soon, the ugly duckling will turn into a beautiful swan. Plasticine adaptation of “The Ugly Duckling” by H.C. Andersen, music of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”.
GEORGE, THE HEDGEHOG, by Wojtek Wawszczyk (Poland) is a satiric animated feature based on a cult Polish comic about an urban hedgehog, George, who gets in trouble with a mad cientist, two neo-nazi skinheads and a lunatic clone of himself.