Sep 9, 2014

Fantoche Winners: "Bigger Picture" wins top Prize

Fantoche 2014 festival winners, from left to right: Mirai Mizue, Dictynna Hood, Anna Benner, Olesya Shchukina, Joana Locher, Mauro Carraro, Mathieu Epiney, Nils Hedinger (click to enlarge).

Daisy Jacobs' The Bigger Picture, a graduation film from Britain's National Film and Television School, won the top prize at the 12th annual Fantoche animation festival, which wrapped up last Sunday in Baden, Switzerland. The seven-minute Bigger Picture has been dominant on the festival circuit this year, winning the grand prize at Hiroshima and the top student prize at Annecy. The top prize for a Swiss film was awarded to Joana Locher for Oh Wal.

A complete list of winners is below:

New TalentThe Wound Anna Budanova (Russia)

Audience AwardMy Own Personal Moose Leonid Shmelkov (Russia)

High Swiss RiskCyclopèdes Mathieu Epiney (Switzerland)

Audience AwardAubade Mauro Carraro (Switzerland)

Best KidsPik Pik Pik Dmitry Vysotskiy (Russia)