4th Annual Student Short Film Competition at Animation First

Online: Mon, Jan 29–Mon, Feb 12, 2024

40 shorts • Mature Audiences

FRENCH SCHOOLS

Best French Shorts Winners

• Fire Esther Lamassoure, Baptiste Fraboul, Florent Sabuco, Julie Le Forban, Valentin Serre, Léna Gittler (6 min 25) (École des Nouvelles Images)

Honorary Mention for French Student Short

• Dance with the Seashells! Théo Carme, Julie Fournier, Alessandra Rosmarino, Anaëlle Saba (7 min 51) (Gobelins)

Film List

École des Nouvelles Images (Avignon, France)

• Fire Esther Lamassoure, Baptiste Fraboul, Florent Sabuco, Julie Le Forban, Valentin Serre, Léna Gittler (6 min 25)
• Papa Bouteille Clément Bretou, Lalita Bruguiere, Lucie Carraz, Eléonore Deprun, Nina Marcassoli, Pierre Etienne Mazet (7 min 48)
• Le Grand Saut Martina Doll, Anaïs Dos, Coline Reverbel, Kenzo Talma, Edgard Vernier, Lisa Vilaine (7 min 44)
• Atomic Chicken Thibault Ermeneux, Lucie Lyfoung, Solène Polet, Capucine Prat, Morgane Siriex, Anna Uglova (5 min 04)
• Coin coin Amélie Frit, Anouk Archambault, Jeanne Marotte, Solenn Lelaisant, Lucile Grunder (5 min 45)

EMCA (Angoulême, France)

• Pour ton premier Noël Bianca Hanquet (13 min 15)
• La Pâquerette-raclette Liselotte Macagno (4 min 50)
• Une Chaise Maëlle Oster (6 min 45)
• La valse des demons Trinidad Plass-Caussade (7 min 02)
• No Time For Love Gabriella Coumau (4 min 42)

Gobelins, l’École de l’Image (Paris, France)

• Childeric, Les Nerfs de la Guerre Lou Dhelens, Emma Guyot Dlh, Céline Korno, Juliette A. Laurent, Louise Petit, Lucie Tantot (5 min 08)
• Dance with the Seashells! Théo Carme, Julie Fournier, Alessandra Rosmarino, Anaëlle Saba (7 min 51)
• El Ombligo de la Luna Sara António, Julia Grupinska, Bokang Koatja, Tian Westraad, Ezequiel Garibay (7 min 36)
• Riot Doll Daria Skripka, Poornima Subramaniam, Mrunal Khairnar, Lwazi Msipha, Hassan Yola (6 min 55)
• THE NAME Alexander Aguilar (1 min 36)

RUBIKA (Valenciennes, France)

• Quem Salva Laure Devin, Maxime Bourstin, Nathan Medam, Charles Hechinger, Titouan Jaouen (6 min 56)
• L’animal sauce ail Ysaline Debut, Isa Cotte, Aurélien Duchez, Camille Rostan, Clément Mouchel, Diane Mazella (6 min 37)
• #Doudouchallenge Julie Majcher, Alexandra Delaunay-Fernandez, Sixtine Emerat, Marine Benabdallah-Crolais, Scott Pardaillhe-Galabrun, Noémie Segalowicz (6 min 16)
• Paumo d’amour Ian Halley, Nathan Hermouet, Luka Croisez, Laurène Vaubourdolle, Jade Van De Veire (6 min)
• Loup y es-tu? Louise Laurent, Alizée Van de Valle, Emma Fessart, Jeanne Galland, Célina Lebon, Annouck François (6 min 39)

AMERICAN SCHOOLS

Best American Short Winner

• The Sun Is Bad Chenrui Lan, Elle Yeung, Henry Ni, Ivan Chui, Laura Correal, Liren Sun, Quinn Marsh, Rachel Mow, Rielle Yap Ong, Samson Flanagan (2 min 59)

Film List

California Institute of the Arts (California, USA)

• Parrots Jennifer Nie (6 min 39)
• Dance On! Nonoko! Wanci Hua (4 min 38)
• The Borrower’s Hypnotist Michelle Tang (5 min 46)
• Roller Coaster Sapphira Chen (6 min 24)
• So Long, Caz! Jingqi Zhang (7 min 01)

School of Visual Arts (New York, USA)

• in the interim Emily Zullo (4 min 30)
• The Fates Align Brooke Burnett (4 min 55)
• VISUAL CAPTURE Izzy Delore (3 min 45)
• Jamie’s Pond Reid Sandlund (3 min 59)
• Kenopsia Lu Mikan (5 min 37)

Savannah College of Art and Design (Georgia, USA)

• Goro Goro Agatha Tiara Christa, Everett Zhang, Gillian McDerment, Kazue Tng, Mason Smigel, Mick Bransfield, Rachel Currid, Roman Karoly, Ryotaro Sawada, Will Hawkins (3 min 07)
• The Last Dungeon Alexandra Young (3 min 29)
• The Sun Is Bad Chenrui Lan, Elle Yeung, Henry Ni, Ivan Chui, Laura Correal, Liren Sun, Quinn Marsh, Rachel Mow, Rielle Yap Ong, Samson Flanagan (2 min 59)
• Symbiotic Arianna Ahrabinejad, Hannah Griffin, Carter Mehel, Kari Miller, Megan Sennett, Tati Abraham Siqueff, Bradley Walker, Avery Wilt (3 min)
• Three Raccoons Audrey Randazzo, Madeline Brennan, Victor Martinez, Ashleigh Jones, Chris Arya, Emma Knoell, Sarah Miller, Aaryan Junnarkar, Débora Fuentes, Ramiro Lao (2 min 50)

University of Southern California (California, USA)

• Kilig! Kacey Layson (5 min 20)
• tue_self.exe Victoria Cruell (3 min 55)
• What She Didn’t Know Zoe Zheng (3 min 24)
• Perfect City: The Bravest Kid Shengwei Zhou (10 min 35)
• The Nectar Instead Yoo Lee (4 min 10)

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ABOUT THE COMPETITION

Since 2020, FIAF's Animation First Festival has held a competition to highlight emerging talent from some of the most renowned animation schools in France and the United States. Four schools are chosen from each country and each school selects five films from its graduating class. Prizes are awarded for Best French Student Short and Best American Student Short. The winners receive a one-on-one session with acclaimed animator Kristof Serrand (The Prince of Egypt, Kung Fu Panda) to discuss their work and gain his advice.

2024 SCHOOLS

France: École des Nouvelles Images (Avigon), EMCA (Angoulême), Gobelins - l’École de l’Image (Paris), RUBIKA (Valenciennes)

USA: California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) (California), Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) (Georgia), School of Visual Arts (SVA) (New York), University of Southern California (USC) (California).

JURY

President: Kristof Serrand

French Jury: Jeanne Desplanques & Clementine Donneger-Boffy (RUBIKA), Sybille Beudin & Lea Ludena (EMCA), Chengzhuo Xi & Ramya Hedge (Gobelins), Loubna Khider & Hugo Barbier (Ecole des Nouvelles Images)

American Jury: Sung Eun Park & Asher Borison (CalArts), Zoe Sweeting & Jia-En Ho (SVA), Kate Meine & Andrew Nelson (SCAD), Xindi Zhang & Pablo Diaz De Leon Hicks (USC)