Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2021

Nordic-Baltic Competition: Commissioned Films

Expired October 27, 2021 9:55 PM
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36 films have been selected and will be shown in the programme of the Nordic-Baltic Competition: Commissioned Film. They are competing for the Golden Gunnar for best-commissioned film. The program includes commercials, music videos, title sequences, games trailers and informational films that represent what has been produced by Nordic-Baltic animators and filmmakers for clients.


Director's Note:


The programme consists of films from Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and Estonia. This year’s call of entries received a record number of submissions which has led to a high-quality programme. The programme is as varied as the films and shows an enormous creative joy in the Nordic-Baltic animation environment. The audience should prepare themselves for a fast-paced programme, with the average length of each film being less than two minutes.


Age limit: 15

Ten concerts, ten unique productions. Sigrid, Aurora, Girl in Red, and Frida Ånnevik spearheaded Norway's largest digital music festival. The Strømme festival had a lineup that matched the major physical festivals in Norway, and thus wrote a new chapter in music history. Et helt annet sted was to be an escape from reality in an otherwise rather awkward period, and a surplus project from a united culture in Norway across the music, film, and culture industry. When the Corona epidemic hit Norway last year and Easter was "canceled", Et helt annet sted was to be a positive and different alternative for experiencing music and culture. With the use of a very coarse-grained style and strong colors, the film and the shorter promos show absurd and subtle situations that should express aspects of the new reality we were all in. The images and the graphic style express both loneliness and isolation in different settings but also something new and fresh and different that has not been done on this scale in Norway. The impression left would be that the festival Et helt annet sted was actually just this.

Stian Johansen is a Norwegian director working with both animation and classic film directing. His background is from advertising as an art director with an interest for art and design in both static and moving forms. For the past three years, he has moved on to directing commercials for the production companies Einar Film and Willy Nikkers.
  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    00:36
  • Country
    Norway
  • Director
    Stian Johansen
  • Producer
    Willy Nickers
  • Animator
    Franck Aubry, Bonsak Schieldrop / Racecar
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