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ITFS ANIMATION SPECIAL – The Most Precious Of Cargoes

The Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film will be showing DAS KOSTBARSTE ALLER GÜTER (THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES) – before its German cinema release on March 6 as an Animation Special in January. The screening is part of the nationwide cinema initiative ’27 January – 80 Years of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau” in cooperation with the Haus des Dokumentarfilms and the Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg.

The film is based on the young adult book by Jean-Claude Grumberg. It is the first animated film by director and Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius (THE ARTIST) and screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, among others. More information

Monday, January 27 2025, 18:45 CET
EM (Stuttgart Innenstadtkinos, Bolzstraße 4)
Tickets

As part of the cinema initiative “27 January – 80 Years of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau”, numerous other events are on the program, such as the documentary film drama DIE ERMITTLUNG (2024) – a cinema adaptation of the stage drama of the same name by Peter Weiss (1965) at the Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg on January 26, 2025, followed by a panel discussion. Admission is free, please register at veranstaltungen@hdgbw.de. More information

In addition, the exclusive film series Filmreihe im Bundesplatz-Kino will take place in Berlin from January 26 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. More information

VES Awards Nominations for Accenture Song VFX, Scanline VFX and Pixomondo!

Congratulations to our CREATORS from Accenture Song VFX, Scanline VFX, and PIXOMONDO for their nominations at the 2025 VES Awards! The Visual Effects Society’s prestigious annual celebration recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation worldwide and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on artists who bring this work to life.

Accenture Song VFX are nominated in the OUTSTANDING ENVIRONMENT IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT category for “Dune: Prophecy; Two Wolves; Zimia Spaceport“.

Teams from PIXOMONDO have been nominated no less than four times: in the OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL EPISODE category for “House of the Dragon S2: The Red Dragon and the Gold“, in the OUTSTANDING CG CINEMATOGRAPHY category for “House of the Dragon S2: Battle at Rook’s Rest“, in the OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN AN EPISODE category for “The Boys S4: Life Among the Septics“ and “The Penguin: After Hours“.

Scanline VFX got two nominations in the OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, GAME CINEMATIC, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT category – for “Avatar: The Last Airbender; Legends; Koizilla“ and “Three Body Problem; Judgement Day“.

The winners will be announced at the awards gala on February 11, 2025. We are keeping our fingers crossed for everyone involved!

All nominees

Studio FILM BILDER’s “Lena’s Farm” on TV

The animated series “Lena’s Farm” by Elena Walf (Studio FILM BILDER) will be broadcast on KiKA, the children’s channel of ARD and ZDF, from February 4, 2025. In the new animated series for pre-school children, the animals on Lena’s farm experience all kinds of social challenges, which are told non-verbally in humorous stories. “Lena’s Farm” (ZDF) – an instructive example of understanding and tolerance – can be seen from February 4, 2025, Mondays to Fridays at 9:10 CET as well as on kikaninchen.de and in the KiKANiNCHEN app.

Lena’s Farm, Image: Studio FILM BILDER

Author Elena Walf tells heart-warming stories about understanding and tolerance. Each episode revolves around a different problem between individuals and the group, with a different animal always taking center stage. These are interpersonal problems that are easy for children to understand thanks to the translation into the animal world. The series manages without any language at all. Elena Walf’s imagery is all the more expressive for that. It is as clearly and pointedly drawn as it is lovingly embellished in detail.

„Lena’s Farm“ is a production by Studio FILM BILDER GmbH, Producer ist Thomas Meyer-Hermann (more information and credits at Studio FILM BILDER). Editor in charge at ZDF is Ingo Weis.

Source: Press Release KiKA

THE LÄND Global Game Jam 2025

At the world’s largest event for game development, the Global Game Jam, up to 250 gaming enthusiasts from across Baden-Württemberg will come together at the invitation of  MFG Baden-Württemberg at the end of January 2025. The “THE LÄND Global Game Jam” will take place from January 24 to 26, 2025, at Karlshochschule in Karlsruhe. During this 48-hour development and programming hackathon, game design students will collaborate with game studios, passionate developers will work alongside experienced and professional coders, and disciplines such as sound, design, psychology, and communication will also find their place.

MFG, Image: Ingo Jürgens

After a successful debut in January 2024, the statewide THE LÄND site is once again introducing an exclusive offering: In two side tracks, participants can collaborate with exciting challenge providers to develop game ideas and build prototypes on specific topics. How can classical music, with all its emotions and tonal colors, serve as a foundation for the creative process of game development? This will be explored live in the “Classical Game Jam” hosted by SWR, featuring an ensemble from the SWR Symphony Orchestra. In “Blame the game, not the player!”, game developers will work together with researchers from Karlshochschule to design game rules that reflect an economic system respecting social foundations and planetary boundaries. Preceding kick-off workshops will set the stage for the side tracks. Afterward, participants will join the main THE LÄND Global Game Jam for a collaborative jam session.

The THE LÄND Global Game Jam is coordinated by MFG Baden-Württemberg as part of its Games BW initiative, in partnership with Karlshochschule International University, SWR Südwestrundfunk, game Verband Baden-Württemberg, and K³ – dem Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaftsbüro Karlsruhe. The Game Jam is supported by the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg).

Interested participants can register via this link.

More information

Source: MFG Baden-Württemberg

Impressions from THE LÄND Global Game Jam 2024:

Photos: MFG Baden-Württemberg

Welcome, Red Parrot Studios Stuttgart!

Tehran Taboo

New year – new CREATORS! We’re beyond excited to welcome Red Parrot Studios Stuttgart to our network!

Whether it is 3D animation for the whole family (MOONBOUND, TAFITI), high-quality VFX (THE MUCKLAS… AND HOW THEY CAME TO PETTERSON AND FINDUS), cartoonish 2D animation (FRIEDEFELD) or innovative animation techniques for sophisticated arthouse films (TEHRAN TABOO, LITTLE GERMANS) – ever since its foundation in 2014, Red Parrot Studios has established itself as one of the most creative animation studios in Germany. 

Find out more about Red Parrot Studios!

Peterchens Mondfahrt – Moonbound
Friedefeld

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

We wish you and your loved ones a fantastic and restful holiday season and a happy, healthy, and successful 2025! Thank you all for your collaboration, your trust in us, and all the wonderful moments we shared together this year. We are already looking forward to the coming year with you!

A thousand thanks to our CREATORS from RECOM FILM for hosting our AMCRS Christmas party! What a wonderful evening!

Photo: RECOM FILM
Photo: RECOM FILM
Photo: AMCRS

Annie Awards Nominees announced!

Yesterday, the nominations for the Annie Awards 2024 were announced! Three out of five nominations in the “Best Student Film” category went to diploma projects from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut! Wow, congratulations to everyone involved!

PEAR GARDEN
Student Director/Producer: Shadab Shayegan

POLLIWOG (kaulquappe)
Student Director: Julia Skala
Student Producer: Max Pollmann

TURMSPRINGER
Student Director: Oscar Bittner
Student Producer: Andra Berila

PEAR GARDEN, Image: FABW
POLLIWOG, Image: FABW
TURMSPRINGER, Image: FABW

We have our fingers crossed for the ceremony at the 52. Annual Annie Awards on February 8, 2025! List of all nominees

Trailer PEAR GARDEN
Trailer POLLIWOG
Oscar Bittner on TURMSPRINGER

Mucks! Games are on board!

We are delighted to welcome the indie game studio Mucks! Games as new CREATORS in our network!

Mucks! Games

Mucks! Games is based in Ludwigsburg and was founded in 2023 by three graduates of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg‘s Animationsinstitut – Clara Deitmar, Julius Dorsel and Luzie Kehle. Their logo, a screaming mouse, symbolizes that even the smallest voices have meaningful stories to tell: “We create atmospheric and visually unique 2D story games with powerful messages. Our games blend poetic narratives with immersive worlds and interactive formats – games and story experiences for both indie enthusiasts and casual players.”

In April 2024, their interactive bedtime story THE BEAR – A STORY FROM THE WORLD OF GRA won the German Computer Game Award (DCP) in the category “Best Graphic Design”. THE BEAR is part of the WORLD OF GRA story universe which also includes the visuals and trailers for Stuttgart Animated Week 2024 (consisting of: FMX – Film and Media Exchange, Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and Animation Production Days), created by the team while still students at the Animationsinstitut.

Find out more about Mucks! Games.

The Bear, Mucks! Games

Lecture “Film as Space” at Merz Akademie

Our CREATORS from the Merz Akademie invite you to the lecture “Film as Space – Inside and outside. Body and world. Yesterday, today, tomorrow.” (German/English) on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 18:15 CET. This is the inaugural lecture by Maria Mohr, who has been Professor of Film and Video at the Merz Akademie since 2023. Maria Mohr studied architecture and experimental media design. Her documentary films are research, journeys and reconstructions of biographies of people for whom this world, as it appears to be, is not enough. 

Image: Merz Akademie

The lecture will take place in the auditorium of the Merz Akademie (Teckstr. 58, 70190 Stuttgart) as part of the lecture series “Realism: The Great Promise of Cinema” (curated by Maria Mohr together with Peter Ott) in the winter semester 2024/25 – in cooperation with the Stuttgarter Filmwinter. Further lectures in the series will follow on January 7, 2025 (“Portraits in Film” (German/English) by Katharina Pethke) and on January 14, 2025 (“On Parrots.” (German/English) by Gernot Wieland). Filmmakers who are characterized by particularly innovative concepts of realism were invited to the lecture series to present their work.

More about the lecture “Film as Space”

More about the lecture series

B.REX wins prize at the CREÄTIVE LÄND CHÄLLENGE 2024

Our CREATORS from b.Rex have won THE CREÄTIVE LÄND CHÄLLENGE 2024 competition in the software/games industry category – with “INKLU GAME”!

“How does a wheelchair user board a train? How does a blind person find the right platform? INKLU GAME is a virtual, app-based game designed to create an awareness-raising experience for young people. The game incorporates a media and inclusion-focused pedagogical approach, combining innovative digital media with an inclusive education concept. Through the app, players experience an immersive journey that brings the realities of people with disabilities to life. This fusion of technology, inclusive pedagogy, and interactive storytelling represents a cultural achievement that promotes both education and empathy.”

INKLU GAME, b.Rex

More about INKLU GAME

The game can be downloaded for free in the App Store.

The CREÄTIVE LÄND CHÄLLENGE 2024 is a creativity competition organized by MFG Baden-Württemberg, supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor, and Tourism of Baden-Württemberg. Under the motto “Share your values – Show your works,” cultural and creative enterprises across the state were invited to showcase their diversity and innovative potential. With over 170 submissions from all regions of Baden-Württemberg, the competition highlighted the impressive range and dynamism of the cultural and creative industries.

More about the competition and all winners

The award-winning works can be viewed and experienced free of charge in an exhibition at the Haus der Wirtschaft until December 18, 2024.

All winners, photo: MFG