Swiss animator Claude Barras is to be honoured with the Locarno Kids Award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, which runs from August 7-17.
The Locarno Kids Award is given to personalities credited with bringing younger generations to cinema. Barras is behind 2016 hit animation My Life As A Courgette, and will present his latest feature film Sauvages on the Piazza Grande on August 13.
Sauvages recently premiered as a special screening in Cannes and is about an Orangutan fighting to save the forests of Borneo with his friends.
Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said: “Claude Barras is...
The Locarno Kids Award is given to personalities credited with bringing younger generations to cinema. Barras is behind 2016 hit animation My Life As A Courgette, and will present his latest feature film Sauvages on the Piazza Grande on August 13.
Sauvages recently premiered as a special screening in Cannes and is about an Orangutan fighting to save the forests of Borneo with his friends.
Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said: “Claude Barras is...
- 5/28/2024
- ScreenDaily
Der Schweizer Animationsfilmer erhält im Rahmen des Locarno Film Festival den Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare, der seit 2021 an Persönlichkeiten vergeben wird, die jüngere Generationen fürs Kino begeistern.
Claude Barras wird auf dem Locarno Film Festival mit dem Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare ausgezeichnet (Credit: Adrienne Bovet)
Der Schweizer Animationsfilmer Claude Barras wird im Rahmen des Locarno Film Festival (7. bis 17. August) mit dem Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare ausgezeichnet, den das Festival seit 2021 an Persönlichkeiten vergibt, die jüngere Generationen fürs Kino begeistern.
Giona A. Nazzaro, den künstlerischen Leiter des Locarno Film Festival, sagt über den Preisträger, dessen „Mein Leben als Zucchini“ im Jahr 2017 für den Oscar als bester Animationsfilm nominiert war: „Die Méliès’sche Brillanz seiner Animationen führt direkt zu den Ursprüngen des Kinos zurück, ist aber eng verbunden mit den technologischen Transformationen des zeitgenössischen Films. Barras ist seit Beginn ein Künstler mit einer unverwechselbaren Note und Befürworter eines zivilen und engagierten Kinos,...
Claude Barras wird auf dem Locarno Film Festival mit dem Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare ausgezeichnet (Credit: Adrienne Bovet)
Der Schweizer Animationsfilmer Claude Barras wird im Rahmen des Locarno Film Festival (7. bis 17. August) mit dem Locarno Kids Award la Mobiliare ausgezeichnet, den das Festival seit 2021 an Persönlichkeiten vergibt, die jüngere Generationen fürs Kino begeistern.
Giona A. Nazzaro, den künstlerischen Leiter des Locarno Film Festival, sagt über den Preisträger, dessen „Mein Leben als Zucchini“ im Jahr 2017 für den Oscar als bester Animationsfilm nominiert war: „Die Méliès’sche Brillanz seiner Animationen führt direkt zu den Ursprüngen des Kinos zurück, ist aber eng verbunden mit den technologischen Transformationen des zeitgenössischen Films. Barras ist seit Beginn ein Künstler mit einer unverwechselbaren Note und Befürworter eines zivilen und engagierten Kinos,...
- 5/28/2024
- by Jochen Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
Oscar-nominated Swiss animator Claude Barras (“My Life as a Zucchini”) will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Locarno Kids Award given to personalities credited with infusing younger generations with a love for cinema.
Barras’ beloved stop-motion film “Life as a Zucchini,” about an orphaned boy who lives in a foster home, played at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2016, and went on to be nominated for best animated feature at the Oscars and secured distribution in over 50 territories.
Barras’ more recent work “Sauvages,” about an orangutan fighting to save the forests of Borneo with his friends, will travel to Locarno after premiering positively at Cannes earlier this month.
“Sauvages” will play on the prominent Swiss fest’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande on Aug. 13 with the director in tow.
“Claude Barras is one of the great shapers of the contemporary collective imagination,” said Locarno’s artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro in a statement.
Barras’ beloved stop-motion film “Life as a Zucchini,” about an orphaned boy who lives in a foster home, played at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2016, and went on to be nominated for best animated feature at the Oscars and secured distribution in over 50 territories.
Barras’ more recent work “Sauvages,” about an orangutan fighting to save the forests of Borneo with his friends, will travel to Locarno after premiering positively at Cannes earlier this month.
“Sauvages” will play on the prominent Swiss fest’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande on Aug. 13 with the director in tow.
“Claude Barras is one of the great shapers of the contemporary collective imagination,” said Locarno’s artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro in a statement.
- 5/28/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Eight years after his stop-motion breakout debut My Life as a Zucchini, which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight, Swiss director Claude Barras is back at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Sauvages (Savages).
My Life as a Zucchini was an Academy Award nominee in 2017, and Barras’ new feature is, if anything, even more ambitious. It tells the story of Kéria, an 11-year-old girl who lives with her father, a Swiss ethnologist who now works for a logging company, in the rural suburbs of the province of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. She’s a typical urban girl, who loves her cell phone, hip-hop music and all things modern. She has largely turned her back on the traditions of her late mother, who was a member of the Penan, a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers whose way of life is threatened by industrial deforestation. But when her father rescues a baby orangutan,...
My Life as a Zucchini was an Academy Award nominee in 2017, and Barras’ new feature is, if anything, even more ambitious. It tells the story of Kéria, an 11-year-old girl who lives with her father, a Swiss ethnologist who now works for a logging company, in the rural suburbs of the province of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. She’s a typical urban girl, who loves her cell phone, hip-hop music and all things modern. She has largely turned her back on the traditions of her late mother, who was a member of the Penan, a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers whose way of life is threatened by industrial deforestation. But when her father rescues a baby orangutan,...
- 5/19/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“My Life As a Zucchini” director Claude Barras has set up his latest stop-motion animated feature, “Savages!”
Production company Gebeka International — a Hildegarde-Goodfellas company formed in 2021 — and production, financing and sales studio Anton are behind the project, which will be written by Barras and Catherine Paille (“Magnetic Beasts”). The project will be shopped to buyers in Cannes next week.
“Savages!” follows the emotional journey of a girl, her father and a rescued baby orangutan. The film has a strong environmental and conservationist message, exploring the crisis of the destruction of rainforests.
An official synopsis for the film reads as follows: “In Borneo, at the edge of the tropical forest, Kéria is given a baby orangutan that has been rescued from the palm oil plantation where her father works. At the same time, Kéria’s younger cousin Selaï comes to live with her and her father as he seeks refuge from...
Production company Gebeka International — a Hildegarde-Goodfellas company formed in 2021 — and production, financing and sales studio Anton are behind the project, which will be written by Barras and Catherine Paille (“Magnetic Beasts”). The project will be shopped to buyers in Cannes next week.
“Savages!” follows the emotional journey of a girl, her father and a rescued baby orangutan. The film has a strong environmental and conservationist message, exploring the crisis of the destruction of rainforests.
An official synopsis for the film reads as follows: “In Borneo, at the edge of the tropical forest, Kéria is given a baby orangutan that has been rescued from the palm oil plantation where her father works. At the same time, Kéria’s younger cousin Selaï comes to live with her and her father as he seeks refuge from...
- 5/9/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
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