Anim’est thrilled the Chişinău audience

The Special Edition of the Anim’est International Animation Film Festival in Chişinău came to a close on Sunday, November 6th. The Festival’s Executive Director, Vlad Ilicevici, brought ahead of the audience, at the last projection, the news that starting with 2012, Animation Worksheep, the film workshop, organized by Anim’est in April, will be open to young animators in The Republic Of Moldova.  During the same night, the team and the 31 volunteers have tread the board, getting the hands of the Odeon Cinema.

3500 spectators attended the projections between November 3rd-6th at the Odeon Cinema, in the heart of Chişinău. 135 films from 28 countries were projected inside of the Special Edition, held by the most important film festival in Bucharest, and the Moldovan audience experienced Creepy Animation Night on Saturday, November 5th.

The Chişinău first edition’s success, the extremely positive reactions from the audience and the festival’s partners have proven the fact that the audience in The Republic of Moldova is insatiable for animation films and is motivating the Anim’est organizers to carry forward with the festival in the next years.

Oftenly awarded films, such as Persepolis, The Illusionist, Despicable Me, 9 or Crulic – The Path to Beyond, the feature film that opened the festival on Thursday, November 3^rd, were projected on the big screen, in the Republic of Moldova, in front of a full house. The program dedicated to productions from the Moldova Film archives has brought to Odeon, at the meeting with Guguţă and the director Constantin Bălan, some hundreds of parents and children. The 2010 and 2011 Anim’est awarded films were also enjoyed by the audience, (who attended a surprise) at the end of the final productions’ program: The Scream, winner of The Balkanimation Romanian Film Competition, being projected in a „winter” type.

The main animators of Crulic -  The Path to Beyond (d. Anca Damian, Romania-Poland, 2011), Dan Panaitescu and Dragoş Ştefan and the Polish co-producer Arkadiusz Wojnarovski; the film judge and French journalist Alexis Hunot; director Constantin Bălan; director Sebastian Cosor and drawer Cosmin Sîrbulescu, makers of The Scream; Minus and Res Es musicians and the visual artist Andrei Fantana, the Creepy Animation Night’s stars; the film journalists Oana Ghiţă, Ruxandra Grecu and Ştefan Dobroiu were the Anim’est Chişinău’s first edition guests.

Anim’est is thanking all of their partners and guests, also those who helped with this special edition’s succes.