Cartoons on the bay 2012
The Silver Pulcinella for the Best Children's Programme (6-12 Years) went to Ralph Hibbert Entertainment (Graham Ralph, James Stevenson) for The Forgotten Toys. The Silver Pulcinella for the Best Programme for Infants went to France Animation (Jean-Luc Morel, Daniel Orgeval) for The Babalous, a 65 x 5' Franco-Canadian series.
#Cartoons on the bay 2012 series
It is a 26 x 13' series using 3-D computer animation, that was honored "for its technical innovation in computer graphics, for the beauty of its images, for its rhythm and editing, for its sense of humor, for the quality of its soundtrack and for the originality of the characters." The other Golden Pulcinella went to France's Fantôme Animation (Renato and Georges Lacroix) for their 1995 series Insektors, as Best Programme All Round. The Golden Pulcinella for Best Character was awarded to Italy's Franceso Tullio Altan for Pimpa (a naive red spotted dog, created 20 years ago for a comic strip aimed at children the 1995 pilot for a TV series is directed by Enzo D'Alò). There were 56 films in competition representing 14 countries 52 more were screened in the out of competition Showcase section. Giampaolo Sodano, SACIS' Chairman, added: "With animation occupying 20% of the audiovisual market and becoming a growing trend, as of yet there had never been a festival that analyzed and rewarded the very best in TV cartoons." Sodano was the big muscle behind the festival his company is the distribution branch of the government-owned Italian broadcaster RAI, and his decision in favor of animation shows a strong determination to get involved with it-finally, after 30 years of absent-mindedness.
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Which actually is the point, since high quality animated entertainment for television is the great novelty of today's global market, as opposed to the situation of just 5-6 years ago, when basically only two forms of animation existed (besides commercials): auteur films and TV series.