INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-Iranian filmmaker and painter Shiva Sadegh Asadi will serve as a juror at the 49th Annecy International Animation Film Festival, set
to be held from June 8 to 14 in France.She has been selected as one of three jury members for the short competition section of the festival,
Mehr reported.Sadegh Asadi will serve along with Andrew Ruhemann, a British Oscar-winning film producer, director and the founder of Passion
Pictures and Christopher Sanders, an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor.A graduate of animation from Tehran University of Art,
Award and the Filmfest Dresden Audience Award in 2022.She has gradually developed her early painterly style by combining it with stop-motion
She uses objects and pieces of paper to create distorted figures and fragmented space, combined with the representation of various
viewpoints, perspectives, and timeframes in a single shot.Sadegh Asadi considers her paintings to be the main source of inspiration for her
In both her paintings and films, she focuses on the human being's inner self, dealing with themes including dreams, gloomy fantasies,
femininity, abuse, family, and relationships.The Annecy International Animation Film Festival, officially abbreviated in English as the
Annecy Festival or simply Annecy, was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town of Annecy, France.Initially
occurring every two years, the festival became an annual event in 1998
It is one of the four international animated film festivals sponsored by the International Animated Film Association.The festival is a
competition between animated films of various techniques (traditional, cut-outs, claymation, CGI, etc.) classified in various categories,
including feature films, short films, films produced for television and advertising, student films, and films made for the
internet.Throughout the festival, in addition to the competing films projected in various cinemas of the city, an open-air night projection
According to the topic of the festival, classic or recent films are projected onto the giant screen
At the closing ceremony, the winners of various categories are awarded.SS/
This article first appeared/also appeared in Tehran Times
