Tehran-Iranian filmmaker and painter Shiva Sadegu Asady will be ju-designed at the 49th Annessy International Animation Film Festival, which will be held in France from June 8th to 14th.
She was selected as one of three ju umpires in the festival’s short competition section, Mehr reported.
Sadegh Asadi will serve alongside Andrew Ruhemann, the founder of British Oscar-winning film producer and Passion Pictures, and Christopher Sanders, animator and voice actor in the United States.
A graduate of Tehran University of Art, Sadegua Sadi has directed several notable animations, including “The Kitten” (2013), “Maned & Macho” (2017), “Crab” (2020), “Satin” (2022) and “Aquatic” (2024), and has won international animations and awards. Audience Awards 2022.
She gradually developed the style of early painters by combining it with stop motion techniques. She uses objects and paper to create distorted figures and fragmented spaces, combined with representations of different perspectives, perspectives, and time frames in one shot.
Sadegh Asadi considers her paintings to be the main source of inspiration for her animated films. In both her paintings and films, she focuses on the inner human self and addresses themes such as dreams, pessimistic fantasies, femininity, abuse, family, and relationships.
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival, officially abbreviated in English as Annecy Festival or simply Annecy, was created in 1960 and will be held in the town of Annecy, France at the beginning of June.
The festival, which originally occurred every two years, became an annual event in 1998. This is one of four international animation film festivals sponsored by the International Animation Film Association.
The festival is a competition between animated films of various techniques (traditional, cropped, clay, CGI, etc.) divided into various categories, including feature films, short films, films produced for television and advertising, student films, and films made for the internet.
In addition to competing films projected across the festival into various cinemas in the city, outdoor evening projections take place in the town centre, Peyer in the lake, and the mountains. According to the festival topic, classic or recent films are projected onto a huge screen. The closing ceremony will award recipients in various categories.
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