Awards

THE 2008 WINNERS!

- SIGNOR ROSSI Award for the best film to Kieselstein by Ellen Hoffmann, from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg;
- SIGNOR ROSSI Award for the best animation school to The Animation Workshop (Denmark);
- SPECIAL SIGNOR ROSSI MENTIONS to the films Babau by Valerio Terranova, Giuliano Poretti, Silvia Zappalà, Omar Bianco from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Chieri, and Dance with the devil by Viola Baier, from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg;
- FRANCO FOSSATI Award to De Luca. Il disegno pensiero, edited by Hamelin (ed. Black Velvet, 2008);
- FAITH IN STRIP Award to Gli Animaletti e il Buon Pastore by Francesco Rizzato (Fumetti per fede, 2008);
- SPECIAL FAITH IN STRIPS MENTIONS to Storia di Davide by Roberto Battestini (Catecomics, 2007) e Vangelo a fumetti by Roberto Rinaldi (San Paolo, 2008).

Twelve "SIGNOR ROSSI"award
Dedicated to the productions of students of animation cinema from all over the world.

The award is dedicated to the animation films realized by students and it is divided into different sections: one for the films realized by primary and intermediate school children,one for secondary school students and the third one for university students. Every year a qualified Jury composed by Italian and International experts of the animation and media fields, closely examines the works coming from schools from all over the world. For each category, the Jury assigns the “Sig.Rossi Award”, consisting in a statuette representing the famous character by Bruno Bozzetto, while the author of the most meritorious work receives a 1.000 Euro grant. The schools participating are from all over the world: Italy, Poland, Iran, England, Germany, Latvia, USA, etc. We’d also like to underline the great contribution of the animation workshops dedicated to the youngest children, with films created by the use of different techniques, like decoupage, plasticine and traditional drawing. They’re all works of enormous creativity and which portray stories carrying ecological messages and rich insolidarity.

Twelve "FRANCO FOSSATI" award
Dedicated to Italian books, essays, histories about comics art.

Comics: they are beautiful, adventurous, instructive, romantic and so on. They make us enjoy life, take us to other worlds, create characters that can stay with us for years, and teach us things that, sometimes, we cannot learn elsewhere. And, this is something we know very well.
How they do this, on the contrary, is definitely different. Which techniques do they use to capture our attention? How do they describe the characters so they look alive and real to the reader? How do they build panels and pages so the story goes on with a masterly mixture of events, pauses and surprises? Critical reviews and essays on comics have the purpose to investigate these topics and find at least part of the answers. The “Franco Fossati” Award, dedicated to the memory of one of the most important critics of comics of our country (and others), has the purpose to promote and stimulate the scientific research concerning comics. Year after year, the contributions increase in number and variety. This increase testifies to the growing interest for this kind of research. Cartoon Club, together with the Fondazione Fossati, the Anonima Fumetti, the A.N.A.F.I. and the Centro Fumetto “Andrea Pazienza,” is determined to continue its part for the diffusion of these books that always have a lot to teach to students and to curious people who sometimes ask themselves – “Why do I like comics so much?”

Fourth “Faith in Strips – Christian Comics” Award... Dedicated to the works of Christian inspiration in the comics world.

The history of comics never underestimated the religious themes, neither in the strict sense, nor in the broader meaning of a true research of the spiritual element. The religious subject may be only hinted at, at times its presence is allowed, but more rarely explicitly acknowledged. In Italy, we have a long, even if often unrecognized, tradition of important comics strictly connected to the religious world and to the ecclesiastical structures: magazines, characters and authors who can speak to both the religious and the non-confessional worlds. In all these years, Cartoon Club has been emphasizing the significance of this dimension through various initiatives: the exhibition called Faith in Strips, the volume dedicated to the exhibition itself and the creation of a specialised archive on the subject. On this foundation, we established the award "Faith in Strips – Christian Comics", the first one in Italy, that will be given, year by year, to the Italian productions that have best conveyed religious values through the approach of comics.