Student Oscar and Quartz winners in competition in São Paulo

The 22-minute animated documentary film “La nuit de l’ours” by Frédéric and Samuel Guillaume will be screened in the International Programme at the 24th São Paulo International Short Film Festival (August 22-30, 2013). The film is, together with the 25-minute Swiss-American coproduction “Hotel Pennsylvania” by Marc Raymond Wilkins, in the running for an Audience Award, ten of which are presented at the festival. Another Swiss-American coproduction, the 15-minute short fiction film “Un mundo para Raúl” by Mauro Mueller, is among the films screened in the festival’s Latin American section.

“La nuit de l’ours” on successful course
Before winning the Swiss Film Award 2013 for Best Animation Film in March this year, the animation film “La nuit de l’ours” was screened in the International Competition at the festival in Clermont-Ferrand, among others, and had already won two awards at the Fantoche Festival in Baden. In April it was honoured with the Animated Eye Award at the Aspen Shortsfest, thus qualifying it for an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film. In the film animals recount the story of people who were victims of social exclusion in Freiburg.

Programme with a Student Oscar winner
The short fiction film “Un mundo para Raúl” (coproduction: Contrast Film, Zurich) has already attracted a great deal of attention in the USA. The film, which tells the story of the abuse of a farmer’s son in South America, was honoured with a Student Oscar in the Narrative category. This fiction film has already been screened at thirty international festivals and honoured with more than ten awards. It will be screened in the Latin American Films section in São Paulo.

Geneva, August 21, 2013