Armenia acquired number of perspective agreements at Annecy Festival

YEREVAN, JUNE 20, ARMENPRESS: The Armenia delegation has already returned from the International Animation Festival held in the French city of Annecy on June 10-15. The President of the animation studio of Robert Sahakyants Production David Sahakyants reported to the Armenpress correspondent that like in the previous year, in 2013 as well Armenia had its own pavilion at the Festival along with the ReAnimaniaAnimation FilmFestival and has acquired a number of long-term agreements.

“Hayk Sahakyants’ “Quantum jump” short film, as well as the preliminary version of the animated feature film “Anahit” interested the audience much. The Chinese side made a suggestion to translate the film into Chinese right upon its completion”, - said David Sahakyants.

At the Annecy International Animation Festival the Armenian delegation has acquired agreements to present a panorama of the Armenian cartoons and the retrospective screening of the works of the animator Robert Sahakyants in Argentina.

As stated by Sahakyants, the participation in the Annecy International Animation Festival provided the visitors with the opportunity to get aware about the Armenian animation and this participation in such an authoritative event was quite an important achievement.

“By the end of 2013 or the beginning of 2014 we will be in the negotiations process with the sides”, - informed the President of the animation studio of Robert Sahakyants Production David Sahakyants.

The film “Quantum jump” has already participated in the Edinburgh Film Festival. In April it was screened at the Multimatograph Festival inVologda. In the nearest future it will participate as well in the International Animation Film Festival Golden Kuker to be held inSofia.All the potentials of 3D techniques were used in the 7-minute cartoon for the first time.

The animator Hayk Sahakyants stated earlier that “Quantum jump” does not have any age limits and might be attractive for everyone. The author of the cartoon’s scenario is Vardan Zadoyan and the artist is Ernest Muradyan.The film was developed during the entire 2012 and was completed in the beginning of 2013. Four specialists worked on the film. The budget made about 8 million AMD. “Quantum jump” was made with the assistance of theNationalCinemaCenterof theRepublicofArmenia. The music and audio effects were made by Tumbox Company.

TheAnnecy International Animation Film Festival(Festival International du Film d'Animation d'Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town ofAnnecy,France. Initially occurring every two years, the festival became annual in 1998. It is one of the four international animated film festivals sponsored by theAssociation d'International du Film d'Animation(or ASIFA, theInternational Animated Film Association). The Festival is attended by 6-7 thousand animators and about 400 journalists from different countries of the world.

The festival is a competition between cartoon films of various techniques (animated drawings, cut out papers, modeling clay, etc.) classified in the categories of Feature films, Short films, Films produced for television and advertising, Student films and Films made for the internet.