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THE MOVIES During the last week of aniMOweb, two events with the performing of films on ENVIRONMENTAL THEMES and DIGITAL CREATIVITY took place, thus reconciling in a cross-referential way the topics of aniMOweb 2003. These films accompanied the projection of the films submitted for the contest, which were inserted in a DVD to allow a cinema full screen vision. Wednesday, 22nd October at Sala Truffaut Cinema, Modena, Via Adelardi a preview of all the films, aniMOweb films included, took place in a marathon from 5 p.m. to 12 p.m. Saturday, 25th October some of these movies together with all the films submitted for the contest were re-proposed at San Carlo Theatre in Modena. This was the afternoon before the official prize awarding ceremony presented by Carlo Massarini. Here is the list of the films offered by the sponsor Focus Lab, a Modenese research centre as well as a consulting agency for sustainable development projects and actions: DOCUMENTARY FILM "DREAM MACHINE TV" Introducing itself as "The final resource on digital art", "Dream Machine TV" is a documentary film created by Lorenzo Miglioli (www.mimic.it), with the cooperation of Andrea Toniolo, Mauro Gatti and Giulio Fregni. It aims at presenting, in TV format, showcases of the most famous web artists in the world and at portraying the panorama of digital art. By using network technologies, young authors from all over the world are producing artworks that look like films, cartoons, TV programs, computer games, since these are the products and genres with which they have been growing up. Thus, the documentary explores the NETWORKING GENERATION, that is the first interactive generation in the history of media production. These young people think, organise, and hand out their works - via web - to art networks all over the world. The documentary lasts 100 minutes and was broadcast for the first time in Italy by the channel RaiSat Arte in June. The Biennale of Visual Arts in Venice, which co-produces the film together with RaiSat Arte, exhibits it permanently in the ASAC - Archivio Storico dell'Arte Contemporanea - pavilion. PRINCESS MONONOKE This masterpiece of director Hayao Miyazaki was produced in 1997 and won the Japanese award equivalent to Oscar. The 2003 Oscar winning film Spirited Away followed. Based on a Japanese legend, Princess Mononoke is the animated story of a war that opposes men to gods for the conquest of nature. With a lyric quality and a mystical style, this animation film is set in medieval Japan in a time of great changes, samurai warriors and scattered villages, each hundreds of miles far away from the other. The Great God of the Forest, a mythical creature, bestows power on the other forest gods, which have the form of enormous beasts, to protect their realm from men. A war devastates this land and Ashitaka, a courageous warrior, is involved in the fight between men and the animals. He tries to convince the two parties to find a solution to end this spiral of violence and to establish a common territory where the creatures of the forest and men can live together in peace. Princess Mononoke is a young woman raised by wolves. She is ready to die in order to defeat the humans and save the forests and the animals to which she has devoted her life. CAR CRAZE First work of Dutch director Evert de Beijer. It is a short film produced with 3D animation software with a special mention from the jury of 2003 Annecy Animation Festival. Produced by CinéTé Filmproduktie, ARTE France and RNTV, Car Craze is the Dutch proposal for the Animation Oscar award. The main theme is air pollution caused by cars. An environment inspector is controlling a city area dominated by monstrous cars. His short stay at a motel is distressing: he discovers that the cars evolve in a kind of parasitic life charming the human beings and feeding on the vital fruits of the earth. THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES Directed by the Canadian director Frederick Back and based on a story by Jean Giono, this medium-length movie lasting 30 minutes is produced by Societè Radio Canada and won the Academy Award for animated films in 1988. The main character of this ecological fairy tale, Elzéard Bouffier, after living the difficult life of a farmer and after losing his only child and his wife, withdraws in a silent and slow loneliness. He re-afforests alone a large part of Provence in France in the time between the two World Wars. Elzéard, however isolated and reticent, spends each single day sowing oaks, maples and beeches. He believes his country will die for the lack of trees. Year by year, meticulous and precise, he plants an entire forest in lands cursed by ruin and desolation. With the new trees a new sense of civilisation and progress thrives. Elzéard sows, works, loves without considering fatigue, without expecting rewards. His reward is in the self same gesture of giving.
Year 2003 - Theme: ENVIRONMENT
PRIZE AWARDING CEREMONY
EXHIBITION THEIR CIRCULAR LIFE
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Year 2002 - Theme: TOURISM
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7/15/2008
Animoweb and Guerre e Pace Filmfest 2008 in Nettuno
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7/1/2008
Nina Paley winner at Annecy 2008
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10/16/2006
aniMOweb at Web and Music Festival 2006
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6/13/2006
AniMOweb at the Festival of International Cooperation and Solidarity
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4/21/2006
Control Arms and aniMOweb
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2/16/2006
Official prizes of the contest and sponsor prizes
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2/15/2006
Luca Raffaelli introduces the prize awarding ceremony of aniMOweb 4th Edition
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1/12/2006
Animoweb at La Sapienza University of Rome
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10/19/2005
aniMOweb 2003 DVD published
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FLASH NEWS ARCHIVE

31st August 2006 - aniMOweb 4th edition DVD published.
The DVD-ROM containing all the animations and videogames on the topics of war and peace has been published. The distribution is free and it is possible to receive a copy asking by email.
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7th July 2006 - AniMOweb 4th Edition (on the themes of War and Peace) Prize Awarding. The report, the video, the photos.
Saturday, 11th March, the prize awarding of aniMOweb 4th Edition took place at Teatro San Carlo, after the preceding week devoted to film reviews at Sala Truffaut, seminars and meetings with the authors and the jury members at Istituto Fermi and Teatro San Carlo.
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29th June 2006 - The final events of aniMOweb 4th Edition: the report and the video about the meetings and the seminars.
Thursday, 9th March the movies of aniMOweb were shown to the students of the Modenese schools. Friday, 10th March, and Saturday, 11th March, were the concluding days of the 4th edition of the festival: the meetings and the seminars of the contestants and special guests of the jury took place at Aula Magna Istituto Fermi and San Carlo Theatre.
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21st April 2006 - aniMOweb 4th edition: the decision of the jury
The jury of AniMOweb 4th edition has voted for the first time mainly online, through a mailing list. During previous editions, some meetings took place at Provincia di Modena. This year, such solution was not possible, since not all the members were able to meet in Modena.
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20th April 2006 - The audience prize to Loriana Aprea, Manuel Fallmann, Paola Ambrosecchia and Loredana Costi
The audience prizes have been assigned by the visitors of the site www.aniMOweb.it. The pages devoted to the online vote and to the submissions on the themes of peace and war have been browsed and visited by thousands of people from all over the world.
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14th March 2006 - The aniMOweb 4th edition prize winners
In the evening of Saturday, 11th March the Prize Awarding Ceremony of aniMOweb 4th edition about the theme of conflicts, war and peace took place at S.Carlo Theatre in Modena. It was introduced by Luca Raffaelli.
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20th February 2006 - The events of the three concluding days of aniMOweb, from 9th to 11th March
Seminars, discussions, films, contributions of Italian and foreign authors: the three concluding days of aniMOweb - each with a peculiar quality - take place in three different theatres, from 9th to 11th March in Modena.
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19th December 2005 - aniMOweb presents the works of 4th Edition
The works submitted for 4th Edition of aniMOweb are on line. The themes are conflicts, culture of peace vs. culture of war. They are a mosaic of 90 multimedia creations by authors from all over the world. These artists have taken this unique opportunity to express their ideas and viewpoints through animated images and sounds for everybody's vision and consideration.
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6th December 2005 - The jury of aniMOweb 4th Edition
The jury members' appointing for the official prize awarding of aniMOweb 4th edition - on the theme of conflicts, war and peace - has been completed. They are the following (in alphabetical order): Matteo Bittanti, Gili Dolev, Daniela Marsino, Nina Paley, Luca Raffaelli, Chiara Rubbiani.
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15th November 2005 - Interview with Mimmo Càndito
In the framework of the themes of conflicts, war and peace - the subjects of aniMOweb 4th edition - here is an enquiry on how war is communicated by mass media. We have discussed this topic with Mimmo Càndito, journalist of La Stampa, who recently wrote the book Il Braccio Legato dietro la Schiena, stories about reporters in war territories.
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14th November 2005 - Towards the deadline of 4th December
To take part in aniMOweb fourth edition, the deadline of 4th December (postponed from 30th November) is the expire date to submit intros, games, interactive applications and short films. To provide further help, here are the final tips for authors that are going to send their works.
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3rd November 2005 - Interview with Modena CSV
AniMOweb editorial staff asked some questions to CSV (Modena Volunteer Service Centre), main sponsor with Modena Province of the 4th edition of aniMOweb on the themes of conflicts, cult of war, culture of peace. Among other things, we talked about voluntary social work, solidarity, culture of dialogue, pacifism, social justice.
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5th October 2005 - Group interview with aniMOweb 2004 prize winners
Like every year, here is the appointment with the traditional group interview with the prize winners of the previous edition of aniMOweb. This is the last flashback on the themes of women and equal opportunities, the last homage to 2004 prize winners before devoting ourselves to the edition on conflicts, the cult of war in opposition to the culture of peace.
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7th September 2005 - Interview with Matteo Bittanti
Matteo Bittanti is one of the most outstanding experts in video games and new technologies. Writer, teacher at university masters and event organiser, he has created two editorial series on video games criticism. They are unique in their genre and were devised to recount, study and extend the knowledge about video games in Italy. AniMOweb editorial staff has interviewed him, focusing attention on the themes of the 4th edition of the contest and in particular on the relationship between videogames and violence, between war and peace videogames.
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30th June 2005 - The fourth edition of AniMOweb opens and the theme is about peace
Thursday, 30th June a.m. the press conference, which officially opens the 4th edition of aniMOweb on the conflicts and themes of peace and war, takes place at 11.30 in the Palace of Modena Province. The contributors are the Councillor for Culture Beniamino Grandi and the representatives of CSV (Centro Servizi Volontariato) of Modena together with the editorial staff of aniMOweb, Andrea Cavazzuti and Cristina Poppi.
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1st June 2005 - 4th Edition of aniMOweb on the themes of War and Peace
The 4th edition of aniMOweb on the theme "CONFLICTS: THE CULT OF WAR AND THE CULTURE OF PEACE" is going to start. The event is promoted by Modena Province, main sponsor of the contest since 2002. The co-sponsor for this edition is Centro Servizi Volontariato (CSV) of Modena, which boasts a long experience of activity with Associations of Volunteers dealing with themes like peace, human rights and solidarity.
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