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Lucia
Germany, 8'19min, 2005

Director: Felix Gonnert

Sound & music : Max Knoth
Animation: Felix Gonnert
Editing: Gregor Wille
Modeling & Charactersetup: Felix Gonnert
Fast clouds animation: Josef Riesling
Set dressing for the hospital: Sonja Winzenried
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Synopsis: Wandering about the hospital by night, Lucia discovers several x-rays. The image of a skull fires her imagination and before long, dream and reality begin to blur …

Awards & Special Attributes
Kurzfilm des Monats Januar 2004, Pradikat “Besonders Wertvoll” durch die Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden (FBW).
Freigegeben ohne Altersbeschrankung, durch die Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (FSK).
BERLINALE 2004: The international Jury of the 27. Kinderfilmfest awards LUCIA with the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk “Special Price for the Best Short Film” with a cash price of 2.500 €.
Animago Award 2004: 2. Platz in der Kategorie „Animation/Education/Kurzfilm“.
FFA „Short Tiger“ Kurzfilmpreis 2004: Nominiert mit 15.000 € Nominierungspramie in der Kategorie Animation.
„Babelsberger Medienpreis“ 2004: Nominiert fur den Forderpreis fur den besten Absolventenfilm (Spielfilm).
„First Steps Award“: Nominiert fur den Forderpreis fur den besten Absolventenfilm (Kurzfilm).
„KROK“- International Animated Film Festival, 18.-28 August 2004 in Russland: The international Jury of the 11. KROK awards LUCIA with the “Special Price for the creative search in the field of modern technologies” with a cash price of 1.000 $.
„KROK“- International Animated Film Festival, 18.-28 August 2004 in Russland: The President of the selection committee Ivan Maximov, awards LUCIA with the “personal price for the best character”.
BUSTER Kinderfilmfest in Kopenhagen: The international jury presented the BUSTER short film for children award of DKK 15,000 to the German film “Lucia” by Felix Gonnert.
5th Intern. Student Film Festival in Pisek 2004: The main festival award of Vaclav Krska, Lucia, directed by Felix Gonnert.
5th Intern. Student Film Festival in Pisek 2004: The best work in the animated film category Lucia, directed by Felix Gonnert.
Brisbane International Animation Festival 2004: Student/Debut Award for best first film as judged by a jury of Brisbane animation professionals and academics.
Nominated for the “Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2004”.
Mention Speciale du Jury at the 15. Festival International du Court-Metrage Cergy-Pontoise, 15.-17. april 2005.
2nd Price in the cathegory 3D character animation award at the Animex Student Animation Awards 2005 in Teesside, Middlesbrough, Great Britain.
Audience award at the Festival Cine Junior 2005 in Paris.
Spezialpreis GOLDENER SPATZ fur Innovation/besondere Einzelleistung auf dem Kinderfilmfest Gera/Erfurt 2005, dotiert mit 2.500 € durch den RTL-Programmausschuss.

Felix Gonnert
05/14/1975 Germany

Final school examination 1994. 1996 began studying applied media studies at the University of Technology in Ilmenau, Thuringia. He took up studies in animation at the Film & Television Academy (HFF) “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg and finished in spring 2004.

Since 1990 he produced several short films. He completed his first character animation in the computer in 1994. In 1996 he made several exhibitions and illustrations with the agency “Break Fast” in Buxtehude. Since 1999 He is doing computer animation for TV-commercials.

Filmography
1996 LE JOUR SE LEVE (live action/BW/16mm)
1999 BSSS (animation/color/35mm)
2004 LUCIA (animation/color/35mm)

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