‘The Danish Poet’ director received the Lifetime Achievement Award and Canadian Film Prize for her new Mikrofilm/NFB short, ‘Maybe Elephants.’
Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove (The Danish Poet) was recently honored in Vancouver by Spark Animation, Western Canada’s largest celebration of animation, presented by the Spark Computer Graphics Society.
Kove received the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to the field of animation, as well as this year’s Canadian Film Prize for her new short film, Maybe Elephants, co-produced by Mikrofilm and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
The new award brings the total to four awards and mentions for Maybe Elephants, including the Short Film – Audience Prize at South Korea’s Bucheon International Animation Festival and Best Nordic-Baltic Animated Youth Film at Norway’s Fredrikstad Animation Festival. The project also marks the fourth collaboration between Kove, The NFB, and Mikrofilm.
“I’m honored and deeply touched to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Spark Animation festival,” said Kove. “This is an occasion for me to reflect on how fortunate I’ve been to have a career as an animation director with the National Film Board of Canada and the Norwegian animation studio Mikrofilm. I owe these two animation studios and everybody who has collaborated with me on my films a great debt of gratitude. I interpret this award both as an acknowledgement of my work so far and as encouragement to keep making more films.”
Maybe Elephants continues its festival tour at the London International Animation Festival, taking place online and in cinemas from November 22 to December 1. The film has been selected by more than 20 festivals, including the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, LA’s Animation Is Film, AFI FEST, the Toronto International Film Festival, and Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Maral Mohammadian produces for NFB, while Tonje Skar Reiersen and Lise Fearnley produce for Mikrofilm.
Source: The NFB
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