The new short film by Rudolf Smid, ‘The
Chronicle of Oldrich S.", has been selected for the
prestigious American
documentary film festival SilverDocs in Silver Spring, Maryland. This is
a
great honor for a Czech animated documentary, which only started screening
at international
festivals in February 2012.
SilverDocs Documentary
Film Festival is organized by the American Film Institute and the
Discovery
Channel. It is the largest documentary event of the year in the
United States with over 27,000 visitors
and industry professionals each year,
showcasing more than two hundred new documentaries from
around the world,
(including films from Central and Eastern Europe). This makes Silverdocs the
best
festival for the North American premiere of ‘The Chronicle of Oldrich
S.'
Because of its connection to the Discovery Channel the festival has
had guests such as Jonathan
Demme, Al Gore, Alex Gibney, and Martin Scorsese.
The special guests for this year's festival will be
the American filmmakers
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.
And don't forget, ‘The Chronicle of
Oldrich S.' is a hit on the international festival scene. It was
nominated
for Silver Eye ,Jihlava 2011; selected for the SXSW Film Festival 2012 in
Austin,
Texas; received the special jury award at the Docudays festival in
Kiev; received the IFAF AniFest
main prize for short film; selected for the
Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart; selected for the DOXA festival
Vancouver;
andselected for the DocAviv festival in Tel Aviv, 2012.
In the upcoming
months, the film will be screened at the 52nd Krakow Film Festival in Poland,
the Huesca
Film Festival in Spain and as mentioned above, the Silverdocs
festival in June.
‘The Chronicle of Oldrich S.' was produced by Anima and
AniFest.
Contact: Jakub Hora/AniFest
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