Awards
2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
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Golden Eyeball - Grand Prize
Easter Eggs directed by Nicolas Keppens (Belgium) Jury Comments - Very well delivered from the storytelling to the directing, voices, design etc. I love the righteousness of the characters. It is a very engaging story and very well-paced, and the visual style is great! Hilarious and Heartbreaking - great writing, restrained visuals, engaging story and characters. |
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Eyepopper Award - Best Experimental & Boundary Pushing
Compositions for Understanding Relationships directed by David De La Fuente (US) Jury Comments - Great experimentation. Love the association of drawings and geometric graphisme. It feels very vulnerable, open, and very very romantic. Fragile and beautiful. Manages to deftly mix rotoscoping with animated diagrams and motion graphics. Technically highly accomplished and creates a wonderful dreamy meditation on love. |
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Best Student Animation
When the Moon was Gibbous directed by Erika Grace Strada (Denmark) Jury Comments - Incredible visuals and atmosphere as well as a high level of technical accomplishment. The film manages to tap into nostalgia while remaining original and surprising. |
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Best Young Audiences Animation
You Sold My Roller Skates? directed by Margaux Cazal, Jeanne Hammel, Louis Holmes, Sandy Lachkar, Agathe Leroux, Léa Rey-Mauzaize (France) Jury Comments - A highly original and intelligent short for kids with many fresh ideas and beautiful style. Very interesting approach and staging. Excellent designs and the story telling. The comic-style panels within the frame and the nonstop monologue of the main character propel the narrative and delivers nonstop visual humor all within a unique settiing of a flea market. |
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Best Baltimore Animation
Jan Julius - Manor Holes High Rise directed by Nick McKernan (US) Jury Comments - Insightful, relevant and deeply touching. The overall technique of this animation was fresh, exciting and unique: the rich palette and mix of analogue textures gave it a literal look and feel that distinguished it from the other entries. The combination of robot killers, body positivity and the everyday pain of paying bills and keeping afloat is a winner! Psychedelically charged animation with vibrant sound production and memorable characters engaged in resistance to established forces of gender identity and economic oppression. |
Jury Citations
2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
Additional films that were stand outs to the jury members.
2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
Additional films that were stand outs to the jury members.
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Juror Citation - Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo
Ecorce directed by Samuel Patthey , Silvain Monney (Switzerland) Juror Comments - Ecorce really stands out to me. It’s a beautiful way to take us on a journey with elders, at their pace. I especially enjoyed the drawings and the hand mountain that says so much in just one image. One can tell hours were spent observing and drawing. Congratulations. |
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Juror Citation - Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo
Girl in the Water directed by Shi-Rou Huang (Taiwan) Juror Comments - I found a lot of maturity in this film. It’s very sensual. Great editing and transitioning from personal feelings to concrete / palpable material. Trying to repair something damaged on the reel life as much as the inside world. I love the idea, bravo. |
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Juror Citation - Cassie Shao
Poise directed by Luís Soares (Portugal) Juror Comments - To me it is a film with many choices and different fates, they are all expanding in front of me simultaneously when I am stuck in this split second, anxiously waiting and hoping. It is a wonderfully uncomfortable yet unforgettable experience. |
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Juror Citation - Cassie Shao
Butterfly Jam directed by Shih-Yen Huang (France) Juror Comments - The visuals are very stunning and the story is hopelessly intimate. It talks about an inescapable, recurring pattern of a person's life in a sharp, poetic way. It is moving and watching this makes me feel like I'm floating in the air. |
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Juror Citation - Diana Cam Van Nguyen
Hold Me Tight directed by Leoluna Robert-Tourneur (Belgium) Juror Comments - Hold Me Tight was really captivating for me. I fall deep into the mood and the sensual visuals the whole film. Congrats to the director for a great work! |
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Juror Citation - Diana Cam Van Nguyen
Eating in the Dark directed by Inari Sirola (United Kingdom) Juror Comments - Eating in the Dark has a great sense of humor, fresh colour palette and a strong female character. I am looking forward to watching more of Inari Sirola's future works! |
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Juror Citation - Siqi Song
MOM directed by Kajika Aki Ferrazzini (France) Juror Comments - For its stunning visual style and animation that brings the audience into an immersive experience. |
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Juror Citation - Siqi Song
A Bite of Bone directed by Honami Yano (Japan) Juror Comments - For its innovative technique, nuanced animation and unique point of view that captures the viewers into this heart-felting story. |
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Juror Citation - John C. Kelley
Eyes and Horns directed by Chaerin Im (Republic of Korea) Juror Comments - Visually striking and sensual, conceptually challenging and explorative. Excellent drawing and energetic. |
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Juror Citation - John C. Kelley
Bye Little Block directed by Éva Darabos (Hungary) Juror Comments - Charming and emotional with an array of memorable characters. Imaginative and impressively crafted. |
Jury Citations - Baltimore Showcase
2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
Additional films that were stand outs to the jury members.
2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
Additional films that were stand outs to the jury members.
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Juror Citation - Keith Mehlinger
How to Make Electronic Music directed by Rob Thompson (US) Juror Comments - Whimsical animation makes us ponder the power of sound to reveal dimensions of aural discoveries that are the sources of a cacophony of electronic music in nature. |
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Juror Citation - Kelley Bell
Ten Degrees of Strange directed by Lynn Tomlinson (US) Juror Comments - The execution of this film is masterful: clay-on-glass animation is already a medium that's notable for its plasticity, but some of the twists, turns and transformations in the film left me dumbstruck, honestly. It's a potent and visceral 4.5-minute treatise on the interconnectivity of nature, the futility of regret, and the inevitability of mortality. |
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Juror Citation - Ismael Sanz-Pena
The Feast directed by Zeb Blair (US) Juror Comments - Out of this world, powerful and raw! |