She Who Measures

Veljko Popović

3D animation

year: 2008

format: Digital Betacam
duration: 6'40"

production: Kenges
distribution: Bonobostudio

MAYA: From the verb root ma, "to measure, to limit, give form." Maya ("she who measures”) — the deluding or illusive power of the world

More about the film

screenwriter, director, design: Veljko Popović
lead animator: Marin Kovačić
3D modelling: Milivoj Popović
music and sound design: Hrvoje Štefotić
rendering, compositing: Lemonade3d Studio
supervisor: Simon Bogojević Narath
executive producer: Vanja Andrijević
producers: Ivan Ratković, Lado Skorin

www.shewhomeasures.com

Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in? The question this film is asking is this: are we slaves to the culture and society we were born in or is there a way to escape after all?

selected festivals:

Animafest, Zagreb; International Animated Film Festival, Annecy; Tabor Film Festival; Expresion en Corto, Mexico; Sarajevo Film Festival; Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival; Circuito Off, Venice; Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax; Split Film Festival; KROK; SITGES; Anim'est Bucharest; Imago, Portugal; Balkanima, Beograd; DOK Leipzig; Animacor, Cordoba; Interfilm, Berlin; Leeds International Film Festival; Amiens International Film Festival, Animated Dreams, Tallin; I Castelli Animati; Animateka, Ljubljana; Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival; Tampere International Short Film Festival; REGARD-Saguenay International Short Film Festival, Canada; Animabasauri, Bilbao; ZEMOS98 Audiovisual Festival, Sevilla; Aspen Shortsfest, USA; Filmfest Dresden; AniFest, Trebon; Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto; Melbourne Int'l Animation Festival; Anima Mundi, Brazil; London Int'l Animation Festival; Chungmuro International Film Festival, Korea; Aye Aye Film Festival, France; KLIK! Amsterdam; onedotzero_adventures in motion, UK; Granada International Young Filmmakers Festival; Calgary International Film Festival; Kolkata International Film Festival; St. Louis Int'l Film Festival ....
 

awards:

  • Best First Film Award (Days of Croatian Film 2008)
  • Best Music Award (Days of Croatian Film 2008)
  • Special Mention (Animafest - World Festival of Animated Film, Zagreb 2008)
  • FIPRESCI Award (International Animated Film Festival, Annecy 2008)
  • Best Animated Film Award (Kratkofil, Banja Luka 2008)
  • Award for the best film in national competition (Tabor Film Festival 2008)
  • Grand Prix (Balkanima 2008)
  • Nassos Vakalis Award – presented by European Animation Center (Balkanima 2008)
  • Grand Prix (Day of Croatian Animation 2008)
  • Diploma (Tindirindis, Vilnius 2008)
  • Metropolis Prize (ZEMOS98, Sevilla 2009)
  • "Animated Eye" Award for the best animated film (Aspen Shortsfest 2009)
  • Honourable Award (ReAnimacja, Lodz 2009)
  • Best Debut Film (TOFUZI International Festival of Animated Film, Georgia, 2009)

tv-broadcast:

Canal+; TVE Metropolis

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