You can also watch “Olis Chance” on the big screening in Seoul between May 23rd and May 27th as part of the competition of the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation festival in South Korea.
The results for the official selection of the International Animated Film Festival in Annecy have been announced. We are proud to see that “Ernst im Herbst” by Soi’s directors Jakob Schuh and Michael Sieber will be screened within the TV-special section.
In February you get another chance to see Studio Soi’s short “Oli’s Chance” on the big screen at the Anima Festival from the Feb. 16th to 25th in the Flagey Centre, Brussels. Studio Soi’s Saschka Unseld will be attending the event in case you want to meet him.
If you are eager to see our short film “Olis Chance” on the big screen you can do so in beautiful Monte Carlo soon. The film will be running in competition at the Imagina, betw. Jan. 31st to Feb. 2nd.
Studio Soi’s short “Olis Chance” is nominated for the prestigious German Goldener Spatz award. We congratulate the whole team and keep our fingers crossed.
A fleet of christmas-teasers, commisssioned by French/German broadcaster ARTE, about childrens’ wishes for the future will be shown on ARTE and German broadcaster KIKA, beginning 16th of December. Soi produced the 15 clips in collaboration with Cologne-based FEEDMEE.
On Dec. 19th Studio Soi’s Torben Meier and Johannes Weiland will be giving a lecture about Studio Soi at the masterclass of the University of Mannheim.
On nov. 18th, Saschka Unseld and Jakob Schuh will be giving a talk at the Sand 2006 in Swansea about the studio’s doings in the last years.
Congratulations to the whole team of our short film “Oli’s chance” for winning the special price of the Deutsche Wirtschaftsfilmpreis. Steffen Koch of the Deutsche Bahn AG and the directors Johannes Weiland and Saschka Unseld had the honour of receiving the award on nov. 29th.Our gratitude to the jury and the organisers of the event!
After making it into “Animation Magazine” and on the cover of Britain’s TELEVISUAL, “Oli’s Chance” now is featured in the Sept. issue of magazine PAGE, where Saschka, Johannes and Jakob grant an in-depth look at the production of the piece.
“Straße der Spezialistennew publication” is being featured in a lush called SHOWREEL 0.1. The coffeetablebook contains a brim-full DVD, an interview with the directors and loads of fantastic imagery from almost everyone we admire.A book worth buying.
Finally Japan’s very stylish MAC POWER devotes its Oct. issue to “66 movie directors you must know”. Standing there amidst Baumbach, Clooney, Anderson, Glazer, Gondry, Shynola, Psyop and Sean Penn made us feel sort of big in Japan.
“Olis Chance” is nominated for the Cartoon d´Or award and Soi’s managing directors Saschka Unseld and Carsten Bunte will be attending the Cartoon Forum in Pau Pyrenees from September 20th to the 23rd.
.At the International Animation Festival HIROSHIMA (from 24.08. to 28.08.2006), at the ANIMA MUNDI SPECIAL in Brasil (from 15.08. to 20.08.2006) and at the ANIMA MUNDI SPECIAL in Belem (from 01.09. to 03.09.2006).