Twelve animated shorts

For a second day in a row, I went to Teatro Guiniguada, this time to watch a selection of winning animated shorts of Animayo Gran Canaria 2020. Some good, some not-as-good, and some strange. Like the Citizen Watch ad. Or much longer and much less palatable ad for Diablo IV. Or Cross Me by Ryan Staake, featuring the dancer Courtney Scarr — a very impressive music video for a godawful song of Ed “Is he ever off the air?” Sheeran.

My favourites were Maestro by Illogic, Mémorable by Bruno Collet and Узы by Dina Velikovskaya.

Animayo 2020: Proyección del Palmarés Internacional Teatro Guiniguada, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 19:00

Blind Eye by Isabela Littger, Bruno Cohen, Rohit Kelkar, Yujia Wang, Germaine Colajanni, Rohan Deshchougule and Diego Porral (France) — Special Mention for Creativity and Humour Citizen, I’m late by Piotr Borowski (Poland) — The Best Advertising Cross Me (Ed Sheeran feat. Chance the Rapper and PnB Rock) by Ryan Staake (UK) — The Best Music Video Diablo IV: By Three They Come by Doug Gregory, Wendy Campbell, Mike Kelleher, Chris Thunig & Jason Fleming (USA) — The Best Video Game Cinematic Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson (USA) — The Grand Jury Award Maestro by Illogic (France) — The Best 3D Mémorable by Bruno Collet (France) — Special Mention Mind My Mind by Floor Adams (Belgium/The Netherlands) — The Best Comedy 400 MPH by Paul-Eugène Dannaud, Julia Chaix, Lorraine Desserre, Alice Lefort, Natacha Pianeti & Quentin Tireloque (France) — The Best Visual Effects The Office of Missing Children by Michael Schiller (USA) — The Social Awareness Award The Tomten and the Fox by Are Austnes and Yaprak Morali (Norway) — The Children’s Audience Award Узы (Ties) by Dina Velikovskaya (Germany/Russia) — The Best Stop Motion