We had a great weekend in Seattle. We visited the Northwest Film Forum and a musseum I reccomend visiting, the Science Ficction Musseum and the Experience Music Project. Alma got two awards in Seattle, how cool is that.

Children’s Film Festival Seattle Best animation.

Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival 2nd place.

Showing at these festivals around the world:

Cortogenia : Madrid Thursday, 28th January at 7.30pm. Cine Capitol

Seattle Children Film Festival : Saturday, 30th January

Seattle Science Fiction + Fantasy Festival :  January, 2010

Savanah International Animation Festival : Friday, 5th February at 3.30pm

Portland International Film Festival :  February 5- 21.

Glasgow Film Festival : Saturday, 20th February at 3.30pm

Hong Kong International Film Festival : 21 Mar – 6 Apr | Hong Kong

Miami International Film Festival : 4 Mar – 15 Mar

Alma has been nominated for the Goya Awards in the category of Best Animation Shortfilm. They are the highest award for filmmakers in Spain. We are really happy for everyone who contributed to the project.

You’ve been asking for it, so here it is. For a limited time only this Christmas you can watch Alma by clicking on the image below or going to our channel on Vimeo. Enjoy.

[ Full Screen recommended ]

Our good friend Natalia Montes made this great poster for Alma. She works in Madrid and make some of the most impressive and distinctive movie poster. We are very grateful to have her be part of our short.

I just received news that Alma won Best Opera Prima at Italian renowned Animated Festival, I Castelli Animati.

I just received the news that we won the Grand Prix Award at the Bradford Animation Festival last weekend, “…the award given to the film which the jury feel is the overall ‘best of the fest’…”. Thank you, indeed.

This was a great weekend for Alma in terms of awards:

- Best of Festival

Animazing Spotlight at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles.

- Mejor Creacion Audiovisual Andaluza

Animacor V Festival Internacional de Animacion

- Bronze Medal Winner and Best Sound Design

24fps Film Festival in Abilene, Texas. Congrats to Tom Myers and David Huges for their award.

A lot of festivals where Alma will be screening this month. Here is the list:

- Semana de Cine Fantastico y de Terror. 2009 | 31 Oct – 6 Nov | San Sebastian
- Animacor: Festival Internacional. 2009 | 2 Nov – 7 Nov | Cordoba, Spain
- Animazing Spotlight. 2009 | 7 Nov – 8 Nov | Los Angeles, USA
- Cinanima: Festival Internacional. 2009 | 9 Nov – 15 Nov | Portugal
- St Louis Internation Film Festival. 2009 | 12 Nov – 22 Nov | USA
- Bradford Animation Festival. 2009 | 10 Nov – 14 Nov | Bradford, United Kingdom
- Encounters Short Film Festival. 2009 | 17 Nov – 22 Nov | Bristol, United Kingdom
- Alcine. 2009 | 6 Nov – 14 Nov | Alcala de Henares, Spain

Check all the upcoming festivals at ShortFilmCentral or click on the icon to the right.

Alma won Best National Animation in Spain’s Festival La Boca del Lobo yesterday. We couldn’t be there but Daniel Peixe, one of our great animators received the award.